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Research will be published in 2024. As papers are completed, they will be made available below. The following papers are in progress:</span><br></p><div><p> </p></div><ul style="margin-left: 30px"><li><strong>Prompting Self-Regulation: Can the FTC Spur Generative AI Codes of Conduct?<br></strong><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit">Neil Chilson, The Abundance Institute<br></em>Representative examples of self-regulation that relies on enforcement by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as a backstop, lessons learned, and what those lessons mean for self-regulatory approaches to address concerns about generative AI.</li></ul><p> </p><ul style="margin-left: 30px"><li><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit"></strong><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit">The Pacing Problem and Self-Regulation<br></strong><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit">Dr. Gary Marchant, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University<br></em>Examines mechanisms and approaches to allow self-regulation to succeed notwithstanding the pacing problem, a well-established phenomenon in which the speed of technological development outpaces the capacity of governance to respond.</li></ul><p> </p><ul style="margin-left: 30px"><li><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit; font-size: inherit"></span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit; font-size: inherit">Kid Podcasting: Privacy, Regulation, and Advertising</strong><br><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit">Ann-Marie Adams and Scott Hamula, Roy H. Park School of Communications, Ithaca College<br></em>Explores the current state of kid podcasting, examines the current protections afforded these young listeners through parental, governmental, and self-regulation efforts, and explores whether a combination of protections is necessary to enforce policies that monitor and manage this audio experience.</li></ul><p> </p><ul style="margin-left: 30px"><li> <strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit">Governance in the Absence of Government</strong><br><em>Tracy Pearl, University of Oklahoma College of Law<br></em>Explores how soft law and industry self-regulation can create meaningful forms of governance when the government either cannot—or will not—act, and sets forth an argument for industry self-regulation of artificial intelligence more specifically.</li></ul> </div> </div> <div id="Hero_C278_Col01" class="sf_colsIn col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-4" data-sf-element="Right Column" data-placeholder-label="Right Column"><section id="Hero_C277_Col00" class="sf_colsIn bg_beige" data-sf-element="Section" data-placeholder-label="Section content"> <div class="rich-text"> <p> </p><p> </p> </div><div id="Hero_C279_Col00" class="sf_colsIn container" data-sf-element="Container" data-placeholder-label="Container"> <div class="rich-text"> <h3 style="text-align: center"><em>2025 Call for Papers</em></h3><ul><ul></ul></ul><p style="text-align: center"> </p><p style="text-align: center">Proposal Submission Deadline:<br>October 15, 2024</p><p style="text-align: center"><br></p> </div> <a class="card_document" href="https://assets.bbbprograms.org/docs/librariesprovider5/default-document-library/2025_cisr-call-for-papers.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <div class="doc_heading">Call for Papers</div> <div class="doc_text"> Download </div> </a> <div class="row" data-sf-element="Row"> <div id="Hero_C289_Col00" class="sf_colsIn col-lg-3" data-sf-element="Column 1" data-placeholder-label="Column 1"> </div> <div id="Hero_C289_Col01" class="sf_colsIn col-lg-6" data-sf-element="Column 2" data-placeholder-label="Column 2"> <a href="mailto:papersubmissions@industryselfregulation.org" target="_blank" class="styled_button btn_darkblue "> <span>Questions?</span> </a> </div> <div id="Hero_C289_Col02" class="sf_colsIn col-lg-3" data-sf-element="Column 3" data-placeholder-label="Column 3"> </div> </div> </div> <div class="rich-text"> <p> </p><p> </p> </div> </section> </div> </div> </section> <div class="rich-text"> <p> </p><hr><p> </p> </div> </div> </section><section id="Hero_C021_Col00" class="sf_colsIn bg_research" data-sf-element="Section" data-placeholder-label="Section content"><div id="Hero_C287_Col00" class="sf_colsIn container" data-sf-element="Container" data-placeholder-label="Container"> <div class="rich-text"> <h2 class="section_header content_under" style="text-align: left"><strong>Latest Research</strong><hr><hr></h2> </div><div class="row" data-sf-element="Row"> <div id="Hero_C274_Col00" class="sf_colsIn col-xs-12 col-md-4" data-sf-element="Column 1" data-placeholder-label="Column Left"> <div class="rich-text"> <h3><strong>2024 Soft Law Summit</strong></h3><p><strong></strong><strong> </strong></p><p id="date">September 2024</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>These papers were presented at the CISR <a href="https://bbbprograms.swoogo.com/cisr2024/5751736" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" data-sf-ec-immutable="">2024 Soft Law Summit</a>, held in partnership with the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University’s Center for Law, Science and Innovation, exploring self-regulation, as an effective option to help business solve systemic, industry-wide challenges and achieve important policy objectives.</p><p> </p><p> </p> </div> </div> <div id="Hero_C274_Col01" class="sf_colsIn col-xs-12 col-md-4" data-sf-element="Column 2" data-placeholder-label="Column Middle"> <div class="rich-text"> <div style="margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 20px; color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); background-color: rgba(40, 40, 60, 1); text-align: center"><h5 style="text-align: left"><a target="_blank" href="https://assets.bbbprograms.org/docs/librariesprovider5/default-document-library/research/2024_turnerlee_social-media-self-regulation.pdf?sfvrsn=f7519ee2_2">Can Social Media Companies Engage in Self-Regulation?</a></h5><p style="text-align: left"> </p><p style="text-align: left">This paper argues that social media companies should work together, under a self-regulatory framework, to respond to current public outcry and criticism. By surveying and comparing how other similarly situated, First Amendment-protected industries established labeling and ratings systems, this paper proposes social media companies follow a set of recommended steps to address the harms presented.</p><p style="text-align: left"><br></p><p id="author">Dr. Nicol Turner Lee</p><h6 style="text-align: left">The Brookings Institution<br></h6></div> </div> </div> <div id="Hero_C274_Col02" class="sf_colsIn col-xs-12 col-md-4" data-sf-element="Column 3" data-placeholder-label="Column Right"> <div class="rich-text"> <div style="margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 20px; color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); background-color: rgba(40, 40, 60, 1); text-align: center"><h5 style="text-align: left"><a target="_blank" href="https://assets.bbbprograms.org/docs/librariesprovider5/default-document-library/research/2024_sept_hagemann_softlawtosoftpower.pdf?sfvrsn=f19fd74e_1">From Soft Law to Soft Power: How Singapore and Japan are Influencing Global AI Policy</a></h5><p style="text-align: left"> </p><p style="text-align: left">This paper examines how the soft law AI governance frameworks implemented by the Singaporean and Japanese governments are evolving from domestic rules-based regimes to a more region-wide system of interlocking regulatory expectations.</p><p style="text-align: left"><br></p><p id="author">Ryan Hagemann</p><h6 style="text-align: left">IBM (Affiliation for identification purposes only)<br></h6></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="rich-text"> <p> </p><hr><p> </p> </div><div class="row" data-sf-element="Row"> <div id="Hero_C248_Col00" class="sf_colsIn col-xs-12 col-md-4" data-sf-element="Column 1" data-placeholder-label="Column Left"> <div class="rich-text"> <h3><strong>2023 Soft Law Summit</strong></h3><p><strong> </strong></p><h5 style="color: rgba(0, 178, 255, 1)"><strong>UVA DARDEN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS </strong></h5><p id="date">October 2023 </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>CISR and Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law held the Soft Law Summit to discuss the practical application and potential of soft law and industry self-regulation. Several of these papers were presented and discussed at the Summit and/or the ASU-hosted conference that followed.</p><p> </p><p> </p> </div> <div class="rich-text"> <div style="margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 20px; color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); background-color: rgba(40, 40, 60, 1); text-align: center"><h5 style="text-align: left"><a href="https://lsi.asulaw.org/softlaw/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2023/12/Gould-and-Gurney_The-Use-of-Industry-Consensus-Standards-to-Safely-Deploy-Automated-Driving-Systems.pdf" data-sf-ec-immutable="" data-sf-marked="" target="_blank">Industry Consensus Standards as Soft Law to Deploy Automated Driving Systems</a></h5><p> </p><p style="text-align: left">In this paper, the researchers examine automated driving systems (ADS), key factors affecting the industry, review the current state of automotive regulation in the United States, and then consider both hard and soft law solutions, ultimately concluding that using soft law makes the most sense at this time.  The limits of industry consensus standards are considered, and the authors also make recommendations to regulators, industry and academia.</p><p style="text-align: left"><br></p><p id="author">Helen A. F. Gould and Jeffrey K. Gurney<br></p></div> </div> </div> <div id="Hero_C248_Col01" class="sf_colsIn col-xs-12 col-md-4" data-sf-element="Column 2" data-placeholder-label="Column Middle"> <div class="rich-text"> <div style="margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 20px; color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); background-color: rgba(40, 40, 60, 1); text-align: center"><h5 style="text-align: left"><a href="https://lsi.asulaw.org/softlaw/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2023/12/Pearl_Cooperative-Control.pdf" data-sf-ec-immutable="" data-sf-marked="" target="_blank">Cooperative Control: Autonomous Vehicles, Safety, & Soft Law Regulatory Regimes</a></h5><p style="text-align: left"> </p><p style="text-align: left">In this paper, Professor Pearl proposes a new approach to the regulation of the autonomous vehicle market in allowing the industry to use its deep expertise to develop concrete industry standards, and uses as an instructive example the case of industry self-regulation in the amusement industry with respect to fixed rides, citing the strong industry incentive to pursue safety.</p><p style="text-align: left"><br></p><p id="author">Tracy Hresko Pearl</p><h6 style="text-align: left">University of Oklahoma, College of Law<br></h6></div> </div> <div class="rich-text"> <div style="margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 20px; color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); background-color: rgba(40, 40, 60, 1); text-align: center"><h5 style="text-align: left"><a href="https://lsi.asulaw.org/softlaw/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2023/12/Wallach-et-al_Soft-Law-Functions-in-the-International-Governance-of-AI.pdf" data-sf-ec-immutable="" data-sf-marked="" target="_blank">Soft Law Functions in the International Governance of AI</a></h5><p style="text-align: left"> </p><p style="text-align: left">In this paper, the researchers offer an overview of soft law functions in the context of international AI governance and propose the establishment of a global AI governance mechanism to fulfill AI soft law functions that have not been picked up by existing institutions.</p><p style="text-align: left"> </p><p id="author">Wendell Wallach, Anka Reuel, Anja Kaspersen</p><h6 style="text-align: left">Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics<br></h6></div> </div> <div class="rich-text"> <div style="margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 20px; color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); background-color: rgba(40, 40, 60, 1); text-align: center"><h5 style="text-align: left"><a href="https://lsi.asulaw.org/softlaw/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2023/12/Thierer_AI-Medical-Devices-Soft-Law-Governance.pdf" data-sf-ec-immutable="" data-sf-marked="" target="_blank">Artificial Intelligence, Medical Devices, & Soft Law Governance</a></h5><p> </p><p style="text-align: left">In this paper, scholar Adam Thierer explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare and in particular, the unique governance challenges for areas such as drug discovery and development and the potential of technology to revolutionize healthcare and the practice of medicine.</p><p style="text-align: left"> </p><p id="author">Adam Thierer</p><h6 style="text-align: left">R Street Institute<br></h6></div> </div> </div> <div id="Hero_C248_Col02" class="sf_colsIn col-xs-12 col-md-4" data-sf-element="Column 3" data-placeholder-label="Column Right"> <div class="rich-text"> <div style="margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 20px; color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); background-color: rgba(40, 40, 60, 1); text-align: center"><h5 style="text-align: left"><a href="https://lsi.asulaw.org/softlaw/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2023/12/Gutierrez_Identifying-opportunities-to-govern-how-autonomous-vehicles-communicate.pdf" data-sf-ec-immutable="" data-sf-marked="" target="_blank">Identifying Opportunities to Govern How Autonomous Vehicles Communicate</a></h5><p style="text-align: left"> </p><p style="text-align: left">In this paper, the researchers examine automated driving systems (ADS), key factors affecting the industry, review the current state of automotive regulation in the United States, and then consider both hard and soft law solutions, ultimately concluding that using soft law makes the most sense at this time.  The limits of industry consensus standards are considered, and the authors also make recommendations to regulators, industry and academia.</p><p style="text-align: left"> </p><p id="author">Carlos I. Gutierrez</p><h6 style="text-align: left">Future of Life Institute<br></h6></div> </div> <div class="rich-text"> <div style="margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 20px; color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); background-color: rgba(40, 40, 60, 1); text-align: center"><h5 style="text-align: left"><a href="https://aire.lexxion.eu/article/AIRE/2024/1/6" data-sf-ec-immutable="" data-sf-marked="" target="_blank">Institutional Review Boards as Soft Governance Mechanisms of R&D</a></h5><p style="text-align: left"> </p><p style="text-align: left">In this paper, researcher Toni Lorente explores the potential use of Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) as a potential governance mechanism to help address the risks and challenges associated with AI-based medical products.</p><p style="text-align: left"> </p><p id="author">Antoni Lorente</p><h6 style="text-align: left">King’s College London, UK<br></h6></div> </div> <div class="rich-text"> <div style="margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 20px; color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); background-color: rgba(40, 40, 60, 1); text-align: center"><h5 style="text-align: left"><a href="https://lsi.asulaw.org/softlaw/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2023/12/Tournas-et-al_Neurotech-MA-and-Soft-Law.pdf" data-sf-ec-immutable="" data-sf-marked="" target="_blank">Merger & Acquisition Agreements for Neurotechnologies: Building Governance into Tech</a></h5><p style="text-align: left"> </p><p style="text-align: left">In this paper, the researchers suggest the mechanism of potentially extracting soft law-like commitments through the merger & acquisition agreement process for startups operating in the brain-computer (BCI) interface space, given their prominent role in discussions around neurotechnology governance.</p><p style="text-align: left"> </p><p id="author">Lucille Nalbach Tournas, J.D., Walter G. Johnson, J.D., Bennett Houck</p><h6 style="text-align: left">Arizona State University<br></h6></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="rich-text"> <p> </p><hr><p> </p> </div><div class="row" data-sf-element="Row"> <div id="Hero_C200_Col00" class="sf_colsIn col-xs-12 col-md-4" data-sf-element="Column 1" data-placeholder-label="Column Left"> <div class="rich-text"> <h3><strong>Industry Self-Regulation Research Roundtable</strong></h3><p><strong> </strong></p><h5 style="color: rgba(0, 178, 255, 1)"><strong>GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY</strong></h5><p id="date">June 2022</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The George Mason University Law and Economics Center led an effort designed to encourage the development of new academic research that will form the foundation for enhanced analysis of the legal and economic issues involved in assessing self-regulation today. These papers <a href="https://masonlec.org/final-papers-research-roundtable-on-industry-self-regulation/" target="_blank" data-sf-ec-immutable="">were published</a> in December 2022.</p><p> </p><p> </p> </div> <div class="rich-text"> <div style="margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 20px; color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); background-color: rgba(40, 40, 60, 1); text-align: center"><h5 style="text-align: left">Self-Regulation in the Cradle: The Role of Standards in Emerging Industries<br></h5><p style="text-align: left">There is a long history of self-regulation—governance of firm behavior by private entities—both in the United States and globally, but there has been less attention to the role of self-regulation in spurring and enabling innovation and growth within emerging industries. Through a detailed case study, we examine the attributes of self-regulation that seem to support innovation and scaling up of operations.  <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4226081" data-sf-ec-immutable="" data-sf-marked="" target="_blank">Read Now</a></p><p style="text-align: left"><br></p><p id="author">Daniel Walters</p><h6 style="text-align: left">Texas A&M University School of Law<br></h6><h6></h6><p style="text-align: left"><br></p><p id="author">Hannah Jacobs Wiseman</p><h6 style="text-align: left">Penn State Law - University Park<br></h6><h6></h6></div> </div> </div> <div id="Hero_C200_Col01" class="sf_colsIn col-xs-12 col-md-4" data-sf-element="Column 2" data-placeholder-label="Column Middle"> <div class="rich-text"> <div style="margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 20px; color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); background-color: rgba(40, 40, 60, 1); text-align: center"><h5 style="text-align: left">No Perfect Solution for Market Imperfections<br></h5><p style="text-align: left">Both markets and government regulation are imperfect. Located between them is industry self-regulation, in which the industry is tasked with effectuating regulatory goals, which is also imperfect. Industry members, when called on to engage in self-regulation, will face what Austrian economists call the knowledge problem as well as a variety of public choice pressures. There are no perfect solutions so trade-offs must be weighed to obtain optimal outcomes. <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4254370" data-sf-ec-immutable="" data-sf-marked="" target="_blank">Read Now</a></p><p style="text-align: left"><br></p><p id="author">Jeremy Kidd</p><h6 style="text-align: left">Drake University Law School<br></h6></div> </div> <div class="rich-text"> <div style="margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 20px; color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); background-color: rgba(40, 40, 60, 1); text-align: center"><h5 style="text-align: left">Third-Party Standards and Sustainability Reporting: The Case of Minnesota Benefit Corporations</h5><p style="text-align: left">The appropriate boundary between public and private regulation has long been of interest to law and economics scholars. Especially relevant for understanding the private regulatory dynamics of the digital currency industry are the ways in which self-regulation has existed in financial markets. <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstractid=4232285&mirid=1" data-sf-ec-immutable="" data-sf-marked="" target="_blank">Read Now</a></p><p style="text-align: left"> </p><p id="author">David Lucas</p><h6 style="text-align: left">Syracuse University</h6></div> </div> <div class="rich-text"> <div style="margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 20px; color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); background-color: rgba(40, 40, 60, 1); text-align: center"><h5 style="text-align: left">Corporate Governance and the Problem of Privileged Personal Knowledge: Toward a Theory of Decentralized Governance<br></h5><p style="text-align: left">This paper advances an epistemology-based argument for the decentralization of the (corporate) governance economic function drawn from a recent increase in decentralized approaches. However, while there is now evidence that it can work, a theoretical framework for explaining how they work or when and why they may be preferable to traditional governance practices has been lacking. <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4230202" data-sf-ec-immutable="" data-sf-marked="" target="_blank">Read Now</a></p><p style="text-align: left"><br></p><p id="author">Mark Packard</p><h6 style="text-align: left">Florida Atlantic University<br></h6></div> </div> </div> <div id="Hero_C200_Col02" class="sf_colsIn col-xs-12 col-md-4" data-sf-element="Column 3" data-placeholder-label="Column Right"> <div class="rich-text"> <div style="margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 20px; color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); background-color: rgba(40, 40, 60, 1); text-align: center"><h5 style="text-align: left">Self-Regulation in Standard-Setting Organizations: Frand Royalties in the Process of Discovering Standards</h5><p style="text-align: left">Standard-setting organizations (SSOs) typically require their members to declare/disclose whether they hold or own SEPs, and to commit to licensing SEPs on FRAND terms. A main thesis of this article is that the meaning of a FRAND commitment is commonly understood by SSO members in the context of the particular standards and parties involved, and compliance is self-enforced through repeat dealing among SSO members. <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstractid=4220015&mirid=1" data-sf-ec-immutable="" data-sf-marked="" target="_blank">Read Now</a></p><p style="text-align: left"> </p><p id="author">Alexander Raskovich</p><h6 style="text-align: left">Director of Research, Global Antitrust Institute<br>George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School</h6></div> </div> <div class="rich-text"> <div style="margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 20px; color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); background-color: rgba(40, 40, 60, 1)"><h5 style="text-align: left">Digital Currency Industry Self-Regulation: Not All Consensus is Automatic</h5><p style="text-align: left">Sustainability reporting is an increasingly debated policy tool to facilitate accountability for businesses’ environmental and social impacts, particularly for hybrid ventures expressly pursuing both economic and social goals. 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