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 Business Regulation Working Group

Supervisees

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

DE WITTE, Folker Andries; KRISZTIÁN, Anna; KUKAVICA, Jaka; POTOCKA-SIONEK, Nastazja; SIEMS, Mathias; YIATROU, Vasiliki (2022), Decoding judicial cross-citations: how do European judges engage with foreign case law?, Working Paper
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

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Additional information

‘I welcome research proposals on themes of private, corporate and financial law. I am also happy to supervise topics which have a key interest in the research methods of comparative law, empirical legal studies and law & economics.’

Mathias Siems