In her new book (forthcoming with OUP in September 2023), Anu Bradford examines the efforts of the EU, US, and China to regulate the digital economy. She argues that there are three dominant regulatory models that most countries organize their regulatory regimes around. These models reflect different theories about the relationship between markets, the state, and individual and collective rights, and can be loosely captured by the regulatory philosophies embraced by the US, China, and the EU, respectively. These different views on how to regulate the digital economy involve contested societal choices and rest on different economic theories, political ideologies, and cultural identities. In making those choices, governments are forced to balance their support of innovation with the need to consider the implications of technology for civil liberties, the distribution of wealth, international trade, and national security, to name a few.

In this session of the Guarini Colloquium: Regulating Global Digital Corporations, we will be joined by Professor Bradford to discuss her new book “Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology”.