Botero Arcila, Beatriz

Beatriz Botero Arcila is an Assistant Professor of Law at Sciences Po Law School and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. She holds an LLM and a doctorate from Harvard Law School where she defended a dissertation on the governance of smart cities, urban platforms and the data they collect.  

Beatriz is a law and technology scholar, with a focus on the governance of data and artificial intelligence, and digital surveillance.  At Sciences Po she teaches courses on AI and data law, internet law and legal theory. In 2024, her article “Future-Proofing Transparency: Re-Thinking Public Record Governance for the Age of Big Data,” was selected for the Future of Privacy Forum's 14th Annual Privacy Papers Award. 

Professor Botero Arcila has worked with and advised fintech companies, civil society and international organizations and has lectured in law and the digital information economy in several universities. She is also co-founder of The Edgelands Institute, a pop-up institute incubated at the Berkman Klein Center focused on studying digital surveillance and cities.

Fields of Expertise: 

• Law of the Digital Economy
• Privacy law / Global Data Law
• Municipal law
• Law and Economic Development
• Legal Theory
• Surveillance Law

Publications: Beatriz Botero Arcila's Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

Contact: beatriz.boteroarcila@sciencespo.fr