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.

Current Courses

• 2020 - SEMINAR: Comparative Law and its Methodology
• 2020 - SEMINAR: Empirical research in corporate

Supervisees

• Dworniczak, Dominik
• Kostoula, Theodora
• Battocletti, Vittoria
• Yiatrou, Vasiliki
• De Witte, Folker

Research Projects and Working groups

• Finance, Innovation and Regulation Working Group

Research Interests

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

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