WINIR 2026 - Young scholars
The Winir Young Scholars Pre-Conference Workshop on Governing Emerging Technologies: Navigating Public-Private Boundaries will take place at Sapienza University of Rome in Rome, Italy on 21 July 2026, the day before the start of WINIR 2026.
Version of 19 June 2026.
Tuesday 21 July 2026
09:00-09:15 Welcome & Introduction
Venue: Sala Lauree, Building CU002
09:15-11:15 YS S1: Institutional Arbitrage: How Technology Exploits the Gaps between Regulatory Regimes
Venue: Sala Lauree, Building CU002
Ashutosh Utsav (University of Turin, Italy – early stage PhD) “Algorithmic Governance and the Institutional Evolution of EU Competition Law: Bridging the Enforcement Gap for Tacit Algorithmic Coordination in Digital markets”
Beatrice Fares (Bocconi University, Italy – early stage PhD) “When Money Market Funds Meet Stablecoins: Regulatory Boundaries in Tokenized Finance”
Velizar Kirilov (European University Institute, Italy – advanced stage PhD) “Innovation Competition, Blocking Strategies, and Antitrust Enforcement in the Global Pharmaceutical Industry: A Comparative Study on Europe and the United States”
Max Fang (Indiana University Bloomington/Ostrom Workshop, USA – advanced stage PhD) “An Institutional Solution To Risky Emerging Technologies with the Law and Economics of AI Companions”
11:15-11:45 Break
Venue: Sala direzione, first floor, building CU002
11:45-13:45 YS S2: Leviathans Inc.: Private Authority and Quasi-Regulation in Finance, Corporate Governance & Labor
Venue: Sala Lauree, Building CU002
Caroline Leeds Ruby (London School of Economics, UK – middle stage PhD) “Quasi-Regulation Through Robo-Adviser Systems: The Role of Private Actors under Technology-Neutral Financial Regulation”
Rui Ye (University of Warwick, UK – early stage PhD) “Governing with AI: Public and Private Authority in Corporate Governance”
Siyu Dong (University of Warwick, UK – early stage PhD) “Insurance as Hybrid Governance: Public-Private Boundaries in the Regulation of AI-Driven Asset Management”
Hoyeon Lee (New School for Social Research, USA – middle stage PhD) “Programming Apps, Programming Workers: Algorithmic Control and the Institutionalisation of Autonomy”
13:45-14:45 Lunch
Venue: Sala direzione, first floor, building CU002
14:45-16:15 YS S3: Intelligent Design: Power, Norms & Institutional Foundations of Technology Governance
Venue: Sala Lauree, Building CU002
Orest Firsov (Université Grenoble Alpes, France – advanced stage PhD) “AI and Internal Governance of the Firm: Exploring Power Dynamics in French Industrial Manufacturing Firms”
Alesia Zhuk (Esade Business & Law School, Universitat Ramon Llull, Spain – Postdoc) “From Hallucinations to Harmony: Governing AI in International Adjudication”
Pietro Ghirlanda (University of Pavia, Italy – Postdoc) “Normatively Justifying the Cooperative Governance of Digital Platforms: A Multi-Level Social Contract Perspective”
16:15-16:45 Closing Remarks & Wrap-up
Venue: Sala Lauree, Building CU002
Discussants: Paul Dragos Aligica (University of Bucharest, Romania & George Mason University, USA), Victoria Baumfield (Bond University, Australia), Francesca Gagliardi (University of Hertfordshire, UK), Emma Galli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) Giampaolo Garzarelli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), David Gindis (University of Warwick, UK), Richard Langlois (University of Connecticut, USA), Lyndal Keeton (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), Eva Micheler (London School of Economics, UK), Paolo Silvestri (University of Catania, Italy), Simon Sun (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University School of Law, Taiwan)
