Matthias Lehmann is a full professor for private law, private international and comparative law at the University of Vienna, as well as professor for European and comparative business law at the University of Nijmegen. He holds two doctoral degrees, one by Columbia University and one by the University of Jena, in addition to post-graduate degrees by Columbia University and the University Panthéon-Assas (Paris II). His main interest lies in international and comparative aspects of financial law as well as cross-border dispute resolution. He has been visiting academic at the London School of Economics and Political Science, at Oxford University and at Stanford University. He is regularly invited as a guest professor at the Sorbonne University (France), the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Spain). Matthias is a member of the Council of the European Law Institute (ELI), a member of the American Law Institute (ALI), of the Academia Europaea (AE), of the Academic Board of the European Banking Institute (EBI), and of the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL). He has participated in the European Commission’s Expert Group on Conflict of Laws Regarding Securities and Claims, and has been engaged in various UNIDROIT working groups, inter alia on Digital Assets and Private Law and on Bank Insolvency.
