Rotem Medzini is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Political Science and the Federmann School of Public Policy and Governance.
His research examines digital governance through regulatory intermediation, focusing on whether, how, and why policymakers and private actors delegate responsibilities to actors who are neither regulators nor regulated entities. He studies the political economy behind this delegation and whether it helps manages the complexities of regulating digital technologies characterized by opacity, policy uncertainty, and power asymmetries.
Before joining the Hebrew University, Rotem was a Horizon Europe–UKRI Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, where he contributed to the three year ELSA (European Lighthouse on Safe and Secure AI) project. His work there investigated the legitimacy and effectiveness of emerging global “assurance” regulatory regimes for data driven services, particularly within the European Union. He also served as a research fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg Essen. His PhD dissertation, Modes of Internet Governance: Enhanced Self Regulation via Regulatory Intermediation in Data Protection and Content Moderation, received the Best Dissertation Award in Memory of Dr. Yuval Shahal and introduced the concept of “enhanced self regulation.” His current research continues to explore why and how regulation, especially self regulation, expands online, and which new regulatory technologies policymakers, regulated organizations, and regulatory intermediaries employ to improve their legitimacy and credibility.
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