Monika received a master’s degree in law from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland) and an LLM degree in international and European business law from the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich (Germany). She earned her PhD degree in law (summa cum laude) from the University in Bonn for a doctoral thesis entitled “Behavioral effects of corporate governance reforms and their legal implications”. During her doctoral studies, she was a member of the International Max Planck Research School “Uncertainty” and a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn. There she learned to design, program and conduct economic experiments as well as analyzed experimental data to answer legally motivated questions. She spent last two years at the NYU School of Law – first as a post-doctoral fellow funded by the Hauser Global Law School Program and, then, as an LLM student with a Hauser Global Scholarship. At NYU she further expanded her empirical toolkit and gained knowledge of the common law system. Monika joined the UM Faculty of Law in September 2018.