Regulating the Data-Driven Economy

Federico Casolari is a full professor of European Union Law at the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, where he teaches European Union Law and Constitutional Law of the European Union. He is currently president of the Law Deans Group – The Guild (2024-2026), member of the Joint Steering Committee of the China-EU School of Law (CESL), member of the National Biodiversity Future Centre and member of the Interuniversity Centre on the Law of Interna-tional Economic Organisations. He is also a member of the Centre for Digital Eth-ics (CedE) and the International Centre for Research on European Law (CIRDE) at the University of Bologna. Since 2024, he is Head of the Department of Legal Studies at the University of Bologna (Dean of the School of Law).Marina Timoteo is a full professor of Comparative Private Law at the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, where she teaches Comparative Private Law, Asian Countries Law and Law and Business in China. She has participated in inter-national cooperation projects as an expert (including the EU-China Project for the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights/IPR 2) and as a local coordinator (includ-ing the EU-China environmental governance programme, 2012-2014, and the Jean Monnet Network on EU-China Legal and Judicial Cooperation – EUPLANT, 2018-2022). She is currently coordinator of the 2023-2026 Jean Monnet Module “ReLaTe- Law and Business in China in the Framework of EU and China Investments and Trade Relations: The Challenges of the Digital-Tech Age”.

• Introduction, Federico Casolari and Marina Timoteo; Part I. EU and China in relation: Resetting the scene in an interdisciplinary perspective; 1. EU-China economic and business relations, Giorgio Prodi; 2. Integrating by soft law: The case of the Belt and Road Initiative, Giuseppe Martinico; 3. China's foreign direct investments regulation in a change of era, Renzo Cavalieri; 4. The EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: Is there room for the digital dimension?, Barbara Verri; Part II. EU and China in relation: Digital dialogue and sovereignty issue; 5. Of platypuses, autonomy, and values. A constitutionally oriented reading of the EU digital order through the prism of the Artificial Intelligence Act, Federico Casolari; 6. Data flows, transfers and values in EU-China relations, Elaine Fahey; 7. The transforming EU digital regulation: Context, nature and its interactions with EU-China relations, Bin Ye and Chengxin Liang; 8. China's internet sovereignty: Policies and regulations on data, platforms, and infrastructure, Riccardo Nanni; 9. Building connectivity through digital rules in the 'Belt and Road' region: The Chinese perspective on transnational legal ordering, Bin Li; Part III. From relation to comparison: Some methodological approaches; 10. Data and the issue of attribution: First regulatory steps in EU and China, Michele Graziadei and Marina Timoteo; 11. The role of comparative law in the fight for digital sovereignty, Guido Smorto; 12. Normalized regulation of digital technology: China's experience and a comparative approach, Yukai Wang; 13. China's emerging legal framework for personal data transfer beyond borders, Wen Xiang and Steve Li; Part IV. EU and China in comparison: Regulating the circulation of data in data-driven economies; 14. The necessity of establishing data property rights, Liming Wang; 15. Mapping out China's legal regimes for a vibrant data market, Bingwan Xiong; 16. The changing face of EU data law: From data protection to data sharing, Giorgio Resta; 17. In medio stat virtus? The Data Governance Act and the European Union's (difficult) quest for balance, Federico Ferri; Part V. EU and China in comparison: Regulating AI in data-driven economies; 18. Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence: Globalignorance, critical shifts and new potential sources of economic conflict, Gilberto Antonelli; 19. The regulatory framework on AI: A geopolitical perspective and the European regulation, Giusella Finocchiaro; 20. Civil liability in a data driven economy: Proposal for a data-centric liability, Michel Cannarsa; 21. Generative Artificial Intelligence and its regulation in China, Lebing Wang.