Univ.-Prof. Dr. Matthias Lehmann, D.E.A. (Paris II), LL.M., J.S.D. (Columbia)

Professor Dr. Matthias Lehmann, D.E.A. (Paris II), LL.M., J.S.D. (Columbia) holds the Chair of Private Law, International Private Law and Comparative Law at the University of Vienna. He studied law in Jena, Paris and New York. In 2003, he obtained his doctorate in Jena with a thesis on arbitration law. He completed his habilitation in Bayreuth in 2008 with a thesis on capital market law (‘Financial Instruments’). In 2011, he obtained a further doctorate in private international law from Columbia University in New York. From 2009 to 2014, he held the Chair of Civil Law, European Private Law, Commercial and Economic Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and was Director of the Institute for Economic Law there. From 2014 to 2020, he held the Chair of Civil Law, International and European Private and Commercial Law at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Bonn and was Director of the Institute for Private International Law there. He has been teaching in Vienna since 2020.
Matthias Lehmann's research interests lie in the field of international and European economic law. He has published numerous books and articles in this field in German, English, French and Spanish. Matthias Lehmann is a permanent visiting lecturer at Sorbonne University in Paris, the University of Fribourg and the Universitad Pablo de Olavide in Seville. Research stays have taken him to the London School of Economics and Political Science, Oxford University and Stanford University. He is a member of the Council of the European Law Institute (ELI), the American Law Institute (ALI), the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL), the Academia Europaea (AE), the Academic Board of the European Banking Institute (EBI) and the Association Henri Capitant des amis de la culture juridique française. He has been and continues to be an expert on various UNIDROIT projects, including ‘Digital Assets and Private Law’ and ‘Bank Insolvency’.

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