Biography

Mathias Siems has been Professor of Private Law and Market Regulation at the EUI 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 a graduate of the universities of Munich and Edinburgh.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Ongoing

• Finance, Innovation and Business Regulation Working Group
• Finance and society
• Digital transformations and society

Completed

• Technological change and society
• Decentering Eurocentrism

Supervisees

• Arianna Abitante
• Dorota Nowacka
• Elena Calsamiglia
• Fouad Saleh
• Fragkiskos Tsiros
• Guillem Gabriel-Pizarro
• Klaudia Sałdan
• Michael Widdowson
• Pedro José Mercado Jaén
• Pranav Putcha
• Theodora Kostoula

Fields of expertise

Recent research output

• DWORNICZAK, Dominik; NOWACKA, Dorota; PAULESU, Carolina; SIEMS, Mathias; UCARER, Onur Can (2025), The notion of legal transplants beyond the Anglosphere : decentring the debate , Article
• SIEMS, Mathias (2025), The European advantage in empirical comparative law , Article
• SIEMS, Mathias; YAP, Po Jen (2024), The Cambridge handbook of comparative law , Book
• DE WITTE, Folker Andries; KRISZTIÁN, Anna; KUKAVICA, Jaka; POTOCKA-SIONEK, Nastazja; SIEMS, Mathias; YIATROU, Vasiliki (2024), Decoding judicial cross-citations : how do European judges engage with foreign case law? , Article
• SIEMS, Mathias (2024), 'Corporate purpose' as a false friend : a bibliometric analysis , Working Paper
• GELTER, Martin; SIEMS, Mathias (2024), Elective corporate governance : does board choice matter? , Article

Supervision interests

‘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.’