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Katja Langenbucher participates in the ARTE documentary series Money, which explores the role of money in modern society and the global financial system. She is among the experts featured in several episodes, including Episode 9. The series brings together international scholars and practitioners to discuss key economic and financial developments from interdisciplinary perspectives.
From August 1 to December 20, 2026, Prof. Dr. Katja Langenbucher will hold the Verena Meyer Visiting Professorship at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zurich (UZH). Through this program, the UZH Executive Board specifically invites outstanding female scholars to serve as role models for the next generation of researchers.
Conference on “The Evolving Role of Digital Assets in the Global Financial System”, organized by The Program on International Financial Systems (PIFS), Harvard Law School Executive Education (HLSEE), and the Digital Assets Policy Project (DAPP) at the Harvard Kennedy School, on April 21-24, 2026, Harvard Law School.
LiaNs is an interdisciplinary inter-institutional European seminar series on Legal Issues Arising from Networks
The new ZEVEDI project group “AI Supervision (AI-Sup)” is dedicated to examining the institutional foundations of AI oversight in the context of the EU AI Act. Its central focus lies on questions of independence and democratic legitimacy in national supervisory models.
On 9 April 2026, the Forum on Comparative Corporate Law will take place at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zurich on the topic “The Role of Gatekeepers in Corporate Law.” Prof. Dr. Katja Langenbucher will give a presentation on “AI Gatekeepers.”
On 25 and 26 February 2026, the FinTech Days will take place at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Prof. Dr. Katja Langenbucher will speak on the centralization of financial market supervision.
On 12 and 13 February 2026, the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (IMFS) at Goethe University Frankfurt will host an international conference on the independence of central banks and financial supervisory authorities. Prof. Dr. Katja Langenbucher will open the conference together with Prof. Dr. Volker Wieland and chair several panels.
On 22 and 23 January 2026, the closing conference of the JuLIA project will take place in Brussels. Prof. Dr. Katja Langenbucher will contribute to the conference with a presentation.
On 11 December 2025, Prof. Dr. Katja Langenbucher will participate in an international symposium on corporate and capital markets law at Waseda University in Tokyo. She will present a paper on the identification of beneficial owners from a comparative European and Japanese legal perspective and will also take part in the concluding panel discussion.
On 1 and 2 December 2025, the closing conference of the research project “Towards a New Digital Rule of Law” will take place at the Sciences Po Law School in Paris. Prof. Dr. Katja Langenbucher will chair a session on algorithmic fairness and discuss legal challenges at the intersection of digitalization and discrimination.
On 4 and 5 September 2025, the academic conference “Systemic Risks in the Digital Age” will take place in Trier, organized by the Institute for Law and Digitalisation (IRDT) at the University of Trier. The conference takes an interdisciplinary approach to the regulation of systemic risks in the context of digitalisation, financial market regulation, and artificial intelligence.
A new paper by Prof. Howell E. Jackson and Prof. Katja C. Langenbucher titled “The Regulation of Technological Innovation in Financial Services: A Comparative Approach with Respect to Digital Assets and Artificial Intelligence” has been published on SSRN.
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