Anu Bradford - The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World

In her address to the IIEA, Professor Anu Bradford of Columbia Law School, explores her seminal work on the “Brussels Effect” about how the European Union plays a powerful role as a global regulatory power, and how this role may evolve in the future in the context of regulatory battles for the digital economy between the EU, US and China.
About the Speaker:
Anu Bradford is Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organizations at Columbia Law School. She is also a director for Columbia’s European Legal Studies Center, a Senior Scholar at Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business at Columbia Business School and a nonresident scholar in the Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her research focuses on international trade law, European Union law and comparative and international antitrust law.
She holds an S.J.D. and LL.M. from Harvard Law School, and a law degree from the University of Finland. Prior to her academic career, Professor Bradford practiced competition and EU law in Brussels, and was an advisor in the Finnish Parliament and the European Parliament. She is the author of “The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World” (OUP 2020), named one of the Best Books of 2020 by Foreign Affairs, and of the forthcoming “Battle for the Soul of the Global Internet” (OUP 2023).
Recorded on the 24th of February 2022

[@thewaffle003]

Super interesting! Thank you for this!

[@janentomenkafka]

Deregulating, self regulating and the lack of political will to regulate has caused the 737MAX crashes. The FAA was about the last big aviation regulation organisation in the world to ground the MAX. That's what you get if you allow the aviation industry to certify its own planes. Luckily it was a wake-up call for congress.

[@MichaBorsuk-so6fk]

Absolutely agree. Liberalism? Sure. American "self regulated" liberalism? No, it has caused too many deaths.

[@Subher0]

Sounds to me that, if any other real superpower would regulate as the EU would or regulate more even, then the Brussels effect disappears. That's not real power in my opinion.