Dr Szymon Osmola

Dr Szymon Osmola

LSE Fellow

LSE Law School

Room No
Cheng Kin Ku Building 7.23
Languages
English, Italian, Polish
Key Expertise
EU consumer law from both doctrinal and theoretical perspective

About me

Szymon Osmola joined the Law School as a Fellow in 2023. Prior to joining the LSE, he worked at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Tel Aviv University, where he received the Bloomfield International Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Szymon holds a PhD from the European University Institute (2022). In his doctoral thesis, he developed an original perspective on contract and consumer law, called the reflective choice theory. Szymon's research focuses on the intersection of private law, legal theory and EU law.

Research interests

  • contract law
  • consumer law
  • legal theory
  • EU law

Teaching

Books

Contract Law Theory. Autonomy, Efficiency, Justice (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021) (in Polish)

Articles

  • 'Bridging the gap(s): The importance of private law theory in the EU context' Common Market Law Review (2024) 61 (5) 1315–1344 (with Griogrios Bacharis)
  • 'Evolution of Contracting', in A. Dyrda, S. Bourgeois-Gironde and W. Załuski (eds.), Research Handbook on Legal Evolution (Edward Elgar, forthcoming in 2024)
  • 'Fixing Reasonable Expectations in European Contract Law' (2023) 19 European Review of Contract Law 136
  • 'Modern Contract Law Theory: Some Key Questions' (2022) 3-4 Studia Prawa Prywatnego 99
  • ‘Rethinking the Instrumentality of European Private Law’ (2022) 30 European Review of Private Law 457 (with G. Bacharis)
  • 'Promises to Unidentified Individuals' (2018) 58 Principia 111
  • 'Between Promise and Contract. The Limits of Applications of Philosophical Discourse on Promises in Theory of Contract Law' (2018) 1 Avant 111 (in Polish)
  • '“Is” and “Ought” in Hume’s and Kant’s Philosophy' , in M. Sellers and S. Kirste (eds.),  Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (Springer, 2017) (with W. Załuski)

Public engagement

  • 'Umowa' ('Contract') Filozofia w Praktyce (8 December 2022) (in Polish)
  • 'Dlaczego umów należy dotrzymywać' ('Why Contracts Should be Kept?') Filozofia w Praktyce (2 September 2018) (in Polish)
  • 'Grupa wpływu' ('Interest Group') Tygodnik Powszechny (2 July 2018) (in Polish)