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Regulatory Interoperability – Why could it be the future of AI Governance?
Lecturer
José-Miguel Bello y Villarino - Senior Research Fellow – University of Sydney Law School, jose-miguel.bellovillarino@sydney.edu.au
Content and organization
This Spring 2026 International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA) course examines regulatory interoperability as a potential pathway for the future of AI governance. It introduces interoperability concepts and their regulatory counterparts, maps the global AI regulatory landscape across major jurisdictions, and then explores how regulatory systems diverge and can interact through approaches such as harmonisation, mutual recognition, and partial adaptation, to then explore what regulatory interoperability means in practice. Through interactive activities, participants consider whether interoperability is domain-specific and how it connects to other parts of the regulatory landscape. The course concludes by translating these ideas into practical considerations for developers, model providers, deployers, professional users, regulators, affected persons, and enforcement bodies.
Level
Advanced Undergraduate possible / Mainly targeting Postgraduate students considering AI governance issues.
Course Duration
5 Hours
Course Type
Short Course
Participation terms
Nominal 5 EUR/USD/GBP/AUD/SGD/CAD – 50% discount for AIDA members. Nominal fee to encourage serious registrations – in case of difficulty to pay a waiver will be offered. Both AIDA and non-AIDA students are encouraged to participate in this short course. If you are an AIDA Student* already, please: Step (a): Register in the course by following by following the Course Link ??? or alternatively by sending an email to the Course Lecturer ??? (at)??? for your registration. AND Step (b): Enroll in the same course in the AIDA course link ??? using the ‘Enroll on this course’ button therein, so that this course enters your AIDA Certificate of Course Attendance. If you are not an AIDA Student do only step (a). *AIDA Students should have been registered in the AIDA system already (they are PhD students or PostDocs that belong only to the AIDA Members listed in this page: Members)
Lecture Plan
Days/time
Schedule
July – one 5h session or 2x2.5h session over two days
Language
English
Modality (online/in person):
Online (could be delivered in person/hybrid if aligning with an AIDA meeting of 22-25 Jun 2026 Messina, Italy is possible, could also be delivered at the Sydney Law School in July with hybrid participation in one single session.
Notes
Are there exams? Details on how to successfully complete the course. No exams. Completion of the course involves completing the in-class activities.
