Regulation & Policy
Developing adaptive governance frameworks for digital assets, data sovereignty, and cross-border regulatory harmonisation — balancing innovation imperatives with consumer protection and institutional accountability.
Shaping Digital Governance for the 21st Century
The Regulation & Policy Working Group convenes leading legal scholars, senior regulators, and policy advisors to develop adaptive governance frameworks for the digital economy. Our work focuses on bridging the gap between rapidly evolving technology and the institutional frameworks that govern it — producing evidence-based policy recommendations that balance innovation imperatives with consumer protection, data sovereignty, and cross-border regulatory coherence.
As jurisdictions worldwide grapple with overlapping and often contradictory regulatory approaches to digital markets, AI, and data flows, this working group provides the rigorous analysis and multi-stakeholder dialogue needed to identify cooperative pathways. Our research draws on game theory, mechanism design, and comparative legal analysis to illuminate the strategic dynamics shaping global digital governance.
Current Research Agenda
Our research programme addresses the most pressing governance challenges at the intersection of technology, policy, and international cooperation.
AI Governance Frameworks
Developing comparative analyses of AI regulatory approaches across jurisdictions — examining the EU AI Act, US executive orders, and China's tiered classification system — to identify coordination mechanisms that avoid a destructive regulatory race to the bottom.
Cross-Border Data Governance
Analysing how unilateral data localisation policies create a Nash equilibrium that suppresses global digital trade, and proposing cooperative frameworks built on mutual recognition and adequacy agreements.
Platform Governance & Digital Markets
Examining how network effects and market tipping create natural monopolies in digital markets, and evaluating regulatory instruments — from the EU Digital Markets Act to Japan's TFDPA — through the lens of two-sided market theory.
Digital Rights & Algorithmic Accountability
Investigating accountability frameworks for public-sector AI deployment in welfare, immigration, and criminal justice — addressing the fairness-accuracy trade-off and the impossibility of simultaneous algorithmic fairness criteria.
Related Insights
Recent research and analysis from this working group.
The Nash Equilibrium of Cross-Border Data Governance
A game-theoretic analysis of how nations' individually rational data sovereignty policies create a collective action problem that suppresses global digital trade by an estimated 15–25%.
The AI Governance Trilemma: Innovation, Safety, and Global Competitiveness
A game-theoretic analysis of the impossible triangle facing regulators as the US, EU, and China compete to shape the global AI governance landscape through divergent regulatory strategies.
Generative AI and Intellectual Property Governance
The tension between AI training on copyrighted data, fair use doctrines across jurisdictions, and the economic implications for creative industries valued at $2.6 trillion globally.
Digital Health Data Governance Frameworks
Cross-border health data flows, genomic data sovereignty, and WHO frameworks — analysing the tension between pandemic preparedness and privacy through public goods theory.
Platform Governance and Digital Markets Regulation
Digital platform concentration is striking and persistent. This analysis examines the DMA, US antitrust, and Japan's TFDPA through the lens of two-sided market theory and regulatory competition.
Mechanism Design for Global Carbon Credit Markets
Voluntary carbon markets face a credibility crisis. We apply Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanism design to propose market structures that align individual incentives with climate outcomes.
Working Group Members
Distinguished scholars and practitioners contributing to this working group's research agenda.
Nafis Alam
Professor and Head of School of Business
Monash University Malaysia
Jason Allen
Associate Professor of Law
Singapore Management University
Douglas Arner
Kerry Holdings Professor in Law
University of Hong Kong
Hung-Yi Chen
Founder & CEO
Meta Intelligence
Poenisch Herbert
Former Senior Economist
Bank of International Settlements
Eva Huang
Lecturer, Discipline of Business Law
The University of Sydney Business School
Pawee Jenweeranon
Research Affiliate
Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, University of Cambridge
Yulia Kharitonova
Professor
Moscow State University
Joseph Lee
Reader in Law
University of Manchester Law School
Cheng-Yun Tsang
Associate Professor
Monash University Faculty of Law
Yueh-Ping Yang
Associate Professor
National Taiwan University
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We welcome applications from scholars, policymakers, and senior practitioners with expertise in digital governance, data protection, and regulatory harmonisation.
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