Sofia Ranchordas is a regulation scholar whose scholarship seeks to understand on how
technological change reshapes the relationships between citizens and governments. Her research
focuses on regulatory policy, regulatory sandboxes and experimental regulations, and the legal
implications of the digital transformation of the public sector. She investigates how law and
regulation can address vulnerability, inequality, and power asymmetries in increasingly automated
and data-driven states.
Ranchordas is a Full Professor of Administrative Law at Tilburg Law School and a Professor of
Public Law at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome. She leads two prestigious research
projects—an NWO-Vidi grant and a WASP-HS project (2023–2028)—which examine
vulnerability in the automated state and the regulatory challenges posed by algorithmic governance.
Her work on regulatory sandboxes and experimental regulation provides critical insights into how
governments can safely test and implement innovative legal frameworks while balancing
innovation with public accountability.
She regularly advises national and international regulators on the regulation of digital technologies
and provides training to public officials on regulatory innovation. In 2024, she co-authored, with
Karen Yeung, the second fully revised edition of Introduction to Law and Regulation (Cambridge
University Press).