Sofia Ranchordás appointed Chair European and Comparative Public Law and Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the University of Groningen

Sofia Ranchordás (1985) has been appointed Chair European and Comparative Public Law and Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the University of Groningen. She will start this position on October 1st.

Sofia graduated summa cum laude from Law School in Portugal (Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Porto, Portugal) in 2008. After that she graduated cum laude from the University of Utrecht (L.L.M Law and Economics) in 2010 with a thesis on the trade-off between fairness and efficiency in the regulation of insider trading which was awarded a 10/10. Sofia Ranchordás defended her PhD entitled “Sunset Clauses and Experimental Legislation: Blessing or Curse for Innovation?” in May 2014 at Tilburg Law School and University of Antwerp (joint PhD), distinguished with a cum laude. In 2014 she was awarded the Prize for Best Dissertation of Tilburg University and her PhD dissertation has since then been nominated for several prizes. In October 2014 she received a Niels Stensen Fellowship to conduct research in the United States. She has visited at several international universities (University of Antwerp 2012-2014, George Washington University Law School 2014, University of International Relations in Beijing 2016) and collaborated with the University of Valencia in an international project on the sharing economy.

At Tilburg Sofia taught Constitutional and Administrative Law, Comparative Administrative Law, and Legislative Studies from 2014 until 2016. From January 2015 to June 2016 she was also a Resident Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. During this period her research was focused on the study of the regulation of digital platforms in particular in the context of the sharing economy. She is an Assistant Professor of Constitutional and Administrative at Leiden Law School since June 2016, where she teaches Dutch Administrative Law and EU and Comparative Administrative Law.

Sofia Ranchordás has been invited to speak at multiple international conferences and she has numerous international publications on temporary and experimental legislation, innovation and the law, comparative public law, the regulation of digital platforms, and citizen participation. In 2015 and 2016, Sofia participated in different initiatives organized by the Federal Trade Commission and European Commission on the regulation of the sharing economy. Her work has been featured by multiple media outlets.

(Source: Leiden University)

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