Stefan Thomas

Stefan Thomas

Chair in Private Law, Commercial Law, Competition and Insurance Law. Director of the Tübingen Research Institute on the Determinants of Economic Activity (TRIDEA). Head of the AI MEETS LAW platform.

About me

Since 2009 I hold the chair in private law, business law, competition and insurance law at the Law Faculty of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, Germany. I am a fully qualified German lawyer (law studies at the Gutenberg University of Mainz from 1996-2000, first state examination Rhineland-Palatinate 2000 and second state examination Rhineland-Palatinate 2002), and hold a Dr. iur., summa cum laude, from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (2004). Between 2004-2006 I was an attorney at an international law firm in Düsseldorf. 2006-2009 Post-doc Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

Positions

  • Faculty of Law, Holder of the Chair in Private Law, Business Law, Competition and Insurance Law, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
  • Director of the Tübingen Institute on the Determinants of Economic Activity (TRIDEA)
  • Member of the International Advisory Board of the Institute for Global Law, Economics and Finance, Queen Mary University of London
  • Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies on the Foundations of Law and Finance at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Memberships and Editorships

  • Member of the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA)
  • Member of the Academic Society for Regulatory Law (Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für das gesamte Regulierungsrecht)
  • Member of the academic advisory board of the FIW - Forschungsinstitut für Wirtschaftsverfassung und Wettbewerb e.V., Cologne
  • Co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Wettbewerbsrecht (ZWeR)
  • Co-editor of the “Tübinger Schriften zum internationalen und europäischen Recht”
  • Co-editor of the “Beiträge zum Kartellrecht”, Mohr Siebeck (together with Michael Kling)

Awards

  • 2005: Prize of the Peregrinus Stiftung for the book “Unternehmensverantwortlichkeit und -umstrukturierung nach EG-Kartellrecht,” (“Antitrust Successor-Liability in EC-Antitrust Law”) München 2005, Verlag C.H. Beck
  • 2021: Antitrust Writing Awards in the category academic articles/mergers for: Normative Goals in Merger Control: Why Merger Control Should Not Attempt to Achieve ‘Better’ Outcomes than Competition, (forthcoming in: Ioannis Kokkoris (ed.), Competition Enforcement: Is there a Final Frontier?), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3513098