Hossein Nabilou is an Associate Professor of Law & Finance at the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Law School. He serves as Co-Director of the Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics and Coordinator of the Minor in Law & Economics.

Prior to joining the University of Amsterdam, he held the UNIDROIT–Bank of Italy Chair at the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) and worked as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in Banking and Financial Law at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg. He has also held postdoctoral and visiting researcher positions at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich, Columbia University in the City of New York, and the Europa-Institut in Basel, where his research focused on banking structural reforms, the money view of banking, and the regulation of hedge funds, respectively.

He holds a Ph.D. from Erasmus University Rotterdam, an LL.M. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and both an LL.M. in Public Law and an LL.B. from Shahid Beheshti University School of Law.

His academic interests include law and finance, the regulation of financial markets and institutions, European and international financial regulation, law and technology, and company law. His research focuses on monetary and banking law, shadow banking, financial market infrastructures, banking structural reforms, financial contracting, alternative investment funds, and legal issues relating to fintech, payments, blockchain, and crypto-assets. He is the author of several award-winning articles published in internationally renowned peer-reviewed law journals. He teaches Financial Contracting, Law & Economics, Fintech: Law & Policy, and Functional Methods in Law & Finance.

• Nabilou, H. (2021). Bitcoin Governance as a decentralized financial market infrastructure. (In press: Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law & Policy), Available at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3555042
• Nabilou, H. (2021), Can the Plight of the European Banking Structural Reforms be a Blessing in Disguise?. (In press: European Business Organization Law Review), Preprint available at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3384774
• Nabilou, H. & Prüm, A. (2021), Central Banks and Regulation of Cryptocurrencies, (In press: Review of Banking and Financial Law), Preprint available at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3421417
• Nabilou, H. & Asimakopoulos, I. (2020), In CCP We Trust … Or Do We? Assessing the Regulation of Central Clearing Counterparties in Europe, Capital Markets Law Journal (OUP), 15(1), 70-97, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cmlj/kmz026
• Nabilou, H. & Prüm, A. (2019), Shadow Banking in Europe: Idiosyncrasies and their Implications for Financial Regulation, European Journal of Risk Regulation (CUP), 10(4), 781-810, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/err.2019.53
•   Nabilou, H. (2019), How to Regulate Bitcoin? Decentralized Regulation for a Decentralized Cryptocurrency, International Journal of Law and Information Technology (OUP), 27(3), 266-291, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ijlit/eaz008
• Nabilou, H. (2019), Testing the Waters of the Rubicon: The ECB and Central Bank Digital Currencies. Journal of Banking Regulation, 1-16, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41261-019-00112-1
• Wu, S. & Nabilou, H. (2019), Repo Markets across the Atlantic: Similar But Unalike, European Business Law Review, 30(4), 513-546. Available at: http://www.kluwerlawonline.com/abstract.php?id=EULR2019023
• Nabilou, H. (2019), The Dark Side of Licensing Cryptocurrency Exchanges as Payment Institutions, Law and Financial Markets Review, 14(1), 39-47, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17521440.2019.1626545
• Nabilou, H. & Prüm, A. (2019), Ignorance, Debt, and Cryptocurrencies: The Old and the New in the Law and Economics of Concurrent Currencies. Journal of Financial Regulation (OUP), 5(1); 29-63. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jfr/fjz002
• Nabilou, H. & Pacces, A. M. (2018). The Law and Economics of Shadow Banking, in Iris H. Chiu & Iain MacNeil (eds.), Research Handbook on Shadow Banking: Legal and Regulatory Aspects, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham, UK; 7-46. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785362637.00008
• Nabilou, H. (2017). Reconceptualising Global Finance and its Regulation. Banking & Finance Law Review, 32(3); 579-602; (Essay).
• Nabilou, H. (2017). Regulatory Arbitrage and Hedge Fund Regulation: The Need for a Transnational Response. Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law. 22(4), 557-603.
• Nabilou, H. (2017). Bank Proprietary Trading and Investment in Private Funds: Is the Volcker Rule a Panacea or Yet Another Maginot Line? in Banking & Finance Law Review, 32(2), pp. 297-341.
• Nabilou, H. (2017). The Conundrum of Hedge Fund Definition. European Company and Financial Law Review, 14(1), 149-186. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ecfr-2017-0006
• Nabilou, H. (2017), A Tale of Regulatory Divergence: Contrasting Transatlantic Policy Responses to the Alleged Role of Alternative Investment Funds in Financial Instability. Capital Markets Law Journal (OUP), 12(1), 94-122; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cmlj/kmw031
• Nabilou, H. (2016). Derivatives in Islamic Finance: Examining the Market Risk Management Framework. Banking & Finance Law Review, 32(1), 203-207. (Book Review)
• Prüm, A., Conac, P.H.; Nabilou, H.; Riassetto, I. (2015). European Banking and Financial Law Code. Luxembourg: Larcier.
• Nabilou, H. & Pacces, A. M. (2015). The Hedge Fund Regulation Dilemma: Direct vs. Indirect Regulation. William & Mary Business Law Review, 6(I), 183-236. 
• Nabilou, H. (2010). A Response to Prof. Shavell’s “Should Copyright of Academic Works be Abolished?. Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 7(1), 31-44.