Data Sovereignty

Anupam Chander is the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology at Georgetown University Law Center, and is currently a visiting scholar at the Institute for Rebooting Social Media at Harvard University. His work seeks to ensure that technology helps build a more equitable world. He has been a visiting professor at Yale, the University of Chicago, Stanford, Cornell, and Tsinghua. The author of The Electronic Silk Road (Yale University Press), he has served on the executive council of the American Society of International Law and is a member of the American Law Institute. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Rebooting Social Media at Harvard University. Haochen Sun is a Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law and an expert on intellectual property, technology law, and Chinese law. His monograph Technology and the Public Interest (Cambridge University Press) puts forward a new theoretical approach to protecting the right to technology and enforcing technology companies' fundamental responsibilities. His opinions about law and technology have appeared in media outlets, such as BBC News, Forbes, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. In spring 2023, he served as a Short-Term International Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School.

Introduction: Sovereignty 2.0

Part I: Retheorizing Digital Sovereignty
Chapter 1: Two Visions for Data Governance: Territorial vs. Functional Sovereignty
Chapter 2: A Starting Point for Re-thinking 'Sovereignty' for the Online Environment
Chapter 3: Digital Sovereignty as Double-Edged Sword
Chapter 4: From Data Subjects to Data Sovereigns: Addressing the Limits of Data Privacy in the Digital Era

Part II: Technology and Economic Institutions
Chapter 5: Digital Sovereignty + Artificial Intelligence
Chapter 6: Taobao, Federalism, and the Emergence of Law, Chinese Style
Chapter 7: Levelling the Playing Field between Sharing Platforms and Industry Incumbents: Good Regulatory Practices?
Chapter 8: The Emergence of Financial Data Governance and the Challenge of Financial Data Sovereignty

Part III: Trade Regulation
Chapter 9: Data Sovereignty and Trade Agreements: Three Digital Kingdoms
Chapter 10: Data Governance and Digital Trade in India: Losing Sight of the Forest for the Trees?
Chapter 11: Creating Data Flow Rules through Preferential Trade Agreements

Part IV: Data Localization
Chapter 12: Personal Data Localisation and Sovereignty Along Asia's New Silk Roads
Chapter 13: Building Human Rights Framework on Data Localization: Lessons from Internet Shutdown Jurisprudence
Chapter 14: European Digital Sovereignty, Data Protection and the Push Towards Data Localisation