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

• Wolf-Georg Ringe, ‘How to facilitate ESG investor engagement’, in: Luca Enriques and Giovanni Strampelli (eds), Board-Shareholder Dialogue: Best Practices, Legal Constraints and Policy Options (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2023)
• Alessio Azzutti, Wolf-Georg Ringe and Siegfried Stiehl, ‘Regulating AI Trading from an AI Life Cycle Perspective’ EBI Working Paper Series No 130/2022; forthcoming in: Nydia Remolina and Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez (eds), Artificial Intelligence in Finance: Challenges, Opportunities and Regulatory Developments (Edward Elgar, 2023)
• Alperen Gözlügöl and Wolf-Georg Ringe, ‘Private Companies: The Missing Link on The Path to Net Zero’ ECGI Law Working Paper No 635/2022 and SAFE Working Paper No 342, forthcoming, Journal of Corporate Law Studies
• Alperen Gözlügöl and Wolf-Georg Ringe, ‘Net-Zero Transition and Mergers & Acquisitions of Carbon-Intensive Assets’ (2023) UC Davis Law Review, forthcoming

New publications

• Investor-Led Sustainability in Corporate Governance, (2022) 7 Annals of Corporate Governance 93-151, working paper version here.
• Business Law and the Transition to a Net Zero Economy (Beck / Nomos / Hart 2022) (with Andreas Engert, Luca Enriques, Umakanth Varottil, and Thom Wetzer)
• Machine Learning, Market Manipulation and Collusion on Capital Markets: Why the “Black Box” matters, (2021) 43 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 79, EBI Working Paper no. 84/2021 (with Alessio Azzutti and Siegfried Stiehl)

Ongoing projects

• Network for AI and Law (NAIL), Universität Hamburg & Bucerius Law School
• Law, Finance, and Technology, Institute of Law & Economics, Universität Hamburg
• 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 01/2023)

Press Coverage (PDF) (as of 11/2021)

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