Thomas Dietz

Thomas Dietz is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute of European and Comparative Law at the University of Oxford and a member of Wolfson College. Thomas holds an MA in political science from the University of Bonn and a PhD in law from the University of Bremen. Before coming to Oxford he worked as a research associate at the Collaborative Research Center 597 “Transformations of the State” at the University of Bremen. Thomas has varied interests within the field of global economic governance and transnational law. In his research he combines socio-legal and economic approaches in order to explore the emergence of new forms of cross-border contract enforcement institutions within processes of globalised exchange. He focuses in particular on the significance of state enforced contract law and private order institutions as the institutional basis for global market exchange. Thomas conducted more than 70 expert interviews in the software industry in countries like India, Bulgaria, Romania and Germany.