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Faculty of Law

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Prof. Dr. Wolf-Georg Ringe, M.Jur. (Oxon)

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Chair for Law & Finance

Address

University of Hamburg
Faculty of Law
Institut für Recht und Ökonomik
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg

Office

Room: 254

Office hours

  • by arrangement

Contact

Tel: +49 40 42838-7787

Secretary's office

Nadja Georgiou
Secretary of Prof. Dr. Georg Ringe, MJur (Oxon) & Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Stefan Voigt
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Room: 242
Tel: +49 40 42838-5776


Professor Georg Ringe is Director of the Institute of Law & Economics at the University of Hamburg and Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford, Faculty of Law. His research focuses on questions of corporate law, capital markets, and financial regulation, from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. He is a Research Member with the European Corporate Governance Institute, Brussels, Fellow at the European Banking Institute, Frankfurt, and co-editor of the Journal of Financial Regulation. As Visiting Professor, he regularly teaches at leading academic institutions in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Institute of Law & Economics

Curriculum Vitae

Positions

  • Professor of Law & Finance and Director of the Institute of Law & Economics, University of Hamburg (since 2017)
  • Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, Faculty of Law (since 2014)
  • Associate Member, Center for Corporate Governance, Copenhagen Business School (since 2013)
  • Research Member, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), Brussels
  • Vice President, European Banking Institute (EBI), Frankfurt
  • Fellow, Asian Corporate Governance and Finance Forum (since 2016)
  • Visiting Professor, Stanford University (2023 and 2024)
  • Editor, Journal of Financial Regulation (Oxford University Press)


Professional background

  • 1998-2004 Undergraduate and postgraduate studies in law, Universities of Passau, Lausanne, Bonn, and Oxford (M.Jur. 2004)
  • 2006 PhD, University of Bonn
  • Research Assistant at the University of Bonn (with Prof. Daniel Zimmer) and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg (with Prof. Klaus J. Hopt)
  • 2004-06 Clerkship at the Hanseatic Court of Appeal, Hamburg
  • 2007 Practising Lawyer, Hamburg
  • 2007-12 Lecturer in Law, University of Oxford (Christ Church)
  • 2012-17 Professor of International Commercial Law, Copenhagen Business School
  • Since 2017 Professor of Law & Finance and Director of the Institute of Law & Economics, Universität Hamburg 

Current Research Projects

Current Working Papers

  • Edoardo Martino and Wolf-Georg Ringe, ‘The Social Cost of Blockchain: Externalities, Allocation of Property Rights, and the Role of the Law’, forthcoming, European Journal of Risk Regulation, available at https://ssrn.com/abstract=4821063 
  • Wolf-Georg Ringe and Jatine Patel, ‘The Dark Side of Bank Resolution: Counterparty Risk through Bail-in’, European Banking Institute Working Paper No 31/2019, available at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3314103 

New publications

Ongoing projects

Research interests

  • Economic analysis of law
  • Financial regulation
  • Corporate governance, company law and securities law
  • European integration
  • Insolvency law and restructuring

Publications

List of publications (PDF) (as of 10/2024)

Press Coverage (PDF) (as of 10/2024)

SSRN page: http://ssrn.com/author=836081