Biography
Thomas Streinz is the incoming joint chair in law with interests in regulatory theory and regulatory institutions. He has been part-time professor at the European University Institute’s Law Department since September 2024.
Professor Streinz’s current research interests focus on digital governance and global law and technology, in particular the regulation of the global data economy and the governance of digital infrastructures. He leverages insights from the social sciences – in particular science and technology studies, infrastructure studies, media and communication studies, and (critical) data studies – for socio-techno-legal research. With a background in German and European Union law, his research often necessitates traversing different legal systems, while straddling established boundaries between public and private, law and (technical) standards, and local, national, regional, international, and planetary law.
As an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University’s School of Law, he has convened colloquia on the regulation of global digital corporations, taught courses on Global Data Law, and conducted interdisciplinary seminars on selected topics in Global Tech Law. Professor Streinz has been the inaugural Executive Director of the Guarini Global Law and Tech initiative at NYU Law, where he developed research projects on Global Data Law and digital infrastructure governance. As a Fellow at NYU Law’s Institute for International Law and Justice, he has been involved in the MegaReg and InfraReg research projects and maintains connections to these global networks.
Supervision interests
I am especially looking forward to original and creative research proposals on topics within the fields of global law and technology and digital governance, in particular on questions of data law and infrastructure governance. However, I am also happy to supervise topics in law and global regulatory governance more broadly.