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

Positions

• Professor of Law & Finance and Director of the Institute of Law & Economics, Universität Hamburg (since 2017) 
• Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, Faculty of Law (since 2014)
• Associate Member, Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance (since 2009)
• Associate Member, Center for Corporate Governance, Copenhagen Business School (since 2013)
• Research Member, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
• Fellow, European Banking Institute (EBI)
• Fellow, Seoul Corporate Governance Forum (since 2016)
• Visiting Professor, Vanderbilt Law School (2015)
• Visiting Professor, Columbia Law School (2010 und 2014)
• Visiting Professor, IDC Herzliyah, Israel (2011)
• 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 Working Papers

• Bank-Fintech Partnerships, Outsourcing Arrangements and the Case for a Mentorship Regime, ECGI Working Paper No. 527/2020 (with Luca Enriques)
• Stewardship and Shareholder Engagement in Germany, ECGI Law Working Paper No 501/2020

Recently published

• Pandemic Crisis and Financial Stability (mit Christos V. Gortsos) (EBI, Frankfurt 2020)
• Interne und externe Corporate Governance bei Banken, in: Stefan Grundmann et al. (eds.), Festschrift für Klaus J. Hopt zum 80. Geburtstag (de Gruyter 2020) 1037-1052
• How to Rescue Startups During the Pandemic in Horst Eidenmüller et al. (eds.), Covid-19 and Business Law (C.H. Beck / Hart / Nomos 2020), 41-45 (with Dorothea Ringe)
• Regulating Fintech in the EU: the case for a Guided Sandbox, (2020) 11 European Journal of Risk Regulation 604-629 (with Christopher Ruof)
• The Politics of Capital Markets Union: From Brexit to Eurozone, in Franklin Allen et al. (eds.), Capital Markets Union and Beyond (MIT Press, 2019)
• The Irrelevance of Brexit for the European Financial Market, (2018) 19 European Business Organization Law Review 1-34 (also available here)

Ongoing projects

• Law, Finance, and Technology, Institute of Law & Economics, Universität Hamburg
• Regulating Finance in a Post-Sectoral World, KU Leuven
• Nordic Finance and the Good Society, Copenhagen Business School

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

List of publications (PDF) (as of 05/2021)

Press Coverage (PDF) (as of 05/2021)

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