Professor for Private Law, Financial Markets and Banking Regulation, Monetary and Digital Assets Law

Faculty of Law | Institute for Civil and Economic Law

Katja is a law professor at Goethe-University's House of Finance in Frankfurt, affiliated professor at SciencesPo, Paris, and long-term guest professor at Fordham Law School, NYC, SAFE Fellow with the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE; PI ZEVEDI-group on AI and Finance.

She has held visiting positions at SciencesPo, Paris (2008: Alfred Grosser Chaire); Sorbonne, Paris; Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Vienna; London School of Economics, London; Columbia Law School, NYC and Fordham Law School (2018: Edward Mulligan Distinguished Professorship), NYC; PennLaw, Philadelphia (2022: Bok Visiting International Professorship); NYU Law School (starting 2026: Global Faculty).

Katja has published extensively on corporate, banking and securities law. Her book “Economic transplants – on lawmaking for corporations and capital markets" (CUP 2017) offers an interdisciplinary outlook on finance; her latest co-edited book discusses the “Capital Market Union and beyond" (MIT Press 2019).

She is a member of the German securities market oversight body's (BaFin) supervisory board, a member of the German Federal Ministry of Finance's working group on capital markets law and also a member of the Center for AI and Digital Policy-Global Academic Network. She is a board member at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (FNSP/SciencesPo). Katja was a member of the supervisory board of a German bank (2014-18) and of the EU Commission's High Level Forum on the Capital Market Union.

Detailed Curriculum Vitae

Goethe University Frankfurt
House of Finance, Room 4.62
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 3
60629 Frankfurt am Main
Germany

Phone: +49 (0)69 798-33766
E-Mail: office-langenbucher@imfs-frankfurt.de