Emerging Technologies & International Law
Agenda March 14, 2025
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9:00am Registration
9:30am Welcome Remarks
Speaker Gent Salihu, Editor-in-Chief | GJIL
9:40am Keynote Address
Speaker Anu Bradford, Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization | Columbia Law
Respondent Julie Cohen, Mark Claster Mamolen Professor of Law & Technology | Georgetown Law
10:45am Panel 1: Modern Data Privacy Challenges
Speakers Jonathan Mayer, Associate Professor of Computer Science & Public Affairs| Princeton University
Daniel Justin Solove, Eugene L. & Barbara A. Bernard Professor of Intellectual Property & Technology Law | George Washington Law
Jennifer Huddleston, Senior Fellow in Technology Policy | Cato Institute
Yotam Berger, JSD Candidate | Stanford Law
Moderator Matthew Johnson, Managing Editor | GJIL
12:00pm Lunch
1:30pm Panel 2: Business & Human Rights
Speakers Kenneth Anderson, Professor of Law | American University WCL
Jeremy Ng, Legal Consultant | World Bank
Sarah Altschuller, Director, ESG, & Global Head, Business & Human Rights | Verizon
Nicolas Friedlich, Associate | Clifford Chance
Moderator Eddy Rastgoo, Senior Articles Editor | GJIL
2:45pm Panel 3: Emerging Technologies & the Global South
Speakers Chinmayi Arun, Executive Director of the Information Society Project | Yale Law
Filippo Lancieri, Associate Professor of Law | Georgetown Law
Chinasa Okolo, Fellow, Center for Technology Innovation | Brookings
Isabella Bellera Landa, Associate | White & Case
Moderator Rashi Narayan, Symposium Editor | GJIL
4:00pm Coffee Break
4:15pm Panel 4: Emerging Technologies & International Governance
Speakers Francesco Paolo Patti, Professor of Private Law | Bocconi University
Florence G’sell, Director of the Program on Governance of Emerging Technologies | Stanford Law
Hilary Allen, Professor of Law | American University WCL
Katrin Kuhlmann, Professor of Law & Faculty Director of the Center on Inclusive Trade and Development | Georgetown Law
Moderator Adrian Schmitt, Senior Symposium Editor | GJIL
5:30pm Concluding Remarks
5:40pm Reception
Speakers
Sarah Altschuller, Director, ESG, & Global Head, Business & Human Rights | Verizon. Sarah Altschuller is the Director, ESG and Global Head, Business & Human Rights Program at Verizon She leads Verizon’s efforts to integrate human rights considerations into its business operations, ensuring alignment with international standards and best practices In addition to her corporate role, Sarah serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University, where she teaches on business and human rights
Prior to joining Verizon, Sarah held positions at Foley Hoag LLP, KLD Research & Analytics Additionally, she served as board member of PACT (Protect All Children from Trafficking) With extensive experience at the intersection of business, human rights, and ESG, Sarah is a recognized thought leader in corporate sustainability and responsible business practices
Kenneth Anderson, Professor of Law | American University WCL. Kenneth (Ken) Anderson is professor of law at Washington College of Law, American University, in Washington DC He teaches business law and regulation of emerging technologies His scholarship is largely on national security and the international law of armed conflict
Hilary Allen, Professor of Law | American University WCL. Hilary Allen, Professor at American University Washington College of Law, whose research focuses on the impact of new financial technologies including smart contracts and artificial intelligence on the stability of our financial system, and on potential regulatory responses to those technologies Her research has appeared in the George Washington Law Review and the Harvard Business Law Review, among many other outlets Professor Allen received Bachelor of Laws from the University of Sydney, Australia and Master of Laws in Securities and Financial Regulation Law from
Georgetown University Law Center, graduating first in her class. In 2010, Prof. Allen worked with the Congressionally-appointed Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, studying the causes of the 2007-08 financial crisis
Chinmayi Arun, Executive Director of the Information Society Project | Yale Law
Chinmayi Arun is the Executive Director of the Information Society Project and a Research Scholar at Yale Law School. Her research focuses on platform governance, social media, algorithmic decision-making, the data economy and privacy, within the larger universe of questions raised by law’s relationship with the information society She is interested in how these questions affect marginalized populations, especially in the Majority World
Before arriving at Yale, Arun was Assistant Professor of Law at two of the most highly regarded law schools in India During that time, she also founded and led the Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi Arun has served as a Human Rights Officer (temporary appointment) at the United Nations, where she worked on questions of privacy, online speech and artificial intelligence, as well as on advisory committees of international bodies like UNESCO and UN Global Pulse She has also advised governmental entities and served on the boards of non-profit entities
Isabella Bellera Landa, Associate | White & Case. Isabella Bellera Landa is an attorney that specializes in international disputes management, including both international arbitration and litigation, as well as government relations advisory work Her practice has a particular focus in the financial sector, as well as technology and energy transition issues Her dual training and experience in civil and common law jurisdictions, as well as substantial knowledge of
international law allow her to understand the differences between various legal systems and structure advice accordingly. She is a Senior Associate at White & Case and a Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke Law, where she coteaches a seminar on foreign direct investment and legal finance
Anu Bradford, Henry L Moses Professor of Law & International Organization | Columbia Law. A leading scholar on the EU’s regulatory power and a sought-after commentator on the European Union, global economy, and digital regulation, Anu Bradford coined the term the Brussels Effect to describe the European Union’s outsize influence on global markets She is the author of The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World (2020), named one of the best books of 2020 by Foreign Affairs Her newest book, Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology, was published in September 2023 It was recognized as one of the best books of 2023 by Financial Times, and awarded the 2024 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research
At the Law School, Bradford is the Director of the European Legal Studies Center She is also a senior scholar at Columbia Business School’s Jerome A Chazen Institute for Global Business, and a nonresident scholar at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Before joining the Law School faculty in 2012, Bradford was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School She also practiced EU law and antitrust law in Brussels; and has served as an adviser on economic policy in the Parliament of Finland, and as an expert assistant at the European Parliament The World Economic Forum named her Young Global Leader ’10
Bradford is a frequent keynote speaker at events hosted by universities, think tanks, international
organizations, governments, and companies, in the United States and internationally. Her research and public commentary is regularly featured in top international news outlets, including The Economist, Foreign Affairs, The Financial Times, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal
Yotam Berger, JSD Candidate | Stanford Law
Yotam Berger is currently pursuing a Doctor of the Science of Law (JSD) Stanford University. In his JSD program he is a Gordian Knot National Security Innovation Scholar and Knight-Hennessy Scholar He previously clerked on the Supreme Court of Israel Yotam's research is focused on national security, cybersurveillance, and law enforcement
Julie Cohen, Mark Claster Mamolen Professor of Law & Technology | Georgetown Law. Professor Julie E. Cohen is a leading scholar in the fields of surveillance, privacy and data protection, intellectual property, and information platforms Her work explores how networked information and communication technologies are reshaping legal institutions and the broader socio-economic landscape She is the author of "Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism" (Oxford University Press, 2019) and "Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code, and the Play of Everyday Practice" (Yale University Press, 2012), along with numerous influential articles and book chapters As a faculty co-director of the Institute for Technology Law and Policy and a faculty advisor at the Center on Privacy and Technology, Professor Cohen plays a pivotal role in shaping contemporary debates on technology law She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center Prior to joining the Law Center faculty in 1999, she was an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and practiced intellectual property litigation at the San
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Francisco firm McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen. She began her legal career as a law clerk for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Nicolas Friedlich, Associate | Clifford Chance
Nicolas Friedlich is a Litigation Associate at Clifford Chance US LLP, where he is a member of the firm's US ESG Group and the global Business & Human Rights (BHR) practice His work encompasses domestic and cross-border investigations and disputes, including trade enforcement, CFIUS, the Outbound Investment Regulations, export controls, and sanctions matters He regularly advises companies on supply chain regulations and compliance, particularly concerning doing business or operating in jurisdictions with global human rights risks Nicolas holds a J D from Georgetown Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown Journal of International Law and founded one of the first law student organizations nationwide dedicated to training the next generation of BHR lawyers His BHR work is published and forthcoming with leading journals at the University of Virginia, UCLA, and the University of Pennsylvania
Florence G’sell, Director, Program on Governance of Emerging Technologies | Stanford Law. Florence G’sell is a visiting professor of private law at the Stanford University - Cyber Policy Center, where she leads the Program on Governance of Emerging Technologies She also holds the Digital, Governance, and Sovereignty Chair at Sciences Po (France) and is a professor of private law at the University of Lorraine She began her academic career focusing on tort law, judicial systems, and comparative law In recent years, her work has concentrated on digital law, particularly in the regulation of online platforms, the legal challenges posed by emerging technologies such as blockchain and the
metaverse, and the concept of digital sovereignty. Her research spans digital policies in both the EU and the U.S. Professor G'sell graduated from Sciences Po, is admitted to the Paris Bar, and holds a PhD in private law from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne She also holds the “agrégation” in private law and criminal sciences She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago and more recently at Stanford University
Jennifer Huddleston, Senior Fellow in Technology Policy | Cato Institute. Jennifer Huddleston is a senior fellow in technology policy at the Cato Institute and an adjunct professor at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School Her research focuses on the intersection of emerging technology and law with a particular interest in the interactions between technology and the administrative state Huddleston’s work covers topics including antitrust, online content moderation, data privacy, and the benefits of technology and innovation Her work has appeared in USA Today, National Review, the Chicago Tribune, Slate, RealClearPolicy, and U S News and World Report She has published in law journals including the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, George Mason Law Review, Oklahoma Law Review, and Colorado Technology Law Journal Huddleston has a JD from the University of Alabama School of Law and a BA in political science from Wellesley College.
Katrin Kuhlmann, Professor of Law & Faculty Director of the Center on Inclusive Trade & Development | Georgetown Law Katrin Kuhlmann is a Professor in Graduate and International Programs at Georgetown University Law Center and co-founder and Faculty Director of the Georgetown Law Center on Inclusive Trade and Development. She is also the Founder of the New Markets Lab, a non-profit law and development innovation lab, through which she
has worked with international institutions, foundations, and local partners on a range of projects and programs across Africa and Asia. Prof Kuhlmann is a non-resident Senior Associate with the Global Food Security Project of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and she serves on the Trade Advisory Committee on Africa at the Office of the U S Trade Representative, along with several other boards and advisory committees Earlier in her career, she served as a trade negotiator and has held senior positions in think tanks and NGOs She teaches courses in international law, development, and international trade, and she is widely published in these areas Her research focuses on comparative, methodological, and interdisciplinary approaches to international law as it relates to development, including international trade law, sustainability and social development, regional Trade agreements, digital regulation, and agriculture and food security She holds a law degree from Harvard Law School and was a Fulbright scholar in international economics.
Filippo Lancieri, Associate Professor of Law | Georgetown Law Professor Lancieri holds a J S D and an LL M from the University of Chicago Law School, a Master’s in Economics from INSPER, and an LL B from FGV Direito São Paulo (both located in Sao Paulo, Brazil) Before joining academia, Professor Lancieri worked as an antitrust and technology regulation lawyer in Sao Paulo and Brussels.
Professor Lancieri’s research focuses on understanding how governments shape markets and, in turn, how markets shape governments. He mainly covers two connected areas. The first is antitrust and regulatory policy, emphasizing the political, economic, and legal determinants of enforcement actions and regulatory change The second is the governance of digital markets, where he focuses on designing competition, data privacy, content moderation, and other policies
that accomplish their stated goals His work is both interdisciplinary and comparative in its orientation, investigating how changes in legal regimes shape economic incentives and the onthe-ground behavior of market agents and regulators In the process, he collaborates with legal scholars, economists, data and political scientists in research projects that employ methods ranging from traditional legal analysis to carefully identified empirical projects
Jonathan Mayer, Associate Professor of Computer Science & Public Affairs | Princeton University
Jeremy Ng, Legal Consultant | World Bank
Chinasa Okolo, Fellow, Center for Technology Innovation | Brookings. Dr Chinasa T Okolo is a fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Center for Technology Innovation Dr Okolo’s research examines how African governments can facilitate effective AI and data governance, investigates the socioeconomic impact of data work in the Majority World, and analyzes datafication and algorithmic marginalization in Africa TIME Magazine named her one of the world’s most influential people in AI in 2024 Dr Okolo was also recognized in the inaugural Forbes “30 Under 30” AI list and was named one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics. Dr. Okolo is a consulting expert with the African Union, an expert contributing writer to the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI, and a drafting member of the Nigerian Federal Government’s National AI Strategy
Francesco Paolo Patti, Professor of Private Law | Bocconi University. Francesco Paolo Patti is Associate Professor of Digital law at the Department of Law and Regulation of SDA Bocconi and of Private Law at Università Bocconi in Milan At the same University, he is also the coDirector of the LLM in Law of Technology
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Automated Systems His research focuses on contract law and the law of new technologies, with particular regard to digital assets and blockchain He has dealt with the legal qualification of the different types of digital assets in the European context, in comparison with the American context Furthermore, he addressed the problem of the legal nature of smart contracts and described the legal issues related to their possible use in different economic sectors
He is the author of more than a hundred publications on various subjects of private law and regulatory law He has published in English and German in the most important European and comparative law journals (for example, RabelsZ, European Review of Private Law, European Review of Contract Law)
Daniel Justin Solove, Eugene L. & Barbara A. Bernard Professor of Intellectual Property | George Washington Law. Daniel Justin Solove is the Eugene L and Barbara A Bernard Professor of Intellectual Property and Technology Law at George Washington University Law School, where he also serves as the director of the Privacy and Technology Law Program As a world-leading expert in privacy law, Professor Solove is regularly sought out for interviews and has been interviewed or quoted by, among others, the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, the Associated Press, NPR, CNN Professor Solove is also the author of many books, and has won the 2007 McGannon Award for his book The Future of Reputation, which has been translated into many languages, including Chinese, Korean, Italian, Japanese, and Bulgarian. Professor Solove has also authored more than 100 articles and has been published on many law reviews, including Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review Professor Solove has also testified before Congress and has been cited in approximately 5,000 publications
A graduate of Yale Law School, Professor Solove clerked for Judge Stanley Sporkin of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and Judge Pamela Ann Rymer of the Ninth Circuit He has also worked as an associate at Arnold & Porter LLP and a Senior Policy Advisor at Hogan Lovells LLP