Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci

Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci is Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Amsterdam's Amsterdam Law School, where he directs the PhD Program in Legal Studies. He holds a Research Fellowship at Tinbergen Institute and is a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). Previously, he served as Alfred W. Bressler Professor at Columbia Law School and held visiting positions at NYU, University of Chicago, and Georgetown.

His research integrates law, economics, and history to study institutional evolution, property rights, and contract theory. Key interests include:

• The impact of formal property rights on social behavior (validated through field experiments in West Africa)
• Comparative analysis of legal institutions across historical contexts
• Design of efficient regulatory frameworks and enforcement mechanisms
• Economic foundations of corporate governance and business organizations

His publications demonstrate a consistent focus on how legal rules shape economic incentives, with recent work exploring blockchain-based property systems and inequality-adjusted penalty structures.

Honors include the Oliver Williamson Prize (2018) and Distinguished Article Prize (2014). He has secured grants from NWO, EU programs, and the Ruebhausen Fund at Yale. As President of the European Association of Law & Economics (2017–2020), he shaped continental research agendas. He leads interdisciplinary teams exploring AI's legal implications and resilient institutional design.