Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology

IIEA Talks

Professor Anu Bradford discuss her new book, Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology, which analyses the struggle between the US, China, and the EU in shaping the realm of digital technologies and in influencing digital policy regulation worldwide. Professor Bradford assesses how this contest interacts with the concentration of economic and political power within a small number of technology companies and explains how this competition may have profound implications for society and the future of democracy. About the Speaker: Anu Bradford is Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organizations at Columbia Law School and director for Columbia’s European Legal Studies Center. Bradford is the author of The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World which was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by Foreign Affairs. Her most recent book: Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology was published in September 2023, and listed as one of the Best Books of 2023 by the Financial Times.