Leadership
Chairholder
Florence G’sell
Florence G’SELL is a professor of private law at the University of Lorraine and leads the Digital, Governance and Sovereignty Chair at Sciences Po. She began her academic career working mainly on tort law, judicial systems and comparative law. For the past several years, she has been working on digital law and in particular on issues related to the regulation of on line platforms, the way law can deal with new technologies (Blockchain, Metaverse), the notion of digital sovereignty and, more generally, digital policies in the EU and the US.
She has edited and published several books on digital issues, including Le Big Data et le Droit (Dalloz, 2021) and Justice Numérique (Dalloz, 2022). Recently, she published “Les réseaux sociaux, entre encadrement et auto-régulation” (Sciences Po, Digital, Governance and Sovereignty Chair, 2021), “AI Judges” (in Larry A. Dimatteo, Cristina Poncibo, Michel Cannarsa (edit. ), The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, Global Perspectives on Law and Ethics, Cambridge University Press, 2022), and “The Digital Services Act: a General Assessment” (in Antje von Ungern-Sternberg (ed.), Content Regulation in the European Union – The Digital Services Act, Institute for Digital Law (IRDT), Trier April 2023). She has also co-authored the Council of Europe report entitled “The Impact of Blockchains for Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law” (with Florian Martin-Bariteau, 2022).
Florence G’sell is a graduate of Sciences Po and holds the French “agrégation de droit privé et sciences criminelles”. She has been invited several times at the University of Chicago and, more recently, at Stanford University. At Sciences Po, she teaches the course “Comment pensent les juristes” to undergraduate students and the course “Comparative Approach to Big Tech Regulation” in the Master of Public Policy of the Sciences Po School of Public Affairs.
During the 2023-2024 academic year, Florence G’sell is visiting professor at the Cyber Policy Center of Stanford University.
personal website: http://gsell.tech
email: florence.gsell@sciencespo.fr
Chair Coordinator
Eléonore de Vulpillières
Eléonore DE VULPILLIÈRES is coordinator of the Digital, Governance and Sovereignty Chair at Sciences Po. She began her career working in French print media (Le Figaro, La Voix du Nord, La Vie) before turning to audiovisual media, at Sud Radio and in the Canal Plus group.
Eléonore de Vulpillières is a graduate of EDHEC Business School (Lille) and holds a master’s degree in Business Law from the Faculté libre de droit (Catholic University of Lille). She also holds a master’s degree in Modern Literature from the University Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, and a master’s degree in French as a foreign language (français langue étrangère) from the University Grenoble-Alpes.
email: eleonore.devulpillieres@sciencespo.fr
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