In her PhD thesis, she explored the legal challenges of copyright law in the digital environment, with special attention to the mechanisms of private ordering (e.g.
Digital Rights Management systems, Creative Commons licenses).[5]
In 2010,[6] she joined the Centre for Administrative Science Research (CERSA) at CNRS and
Universite de Paris II,[6] working with
Danièle Bourcier. She has been affiliated with the center since then, first as postdoctoral researcher, and since 2017 as a permanent researcher.[7]
She has held status of visiting researcher in several institutions: in 2014, in the Institute for Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro,[12] and in 2017 in both the
WZB Berlin Social Science Center[13] and the European University Institute.[14] She was also one of the leading researchers in
P2Pvalue, the leading European project on
Commons-based peer production,[15][16][17] and is part of the editorial board of several journals, including: Digital Finance (Springer),[18] Frontiers in Human Dynamics[19] and the Journal of Open Hardware[20]
In 2019, she received an
ERC grant with the project "BlockchainGov" to research blockchain governance.[21][22]
Activism and art
Activism
Beyond her academic work, De Filippi has engaged in several activist and practitioner activities promoting the expansion of openness, democratic governance, peer-to-peer, or blockchain. In 2010, she joined the Open Knowledge Foundation as the coordinator of the public domain working group, through which she actively contributed to the making of the Public Domain Calculators.[23] In 2012, she co-established the French chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation.[24] Since 2011, she has been co-founder of the International Communia Association for the promotion and the preservation of the digital public domain,[25] and legal expert for Creative Commons France.[26] Since 2016, she joined the advisory board of the P2P Foundation.[27] In the frame of the
Internet Governance Forum, she has co-founded the dynamic coalitions on platform responsibility,[28] network neutrality[29] and blockchain technology.[30]
She has published more than 70 papers in the topics of blockchain, commons, cloud computing, peer-to-peer technologies and copyright law.[38] Her works on the interactions of blockchain and law are regarded as substantially relevant in the young field of blockchain. In fact, her book Blockchain and the Law[39] (
Harvard University Press) was considered "an important new book" and a "deeply-researched book that can be expected to show up on law school syllabi for years to come" by
Fortune, and was valued as a critical lens in
The New York Times Book Review.[40] Her research in blockchain is often considered a reference on the field by popular media, such as Forbes,[41]Al Jazeera,[42]Le Point,[43] or France 24.[44] She is also one of the 25 leading figures on the Information and Democracy Commission launched by
Reporters Without Borders.[45]
De Filippi, P., Wright, A. (2018) Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code. Harvard University Press
Davidson, S., De Filippi, P., & Potts, J. (2018). Blockchains and the economic institutions of capitalism. Journal of Institutional Economics, 14(4), 639–658.
De Filippi, P. & Loveluck, B. (2016). The invisible politics of Bitcoin: governance crisis of a decentralized infrastructure. Internet Policy Review, Vol. 5, Issue 4.
De Filippi, P. & Hassan, S. (2016). Blockchain Technology as a Regulatory Technology: From Code is Law to Law is Code. First Monday, Vol. 21, Number 12.
De Filippi, P., (2016). The interplay between decentralization and privacy: the case of blockchain technologies, Journal of Peer Production, Issue n.7
De Filippi, P. (2014). Bitcoin: a regulatory nightmare to a libertarian dream. Internet Policy Review, 3(2).
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