Mateusz Grochowski

Mateusz Grochowski is a Professor at Tulane University Law School and Affiliated Faculty at The Murphy Institute. He also holds appointments as an Affiliated Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and a Corresponding Fellow at the Yale Center for Private Law.

Professor Grochowski's scholarship examines the intersection of the digital economy and private law, with a particular focus on contract law and consumer protection. Drawing on contract theory, regulatory studies, comparative analysis, and empirical methodologies, his work explores how digital systems reshape foundational private law concepts and institutions. His current research focuses on algorithmic price personalization, commodification and decommodification in the digital economy, and the governance of AI-driven markets.

His work has appeared in Vanderbilt Law Review, Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory, American Journal of Comparative Law, Loyola Consumer Law Review, Yearbook of European Law (Oxford University Press), and European Review of Contract Law. He recently co-edited The Cambridge Handbook of Algorithmic Price Personalization and the Law (Cambridge University Press) and Enforcing Private Regulation in the Platform Economy (Mohr Siebeck).

In 2025, he was named the Gordon Gamm Faculty Scholar for 2026, supporting a research agenda on transnational consumer law in the digital era.

He joined Tulane from the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, where he was a Senior Research Fellow. He has previously held fellowships at New York University School of Law (Emile Noël Fellowship), Harvard University's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Tel Aviv University's Buchmann Faculty of Law (Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center), and the European University Institute in Florence (Max Weber Fellowship). He has also served as a member of the Office of Studies and Analyses of the Supreme Court of Poland.

Professor Grochowski is 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.

He has received research grants and fellowships from Yale University (Fox International Fellowship), the European Commission, and the German-Italian Center for European Dialogue (Villa Vigoni), among others.

He has taught courses in private law, digital markets, and comparative law at several universities, including the Universities of Hamburg, Münster, and Trento, as well as Bocconi University in Milan.

He serves on the Editorial Board of the European Review of Contract Law and on the Advisory Board of the Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law, and is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Tulane European and Civil Law Forum. 

In his spare time, he explores the intersections 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)