Quo Vadis, Sovereignty?

Marina Timoteo is full professor of Comparative Private Law at the Department of Legal Studies, University of Bologna, where she also teaches ‘Asian Countries Law’ and ‘Law and Business in China’. She is specialized in contemporary Chinese law (focus on digital innovation and law) and Europe – China legal relations.Barbara Verri is a scholar who is specialized in comparative law, with a specific focus on Chinese and Hong Kong legal system. She obtained a PhD in Comparative and European Legal Studies at the University of Trento in 2015. Thereafter, she worked as a research fellow, as an adjunct professor and now as Junior Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna, where she teaches Law and Business in China and Private Comparative Law.Riccardo Nanni is a researcher specialised in Internet and data governance. He obtained a PhD in International Relations at the University of Bologna in 2022 with a thesison the influence of Chinese stakeholders in Internet governance and is currently working on the concepts and practices of data governance at Fondazione Bruno Kessler.

• Introduction.- 1. Cyber/information Sovereignty and the Internet’s first Decade in China: Academic debates and the official Bu Zhenglun.- 2. An analysis the evolution of “Network sovereignty” and “information sovereignty” in China from 2005 to 2014.- 3. ourney to the East: Digital Sovereignty in China’s East Asian Relations Through the Lens of Techno-Nationalism. The Mobile Telecommunications Case-Study.- 4. Digital Sovereignty, Digital Expansionism, and the Prospects for Global AI Governance.- 5. Chinese Cybersecurity Policies in the Age of Cyber Sovereignty.- 6. “One city, two networks”: Big Data and artificial intelligence for smart public governance in Shanghai.- 7. Reflection on the Regulation of Algorithm: Legal implications and market response.- 8. A new form of socio-technical control: the case of China’s social credit system.- 9. Digital sovereignty and competition law in China and in the EU.- 10. Regulating Outbound Data Transfer: The Practice of China and a Comparative Approach.- 11. Chinese Frontiers of the Data Protection: The Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL).- 12. Data property rights: the Chinese way.