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Foreign-trained legal scholars in the UK: ‘irritants’ or ‘change agents’? (2021)
Journal Article
Siems, M. (2021). Foreign-trained legal scholars in the UK: ‘irritants’ or ‘change agents’?. Legal Studies, 41(3), https://doi.org/10.1017/lst.2021.15

In most countries and universities, few legal scholars pursue their academic careers in a country that is different from their home jurisdiction. However, the UK is a rare exception, as its universities have shown a great willingness to appoint legal... Read More about Foreign-trained legal scholars in the UK: ‘irritants’ or ‘change agents’?.

The Power of Comparative Law: What Types of Units Can Comparative Law Compare? (2019)
Journal Article
Siems, M. (2019). The Power of Comparative Law: What Types of Units Can Comparative Law Compare?. The American Journal of Comparative Law, 67(4), 861-888. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avz030

What can comparative law compare? It is relatively uncontroversial that certain topics are included in its scope. For example, there is little doubt that any comparison between legal rules of different countries belongs to the field of comparative la... Read More about The Power of Comparative Law: What Types of Units Can Comparative Law Compare?.

The law and ethics of ‘cultural appropriation’ (2019)
Journal Article
Siems, M. (2019). The law and ethics of ‘cultural appropriation’. International Journal of Law in Context, 15(4), 408-423. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1744552319000405

Cultural appropriation is often defined as the ‘taking of intellectual property, cultural expressions or artefacts, history, and ways of knowledge’. Despite this apparent link to intellectual property, legal issues are only rarely mentioned in the cu... Read More about The law and ethics of ‘cultural appropriation’.

The Illusion of Motion: Corporate (Im)Mobility and the Failed Promise of Centros (2019)
Journal Article
Gerner-Beuerle, C., Mucciarelli, F., Schuster, E., & Siems, M. (2019). The Illusion of Motion: Corporate (Im)Mobility and the Failed Promise of Centros. European Business Organization Law Review, 20(3), 425-465. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40804-019-00157-9

The European Court of Justice’s landmark decision in Centros was heralded as creating the preconditions for a vibrant market for incorporations in the EU. In practice, however, today’s corporate landscape in Europe differs little from that of the lat... Read More about The Illusion of Motion: Corporate (Im)Mobility and the Failed Promise of Centros.

What Determines National Convergence of EU Law? Measuring the Implementation of Consumer Sales Law, (2019)
Journal Article
Goanta, C., & Siems, M. (2019). What Determines National Convergence of EU Law? Measuring the Implementation of Consumer Sales Law,. Legal Studies, 39(4), 714-734. https://doi.org/10.1017/lst.2019.8

Harmonisation and legal convergence are core tasks of the European Union. This article explores the question about the determinants for national convergence of EU law, specifically applied to the ever-growing body of European consumer sales law. The... Read More about What Determines National Convergence of EU Law? Measuring the Implementation of Consumer Sales Law,.

The Chinese Social Credit System: A Model for Other Countries? (2019)
Journal Article
Mac Síthigh, D., & Siems, M. (2019). The Chinese Social Credit System: A Model for Other Countries?. Modern Law Review, 82(6), 1034-1071. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12462

Many countries know financial consumer credit ratings, and recent years have also seen a proliferation of rating systems in relation to online platforms and in the ‘sharing economy’, such as eBay, Uber and Airbnb. In the view of many Western observer... Read More about The Chinese Social Credit System: A Model for Other Countries?.

Twenty years of ‘Law and Finance’: time to take law seriously (2018)
Journal Article
Schnyder, G., Siems, M., & Aguilera, R. (2021). Twenty years of ‘Law and Finance’: time to take law seriously. Socio-Economic Review, 19(1), 377-406. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwy041

This ‘state of the art’ essay provides a comprehensive discussion of the Law and Finance School (LFS) literature. We show that the first two decades of the LFS have focused on empirically investigating the question ‘does law matter?’ Yet, despite the... Read More about Twenty years of ‘Law and Finance’: time to take law seriously.

Shareholder protection, stock markets and cross-border mergers (2018)
Journal Article
Ahiabor, F. S., James, G. A., Kwabi, F. O., & Siems, M. M. (2018). Shareholder protection, stock markets and cross-border mergers. Economics Letters, 171, 54-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2018.07.013

This paper is the first one that uses a panel data of different types of shareholder protection in order to examine (i) the effect of such laws on stock market development and (ii) the convergence of shareholder protection laws through cross-border m... Read More about Shareholder protection, stock markets and cross-border mergers.

Is There a Relationship Between Shareholder Protection and Stock Market Development? (2018)
Journal Article
Deakin, S., Sarkar, P., & Siems, M. (2018). Is There a Relationship Between Shareholder Protection and Stock Market Development?. Journal of law, finance and accounting, 3(1), 115-146. https://doi.org/10.1561/108.00000025

The paper uses recently created datasets measuring legal change over time in a sample of 28 developed and emerging economies to test whether the strengthening of shareholder rights in the course of the mid-1990s and 2000s promoted stock market develo... Read More about Is There a Relationship Between Shareholder Protection and Stock Market Development?.

Why do businesses incorporate in other EU Member States? An empirical analysis of the role of conflict of laws rules (2018)
Journal Article
Gerner-Beuerle, C., Mucciarelli, F. M., Schuster, E., & Siems, M. (2018). Why do businesses incorporate in other EU Member States? An empirical analysis of the role of conflict of laws rules. International Review of Law and Economics, 56, 14-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irle.2018.05.002

Research in law, political science and economics has taken a strong interest in the way companies strategically incorporate in foreign jurisdictions. However, the empirical research about corporate mobility in the EU has so far been limited in two re... Read More about Why do businesses incorporate in other EU Member States? An empirical analysis of the role of conflict of laws rules.

Global social indicators and the concept of legitimacy (2017)
Journal Article
Siems, M., & Nelken, D. (2017). Global social indicators and the concept of legitimacy. International Journal of Law in Context, 13(04), 436-449. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1744552317000374

Global social indicators have become a core point of interest of scholarship in law and other social sciences. The term ‘legitimacy’ is occasionally mentioned in this literature but without in-depth discussion. This paper aims to fill this gap by way... Read More about Global social indicators and the concept of legitimacy.

Cross-border reincorporations in the European Union: the case for comprehensive harmonisation (2017)
Journal Article
Gerner-Beuerle, C., Mucciarelli, F. M., Schuster, E., & Siems, M. (2018). Cross-border reincorporations in the European Union: the case for comprehensive harmonisation. Journal of Corporate Law Studies, 18(1), 1-42. https://doi.org/10.1080/14735970.2017.1349428

Despite recent decisions of the Court of Justice that liberalise inbound and outbound reincorporations, several Member States still prohibit these transactions or make them impossible or impractical. Even where reincorporations are available in princ... Read More about Cross-border reincorporations in the European Union: the case for comprehensive harmonisation.

The G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance 2015: A Critical Assessment of their Operation and Impact (2017)
Journal Article
Siems, M., & Alvarez-Macotela, O. (2017). The G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance 2015: A Critical Assessment of their Operation and Impact. Journal of Business Law, 2017(4), 310-328

The OECD promotes the 2015 version of the Principles of Corporate Governance as a means "to support investment as a powerful driver of growth". But how realistic is this ambition? This article provides a critical assessment of the operation and impac... Read More about The G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance 2015: A Critical Assessment of their Operation and Impact.

Why Do We Do What We Do? Comparing Legal Methods in Five Law Schools through Survey Evidence (2017)
Book Chapter
Siems, M., & Mac Sithigh, D. (2017). Why Do We Do What We Do? Comparing Legal Methods in Five Law Schools through Survey Evidence. In R. van Gestel, H. Micklitz, & E. L. Rubin (Eds.), Rethinking legal scholarship: a transatlantic interchange (31-83). Cambridge University Press

For the purpose of this paper we conducted an empirical survey of academic staff at two German law schools (Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf; Bucerius Law School), two UK ones (University of East Anglia; University of Edinburgh) and one Irish one... Read More about Why Do We Do What We Do? Comparing Legal Methods in Five Law Schools through Survey Evidence.

Law, Trust and Institutional Change in China: Evidence from Qualitative Fieldwork (2017)
Journal Article
Chen, D., Deakin, S., Siems, M., & Wang, B. (2017). Law, Trust and Institutional Change in China: Evidence from Qualitative Fieldwork. Journal of Corporate Law Studies, 17(2), 257-290. https://doi.org/10.1080/14735970.2016.1270252

China’s rapid growth in the absence of autonomous legal institutions of the kind found in the west appears to pose a problem for theories which stress the importance of law for economic development. In this article we draw on interviews with lawyers,... Read More about Law, Trust and Institutional Change in China: Evidence from Qualitative Fieldwork.

Varieties of Legal Systems: Towards a New Global Taxonomy (2016)
Journal Article
Siems, M. (2016). Varieties of Legal Systems: Towards a New Global Taxonomy. Journal of Institutional Economics, 12(03), 579-602. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1744137415000545

Legal scholars, economists and other social scientist often refer to the idea that countries can be classified into a number of ‘legal families’ or ‘legal origins’. Yet, this research is unsatisfactory as regards the actual classifications of the leg... Read More about Varieties of Legal Systems: Towards a New Global Taxonomy.

Disappearing Paradigms in Shareholder Protection: Leximetric Evidence for 30 Countries, 1990-2013 (2015)
Journal Article
Katelouzou, D., & Siems, M. (2015). Disappearing Paradigms in Shareholder Protection: Leximetric Evidence for 30 Countries, 1990-2013. Journal of Corporate Law Studies, 15(1), 127-160. https://doi.org/10.5235/14735970.15.1.127

Scholars frequently claim that the path dependency of the law, the influence of the US model of corporate governance, and the role of legal origin and the stage of legal development are key for a comparative understanding of shareholder protection. T... Read More about Disappearing Paradigms in Shareholder Protection: Leximetric Evidence for 30 Countries, 1990-2013.

Contentious Modes of Understanding Chinese Commercial Law (2015)
Journal Article
Zhou, T., & Siems, M. (2015). Contentious Modes of Understanding Chinese Commercial Law. Journal of international commercial law, 6(2), 177-200

Is Chinese commercial law simply a copy of German and other Western commercial laws, a “mystery” that Westerns cannot understand, or an “irrelevance” given the role of culture and politics in China? This article critically discusses these three modes... Read More about Contentious Modes of Understanding Chinese Commercial Law.