Sofia

Ranchordas

I'm a Professor of Public Law and a Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. I am interested in how digital platforms, particularly Big Tech, are reshaping citizen participation, the design of smart cities, and how technology is changing the constitutional and legal protection enjoyed by citizens. I am an Affiliated Fellow (and former Resident Fellow) of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Lisbon (Governance 4.0 Programme). I am currently the General Editor of the Review of European Administrative Law.

I do interdisciplinary and comparative legal research on regulation and technology, smart cities, and digital government. My current research agenda is focused on two central topics: digital inclusion/exclusion and regulatory innovation. I speak regularly at international conferences and I am a member of different research communities and consult for governments and international institutions. I teach on law and technology, Dutch and European administrative law, and legislation. I co-founded and manage the European Law & Tech Network, a mailing list community on law and technology. In my free time, I mentor a small number of students and young scholars.

Conference Calendar

Public Law in Times of Change?

Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Third Annual Conference on Regulatory Scrutiny in the EU

European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

Lawyering in the Digital Age

Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Smart Urban Mobility Workshop

Max Plank Institute, Munich, Germany

Beyond Data

Den Bosch, the Netherlands

The Privacy Law Scholars Conference 

Berkley Center for Law and Technology, Washington, DC

Public Law, (Dis)trust and Dissent

ICON·S, Wrocław, Poland 

International Conference on Digital Economy and E-Business

Berlin, Germany