Mateusz Grochowski

Mateusz 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 came to Tulane Law from the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law where he was a Senior Research Fellow. Previously he was an Emile Noël Fellow at New York University School of Law, a Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and at Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center at the Buchmann Faculty of Law, 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. 

Currently, 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.

Grochowski received scholarships and research grants from a number of institutions, including the Yale University (Fox International Fellowship), the European Commission and the German-Italian Center for European Dialogue (Villa Vigoni). 

He has served as lecturer in private law at the Universities of Münster and Hamburg and as guest professor at the Università Bocconi in Milan. 

He sits on the editorial board for the Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law and the Journal of European Consumer and Market Law. He was also a Lead Editor at the Yale Journal on Regulation and an Editor at the Yale Journal of Law & Technology.

In his spare time, he also looks into the relations of classical music, jazz, and law.

Selected Publications

Books

The Cambridge Handbook of Algorithmic Price Personalization and the Law (Fabrizio Esposito & Mateusz Grochowski eds., 2025)

Enforcing Private Regulation in the Platform Economy (Federica Casarosa & Mateusz Grochowski eds., 2025) 

European Contract Law and the Creation of Norms (Stefan Grundmann, Mateusz Grochowski eds., 2020) 

Papers

Consumer Vulnerability: A Genealogy, in European Contract Law and Future Challenges, (Stefan Grundmann & Pietro Sirena eds., 2025)

Algorithmic Price Personalization: From Laesio Enormis to Laesio Algorithmica?, in The Cambridge Handbook of Algorithmic Price Personalization and the Law 1 (Fabrizio Esposito & Mateusz Grochowski eds., 2025) (with Fabrizio Esposito)

Price personalization vs. contract personalization, in The Cambridge Handbook of Algorithmic Price Personalization and the Law 65 (Fabrizio Esposito & Mateusz Grochowski eds., Cambridge University Press 2025) (with Fabrizio Esposito & Antonio Davola)

Knowledge Gap in Contract Law, 3 Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory (2025) 

Empirical insights into personalized pricing, in Empirics and Consumer Law in Changing Markets (Vanessa Mak, Kimia Heidary & Gitta Veldt eds., 2025) (with Fabrizio Esposito & Kimia Heidary) 

Shadow Contract Law in the Platform Economy, in Enforcing Private Regulation in the Platform Economy (Federica Casarosa & Mateusz Grochowski eds., 2025) 

Beyond or in Proximity? Private Regulation in the Platform Economy and Its Enforcement, in Enforcing Private Regulation in the Platform Economy (Federica Casarosa & Mateusz Grochowski eds., 2025) (with Federica Casarosa)

Digital Vulnerability in a Post-Consumer Society. Subverting Paradigms?, in Digital Vulnerability in European Private Law 195 (Camilla Crea & Alberto De Franceschi eds., 2024) 

Enforcement of Consumer Law, in Research Handbook on the Enforcement of EU Law 349 (Miroslava Scholten ed., 2023) (with Christine Riefa)

Freedom of speech, consumer protection and the duty to contract, in Civil Courts and the European Polity. The Constitutional Role of Private Law Adjudication in Europe 123 (Chantal Mak & Betül Kas eds., 2023)

Algorithmic Price Discrimination and Consumer Protection. A Digital Arms Race?, 4 Technology and Regulation 36 (2022) (with Agnieszka Jabłonowska, Francesca Lagioia & Giovanni Sartor) 

The Consumer Benchmark, Vulnerability, and the Contract Terms Transparency: A Plea for Reconsideration, 18 European Review of Contract Law 1 (2022) (with Fabrizio Esposito)

Algorithmic transparency and explainability for EU consumer protection: unwrapping the regulatory premises, 8 Critical Analysis of Law 43 (2021) (with Agnieszka Jabłonowska, Francesca Lagioia & Giovanni Sartor)

Towards a Renaissance of Price Control in Contract Law? Preliminary Observations on COVID-19 and Price Regulation on the Consumer Market, in Coronavirus and the Law in Europe 891 (Ewoud Hondius et al. eds., 2021)

European Consumer Law After the New Deal: A Tryptich, 38 Oxford Yearbook of European Law 387 (2020)

Freedom of Contract on Crossroads: The Struggle over the Concept of Contract Liberty in 20th Century Poland 66 Osteuropa-Recht 34 (2020)

The majoritarian concept of default rules: towards a shift in paradigms?, 15 Studia Prawa Prywatnego (Studies in Private Law) 63 (2020)

Creation of Norms – an Evolutionary View on European Contract Law, in European Contract Law and the Creation of Norms 3 (Stefan Grundmann & Mateusz Grochowski eds., 2020) (with Stefan Grundmann)

Default Rules Beyond the State, in S. Grundmann, M. Grochowski (eds.), European Contract Law and the Creation of Norms in European Contract Law and the Creation of Norms 227 (Stefan Grundmann & Mateusz Grochowski eds., 2020)