Florence G'sell

Florence G'sell is a Visiting Professor and leads the Program on Governance of Emerging Technologies. She is also Professor of Private Law at the University of Lorraine (currently on leave), a member of the AI and Society Institute  at Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS-PSL, Paris), and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Digital Law at Singapore Management University. From 2019 to 2025, she held the Digital Governance and Sovereignty Chair at Sciences Po (Paris).

In 2022, she co-authored "The Impact of Blockchains for Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law", a report for the Council of Europe, with Florian Martin-Bariteau. Her recent publications also include Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI  (Stanford Cyber Policy Center, 2024), Statutory Obsolescence in the Age of Innovation: a Few Thoughts about GDPR (Network Law Review, 2025), and Balancing Code and Law: Governance and Policy Challenges of Blockchain (Stanford, 2026).

Professor G'sell graduated from Sciences Po, is admitted to the Paris Bar, holds a PhD in Private Law from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and holds the French agrégation in Private Law and Criminal Sciences.