Asian Institute of International Financial Law (AIIFL), HKU

Academic Advisory Board

Professor Mathias Siems

Affiliation Core Member, AIIFL Academic Advisory Board and Professor of Private Law and Market Regulation, European University Institute (Italy) 

Journal Articles

  1. Unpacking Board Model Choice in Europe: A Multi-Methods Approach Journal of Law & Empirical Analysis 2026
  2. Can ordoliberalism save the world? CSR/ESG law and its discontents Journal of Corporate Law Studies 2026
  3. The notion of legal transplants beyond the Anglosphere: decentring the debate Transnational Legal Theory 2025
  4. The European Advantage in Empirical Comparative Law European Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 2025
  5. Elective corporate governance: Does board choice matter? International Review of Law and Economics 2024
  6. Decoding judicial cross-citations : how do European judges engage with foreign case law? 2024
  7. Identity politics and comparative law Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 2023
  8. A Network Analysis of Judicial Cross-Citations in Europe Law & Social Inquiry 2023
  9. Privacy vs. shareholder transparency : did the ECJ decision in WM and Sovim SA impair the global fight against money… Read more 2023
  10. Legal Perception and Finance: The Case of IPO Firm Value British Journal of Management 2021
  11. Mapping a causal scheme of indicators in the COVID-19 crisis International Journal of Law in Context 2021
  12. Numbers in an emergency: the many roles of indicators in the COVID-19 crisis International Journal of Law in Context 2021
  13. Making the Case for a Rome V Regulation on the Law Applicable to Companies Yearbook of European Law 2021
  14. Foreign-trained legal scholars in the UK: ‘irritants’ or ‘change agents’? Legal Studies 2021
  15. Letting companies choose between board models : an empirical analysis of country variations 2021
  16. Twenty years of ‘law and finance’ : what concept of law? 2021
  17. What determines national convergence of EU law? Measuring the implementation of consumer sales law Legal Studies 2019
  18. The Chinese Social Credit System: A Model for Other Countries? Modern Law Review 2019
  19. The Illusion of Motion: Corporate (Im)Mobility and the Failed Promise of Centros European Business Organization Law Review 2019
  20. The law and ethics of 'cultural appropriation' 2019
  21. The power of comparative law : what types of units can comparative law compare? 2019
  22. Treating China as a 'normal' country 2019
  23. Cross-border reincorporations in the European union: The case for comprehensive harmonisation Journal of Corporate Law Studies 2018
  24. Malicious legal transplants Legal Studies 2018
  25. Shareholder protection, stock markets and cross-border mergers Economics Letters 2018
  26. Why do businesses incorporate in other EU Member States? An empirical analysis of the role of conflict of laws rules International Review of Law and Economics 2018
  27. Uwe Kischel, Rechtsvergleichung (C.H. Beck, 2015)† The American Journal of Comparative Law 2017
  28. Global social indicators and the concept of legitimacy International Journal of Law in Context 2017
  29. Introduction: Global social indicators: Constructing transnational legitimacy International Journal of Law in Context 2017
  30. Law, trust and institutional change in China: Evidence from qualitative fieldwork Journal of Corporate Law Studies 2017
  31. The Law Applicable to Companies in Europe: Study and Possible Reform European Company Law 2017

Books

  1. Legal transplants : an interdisciplinary approach 2026
  2. The Cambridge handbook of comparative law 2024
  3. Comparative law 2022
  4. Die Konvergenz der Rechtssysteme im Recht der Aktionäre 2022
  5. The private international law of companies in Europe 2019

Other Works

  1. 'Corporate purpose' as a false friend : a bibliometric analysis 2024
  2. Asymmetric cross-citations in private law : an empirical study of 28 Supreme Courts in the EU 2021
  3. COVID-19 and the social role of indicators : a preliminary assessment 2020
  4. The Shifting Meaning of Legal Certainty in Comparative and Transnational Law 2017