Our PROJECTS
Our projects focus on a wide range of issues, addressing complex questions through a variety of methods. We conduct research, teach, learn, and share ideas, and foster networks and connections across diverse communities and disciplines. We build tools and platforms that support our work.
Projects
Gaps and opportunities in the corporate governance of big tech companies
(PROFIT)
PROFIT aims to analyse the principles and practices of corporate law and corporate governance that can help us enhance the accountability of Big Tech firms, fostering transparency, fairness, and ethical considerations. We aim to pioneer a landscape where the expansive might of Big Tech companies is aligned not just with economic leadership, but also with a pronounced responsibility towards public good and individual rights of their users. This initiative emphasises the rejuvenation of private law mechanisms to meet the demands of the current technology-driven society. It is about fostering governance that is as sophisticated and evolved as the entities it seeks to govern.
This project is funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark and is hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
The Digital Retail Investor: Power, Protection, and the New Financial Order
This project offers a critical examination of how digital transformation is reshaping retail investment, focusing on the complex power dynamics between retail investors, technology platforms, and traditional financial institutions. Through case studies from the US, EU, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, this project reveals how the promised democratisation of finance through digital platforms often masks new forms of control and information asymmetry.
The analysis moves from the illusion of individual control in modern trading platforms through the evolution of information advantages in the age of Big Tech finance to the governance implications of algorithmic trading systems. Drawing on examples like the Apple-Goldman digital partnership, Revolut’s super-app evolution, and Deutsche Börse’s T7 trading system, the book illuminates how technological innovation is creating both opportunities and vulnerabilities for retail investors.
Collaborations
Danish Center for Digital Compliance (DICE)
Digital compliance refers to the alignment between computer-supported processes and laws and regulations. Compliance is difficult because it requires being able to express the intent and possible interpretations of laws into formal models, align models into the digital footprints of a process, and inspect that footprints do not generate violations. To perform compliance verification, we need a solid understanding of the legal text and its context. Moreover, given the continuous evolution of laws we need to adjust computational techniques over time. Not surprisingly, most of this process is still being done manually, leading to a large latency in audits and processes that cannot be deployed. This project aims to establish the first center in Denmark where law and computer science scholars work proactively to create algorithmic techniques to design and develop solutions for digital compliance. In its first phase, the center will:
- Uncover fundamental possibilities and limits of algorithmic views within compliance;
- Identify the areas within which digital compliance solutions are plausible; and
- Define a roadmap for developing valuable algorithmic compliance solutions for particular areas.
The Project is funded by Villum Foundation, and hosted by Danish Technological University