Research
My research lies at the intersection of private law, consumer finance, digital regulation, contract law, and energy law. Across these fields, I am interested in how legal systems respond to market expansion, technological change, financial vulnerability, and shifts in institutional power. Much of my work examines areas where legal doctrine, regulatory design, and economic reality do not align neatly, and where the costs of that mismatch are borne by consumers, debtors, and other structurally weaker actors. My approach is comparative, interdisciplinary, and grounded in both legal analysis and institutional context.
Research Areas
Digital Finance and Platform Governance
A central strand of my current research focuses on the transformation of consumer markets through digital infrastructures, data-driven systems, and platform-based forms of governance. Here I am interested in how digital finance, algorithmic decision-making, and platform architectures reshape behaviour, redistribute risk, and generate new forms of dependency and vulnerability.
This research increasingly explores the limits of traditional legal categories when confronted with adaptive and post-formal systems of regulation.
Contract Law, Regulation, and Market Ordering
My work also engages broader questions of contract law, consumer protection, and market governance. I am interested in how legal frameworks structure bargaining power, responsibility, and enforcement, especially where asymmetries of information, institutional weakness, or technological mediation complicate the ideal of autonomous market exchange.
This includes work on consumer contracts, responsible lending, constitutionalisation, regulatory fragmentation, and the design of legal remedies
Private Law, Consumer Finance, and Debt Collection Regulation
A second strand of my research examines consumer debt, credit markets, and the regulation of informal debt collection. I have worked extensively on the legal and institutional structures that shape debt enforcement, over-indebtedness, consumer vulnerability, and the circulation of distressed debt within modern financial systems.
This work combines doctrinal analysis, empirical inquiry, and broader reflection on the political economy of consumer finance.
Energy Law and Regulatory Governance
Alongside my work in private law and finance, I have a sustained research interest in energy law, energy contracts, and the governance of energy transitions. My publications and teaching in this area have addressed decommissioning, investor protection, offshore energy governance, environmental liability, and the legal architecture of energy projects.
This part of my work reflects a broader interest in how complex regulatory systems distribute risk, authority, and accountability.
Approach
My research is comparative in orientation and international in scope. I work across European, common law, and selected non-European jurisdictions, with particular engagement in Europe, Southeast Asia, North America, and broader transnational regulatory contexts. Methodologically, I combine doctrinal and theoretical analysis with empirical material where relevant, and I am especially interested in projects that benefit from crossing the usual boundaries between private law, regulation, political economy, and socio-legal inquiry
Current Projects and Initiatives
The Digital Informal Credit Research Initiative brings together research on digital informal credit, digital debt enforcement, and changing forms of consumer finance. It serves as a platform for developing and communicating work on the legal, social, and institutional dynamics of emerging credit ecosystems.
GOVLAW
A research project exploring how access to credit and debt enforcement are increasingly governed by digital platforms rather than traditional law. The project examines governance without law, algorithmic regulation, and the restructuring of financial vulnerability in platform-based environments.
Research Leadership and International Engagement
My research has been supported by competitive international funding, including a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship and a Visiting Research Fellowship at the National University of Singapore. It has also been shaped by research stays at institutions such as the European University Institute and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law.
Alongside my individual research, I have organised five international academic conferences in consumer law, debt regulation, and energy law, and I contribute to the wider research community through evaluation and peer-review roles, including as Expert Evaluator for the European Research Council and for the Polish National Science Centre.
Collaboration
I welcome opportunities for research collaboration, invited lectures, workshops, editorial projects, and interdisciplinary exchange in the fields of private law, consumer finance, digital regulation, contract law, and energy law.