Sofia Ranchordas

Background

About Sofia Ranchordas

I'm a Full Professor of Administrative Law at Tilburg Law in the Netherlands and a Professor of Law, Innovation, and Sustainability at LUISS Guido Carli in Rome. In 2022, I was awarded two prestigious grants (2 million euros) from the Dutch Research Council (NWO- VIDI) and the Wallenberg Foundation (Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program - Visiting Professorship at Lund University, Sweden) to conduct research on how the automation of digital government impedes vulnerable citizens from exercising their rights before government and how to reshape administrative law to address this problem. These grants fund my project Administrative Vulnerability which will last from 2023-2028 and two research teams at Tilburg Law School and at Lund University. My research agenda is focused on two interconnected topics:(i) regulatory policy and the advancement of innovation;(ii) the impact of digital transformations on inequality. My work on regulation and innovation delves into regulatory performance, experimental regulations, regulatory sandboxes, sunset clauses, and future-proofing approaches to lawmaking. My current scholarship on public law and digital transformations investigates the rights of vulnerable citizens in the digital society, the impact of digital social welfare on fundamental rights, the protection of public values in the platform economy, and the design of smart cities. For a more complete profile, see