International Regulation and Governance of Frontier AI: What has been done and what needs to be done

​As frontier artificial intelligence systems advance with unprecedented velocity, establishing robust, coordinated multilateral guardrails has become one of the defining challenges of modern international law. Join HASH for an essential 90-minute virtual session examining the current state and future trajectory of global AI governance.

Bringing together leading legal scholars and policy architects—Prof. Bryan Druzin (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Dr. Matthijs Maas (LawAI), and Dr. José Jaime Villalobos (Future of Life Institute)—this event investigates how existing international legal norms, human rights doctrines, and multilateral treaties can adapt to mitigate catastrophic and existential risks while fostering responsible innovation.

​The event features concise opening presentations by the panelists. Following their remarks, the speakers will engage in an moderated fireside chat exploring framework conventions, adaptive regulatory design, and state obligations under international law, concluding with an interactive audience Q&A.

Whether you are a researcher, policymaker, or governance practitioner, this session offers a rare, rigorous look into the institutional mechanisms required to safeguard our collective future.

​About the Speakers

​Prof Bryan Druzin:

​Bryan is Associate Professor of Law and Legal Theory at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on institutional theory, international law, and global governance. He has held teaching positions at King’s College London, Brunel University London, and as a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He holds a B.A., LL.B., and LL.M. from the University of British Columbia and a PhD in Law from King’s College London. He is the Head of the Faculty Student Disciplinary Committee, former Director of the Faculty’s LLM Programmes, and is a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Law, Conflict and Crisis (CILG) at the University of Copenhagen.

​Bryan has published widely in journals at leading U.S. law schools, such as Harvard, Cornell, and Columbia, in noted peer-reviewed journals, and has contributed to edited volumes from Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press.

​His 2025 paper, "Confronting Catastrophic Risk: The International Obligation to Regulate Artificial Intelligence" (46 Mich. J. Int'l L. 173, 2025), argues that the precautionary principle grounds a positive obligation on states under international human rights law to regulate AI's existential risk.

​Dr Matthijs Maas:

​Matthijs is a Senior Research Fellow at LawAI and the author of Architectures of Global AI Governance (Oxford University Press, 2025). His work focuses on international institutional designs for AI governance regimes, the effect of AI on international law, and adaptive technology law. He is an associate fellow with the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (University of Cambridge). Matthijs received a PhD in Law from the University of Copenhagen, and has previous experience working in international security think tanks and in diplomacy.

​Dr José Jaime Villalobos:

​José Jaime Villalobos is the Multilateral Governance Lead at the Future of Life Institute. He is also a Research Affiliate at LawAI and at the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative. His work focuses on advocacy for the reduction of global catastrophic risk through international law and policy. José holds a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington and an LLM (international law) from the University of Cambridge, which he obtained as a Chevening Scholar. He has held roles in government, academia, private practice and not-for-profit organisations, including Co-Founder and Chief Editor of the Costa Rican Journal of International Law.

​Matthijs and José have together authored, amongst other publications, International Catastrophe Law: From Nuclear Weapons to Advanced AI (Cambridge University Press, 2027 forthcoming), and "Beyond a Piecemeal Approach: Prospects for a Framework Convention on AI" in The Oxford Handbook on the Foundations and Regulation of Generative AI (Philipp Hacker et al. eds., 2025).

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