Title: Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Program on Law and Innovation (SLI), Peking University School of Transnational Law (STL); Affiliated Faculty Fellow, Yale Law School Information Society Project; Senior Fellow, WiseHub
Research Field: Comparative constitutional law · AI regulation & platform governance · Law and technology · Digital epistemic structures · Algorithmic legitimacy
▌ Biography
Dr. Gilad Abiri is a comparative legal scholar whose research examines the profound, reciprocal relationship between legal institutions, political power, and emergent technology. Holding an LL.M. and J.S.D. from Yale Law School (and an earlier LL.M. from Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law), his current work focuses on the normative dynamics of AI governance — exploring platform regulation, algorithmic legitimacy, and the digital public square. He is Co-Director of the STL Program on Law and Innovation (SLI).
Dr. Abiri brings a rigorous analytical framework to questions at the boundary of law and technology, focusing on how sovereign states compete to set technical and digital standards. He engages actively with global academic circles, policy forums, and transnational governance institutions. His scholarship has appeared in Georgia Law Review, Michigan Technology Law Review, Stanford Technology Law Review, BYU Law Review, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, and Notre Dame Journal of Comparative and International Law.
▌ Recent Activity
• 'Public Constitutional AI,' Georgia Law Review, Vol. 59, No. 2 (2025) — argues AI systems require public legitimation mechanisms analogous to constitutional governance
• 'Mutually Assured Deregulation,' Stanford Technology Law Review (2025, forthcoming) — analyzes how geopolitical rivalry between the US and China produces convergent deregulatory pressures in AI governance
• Spoke at 2025 China Law Symposium, Harvard Law School (February 2025) — on AI and technology regulation
• Organized 'International Workshop on Comparative AI Law,' PKU STL Shenzhen (September 2024) — with EBS University Germany, supported by Nanshan District Justice Bureau and Bureau of Industry and Information Technology
• Presented at 2024 Beijing Forum on AI and digital law (November 2024)
• WiseHub public lecture: 'Mitigating the Judicial Human-AI Fairness Gap,' PKU STL Shenzhen (April 2026)
• 'From a Network to a Dilemma: The Legitimacy of Social Media' (co-authored with Sebastian Guidi), Stanford Technology Law Review (forthcoming)
• 'The People's (Republic) Algorithms' (co-authored with Xinyu Huang), Notre Dame Journal of Comparative and International Law (2022)
