Biography
Jacek Dybiński is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Luxembourg’s interdisciplinary Centre for European Law and an Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw. He graduated from Harvard Law School (LL.M.) and Jagiellonian University, where he also defended his PhD in company law. He is a co-founder and member of the Board of Directors of the Global Enforcement in the Financial Industry and Capital Markets (GEFI), a platform to share data and promote independent research on global, EU and Swiss regulatory enforcement in the financial industry.
His publications on the EU and comparative capital markets and financial instruments law, company law, corporate governance, and consumer law have been published by, among others, Oxford University Press, Beck-Nomos-Hart Publishing, De Gruyter, Wolters Kluwer and C.H. Beck. He is a scientific editor of the series on Financial Markets Law, encompassing commentaries to the selected most important financial markets acts: Banking Law, Payments Services Act, Investment Funds and Alternative Investments Funds Act, Market Abuse Regulation (EU No 596/2014), Prospectus Regulation (EU No 2017/1129), and Crowdfunding Regulation (EU No 2020/1503) and Crowdfunding Act, published by C.H. Beck.
He is a member of several international research groups, i.a. Codification of European Capital Markets Law, European Model Companies Act, Harmonization of sanctions in European financial markets law, Uniform EU Prospectus Liability, as well as regulatory and legislative projects. He is a senior legal consultant in a study for the European Commission (DG FISMA) on removing barriers in the Capital Markets Union.
He taught EU financial markets and banking law at the University of Luxembourg, EU capital markets law at LUISS Guido Carli (Rome), capital markets and company law at the Jagiellonian University, mergers and acquisitions, and comparative corporate governance at the University of Warsaw, and European company law at the Academy of European Law (ERA) in Trier. He is a frequent speaker at international and national conferences.
He is an Academic Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), Associate Researcher of the European Banking Institute (EBI), and a Fellow of the European Law Institute (ELI).
He is a member of the national editorial board of the European Company Case Law Journal. He serves as a peer-reviewer for leading European scientific legal journals: European Business Organization Law Review (EBOR), European Company and Financial Law Review (ECFR), Law and Financial Markets Review, Goettingen Journal of International Law (GoJIL), Polish journals: Transformacje Prawa Prywatnego (TPP), Monitor Prawniczy (MoP), Internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (iKAR), Internetowy Przegląd Prawniczy TBSP UJ, and monographs (C.H. Beck).
He has been awarded, among others, a Fulbright Scholarship, twice a Max Planck Foundation scholarship, twice a The Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) scholarship, a scholarship from the Prime Minister of Poland, and received a grant from a Foundation for Polish Science.
He studied and researched at Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Hamburg), Tilburg University and Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law in Luxembourg. Before joining the University of Warsaw, he was an Assistant Professor at the Chair of Private Commercial Law of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Plack Institute for Procedural Law in Luxembourg.
He serves pro bono in several associations and is involved in academic think tanks, e.g. as a reviewer for the Polish-American Fulbright Commission and a board member at the Global Enforcement in Financial Industry and Capital Markets (GEFI).