Florence G'SELL
Visiting Professor; Director of the Program on Governance of Emerging Technologies
Stanford University
Education
Professor G’sell graduated from Sciences Po, is admitted to the Paris Bar, and holds a PhD in Private Law from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. She also holds the agrégation in Private Law and Criminal Sciences.
Professional Appointments
Florence G’sell is a visiting professor of private law at the Tech Impact and Policy Center, where she directs the Program on the Governance of Emerging Technologies. She also holds the Chair in Digital, Governance, and Sovereignty Chair at Sciences Po (France) and is a professor of private law at the University of Lorraine (currently on leave). She has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago and, more recently, at Stanford University.
Research Areas
Her early scholarship focused on tort law, judicial systems, and comparative law. In recent years, her research has turned to digital law, with particular emphasis on the regulation of online platforms, the legal challenges raised by emerging technologies such as blockchain and the metaverse, and the evolving concept of digital sovereignty. She works comparatively on digital policies in the European Union and the United States.
Other Information
Her recent publications include Regulating under Uncertainty. Governance Options for Generative AI (Stanford Cyber Policy Center, 2024); Digital Authoritarianism: From State Control to Algorithmic Despotism in the Oxford Handbook of Digital Constitutionalism (2025); and Statutory Obsolescence in the Age of Innovation: a Few Thoughts about GDPR (Network Law Review, September 2025).
