Stefan Thomas

Stefan Thomas is a Professor at the Law Faculty of Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, holding the Chair in Private Law, Commercial Law, Competition and Insurance Law since 2009. He serves as Director of the Tübingen Research Institute on the Determinants of Economic Activity (TRIDEA) and holds affiliations with the Institute for Global Law, Economics and Finance (Queen Mary University of London) and the Center for Advanced Studies on the Foundations of Law and Finance (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt).

• Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz: Dr. iur. (2004, summa cum laude)
• German Lawyer Qualifications: First State Examination (2000), Second State Examination (2002)

His research focuses on antitrust law, particularly merger control, algorithmic collusion, and integrating sustainability into competition analysis. He examines the role of competition in balancing economic efficiency and societal goals, with recent work on AI in legal design and shipping costs in platform retail.

Key article trends reveal: digital economy challenges (2024), sustainability and antitrust (2023), algorithmic pricing (2022), and merger jurisprudence (2021). Collaborations with Roman Inderst and Felix Rhiel are frequent.

• 2021: Antitrust Writing Awards (Academic Articles/Mergers)
• 2005: Peregrinus Stiftung Prize for dissertation

He co-edits the Zeitschrift für Wettbewerbsrecht (ZWeR) and leads the AI MEETS LAW platform. His teaching includes advanced civil law courses and specialized competition law programs at Tübingen University.