Beatriz Botero Arcila

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.

• Beatriz Botero Arcila. AI Liability Along the Value Chain. MOZILLA. 2025, pp.68. ⟨hal-05025891⟩
• Beatriz Botero Arcila. How the Law Makes Smart Cities Unaccountable, and How to Start Making it Better: Lessons from Sidewalk Toronto. Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, 2024, 58 p. ⟨hal-04736705⟩
• Beatriz Botero Arcila. AI liability in Europe: How does it complement risk regulation and deal with the problem of human oversight?. Computer Law and Security Review, 2024, 54, pp.106012. ⟨10.1016/j.clsr.2024.106012⟩. ⟨hal-04631459⟩
• Teodora Groza, Beatriz Botero Arcila. The New Law of the European Data Markets: Demystifying the European Data Strategy. Global Jurist, 2024, ⟨10.1515/gj-2024-0045⟩. ⟨hal-04630119⟩
• Beatriz Botero Arcila. An early win for the transparency measures of the DSA. A comment on Amazon Services v. European Commission (C-638/23). 2024. ⟨hal-04643525⟩
• Beatriz Botero Arcila, Lucas Costas dos Anjos. Law and Technology : Towards a New Digital Rule of Law. La Revue des juristes de Sciences Po, 25, pp.22-72, 2024. ⟨hal-04603787⟩
• Beatriz Botero Arcila, Teodora Groza. The New Law of the European Data Market: Demystifying the European Data Strategy. SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023, pp.37. ⟨10.2139/ssrn.4580036⟩. ⟨hal-04282925⟩
• Beatriz Botero Arcila, Rachel Griffin. Social media platforms and challenges for democracy, rule of law and fundamental rights Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs Directorate-General for Internal Policies PE 743.400 -April 2023. European Parliament. 2023, pp.154. ⟨hal-04320778⟩
• Beatriz Botero Arcila. Is it a platform? Is it a search engine? It's Chat GPT! The european liability regime for large language models. Journal of Free Speech Law, 2023, 2 (3), pp.456-488. ⟨hal-04320716⟩
• Beatriz Botero Arcila. Smart City Technologies. The Oxford Handbook of AI Governance, 1, Oxford University Press, pp.C48.S1-C48.S14, 2022, 9780197579329. ⟨10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197579329.013.48⟩. ⟨hal-03922757⟩
• Beatriz Botero Arcila. The Case for Local Data Sharing Ordinances. William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 2022, 30 (4), pp.1015-1061. ⟨hal-03961625⟩
• Mark Tushnet, Beatriz Botero Arcila. Conceptualizing the role of courts in peace processes. International Journal of Constitutional Law, 2020, 18 (4), pp.1290-1302. ⟨10.1093/icon/moaa088⟩. ⟨hal-03845550⟩
• Beatriz Botero Arcila. Jump v. Los Angeles: Removing Platforms Further from Democratic Control?. Ucla Law Review, 2020. ⟨hal-03845526⟩
• Beatriz Botero Arcila. A Human Centric Framework to Evaluate the Risks Raised by Contact-Tracing Applications. 2020. ⟨hal-03963379⟩
• Ramesh Raskar, Isabel Schunemann, Rachel Barbar, Kristen Vilcans, Jim Gray, et al.. Apps Gone Rogue: Maintaining Personal Privacy in an Epidemic. 2020. ⟨hal-03963440⟩
• Beatriz Botero Arcila. Cities, data, and the New Urban Agenda. Nestor M. Davidson; Geeta Tewari. Law and the New Urban Agenda, Routledge, 2020, 9780367188733. ⟨hal-03963586⟩
• Beatriz Botero Arcila. Latin American Cities in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Potential and Social Risks of Smart-Cities Technologies. LATIN AMERICA POLICY JOURNAL, 2019, pp.42-48. ⟨hal-03963489⟩
• Beatriz Botero Arcila. Local Participation and Mining Conflicts: The Policy Implications of the Recent Case Law of the Colombian Constitutional Court. LATIN AMERICA POLICY JOURNAL, 2017. ⟨hal-03963550⟩