Center for Law & the Economy Workshop: Mateusz Grochowski (Tulane Law)
"Governing the Digital Consumer: Soft Power and Global Legal Orders"
Associate Professor of Law at Tulane Law School and Murphy Affiliate Faculty
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The Murphy Institute's Center for Law and the Economy hosts workshops each semester featuring Tulane and guest faculty from the fields of law, economics, and political science. Presenters share their latest research on a range of topics, including regulation, civil rights, the criminal legal system, and other key issues in law and political economy. Papers are distributed beforehand to the participants who read the paper and prepare discussion questions for the presenter.
The workshops, organized by Adam Feibelman, Director of the Center on Law and the Economy and Sumter D. Marks Professor of Law at Tulane Law School, are open to faculty, students, and the Tulane community. The Fall 2025 workshop series, co-convened by Associate Professor of Law and Murphy Affiliate Faculty Mateusz Grochowski, will focus on themes in consumer law, broadly construed.
Grochowski is a renowned scholar on comparative private law and law and technology. He has written extensively on contract law, comparative law, and consumer protection in intersection with digital technology. His recent projects encompass algorithmic price personalization, commodification and decommodification in the social media economy, and production of regulatory knowledge in the AI-powered digital market. He is an Affiliated Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, a Corresponding Fellow at the Yale Center for Private Law, and a Council Member of the Louisiana State Law Institute. He is also a member of the European Law Institute and the Society of European Contract Law.
Prior to Tulane, Grochowski was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, an Emile Noël Fellow at New York University School of Law, a Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and the Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center, the Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University, and a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He was also appointed the Member of the Office of Studies and Analyses of the Supreme Court of Poland.
