Biography

Thomas Streinz has been Joint Chair in Law with interests in regulatory theory and regulatory institutions at the European University Institute’s Law Department and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies since January 2025.

Professor Streinz’s current research interests focus on digital governance and global law and technology, in particular the regulation of the global data economy and the governance of digital infrastructures. He leverages 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. His research often necessitates traversing different legal systems, while straddling established boundaries between public and private, law and (technical) standards, and local, state, national, regional, international, and planetary law.

Professor Streinz’s 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 with 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.

As an Adjunct Professor of Law at 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. 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.