Thomas STREINZ

Professional Appointments

Thomas Streinz holds the Joint Chair in Law and Regulatory Theory at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, where he is affiliated with the Law Department and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.

As a Professor of Law at the New York University’s School of Law, Professor Streinz convened colloquia on the regulation of global digital corporations, taught courses on Global Data Law, and conducted interdisciplinary seminars on selected topics in Global Tech Law. Professor Streinz was the inaugural Executive Director of the Guarini Global Law and Tech initiative at NYU Law. 

Research Areas

His research agenda at the EUI will investigate the role of European law in the global regulatory governance of digital technologies, the relationship between data, tech, and infrastructure regulation, and the interface between regulation through law and governance by other means, in particular infrastructure-as-regulation.

He is currently conducting research projects on software regulation, digital infrastructure governance (with a focus on “artificial intelligence” and “cloud computing”), and European and Global Data Law. Professor Streinz draws on insights from the social sciences – in particular science and technology studies, infrastructure studies, media and communication studies, and (critical) data studies – for socio-techno-legal research.

As a Fellow at NYU Law’s Institute for International Law and Justice, he has been involved in the MegaReg and InfraReg research projects and maintains connections to these global networks. His publications include “The Beijing Effect” (with Matthew Erie), “Confronting Data Inequality” (with Angelina Fisher), and “The Evolution of European Data Law”. He co-edited “Megaregulation Contested: Global Economic Ordering After TPP” (OUP 2019) and Artificial Intelligence and International Economic Law: Disruption, Regulation, and Reconfiguration (CUP 2021).