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  • Comment: We need more sources about this individual (not papers/books by this individual) to establish notability. All the secondary coverage seems to be about the Comparative Law textbook. We might be able to have an article about the book, in that case, but an article about the person needs sources that are independent of the subject. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 12:39, 6 April 2025 (UTC)


Mathias Siems is a legal scholar specializing on comparative law and private law. Since January 2019, he holds the chair of Private Law and Market Regulation at the European University Institute.[1]

Career and education

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Siems studied law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the University of Edinburgh.[1]

After completing his doctoral studies, he held academic positions at the Riga Graduate School of Law, the University of Edinburgh, the University of East Anglia, and Durham University.[1]

Academic contributions

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As of the end of 2024, Mathias Siems's scholarly work has received over 5800 citations,[2] and his work at Durham University has been submitted as an impact case study for the 2021 Research Excellence Framework.[3]

Within the field of private law, Siems has published extensively on matters of European and comparative corporate law. Siems was one of the authors of a report on the law applicable to companies in the European Union,[4] which the European Commission has cited to justify the introduction of a policy package on company law.[5] His 2007 book Convergence in Shareholder Law provides an extensive empirical study of the laws on shareholder rights in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, and China, which received positive reviews in leading scholarly journals.[6] [7] Together with David Cabrelli, Siems edited the book Comparative Company Law: A Case-Based Approach, which has been describer by scholars as offering a comprehensive introduction to company law in various countries.[8] His work has also been credited as leading the World Bank to adjust the index used in its Doing Business report.[3]

Mathias Siems is also known for his work on the methods of comparative law. His textbook on comparative law, now in its third edition,[9] has been described as part of a "rebirth of [comparative law] as a genuinely scholarly field of research."[10] More recently, Siems and Po Jen Yap edited the Cambridge handbook of comparative law, credited with an expansion of the geographical and methodological coverage of comparative legal research.[11]

Siems is also a member of the editorial board of scholarly journals, such as the American Journal of Comparative Law,[12] the European Journal of Empirical Legal Studies[13] and Law and Social Inquiry.[14]

Selected publications

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Mathias Siems". European University Institute. Retrieved 2025-01-08.
  2. ^ "Mathias Siems". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2025-01-08.
  3. ^ a b "Impact case study : Results and submissions : REF 2021". results2021.ref.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-01-08.
  4. ^ Schuster, Edmund-Philipp; Gerner-Beuerle, Carsten; Siems, Mathias M.; Mucciarelli, Federico M. (2016). Study on the law applicable to companies: final report. Publications Office of the European Union. ISBN 978-92-79-58018-5.
  5. ^ COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT IMPACT ASSESSMENT Accompanying the document Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive (EU) 2017/1132 as regards the use of digital tools and processes in company law and Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive (EU) 2017/1132 as regards cross-border conversions, mergers and divisions, 2018, retrieved 2025-05-08
  6. ^ Micheler, Eva (September 2008). "Convergence in Shareholder Law by Mathias Siems". The Modern Law Review. 71 (5): 850–852. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2230.2008.00718_2.x. ISSN 0026-7961.
  7. ^ Goddard, Robert (June 2009). "Convergence in Shareholder Law, by Mathias M. Siems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, xlix + 400 + (references + index) 70pp (£75 hardback). ISBN 978-0-521-87675-9". Legal Studies. 29 (2): 338–341. doi:10.1111/j.1748-121X.2009.00122_1.x. ISSN 0261-3875.
  8. ^ Maltese, Demetrio (November 2013). "Comparative Company Law: A Case-Based Approach. By Mathias Siems and David Cabrelli (eds). [Oxford and Portland, Oregon: Hart Publishing: February2013. xi+399 pp. Paperback. £35. ISBN: 978-1-84113-891-6.]". The Cambridge Law Journal. 72 (3): 768–771. doi:10.1017/S0008197313000810. ISSN 0008-1973.
  9. ^ Siems, Mathias (2022-03-24). Comparative Law. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108892766. ISBN 978-1-108-89276-6.
  10. ^ a b Hoecke, Mark van (2017). "Is There Now a Comparative Legal Scholarship". Journal of Comparative Law. 12: 280.
  11. ^ Pirie, Fernanda (2024-11-16). "Global Comparative Law?". Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. doi:10.1093/ojls/gqae038. ISSN 0143-6503.
  12. ^ "Editorial Board". Oxford Academic. Retrieved 2025-05-08.
  13. ^ "Editorial Team | European Journal of Empirical Legal Studies". publicera.kb.se. Retrieved 2025-05-08.
  14. ^ "Editorial board". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 2025-05-08.
  15. ^ Fekete, Balázs (August 2016). "Book Review: Comparative Law". Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law. 23 (4): 740–744. doi:10.1177/1023263X1602300411. ISSN 1023-263X.
  16. ^ Marique, Yseult (January 2016). "Mathias Siems, Comparative Law". Edinburgh Law Review. 20 (1): 109–111. doi:10.3366/elr.2016.0332. ISSN 1364-9809.
  17. ^ Suk, Julie C. (2016-07-01). "Beyond Apples and Oranges". American Journal of Comparative Law. 64 (2): 512–519. doi:10.5131/AJCL.2016.0017.
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