Joint Keynote Session
🗓️ Wednesday, 21 May 2025
đź•” 17:00 – 18:00
đź“Ť Palau de Congressos de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Joint Keynote Session with CLO Summit – Regulation in the Crossfire: The Global Legal War Over Tech and More
The race to regulate AI and emerging technologies is accelerating—but with the U.S., EU, and China taking sharply different approaches, leading to significant legal conflicts.Â
This high-impact program unpacks for you the most pressing legal conflicts shaping the future of global business. Using real-world case studies and expert insights, this program will equip legal leaders with the strategies to navigate global regulatory chaos, mitigate risk, and stay ahead of a potential cross-border legal showdown. Get ready to lead your organization through the next regulatory storm!
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Revealing the first Keynote Speaker at the ACC Europe Annual Conference 2025
Anu Bradford, Henry L. Moses Professor of International Law and Organizations at Columbia Law School, as this year’s joint keynote speaker at the ACC Europe Annual Conference and the ACC Chief Legal Officer Global Summit on 21-23 May in Barcelona!
A leading scholar on the EU’s regulatory power and a sought-after commentator on the European Union, global economy, and digital regulation, Anu Bradford coined the term the Brussels Effect to describe the European Union’s outsize influence on global markets. She is the author of The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World, named one of the best books of 2020 by Foreign Affairs. Her newest book, Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology, was recognized as one of the best books of 2023 by Financial Times, and awarded the 2024 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research.Â
In her keynote – Regulation in the Crossfire: The Global Legal War Over Tech and More – Bradford will unpack for you the most pressing legal conflicts shaping the future of global business. Using real-world case studies and expert insights, this keynote will equip legal leaders with the strategies to navigate global regulatory chaos, mitigate risk, and stay ahead of a potential cross-border legal showdown.
Meet Anu Bradford
At Columbia Law School, Bradford is the Director of the European Legal Studies Center. She is also a senior scholar at Columbia Business School’s Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business, and a nonresident scholar at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Before joining the Law School faculty in 2012, Bradford was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School. She also practiced EU law and antitrust law in Brussels; and has served as an adviser on economic policy in the Parliament of Finland, and as an expert assistant at the European Parliament. The World Economic Forum named her Young Global Leader ’10. Bradford is a frequent keynote speaker at events hosted by universities, think tanks, international organizations, governments, and companies, in the United States and internationally. Her research and public commentary is regularly featured in top international news outlets, including The Economist, Foreign Affairs, The Financial Times, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.