Dr. Pascal T. Sierek

Main Fields of Research

Interdisciplinary legal research; law of digitalization; legal theory; intellectual property law

Vita

Pascal T. Sierek, born 1995, studied law from 2013 to 2018 at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg and Stellenbosch University in South Africa.

From 2020 until 2024 he prepared and completed his doctoral thesis at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. The dissertation, titled "Datenaustausch durch Datentreuhand" [Data Sharing through Data Trustees], was supervised by Prof. Dr. Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider and written in the framework of the cross-university research training group "Recht der Informationsgesellschaft" [Law of the Information Society]. In his study, Pascal T. Sierek addresses the question of how data trustees can be set up under private law so as to promote a sovereign exchange of data between market participants. The dissertation was awarded the TELEKOM-Prize by the Department of Law at the University of Bonn.

Sierek sat for the second state law exam in September 2024. Since February 2025 he has been employed as a research fellow in the Institute group led by Prof. Dr. Anne Röthel. He is currently examining how findings from other academic disciplines (e.g. economics, the social sciences, and computer science) can be integrated in private law. Additionally, he is conducting research on European digital law, focusing in particular on artificial intelligence and the law of the person in digital settings.