Dr Szymon Osmola

Szymon Osmola is a Lecturer in Commercial Law at Edinburgh Law School. Before joining the University of Edinburgh, Szymon was a Fellow in Law at LSE Law School and a Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University. He holds a PhD and LLM in law from the European University Institute in Florence, and a Master’s degree in Law (with distinction) from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. 

Szymon’s research interests include contract and consumer law, commercial law more broadly, EU law, and legal theory. He is currently working on a book that explores the underlying principles of EU consumer law, as well as several projects on contemporary challenges in commercial law, related to digitalisation, globalisation, and social inequality. The book is based on Szymon’s PhD research, which has been awarded the first prize in the 'Państwo i Prawo' ('Law and State') competition for best PhD dissertations. His research has also received recognition and support from the Foundation for Polish Science, the Common Market Law Review, the Bloomfield International Post-Doctoral Fellowship Fund, and the National Science Centre, Poland.

Szymon teaches commercial law, primarily insurance law, rights in security, commercial remedies, and agency.