Amy Kellam
Member of the Centre for Law in Asia, SOAS, University of London
Co Editor of Amicus Curiae – The Journal of the Society of Advanced Legal Studies
📢 Call for papers now open – Law and Cultural Production, a special section of Amicus Curiae edited by Amy Kellam and Gavin Keeney. Read the full call →
Welcome to my personal website. My research focuses on comparative public international law and the history of international law and colonialism. I am also an author of fiction and my novel Mirrorhouse was long-listed for the 2026 McKitterick Award.
This site documents my monograph in progress, What It Means for a Work to Live: International Law and the Capture of Culture, which develops a jurisprudence of the cultural commons. I also participate in BLACKBOX – a project that experiments with escaping the author property nexus of copyright law. I use this space to reflect on that experiment, test Web3 infrastructure like IPFS, and pursue ideas that inform my own research. The views expressed here are my own and do not represent the project.
BLACKBOX
What does it mean for a work to live? BLACKBOX is a “no‑rights” DAO that experiments with relational links, the cultural commons, and the temporality of cultural production.
Explore the experiment →IPFS & Ethos
Why build this site on IPFS? A discussion of technical choices, decentralisation, permanence, and how infrastructure aligns with project values
Read the rationale →Project Log
A chronological record of decisions, discoveries, and dead ends.
Read my latest log entry →