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Portrait of Mathias Siems
Scholar portraitSource: European University Institute

Siems

Mathias Siems

European comparative-law scholar of corporate law and empirical legal methods

comparative lawcorporate lawempirical legal studies

Official Source Note

The European University Institute lists Siems as Professor of Private Law and Market Regulation. His profile identifies corporate and securities law, comparative law, law and economics, and empirical legal methods as his principal fields.

Siems is included because his scholarship helps researchers combine contextual comparison with quantitative legal evidence while remaining attentive to legal families, transplants, enforcement, and institutional change.

Source: European University Institute

Relevance to the Archive

Siems gives the archive a methodologically explicit bridge between comparative doctrine, quantitative legal indicators, institutional context, and European market regulation.

Representative Contributions

  • Convergence in Shareholder Law (2008)
  • Comparative Law, 3rd ed. (2022)
  • The Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Law (co-edited with Po Jen Yap, 2024)

Works Included Here