Cambridge Research Group on Private Actor Responsibility

The Cambridge Research Group on Private Actor Responsibility, convened by Dr Andrew Sanger and Professor Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan, aims to bring together people working in different fields within and beyond law to discuss, explore, and think deeply about specific issues relating to private actor responsibility, including: the responsibility of tech companies; the role and accountability of university research; the responsibility of private actors for reparations and historic injustice; the relationship between (advancement of/change to) technology and responsibility; and how private activity is mapped/consequences are attached to it around sanctions, complicity with state action, war profiteering, etc.

The Group meets regularly in term time for discussion and collaborative research work. Events include the Reparations for Slavery and Haiti's 1825 Indemnification: The Responsibility of Contemporary Private Actors; the Ungovernability of Big Tech; Oversight of Surveillance Technology; and Facebook’s Complicity in the Genocide in Myanmar.

If you are interested in joining the Group, please email Andrew (as662@cam.ac.uk) or Henning (hmg35@cam.ac.uk).

Recordings

The following recordings from the Research Group on Private Actor Responsibility are all available in the YouTube playlist:

• Introducing the Cambridge Research Group on Private Actor Responsibility
• Marcus Coates on "Reimagining Responsibility"
• Albert Fox Cahn on Transatlantic Litigation Strategies To Address AI Human Rights Harms
• Dr André Dao on Holding Corporations Responsible for Data-driven Human Rights Violations