The Governance Fellow will lead work on Governance, Decision-Making and Membership
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This workstream asks: - Who gets to make what decisions where? - Who can join? - What rights and responsibilities do they have? - What does member ownership actually mean? - How do we handle emergence and allow the Constitution to evolve? - How do we measure and review whether we are living up to our principles and ensure members can hold the platform accountable?
This Fellow will need to address both the operational governance structure and the meta-question of how The Constitution itself can change over time. Who decides about changing these very rules? How do we prevent capture of any one stakeholder group, while allowing adaptation?
# Research Domains 1. This fellow will need to be informed by an extensive exposure to constitutional law across a number of jurisdictions. 1. They will need to be informed by the history of jurisprudence, and be adept at the creative work of working with ancient and new philosophical concepts and expressing these within the constitution. 1. In addition to this high level perspective regarding how national, global and space law might inform a future constitution, we require this person to be able to recommend and implement a detailed, and effective constitution for a functioning international legal entity or framework for an organisation capable of handling significant budgets in a trusted manner, and the ability to manage ambitious events, conferences and the development of advanced technical infrastructure. 1. The Governance Fellow, must be or become familiar with a range of participation, and democratic methodologies, in order to evaluate teh suitability of particular mechanisms for specific constitutional functions. Democratic engagements will not be as simple as establishing a means for members to vote. 1. The Governance fellow must be able to integrate the participation of both human an non-human beings (legal persons0 within the constitutional design - including both artificial agents and natural and ecological personhood. 1. Lastly the Governance fellow must be able to understand and have design input within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver the constitution in a digital form that may include advanced concepts such as self-soereign identity, zero-knowledge prrofs, and constrained legal languages.