Mattias Kumm (born August 15, 1967) is Inge Rennert Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, as well as holding a Research Professorship on "Globalization and the Rule of Law" at the Social Science Research Center (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, WZB) and Humboldt University in Berlin.
Kumm holds a JSD from Harvard Law School and has pursued studies in law, philosophy and political sciences at the University of Kiel, Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and Harvard University.
Kumm's research and teaching focuses on basic issues in global, European and comparative public law.
He argues for the need to reconceive the liberal-democratic constitutional tradition in cosmopolitan and pluralist terms.
Among his intellectual influences are Hans Kelsen, Robert Alexy, and Ronald Dworkin.