Join the Cyber Policy Center on March 4th from 1PM–2PM Pacific for Building the European Digital Empire: The Coalition-Building Behind the European Union’s Technology Regulations with Katerina Linos, law professor at UC Berkeley and visiting fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS). It will be moderated by Jeff Hancock. (NOTE THIS IS A CHANGE TO OUR PREVIOUSLY ADVERTISED SEMINAR)

Stanford affiliates are invited to join us at 12:40 PM for lunch, prior to the seminar.  

About the Speaker:

Katerina Linos teaches international business transactions, international law, European Union law, and international organizations.

She is best known for her research on the diffusion of ideas around the world. Her book “The Democratic Foundations of Policy Diffusion: How Health, Family and Employment Laws Spread Across Countries” won three national awards. She documents that laws don’t spread only through expert networks, but also through popular movements. Politicians can win elections by advocating for tried-and-true, mainstream models. Therefore, the same law is often adopted around the world, even in countries for which it is a poor fit.