Stefan Bechtold

Stefan Bechtold is Professor of Intellectual Property and Associate Vice President IP Policy at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. His research interests include intellectual property, internet, privacy, telecommunications, and antitrust law, law & technology, as well as law & economics. He was a Visiting Professor at external pageNew York University School of Law (2014 & 2022) and the external pageUniversity of Haifa, a Senior Research Fellow at the external pageMax Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, and spent research visits in Amsterdam, Berkeley, Chicago, Munich, Singapore, and Stanford (2025).

The Politics of Fragmentation and Capture in AI Regulation

In new research, Filippo Lancieri, Laura Edelson, and Stefan Bechtold explore how the political economy of artificial intelligence regulation is shaped by the strategic behavior of governments, technology companies, and other agents.

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