Biography

Mathias Siems has been Professor of Private Law and Market Regulation at the European University Institute since January 2019. He previously taught at Durham University, the University of East Anglia, the University of Edinburgh and the Riga Graduate School of Law. He was also a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Law School and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the EUI. He is graduate of the universities of Munich and Edinburgh.

Prof. Siems was appointed Director of Graduate Studies in January 2021. The Director of Graduate Studies has a general responsibility for all matters related to the course of study, including supervision, seminar attendance, admission to successive years, fulfilment of requirements such as term papers, etc. Researchers with problems on any of these issues which cannot be solved by their supervisor or the responsible administrative assistant should contact him.

Research Projects and Working groups

• Finance, Innovation and Regulation Working Group

Supervisees

• Dominik Dworniczak
• Dorota Nowacka
• Folker De Witte
• Guillem Gabriel-Pizarro
• Pranav Putcha
• Theodora Kostoula
• Vasiliki Yiatrou

Fields of expertise

• Corporate and securities law
• Comparative law
• European private law
• Law and economics
• Empirical legal methods, empirical legal studies
• Transnational private law, private international law

Recent research output

• D'ANDREA, Sabrina; DIVISSENKO, Nikita; FANOU, Maria; KRISZTIÁN, Anna; KUKAVICA, Jaka; POTOCKA-SIONEK, Nastazja; SIEMS, Mathias (2021), Asymmetric cross-citations in private law : an empirical study of 28 supreme courts in the EU, Article

• SIEMS, Mathias (2021), Foreign-trained legal scholars in the UK : ‘irritants’ or ‘change agents’?, Article

• GERNER-BEUERLE, Carsten; MUCCIARELLI, Federico; SCHUSTER, Edmund; SIEMS, Mathias (2020), Making the case for a Rome V regulation on the law applicable to companies, Article

• SCHNYDER, Gerhard; GROSMAN, Anna; FU, Kun; SIEMS, Mathias; AGUILERA, Ruth (2021), Legal perception and finance : the case of IPO firm value, Article

• SIEMS, Mathias (2021), Mapping a causal scheme of indicators in the COVID-19 crisis, Article

• SIEMS, Mathias; NELKEN, David (2021), Global social indicators and their legitimacy in transnational law, Contribution to book

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