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. Click here to download the programme.

Updated 19 June 2026.

Tuesday 21 July 2026

09:00-09:15: Welcome & Introduction

09:15-11:15 YS S1: Institutional Arbitrage: How technology exploits the gaps between regulatory regimes 

09:15-09:45 Ashutosh Utsav (PhD (Early Stage), University of Turin) “Algorithmic Governance and the Institutional Evolution of EU Competition Law: Bridging the Enforcement Gap for Tacit Algorithmic Coordination in Digital markets”

09:45-10:15 Beatrice Fares (PhD (Early Stage), Bocconi University)”When Money Market Funds Meet Stablecoins: Regulatory Boundaries in Tokenized Finance”

10:15-10:45 Velizar Kirilov (PhD (Advanced Stage), European University Institute) “Innovation Competition, Blocking Strategies, and Antitrust Enforcement in the Global Pharmaceutical Industry: A Comparative Study on Europe and the United States”

10:45-11:15 Max Fang (PhD (Advanced Stage), Indiana University Ostrom Workshop) “An Institutional Solution To Risky Emerging Technologies with the Law and Economics of AI Companions”

11:15-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:30 YS S2: Leviathans Inc.: Private authority and quasi-regulation in finance, corporate governance, and labour

11:30-12:00 Caroline Leeds Ruby (PhD (Midway), London School of Economics) “Quasi-Regulation Through Robo-Adviser Systems: The Role of Private Actors under Technology-Neutral Financial Regulation”

12:00-12:30 Rui Ye (PhD (Early Stage), University of Warwick) “Governing with AI: Public and Private Authority in Corporate Governance”

12:30-13:00 Siyu Dong (PhD (Early Stage), University of Warwick) “Insurance as Hybrid Governance: Public-Private Boundaries in the Regulation of AI-Driven Asset Management”

13:00-13:30 Hoyeon Lee (PhD (Midway), The New School for Social Research) “Programming Apps, Programming Workers: Algorithmic Control and the Institutionalisation of Autonomy

13:30- 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30-16:30 YS S3: Intelligent design: Power, norms, and institutional foundations of technology governance

14:30-15:00 Orest Firsov (PhD (Advanced Stage), Université Grenoble Alpes) “AI and Internal Governance of the Firm: Exploring Power Dynamics in French Industrial Manufacturing Firms”

15:00-15:30 Alesia Zhuk (Post-Doc, Esade Business & Law School, Universitat Ramon Llull) “From Hallucinations to Harmony: Governing AI in International Adjudication”

15:30-16:00 Pietro Ghirlanda (Post-Doc, University of Pavia) “Normatively Justifying the Cooperative Governance of Digital Platforms: A Multi-Level Social Contract Perspective”

16:00- 16:30 Closing remarks & wrap up

Discussants: TBC