Regulating the Data-Driven Economy Legal Perspectives on the EU and China

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: Global ignorance, 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

Biography

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”.