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  • With Howell Jackson
    The Regulation of Technological Innovation in Financial Services: A Comparative Approach with Respect to Digital Assets and Artificial Intelligence
    Law and Contemporary Problems 2026, 88(2), 77, (PDF)
  • With Kevin Bauer
    Corporate Communication, Agentic AI, and Prompt Injections
    In: Oxford Intersections: AI in Society, (PDF)
  • Explainable AI as a Component of Building Trust, The Case of Regulating Creditscoring
    ZEVEDI DigiGov 2025, 189, (PDF)
  • With Ann-Katrin Kaufhold
    Zum institutionellen Design der Marktüberwachungsbehörden nach der KI-VO
    (On the institutional design of market surveillance authorities under the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI Regulation))
    BKR 2025, 598
  • Die Uhr tickt
    (The clock is ticking)
    EuZW 2025, 593
  • Zum Einsatz künstlicher Intelligenz in der Bank, Ein Blick auf die Europäische KI-Verordnung,
    (The use of artificial intelligence in banking, a look at the European AI Regulation)
    SZW/RSDA 01/2025, 83
  • AI Judgment Rule(s)
    The University of Chicago Law Review, (PDF)
  • KI und Aktienrecht
    (AI and corporate law)
    EuZW 2024, 854
  • With Thomas Kremer
    Einfluss von Digitalisierung und KI auf das Aktienrecht, Reformbedarf im Aktienrecht, Vorschläge für eine große Aktienrechtsreform
    (Influence of Digitalisation and AI on Corporate Law, the Need for Reform in Corporate Law and Suggestions)
    VGR Beiheft 2024, 70
  • Rückgang börsennotierter Unternehmen: Gründe und rechtliche Gegenmaßnahmen
    (Decline of listed corporations: reasons and legal countermeasures)
    ZGR 2024, 287
  • Die Schufa vor dem EuGH
    (Schufa at the ECJ)
    BKR 2024, 66
  • Künstliche Intelligenz in der Leitungsentscheidung des Vorstands
    (Artificial Intelligence and board-decision-making)
    ZHR 187 (2023), 723
  • Gruppendenken und Corporate Governance - illustriert am Beispiel des Wirecard Skandals
    (Groupthink and corporate governance - illustrated against the background of the Wirecard scandal)
    JZ 2023, 693 and Schriftenreihe der Juristischen Studiengesellschaft Karlsruhe, 2022/2023, 135
  • Diskriminierung bei der Vergabe von Verbraucherkrediten? Eine Anmerkung zu den Plänen des Europäischen Gesetzgebers
    (Discriminatory lending? On EU legislative proposals)
    BKR 2023, 205
  • Änderungsbedarf: § 307 Abs. 3 BGB
    (On the use of general terms and conditions in banking)
    NZG 2023, 537
  • With Maximilian Beilner, Marie-Therése Radetzky, Dominik Scheld, Jan Sehorz, Oscar Stolper, Philipp Tilk
    Der Einsatz von “Digital Engagement Practices“ in der Vermögensanlage, Empirische Evidenz und rechtliche Einordnung
    (Digital Engagement Practices and investment advice, empirical evidence and legal framing)
    ZBB 2023, 95
  • With Martin Winner
    Wirecard und Commerzialbank Mattersburg – Compliance, Kontrollversagen und die Folgen für den Gesetzgeber
    (Wirecard and Commerzialbank Mattersburg – Compliance, Lack of Control and the Legislator)
    ZFR 2022/58, 108
  • Synthesis of “Economic Transplants: On Lawmaking for Corporations and Capital Markets”
    Accounting, Economics, and Law: A Convivium 2022, S. 253
  • Zur Regulierung des Kreditscoring
    (On Regulating Credit Scoring)
    EuZW 2021, 961
  • With Patrick Corcoran
    Responsible AI Credit Scoring – A Lesson from Upstart.com
    Digital Finance in Europe: Law, Regulation, and Governance
    European Company and Financial Law Review 2022, Special Volume 5, 141
  • KI und Finanz
    (AI and finance)
    RDI 2021 (Editorial)
  • With Loriana Pelizzon
    Short Selling – On Ethics, Politics, and Culture
    ZBB 2021, 301
  • Kommunikation als Governance-Instrument in der börsennotierten Aktiengesellschaft 
    (Shareholder and investor communication as a corporate governance instrument)
    ZHR 2021, 414
  • With Joachim Hennrichs, Bernhard Pellens, Anne d’Arcy, Uwe Fülbier, Peter Hommelhoff, Christopher Koch, Jens Koch, Hanno Merkt, Stefan Müller, Moritz Pöschke, Thorsten Sellhorn
    Thesen zur Stärkung der Corporate Governance aus Anlass des Wirecard-Falles
    (On strengthening corporate governance – remarks on wirecard) 
    DB 2021, 550
  • With Piotr Rataj and Lukas Vossen
    Rechtliche Grundlagen der Investor Relations und Finanzkommunikation
    (Legal principles of investor relations and financial communication)
    Hoffmann/Schiereck/Zerfaß, Handbuch Investor Relations und Finanzkommunikation 2022, 85
  • Building a Capital Market – the Final Report of the High Level Forum on the EU Capital Market Union
    European Company and Financial Law Review 2020, 601
  • Regulatory Arbitrage – What’s Law Got to Do With It?
    Accounting, Economics and Law: A Convivium vol. 11 no. 2 2021, 91, (PDF)
  • Wirecard – ein Skandal zur richtigen Zeit
    (Wirecard – a timely scandal)
    EuZW 2020, 681
  • Responsible A.I. credit scoring – a legal framework
    European Business Law Review 2020, 527
  • Interdisziplinäre Forschung im Unternehmensrecht – auf dem Weg zu einer cognitive corporate governance?
    (Interdisciplinary scholarship in corporate law – on our way towards cognitive corporate governance?)
    ZGR 2019, 717
  • With Jennifer d’Hoir
    Regulation of digital assets – How France and Germany are paving the way for an EU reform
    Revue Trimestrielle Droit Financier 2019, 40
  • With Daniel Hau and Jasper Wentz
    „Aktivistische Leerverkäufer” – eine Überlegung zur Markteffizienz und deren Grenzen im Kapitalmarktrecht 
    (“Activist short sellers“ – On market efficiency and its limits in capital markets law)
    ZBB 2019, 307
  • Initial coin offerings – where do we stand and should we move?
    Revue Trimestrielle Droit Financier 2018, 40
  • Gender and corporate law?
    La Revue des Juristes de SciencesPo no. 15 2018, 37
  • Digitales Finanzwesen – vom Bargeld zu virtuellen Währungen?
    (Digital finance – from cash to virtual currencies?)
    AcP 2018, 385
  • Kündigungsrecht der Bausparkassen zehn Jahre nach Zuteilungsreife
    (Banks’ right to terminate building savings contracts)
    NJW 2017, 1353
  • Shareholder activism, institutions of corporate governance and re-reading Roe
    Revue Trimestrielle Droit Financier 2016, 70
  • In Brüssel nichts Neues? – Der „verständige Anleger“ in der Marktmissbrauchsverordnung
    (The resonable investor under the market abuse directive)
    AG 2016, 417
  • 50 Jahre Aktiengesetz – Aktienrecht und Kapitalmarktrecht
    (Capital markets Law and Corporate law after 50 years of the German Code on stock corporations)
    ZGR 2016, special edition 19, 273
  • Anlegerschutz durch Haftung nach deutschem und europäischem Kapitalmarktrecht
    (Investor protection under German and European capital markets law)
    Karlsruher Forum 2014, Schriftenreihe der Zeitschrift Versicherungsrecht (VersR), Band 55, 5
  • Diversity on corporate boards – why, how?
    Revue Trimestrielle de Droit Financier 2015, 63
  • Über die allmähliche Verfertigung des Gesetzes beim Regulieren
    ÖBA 2014, 656
  • Insider Trading, An exercise in (economic and legal) transplants
    Revue Trimestrielle de Droit Financier No 4 2013/ No 1 2014, 35
  • Zum Begriff der Insiderinformation nach dem Entwurf für eine Marktmissbrauchsverordnung
    (How to interpret “Inside information” according to the proposal for the Regulation on Market Abuse)
    NZG 2013, 1401
  • Anlegerschutz – Ein Bericht zu theoretischen Prämissen und legislativen Instrumenten
    (Investor Protection – A report on theoretical premises and legislative instruments)
    ZHR 177 (2013), 679
  • Vorstandshaftung und Legalitätspflicht in regulierten Branchen
    (Efficient breach of the law and CEO’s duties)
    ZBB 2013, 16
  • Bausteine eines Bankgesellschaftsrechts, Zur Stellung des Aufsichtsrats in Finanzinstituten
    (CRD IV and Corporate Governance of Banks – A New Discipline in the Making)
    ZHR 176 (2012), 652
  • Zentrale Akteure der Corporate Governance, Zusammensetzung des Aufsichtsrats
    (The composition of corporate boards)
    ZGR 2012, 314
  • Der „vernünftige Anleger“ vor dem EuGH,Zu den Schlussanträgen des GA Mengozzi in der Sache „Schrempp” 
    (The reasonable investor and the ECJ)
    BKR 2012, 145
  • Frauenquote und Gesellschaftsrecht
    (On gender diversity in corporate boards)
    JZ 2011, 1038
  • With Guido Friebel
    Die Institutsvergütungsverordnung: Ist Verantwortung für Misserfolge im Finanzsektor möglich? 
    (On executive remuneration in banks: How to make executives accountable for failures)
    GWR 2011, 103
  • With Andreas Hackethal and Steffen Meyer
    Verbraucherschutz durch Leistungstransparenz in der Anlageberatung 
    (Transparency in retail finance)
    Sonderheft 61/10 ZfbF (Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung), 108
  • With Sebastian Brenner and Marcel Gellings
    Zur Nutzung von Insiderinformationen nach der Marktmissbrauchsrichtlinie
    (On the “use“ of inside information under the market manipulation directive)
    BKR 2010, 133
  • The “use or possession“-debate revisited – Spector Photo Group and insider trading in Europe
    Capital Markets Law Journal 2010, 452
  • Bankaktienrecht unter Unsicherheit
    (Corporate law of banks under conditions of uncertainty)
    ZGR 2010, 75
  • Kredithandel nach dem Risikobegrenzungsgesetz
    (Non-performing loans under German law)
    NJW 2008, 3169
  • The DCFR: Agency Authority and Its Scope – A Glance at Corporation Law
    European Review Contract Law 2008, 375
  • Wettbewerbsverbote, Unabhängigkeit und die Stellung des Aufsichtsratsmitglieds
    (Independence of board members)
    ZGR 2007, 571
  • Zum „Prospective overruling“ im englischen Kreditsicherungsrecht
    (Prospective overruling under English Law)
    ZEuP 2006, 854
  • Vereinbarungen über den Zinssatz – zugleich eine Anmerkung zu Nr. 5 und Nr. 6 der neuen Bedingungen für den gewerblichen Musterdarlehensvertrag
    (Judicial control of agreements on interest rates)
    BKR 2005, 134
  • Vorstandshandeln und Kontrolle: Zu einigen Neuerungen durch das UMAG
    (Liability of board members in stock corporations)
    Special edition GesRZ 2005, 3 and: DStR 2005, 3
  • Kapitalerhaltung und Kapitalmarkthaftung
    (Capital preservation and liability in capital markets law)
    ZIP 2005, 239
  • Zusatzkreditkarten – Haftungsrisiko ohne Ende? Zur dogmatischen Einordnung von "Partnerkarten"
    (Credit cards for partners – liability for fraud)
    NJW 2004, 3522
  • Umsetzung von Basel II gegenüber dem Kunden, insbesondere beim internen Rating
    (Basel II, internal Rating and banking law)
    Schriftenreihe der Bankrechtlichen Vereinigung, Bankrechtstag 2004, 63
  • Einführung in das Recht der Aktiengesellschaft
    JURA 2004, 577
  • Grundfälle zum Recht der Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
    JuS 2004, 387, 478 and 581
  • Recht und Zeit
    (Law and time)
    IVR Conference Kiel 2004, ARSP 91 (2005), 55
  • Zur Rechtsfolge der verdeckten Sacheinlage bei der GmbH
    (On undisclosed contributions in kind in the law of the German company limited by shares)
    DStR 2003, 1838
  • Zum Tatbestand der verdeckten Sacheinlage bei der GmbH
    (On undisclosed contributions in kind in the law of the German company limited by shares)
    NZG 2003, 211
  • Rechtsprechung mit Wirkung für die Zukunft
    (Prospective overruling in German courts)
    JZ 2003, 1132
  • Klausur: Vertragsrechtliche Probleme des Franchisings
    (Exam: Contractual issues in franchising)
    JuS 2003, 572
  • Zur Legitimität parlamentsersetzender Normgebungsverfahren im Europarecht
    (The legitimacy of extra-parliamentary establishment of legal norms)
    ZEuP 2002, 265
  • Das Dezisionismusargument in der deutschen und in der US-amerikanischen Rechtstheorie
    (The argument from decisionism in German and Anglo-American legal theory)
    ARSP 88 (2002), 398
  • Der Wiedereinstellungsanspruch des Arbeitnehmers beim Betriebsübergang
    (The right of the employee to his work place after transfer of the company)
    ZfA 1999, 299
  • Argument by Analogy in European Law
    The Cambridge Law Journal 1998, 481
  • Risikohaftung und Schutzpflichten im innerbetrieblichen Schadensausgleich
    (Risk allocation and duties to protect employees in employers’ liability cases)
    ZfA 1997, 523
  • Zur Rolle des Richters in der anglo-amerikanischen Rechtstheorie
    (The role of judges in anglo-american legal theory)
    Rechtstheorie 1994, 392
    translated by Prof. Dr. Byun, Jong-Pil, Inje University of Korea, published in: Legal Philosophy Research 2003, May issue

Books

  • Aktien- und Kapitalmarktrecht, Juristische Kurzlehrbücher
    (Corporate and capital markets law)
    5th ed. Munich 2022
  • Economic Transplants, On Lawmaking for Corporations and Capital Markets
    Cambridge University Press 2017
  • Die Risikozuordnung im bargeldlosen Zahlungsverkehr
    (Risk allocation in non-cash payments)
    Munich 2001
  • Die Entwicklung und Auslegung von Richterrecht. Eine methodologische Untersuchung zur richterlichen Rechtsfortbildung im deutschen Zivilrecht
    (Developing and interpreting judge-made law. An inquiry into German private law)
    Munich 1996

Chapters in Books

  • Plus ça change
    Rechtsvergleichende Bemerkungen zum Insiderhandel mit Kryptowerten
    (Plus ça change: Comparative Observations on Insider Trading in Crypto-Assets)
    FS Reichert, 2026, pp. 637-653
  • Die SEPA-Echtzeitüberweisung im globalen Wettbewerb der Zahlungsmittel
    (SEPA real-time transfers in the global competition between payment methods)
    GS Spindler, 2025, pp. 435 et seqq.
  • The surprising Impotence of Anti-Discrimination Law in the Age of AI
    … and a comment on Art. 6 Directive 2023/2225 on Credit Agreements for Consumers
    in: Burchard/Spiecker, Algorithmic Transformations of Power: Trust, Conflict, Uncertainty and Control, Nomos, 2025, pp. 61 et seqq.
  • Kapitalmarktrecht, Informationseffizienz und soziale Medien
    (Capital market law, information efficiency and social media)
    in: Hinz/Möslein, Digitale Unternehmenskommunikation, 2025, pp. 53 et seqq.
  • AI and Financial Services
    in: Smuha, Cambridge Handbook on the Law, Ethics and Policy of Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge University Press, 2025, pp. 322 et seqq., (Peer-reviewed preprint)
  • Kreditscoring und Datenschutz
    (Credit scoring and data protection)
    in: Liber amicorum Georgios Gounalakis, Baden-Baden 2025, pp. 711 et seqq.
  • Insider Trading in Europe– from financial instruments to crypto assets
    in: Bainbridge (ed.), Research Handbook on Insider Trading, Edward Elgar, 2nd ed., 2025, pp. 301 et seqq.
  • Ownership and Trust, A corporate law framework for board decision-making in the age of AI
    in: Marchetti/Rossi/Strampelli/Urbani/Ventoruzzo, La s.p.a. nell’epoca della sostenibilità e della transizione tecnologica, Proceedings of Venice conference, 2024, pp. 115 et seqq.
  • Regulatory Arbitrage and Stablecoins
    in: Liber Amicorum für Andreas Cahn, München 2024, pp. 249 et seqq.
  • KI in der Leitungsentscheidung des Vorstands der Aktiengesellschaft
    (AI in management decisions on corporate boards)
    in: Florstedt/Vervessos, Wirtschaftsrecht in Zeiten der Krise, 2024, pp. 175 et seqq.
  • With Martin Gelter
    Aktionärsrechte und -aktivismus in Deutschland und den USA
    (Shareholder rights and activism in Germany and the US)
    in: Hopt/Hommelhoff/Leyens, Handbuch Unternehmensführung, 2024, pp. 955 et seqq.
  • Die Barkapitalerhöhung als Prinzipal-Agent-Konflikt
    (On capital increases as a principal-agent problem)
    in: Liber Amicorum Henssler, 2023, pp. 1031 et seqq.
  • Europarechtliche Methodenlehre (European Legal Theory)
    in: Langenbucher (Ed.), Europäisches Privat- und Wirtschaftsrecht (European Private and Corporate Law)
    (1st and 2nd ed. appeared under the title Europarechtliche Bezüge des Privatrechts), 5th ed. Baden-Baden 2022, pp. 25 et seqq.
  • AI Credit Scoring and Evaluation of Creditworthiness – A Test Case for the EU Proposal for an AI Act
    ECB Proceedings/Legal Conference 2021, published in 2022, pp. 362 et seqq.
  • Zur Architektur der Kontrolle von Aktiengesellschaften von öffentlichem Interesse– eine Überlegung zu Wirecard
    (On the control architecture of PIE – some thoughts on Wirecard)
    in: Liber Amicorum Ebke, 2021, pp. 573 et seqq.
  • Besitzeffekte – ein methodisches Lehrstück zu transdisziplinären Klischees
    (Endowment effects – a methodological illustration of transdisciplinary clichés)
    in: Liber Amicorum Böcking, 2021, pp. 145 et seqq.
  • Die compliance Weisung des § 13 Abs. 2 VerSanG-E
    (Compliance and corporate criminal law)
    in: Liber Amicorum Grunewald, 2021, pp. 611 et seqq.
  • With Johannes Adolff
    Kreditscoring: von Auskunfteien zu künstlicher Intelligenz
    (Creditscoring: from credit bureaus to artificial intelligence)
    in: Liber Amicorum Krieger, 2020, pp. 1 et seqq.
  • Financial Rewards for Whistleblowing and Motivation Crowding Theory – A Lesson from Psychology for Transposing EU Directive 2019/1937
    in: Liber Amicorum Windbichler, 2020, pp. 1379 et seqq.
  • Une langue commune du droit et de l’économie ? Sur les transferts hétérogènes
    (A common language of law and economics? On economic transplants)
    in: Muir-Watt/Bizikova/Brandao de Oliveira/Arroyo, Le Tournant Global en Droit International Privé : Jurisprudence sans Frontières, 2020, pp. 423 et seqq.
  • With Johannes Adolff
    Kapitalmarktunion und marktinduzierte Aktionärsrechte
    (Capital Markets Union and trading-related shareholder rights)
    in: Liber Amicorum Hopt, 2020, pp. 675 et seqq.
  • Der Aufsichtsrat in Kreditinstituten
    (Corporate governance of supervisory boards in financial institutions)
    in: Hopt/Binder/Böcking, Corporate Governance von Banken, 2020, pp. 367 et seqq.
  • Das insiderrechtliche Handelsverbot –Zur Geschichte eines Verbotstatbestands und zur Kodifikation von Rechtsprechung
    (Insider Trading prohibition – on the history of a prohibition and the codification of jurisprudence)
    in: Klöhn/Mock, Liber Amicorum WpHG, 2019, pp. 551 et seqq.
  • Vorüberlegungen zur Reformbedürftigkeit des deutschen Wertpapierbegriffs aus Anlass von „initial coin offerings“ (Defining “securities” under German law)
    in: Liber Amicorum Seibert, 2019, pp. 525 et seqq.
  • The Capital Markets Union and the Virtual Funding: Initial Coin Offerings, Tokens and Virtual Corporations
    in: Allen/Faia/Haliassos/Langenbucher, The Capital Markets Union, MIT Press, 2019, pp. 215 et seqq.
  • Training for Temptation – thoughts on a law school class
    in: Liber Amicorum Karsten Schmidt, 2019, pp. 783 et seq.
  • Economic transplants: Lafonta v. Autorité des marchés financiers – A common language of law and economics? Integrating economic transplant into the legal web
    in: Muir-Watt/Bizikova/Brandao de Oliveira/Arroyo, Global Private International Law: Adjudicating without Frontiers, Edward Elgar 2019, pp. 350 et seqq.
  • With Johannes Adolff and Christina Skinner
    State-Owned Financial Institutions
    in: Busch/Ferrarini/van Solinge, Corporate Governance of Financial Institutions, Oxford University Press 2019, pp. 326 et seqq.
  • Die Einflussnahme von Aktionären auf die Zusammensetzung des Vorstands
    (Hedge funds and their power to appoint directors)
    in: Liber Amicorum Bergmann, 2018, pp. 443 et seqq.
  • With Benedikt Lerp and Jans-Niklas Mack
    FinTech Zahlungsverkehr
    (FinTech payment transactions)
    in: Kunschke/Schaffelhuber, FinTech, Grundlagen – Regulierung – Finanzierung – Case Studies, Berlin 2018, pp. 70 et seqq.
  • Hedge fund activism in Germany and the US – on convergences, differences and normative reasoning
    in: Liber Amicorum Theodor Baums, 2017, pp. 743 et seqq.
  • Bemerkungen zum „naturalistischen Fehlschluss“
    (Remarks on the "naturalistic fallacy”)
    in: Liber Amicorum Neumann, Heidelberg 2017, pp. 247 et seqq.
  • Dogmatik, Falsifikation und zwei Perspektiven auf die Rechtswissenschaft
    (Doctrinal problems, falsification and two perspectives on jurisprudence)
    in: Liber Amicorum Canaris, Berlin 2017, pp. 219 et seqq.
  • Die regulierte Aktiengesellschaft – ein Beitrag zur Entstehung von Bankgesellschaftsrecht
    (Corporate governance of banks)
    in: Kalss/Torggler, Compliance, Wien 2016, pp. 25 et seqq.
  • Do we need a law of corporate groups?
    in: Fleischer/Kanda/Kim/Mülbert (Hrsg.), German-Asian Perspectives on Company Law, 2016, pp. 355 et seqq.
  • Sein und Schein im Überweisungsrecht – zur Geltung von Rechtsscheingrundsätzen bei der Autorisierung des Überweisungsauftrags sowie im Bereicherungsausgleich
    (On wire transfers)
    in: Liber Amicorum Köndgen, 2015, pp. 383 et seqq.
  • Household finance and the law – a case study on economic transplants
    in: Faia/Hackethal/Haliassos/Langenbucher (Eds.), Financial Regulation: A Transatlantic Perspective, Cambridge University Press 2015, pp. 313 et seqq.
  • (No) market for corporate governance?
    Related party transactions and shareholder approval rights
    in: Liber Amicorum Müller-Graff, 2015, pp. 312 et seqq.
  • A market for institutional investors?
    in: Liber Amicorum Coester-Waltjen, 2015, pp. 1147 et seqq.
  • Rechtsermittlungspflichten und Rechtsbefolgungspflichten des Vorstands – Ein Beitrag zur aktienrechtlichen Legalitätspflicht
    (Duties to act lawfully or the efficient breach of the law?)
    in: Liber Amicorum Lwowski, Munich 2014, pp. 333 et seqq.
  • Finanzinnovationen, Geschäftsleiterhaftung und Corporate Governance in regulierten Branchen
    (Financial innovations, CEO liability and corporate governance in regulated industries)
    in: Möslein (Ed.), Finanzinnovation und Rechtsordnung, Zurich 2014, pp. 272 et seqq.
  • With Kosmas Kaprinis
    Private enforcement of investor protection – is private law up for the challenge? A glance at the United Kingdom
    in: Festschrift zum 100-jährigen Jubiläum der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main 2014, pp. 483 et seqq.
  • Vorstandsvergütung – zwischen Vertragsrecht und „say on pay“
    (Board Remuneration – between contract law and „say on pay“)
    in: Tröger/Karampatzos (Hrsg.), Gestaltung und Anpassung von Verträgen in Krisenzeiten, 2014, pp. 137 et seqq.
  • Insider Trading in European Law
    in: Bainbridge (Ed.), Research Handbook on Insider Trading, Edward Elgar 2013, pp. 429 et seqq.
  • Aufsichtsratsmitglieder in Kreditinstituten: Rechte, Pflichten und Haftungsregeln
    (Liability of board members of financial instititutions)
    in: Hölscher/Altenhain (Eds.), Handbuch Aufsichts- und Verwaltungsräte in Kreditinstituten (Handbook on supervisory boards in financial institutions), Berlin 2013, pp. 3 et seqq.
  • Stimmrechtsberater
    (Proxy adivisors)
    in: Liber Amicorum Michael Hoffmann-Becking, Munich 2013, pp. 733 et seqq.
  • Zur rechten Konkretisierung angemessener Vorstandsbezüge – Kapitalmarktrecht oder Verbandsrecht?
    (On executive remuneration in general)
    in: Liber Amicorum Uwe H. Schneider, Cologne 2011, pp. 751 et seqq.
  • Zur Auflösung von Systemspannungen zwischen Bankaufsichtsrecht und Privatrecht
    (On the impact of regulatory banking law on private banking law)
    in: Liber Amicorum Klaus J. Hopt, Berlin 2010, pp. 2175 et seqq.
  • Prospektive Rechtsprechungsänderungen im französischen Recht
    (Prospective overruling in French Law)
    in: Liber Amicorum Helmut Koziol, Vienna 2010, pp. 1411 et seqq.
  • Zur Konkretisierung des Marktmanipulationstatbestandes
    (On market manipulation)
    in: Liber Amicorum Gerd Nobbe, Cologne 2009, pp. 681 et seqq.
  • Kausalitätsbeziehungen bei der Einschaltung von Finanzintermediären, Zur Haftung für fehlerhafte Kapitalmarktinformation
    (Problems of causality for securities fraud liability in capital markets law)
    in: Liber Amicorum Karsten Schmidt, Cologne 2009, pp. 1053 et seqq.
  • Zinshöhe und Äquivalenzverhältnis beim gewerblichen Darlehensvertrag
    (On commercial credit contracts)
    in: Liber Amicorum Harm Peter Westermann, Cologne 2008, pp. 399 et seqq.
  • With Johannes Adolff
    Zur Zulässigkeit der Direktliquidation im Dreipersonenverhältnis
    (On the admissibility of direct liquidation in a three-person relationship)
    in: Liber Amicorum Canaris, München 2007, pp. 679 et seqq.
  • Die bereicherungsrechtliche Rückforderung unangemessener Vorstandsbezüge
    (Board member’s compensation and unjust enrichment law)
    in: Liber Amicorum Ulrich Huber, Tübingen 2006, pp. 861 et seqq.
  • Zeit für einen Abschied von der Genehmigungstheorie bei der Lastschriftzahlung?
    (A theory of debit payments)
    in: Liber Amicorum Karl Peter Mailänder, Berlin 2006, pp. 21 et seqq.
  • Vertrauensenttäuschung durch Rechtsprechungsänderungen im deutschen und im englischen Zivilrecht
    (Changes of judge-made law and issues of legal reliance)
    in: Liber Amicorum Norbert Horn, Berlin 2006, pp. 1179 et seqq.
  • Die Zulässigkeit der vertraglichen Gestaltung risikoadjustierter Konditionen in Kreditverträgen
    (Risk-adjusted clauses on interest rates)
    in: Achleitner/Everling (Eds.), Rechtsfragen im Rating, Wiesbaden 2005, pp. 185 et seqq.
  • Zum Bereicherungsausgleich im Überweisungsrecht
    (The law of unjust enrichment in wire transfers)
    in: Liber Amicorum Andreas Heldrich, Munich 2005, pp. 285 et seqq.
  • Die Lösung vom Darlehensvertrag
    (The termination of credit contracts)
    in: Dauner-Lieb/Konzen/K. Schmidt (Eds.), Die Schuldrechtsreform in der juristischen Praxis, Cologne 2002, pp. 569 et seqq.
  • Schutz- und Neutralitätspflichten in Zahlungssystemen
    (Duties to protect and duties to stay neutral in payment systems)
    in: Kontinuität im Wandel der Rechtsordnung, Beiträge für Claus-Wilhelm Canaris zum 65. Geburtstag, Munich 2002, pp. 65 et seqq.
  • Vorüberlegungen zu einer europarechtlichen Methodenlehre
    (Premises of a European legal theory of law)
    in: Ackermann et al. (Eds.), Jahrbuch junger Zivilrechtswissenschaftler 1999, Tradition und Fortschritt im Recht, Conference in Bonn September 8th–11th 1999, Stuttgart/Munich /Hannover/Berlin/Weimar/Dresden 2000, pp. 65 et seqq.

Legal commentary

  • With Jasper Kunstreich
    Legal commentary of sections 182, 183, 183, 184, 187, 188, 189, 191 AktG
    (Commentary on the German and European law of share capital increase)
    in: Großkommentar AktG, 5th ed., 2024
  • Legal commentary of sections 291-299, 308-310 AktG
    (Commentary on the German law of corporate groups)
    in: K. Schmidt/Lutter (Eds.), SE/AG (Societas Europaea and German stock corporation), 5th ed. Cologne 2024, pp. 3991 et seqq., pp. 4261 et seqq.
  • Legal commentary of sections 355-357, 354a (since 5th ed.) 363-365 HGB
    (Banking law)
    in: Münchener Kommentar zum HGB (Commercial law), 5th ed. Munich 2020
  • Legal commentary of sections 675j – 676c BGB (Law of wire transfers)
    Virtuelle Währungen (Virtual Payments)
    in: Langenbucher/Bliesener/Spindler (Eds.), Bankrechtskommentar (Banking and Corporate Law), Munich 2015, 3rd ed. 2020
  • Kreditsicherung und Bankaufsichtsrecht (Loan securities and regulatory banking law)
    in: Lwowski/Fischer/Langenbucher (Eds.), Das Recht der Kreditsicherung
    (The law of loan securities), 9th ed. Berlin 2011
  • Die Überweisung (The Transfer)
    Einführung: Die Abrechnung im Interbankenverkehr (Introduction: Settlement in Interbank Transactions)
    in: Langenbucher/Gößmann/Werner (Hrsg.), Zahlungsverkehr, Handbuch zum Recht der Überweisung, Lastschrift, Kreditkarte und der modernen Zahlungsformen (Handbook on payment systems), C.H Beck, München 2004

Blog Posts

  • AI Judgment rule(s)
    NYU Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement, (PDF)
    and Oxford Business Law Blog, (PDF)
  • Ownership and Trust – A corporate law framework for Board Decision-making in the Age of AI
    Oxford Business Law Blog, (PDF)
  • The European Court of justice tightens the requirements for Credit Scoring under the GDPR
    NYU Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement, (PDF)
  • Consumer Credit in the Age of AI – Beyond Anti-Discrimination Law
    Oxford Business Law Blog, (PDF)
  • Privacy Experts react to Meta’s 1.2 Billion Euro Data Transfer Fine
    NYU Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement, (PDF)
  • Explaining MiCA: Part of the EU’s Approach to Crypto and Digital Asset Regulation
    NYU Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement, (PDF)
  • Regulating AI – the Next “Brussels Effect”?
    NYU Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement, (PDF)
  • Artificial Intelligence and the “S” in ESG
    ecgi Blog, (PDF)
  • Did the German stakeholder model fail in Wirecard and Volkswagen?
    ecgi Blog, (PDF)
  • European Parliament adopts new Whistleblower Directive
    NYU Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement, (PDF)
  • Sustainable Finance and ESG reporting – EU pushing ahead, SEC cautious
    NYU Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement, (PDF)
  • Wirecard Scandal: When all Lines of Defense against Corporate Fraud Fail
    Oxford Business Law Blog, (PDF)
  • Shareholder Activism, Institutions of Corporate Governance and Re-Reading Roe
    Oxford Business Law Blog, (PDF)

Working Papers

  • With Florian Heider, Jan Pieter Krahnen, Vincent R. Lindner, Jonas Schlegel, Tobias Tröger
    The Geopolitical Case for CMU and two different Pathways toward Capital Market Integration
    SAEF White Paper No. 102, 2024
  • Ownership and Trust, A corporate law framework for board decision-making in the age of AI,
    Ecgi law working paper 758/2024
  • Gruppendenken und Corporate Governance – illustriert am Beispiel des Wirecard Skandals
    (Groupthink and Corporate Governance – the Wirecard Scandal as an illustration)
    SAFE White Paper No. 97
  • KI in der Leitungsentscheidung des Vorstands der Aktiengesellschaft
    (AI and executive board decision-making)
    SAFE White Paper No. 96
  • Consumer Credit in the Age of AI – Beyond Anti-Discrimination Law,
    Ecgi law working paper 663/2022
  • With Ann-Katrin Kaufhold, Patrick Blank, Jan Pieter Krahnen
    BaFin (in)dependence – A reform proposal
    SAFE White Paper No 82/2021
  • With Jan Pieter Krahnen, Christian Leuz, Loriana Pelizzon
    What are the wider supervisory implications of the Wirecard case?
    SAFE White Paper No. 74/2020
  • With Jan Pieter Krahnen
    The Wirecard lessons: A reform proposal for the supervision of securities markets in Europe
    SAFE policy letter No. 88/2020
  • Legal Aspects of Gender Balance on Corporate Boards in Germany
    SAFE White Paper No. 2/2013

Published research

  • With Luis Videgaray, Philip Aghion, Barbara Caputo, Tracey Forrest, Anton Korinek, Hiroaki Miyamoto & Michael Woolridge
    Artificial Intelligence and Economic and Financial Policymaking, A High-Level Panel of Experts‘ Report to the G7 (PDF)
  • With Jan Pieter Krahnen, Christian Leuz, Loriana Pelizzon
    What are the wider supervisory implications of the Wirecard Case?
    A study conducted on behalf of ECON/European Parliament, (PDF)
  • With Tobias Tröger, Lara Milione, Andreas Roth
    EU Mapping 2017: Systematic overview on economic and financial legislation
    A study conducted on behalf of ECON/European Parliament, (PDF)
  • Note on Legal aspects of gender balance on corporate boards in Germany
    A study conducted on behalf of the Policy Department C of the European Parliament, 2013, (PDF)
  • With Andreas Hackethal, Roman Inderst (Projektverantwortlicher), Steffen Meyer,Tilman Rochow, Bernd Skiera, Helmut Gründl
    Wie lässt sich der Kundennutzen der Anlageberatung steigern? (PDF)
    (How can the customer value of investment advice be increased?)
  • A scientific study commissioned by the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (Germany) (BMELV), 2011, (PDF)
  • Publishing Work (20)
    Published journals (7)
  • European Journal of Business Law /
    Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht (EuZW)/
    Revue Européenne de Droit Économique, C.H. Beck
  • Zeitschrift für Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht (BKR), C. H. Beck
  • Corporate Finance Law (editorial advisory board), Handelsblatt (until 2013)
  • Revue de droit bancaire et financier (Journal of Banking and Financial Law), Paris
  • Critical Quarterly for Legislation and Law – CritQ/
    Kritische Vierteljahresschrift für Gesetzgebung und Rechtsprechung – KritV/
    Revue Critique trimestrielle de jurisprudence et de législation – RCrit (until 2020)
  • Zeitschrift für das gesamte Handels- und Wirtschaftrecht (ZHR)

Publishing Work

Published Journals (7)

  • European Journal of Business Law / Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht (EuZW)/Revue Européenne de Droit Économique, C.H. Beck
  • Zeitschrift für Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht (BKR), C. H. Beck
  • Corporate Finance Law (editorial advisory board), Handelsblatt (until 2013)
  • Revue de droit bancaire et financier (Journal of Banking and Financial Law), Paris
  • Critical Quarterly for Legislation and Law – CritQ/Kritische Vierteljahresschrift für Gesetzgebung und Rechtsprechung – KritV/Revue Critique trimestrielle de jurisprudence et de législation – RCrit (until 2020)
  • Zeitschrift für das gesamte Handels- und Wirtschaftrecht (ZHR)
  • Journal of Financial Transformation

Published Book Series (3)

  • With Theodor Baums,Andreas Cahn, Brigitte Haar, Tobias Tröger, Peter von Wilmowsky und Manfred Wandt, Peter Lang Publishing, Lausanne
    Frankfurter wirtschaftsrechtliche Studien (Frankfurt Studies in Business Law)
  • With Roland Broemel, Georg Hermes und Matthias Jahn
    Gesamtes Recht der Unternehmen und Finanzen (Comprehensive Law of Companies and Finance), Nomos Publishing, Baden-Baden
  • Schriften zum Unternehmensrecht (Writings on Company Law), Peter Lang Publishing, Lausanne (discontinued in 2008)

Published Books (5)

  • Langenbucher, European Regulation of Credit Scoring
    The book covers the law of credit scoring, data protection, AI and consumer lending in 19 chapters, including EU law, selected EU countries, the UK, Switzerland and the US, along with six additional chapters delving deeper into specific research questions
    Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2025
  • With Franklin Allen, Ester Faia, Michalis Haliassos
    The Capital Market Union and Beyond
    MIT Press, December 2019
  • With Helmut Siekmann, Andreas Cahn, Tim Florstedt, Julia Redenius-Hövermann, Tobias Tröger, Ulrich Segna
    Liber Amicorum Theodor Baums, Tübingen 2017
  • With Hans Christoph Grigoleit, Johannes Hager, Felix Christopher Hey, Jörg Neuner, Jens Petersen, Reinhard Singer, Marietta Auer, Carsten Herresthal, Thomas Riehm
    Liber Amicorum Claus-Wilhelm Canaris, Munich 2017
  • With Ester Faia, Andreas Hackethal, Michalis Haliassos
    Financial Regulation: A Transatlantic Perspective
    Cambridge University Press 2015
  • With Andreas Heldrich, Jürgen Prölss, Ingo Koller, Hans Christoph Grigoleit, Johannes Hager, Felix Christopher Hey, Jörg Neuner, Jens Petersen, Reinhard Singer
    Liber Amicorum Claus-Wilhelm Canaris, Munich 2007

Published Commentaries, Handbooks, and Textbooks (5)

  • Langenbucher/Bliesener/Spindler (Eds.), Bankrechtskommentar,
    (Commentary on Banking and Corporate Law)
    2nd ed. Munich 2016, 3rd ed. 2020, 4th ed. Forthcoming 2025
  • Langenbucher (Ed.), Europäisches Privat- und Wirtschaftsrecht (European Private and Corporate Law)
    (1st and 2nd ed. appeared under the title Europarechtliche Bezüge des Privatrechts),
    5th ed. Baden-Baden 2022
  • With Gößmann and Werner (Eds.)
    Zahlungsverkehr, Handbuch zum Recht der Überweisung, Lastschrift, Kreditkarte und der elektronischen Zahlungsformen, Munich 2004
    (Handbook on payment systems)
  • With Lwowski and Fischer (Eds.)
    Das Recht der Kreditsicherung,
    (The law of loan securities)
    9th ed. Berlin 2011 

Case Notes

  • BGH, Urt. v. 29.4.2008 – XI ZR 371/07 (LG Bonn)
    (On wire transfers)
    ZJS 2008, 545
  • OLG Frankfurt, Urt. v. 25.5.2004 – 8 U 84/04
    (Loan portfolios in capital markets law)
    BKR 2004, 330
  • BGH, Urt. v. 4.11.2002 – II ZR 204/00
    (On a limited company in the making)
    JZ 2003, 626
  • BGH vom 24.9.2002 XI ZR 420/01
    (On credit card payments)
    BKR 2002, 1107
  • Die Verteilung des Risikos des Kreditkartenmissbrauchs bei Distanzgeschäften
    – BGH, Beschl. v. 25.9.2001 – XI ZR 375/00 und OLG Frankfurt a. M., Urt. v. 25.7.2001 – 19 U 3/01 (Risk allocation and fraud in credit card payments)
    BKR 2002, 119
  • BAG, Urt. v. 17.9.1998 – 2 AZR 725/97
    (Employee rights)
    SAE 1999, 170
  • BAG, Urt. v. 13.11.1997 – 8 AZR 295/95
    (Employee rights)
    SAE 1998, 145

Selected solicited lectures

  • AI Gatekeepers
    LiaNs Conference
    University Pompeu Fabra
    Barcelona, 6 May 2026
  • Stablecoin Regulation EU
    IOSCO/PIFS program, Harvard Law School
    Cambridge (remote)
    23 April 2026
  • AI Gatekeepers
    ILI Fellows Workshop, NYU Law (remote)
    13 April 2026
  • AI Gatekeepers
    Forum Unternehmensrecht im Vergleich
    Universität Zürich
    9 April 2026
  • Zentralisierung der Aufsicht
    (The EU Market Infrastructure Package)
    FinTech Days 2026
    Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
    25.-26. February 2026
  • Independence of Central Banks – EU and U.S.
    IMFS Conference on “Independence of Central Banks and Financial Supervisors”
    Goethe University Frankfurt
    12.-13. February 2026
  • EU fundamental human rights in horizontal relationships
    JuLIA conference
    University Pompeu Fabra Barcelona
    Brussels, 22.–23. January 2026
  • Comparative Corporate Law and Capital Markets Law International Symposium
    Waseda University Tokio
    Online, 11. December 2025
  • Central banking and AI supervision
    Policy Panel: Implications of AI for Central banking 
    SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum together with Deutsche Bundesbank
    Frankfurt, 9. December 2025
  • The stakes of the law in techno-legal encounters, from early networks to “Artificial intelligence”
    Final conference for “Towards a New Digital Rule of Law” project 
    SciencesPo Law School, 1.-2.- December 2025
  • AI and corporate governance
    Center for Transnational Legal Studies
    London, 1. October 2025
  • Supervision of Financial Market – Architecture and Institution Design
    European Company and Financial Law Review, Conference on “Financial Markets and their Regulation in a De-globalizing world”
    Frankfurt, 26 September 2025
  • Rethinking insider trading law?
    Berkeley Law School law & economics workshop
    Berkeley, 8 September 2025
  • Systematische Risiken im digitalen Zeitalter
    Universität Trier, Wissenschaftliche Tagung des Instituts für Recht und Digitalisierung (IRDT)
    Online, 4.-5. September 2025
  • Summary of Ownership and Trust
    2025 Global Corporate Governance Colloquium
    London, 14 June 2025
  • AI and corporate decision-making
    Workshop convened by Luca Enriques and Giovanni Strampelli, Bocconi University
    Milan, 9 June 2025
  • Insider Trading in Crypto Assets
    London School of Economics, Socio-Legal Hub Seminar Series
    London, 28 May 2025
  • Aufsichtsstruktur an den Finanzmärkten unter der KI-VO 
    (Supervision under the AI-Act)
    StartRight/MLTech Tagung 2025: Herausforderungen im Kapitalgesellschafts- und Kapitalmarktrecht im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung (Challenges of Digitalization for corporate and capital markets law)
    Munich, 16 May 2025
  • Comparative Insider Trading U.S. – EU
    Fordham Law School Corporate Law Center Conference
    New York City, 11 April 2025
  • Money, Debt and Finance
    ARTE TV-Channel series
    Paris, 8 April 2025
  • Financial Profiling
    Oxford Law & Finance events
    Oxford, 26 February 2025
  • Contractual personalization and consumer protection and its 
    relevance for fundamental rights JuLIA (Justice, Fundamental Rights and Artificial Intelligence) conference
    University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
    Barcelona, 14 February 2025
  • Supervisory agencies under the AI Act 
    FinTech Days 2025, Universität Zürich
    Zurich, 6 February 2025
  • The geopolitical case for CMU 
    EU COMM DG FISMA, The financial issues seminar 
    Online, 4 February 2025
  • AI in Finance: Transforming the Future of the Financial Sector 4th LLM Inaugural Conference “Quo vadis EU (law)”, Bocconi University
    Milan, 29 November 2024
  • Vertrauen, Kredit und die Rolle des Rechts
    (Trust, Credit and the role of the law), TU Darmstadt
    Darmstadt, 30 October 2024
  • Ownership and Trust
    Faculty Workshop, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
    Toronto, 21 October 2024
  • Market Structure, Payments and Innovation – Financial Profiling
    10th FinTech Conference, University of Luxembourg
    Luxembourg, 3 October 2024
  • Credit Scoring – U.S. and EU
    Lunch talk, 3rd Annual Women in Law and Finance Conference, Wharton 
    Philadelphia (remote talk), 27 September 2024
  • How to use AI in Firms under Institutional and Cultural Contraints
    ZEW Conference on Research with and within Organizations
    Mannheim, 10 September 2024
  • Financial Markets
    Conference on Mapping and Governing the Online World, Center for Law & Economics,
    ETH Zurich, in collaboration with HEC Lausanne and NYU 
    Ascona, 20 June 2024
  • The Power of Economic Transplants – Common Law, Civil Law, and Beyond
    Conference on Legal Reasoning – Common Law, Civil Law, and Beyond
    Harvard-Hamburg Conferences on New Approaches to Legal Reasoning, 
    Hamburg, 17 June 2024
  • Financial Profiling
    Private Law Conference Rotterdam/Frankfurt
    Frankfurt (Main), 17 May 2024
  • AI Judgment Rule(s)
    Seminar at Bocconi Law School
    Milan, 9 May 2024
  • Financial Profiling: Kreditscoring und Künstliche Intelligenz
    (Financial Profiling: Creditscoring and Artificial Intelligence)
    Frühjahrssitzung des Arbeitskreises „Strategieentwicklung und Controlling in Banken“, der Schmalenbach Gesellschaft
    Düsseldorf, 19 April 2024
  • AI Judgment Rule(s)
    Keynote PhD School Introductory week Cologne University
    Cologne, 18 April 2024
  • AI Judgment Rule(s)
    How AI will Change the Law
    University of Chicago Law School
    Chicago, 13 April 2024
  • Financial Profiling
    NYU Law School/PRG
    New York City, 27 March 2024
  • Beneficial Ownership Disclosure
    International Workshop on Disclosure Regulation of Beneficial Owners in Listed Companies, Waseda University Tokyo
    Brussels, 11 March 2024, Waseda Brussels Office
  • Rückgang börsennotierter Unternehmen und rechtliche Gegenmaßnahmen
    (Decline of listed corporations and legal countermeasures)
    ZGR-Symposium 
    Glashütten, 19‑20 January 2024
  • Regulation of Digital Currencies (With Timothy Massad)
    Short Selling and Market Stability
    Investor Education, Financial Literacy and Retail Participation in Equity Markets
    Harvard Law School, 
    Cambridge, 13‑14 December 2023
  • KI in der Leitung der Aktiengesellschaft
    (AI in the Management of the Stock Corporation)
    Interdisciplinary Lecture Series of the Scientific Society at Goethe University in the Winter Semester 2023/2024
    Frankfurt (Main), 20 November 2023
  • How to cooperate with an AI – on decision theory and corporate boards
    Conference of the Rivista della società Journal
    Venice, 10-11 November 2023
  • How to cooperate with an AI? On the accountability of board members when using AI
    Münchner Juristische Gesellschaft
    Munich, 7 November 2023
  • KI und Finance / Anwendung, Grenzen und Absicherung
    (AI and Finance / Application, Limits and Protection)
    Together with: Lars Klöhn, Wolfgang Dierker, Sarah Zech, Flemming Moos
    Symposium Humboldt University of Berlin – Digital Business Models in a Highly Regulated Environment
    Berlin, 25 October 2023
  • Digital Investor Voice
    2nd Annual Women in Law and Finance Conference
    Philadelphia, 29 September 2023
  • Digital Investor Voice
    Conference at German Ministry of Finance on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Academic Expert Group on Financial Markets
    Berlin, 19‑20 September 2023

  • With Niklas Keller, Jochen Klöpper, Johannes Stoll 
    Die Zukunft des Scoring zwischen Erklärbarkeit und Prognosegüte
    (The Future of Scoring Between Explainability and Forecasting Quality)
    Schufa-Congress Trends & Insights 2023
    Mainz, 5 September 2023
  • AI, data analytics, and credit underwriting – towards a new framework
    European Consortium for Political Research
    Biennal Conference of the Standing Group on Regulatory Governance
    Antwerpen, 12‑14 July 2023
  • Group Think and Corporate Governance
    Juristische Studiengesellschaft Karlsruhe
    Karlsruhe, 4 July 2023
  • Nutzen Sie noch Bargeld? Abschied vom Bargeld? Von Bitcoin, Stablecoins und digitalem Zentralbankengeld
    (Do You Still Use Cash? Farewell to Cash? Bitcoin, Stablecoins and Digital Central Bank Money)
    Unternehmerfrühstück 2023
    Frankfurt (Main), 29 June 2023
  • Corporate AI?
    Greek-German Symposion, Law Faculties of the National and Kapodistrian University Athens and EBS University Wiesbaden
    Commercial Law in Times of Crises
    Athens, 18‑19 May 2023
  • With Ruoying Chen, Sunseop Jung, Atsushi Koide
    Cryptocurrencies as a Challenge for Securities Regulation?
    Digitization and Artificial Intelligence in Corporate and Capital Marktets Law. German and East Asian Perspectives, SAFE 
    Frankfurt (Main), 23‑24 March 2023
  •  
  • With Helga Springeneer, Henriette Litta, Christian Humborg
    Digitale (Ohn-)Macht von Verbraucherinnen und Verbrauchern: Wie entstehen Machtstrukturen im digitalen Raum und wie kann ihnen begegnet werden?
    (Digital (Dis)Empowerment of Consumers: How Do Power Structures Emerge in the Digital Space and How Can They Be Countered?)
    Safer Internet Day
    Berlin, 14 February 2023
  • With Ryan-Chan Wei, Tim Massad
    How are governments getting ready for digital assets? Overview with global regulators
    Conference on: Web3 – What don’t we know about it yet
    Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University & Mossasvar-Rahman Center at Harvard Kennedy School
    Cambridge, 10 February 2023
  • With Howell Jackson
    Regulation of Digital Currencies and Stablecoins 
    Short Selling and Market Stability
    Investor Education, Financial Literacy and Retail Participation in Equity Markets
    Securities Regulators’ Role in Promoting Market Integrity and Investor Protection in Crypto Markets
    All at IOSCO/PIFS program, Harvard Law School
    Cambridge, 14-15 December 2022
  • The Wirecard Scandal
    ACFE-Swiss Chapter 
    Zurich, 30 November 2022
  • Fair Lending in the Age of AI
    NYU Law School/PRG
    New York City, 12 October 2022
  • AI Credit Scoring – Inclusion or Discrimination?
    Law and Society Conference
    Lisbon, 14 July 2022
  • Normative Ordnung des Scoring
    (Normative Orders – Scoring)
    Conference Institut für das Recht der Digitalisierung, University of Marburg
    Marburg, 7 July 2022
  • Algorithmic Fairness – Credit Scoring as a Test Case
    Regulating AI in a Democracy, SciencesPo Law School
    Paris, 7 June 2022
  • Fair Lending in the Age of AI
    PennLaw School AdHoc Faculty Workshop
    Philadelphia, 12 April 2022
  • Wirecard – Kultur, Kognition und Rechtsrahmen
    (Wirecard – Culture, Cognition and Legal Framework)
    University of Innsbruck, Austria
    Online, 24 January 2022
  • Regulation of digital currency
    Short Selling, Prime brokerage and collateral management
    Recent Developments in International Financial Regulation
    All three at: IOSCO/PIFS Program Harvard Law School
    Online, 29 November, 14-1. December 2021
  • AI as a Product? Algorithmic Credit Scoring as a Test Case for Regulating AI
    University of Hamburg 
    Hamburg, 6. December 2021
  • Artificial Intelligence and Ethics in Banking – Addressing the Trust Challenges
    Irish Banking Culture Board, Roundtable
    Online, 6 December 2021
  • Panelist on Digitalisation of finance: the challenge from a central bank and supervisory perspective
    ECB Legal Conference 2021
    Online, 25‑26 November 2021
  • AI Credit Scoring as „high risk”
    Competition and the regulation of financial innovation
    Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI)
    Mannheim, 18 November 2021
  • Kreditwürdigkeitsprüfung mittels Künstlicher Intelligenz? – Zum Vorschlag der Kommission für ein AI-Gesetz
    (Creditworthiness assessments using AI? – On the Proposal of the EU Commission for an AI Act)
    Symposion Kreditanalyse in Zeiten des Wandels, Zum Nutzen interner und externer Ratings aus historischer und aktueller Perspektive, Institut für Bank- und Finanzgeschichte (Institute for the history of banking and finance) 
    Frankfurt (Main), 27 October 2021
  • The EU Commission’s Proposal on an AI Act
    NYU Privacy Research Group
    New York, 6 October 2021
  • Moderating Cornelia Woll, Economic Lawfare
    Max Planck Institute Cologne and SciencesPo Paris (MaxPo),
    Brokering Ideas in Social Sciences
    Online, 20 September 2021
  • AI as a product?
    RegHorizon 2nd AI Policy Conference, ETH Zürich
    Online, 14 September 2021
  • Wirecard – which lessons to draw?
    ComplianceNet Conference 2021
    Online, 28 June 2021
  • Numbers don’t lie? Historic bias, illusions of certainty and algorithmic credit scoring
    Ringvorlesung Algorithmen zwischen Vertrauen und Kontrolle (Algorithms between Trust and control), Goethe University 
    Online, 27 May 2021
  • Lessons learned from Wirecard
    CMVM/CIRSF/EUI Supervisions of Auditors at a Crossroads
    Online, 29 April 2021
  • Dissecting Germany’s Wirecard Scandal: Takeaways for Investors
    CII 2021 Spring Conference, Moving Forward Together
    Online, 10 March 2021
  • Fintech and Fairness – Regulating Algorithmic Credit Scoring
    The 3rd Edinburg FinTech Law Lecture
    Online, 5 March 2021
  • Short Selling and Market Stability
    IOSCO/PIFS program, Harvard Law School
    Online, 10 December 2020
  • Wirecard – a timely scandal
    University of Zurich
    Zurich, 2 December 2020
  • Use of AI in assessing creditworthiness: what are the right checks and balances?
    FinCoNet, OECD, International Seminar on Creditworthiness assessements
    Online, 13 November 2020
  • Whistleblowing – a U.S./EU perspective
    Brooklyn Law School
    Online, 14 October 2020
  • Responsible A.I. Credit Scoring
    6th Luxembourg FinTech Conference
    Online, 7 October 2020
  • A.I. Credit Scoring – A Comparative Glance at EU and US Privacy and Anti-Discrimination Laws
    Workshop on Digital Capital Markets, Helsinki University
    Online, 4-5 June 2020 (moved to 2 September 2020)
  • Commercial Behavioral Tracking and Algorithmic Discrimination
    Current Issues in Privacy and Technology Law, Fordham Law School
    Online, 23 July 2020
  • Responsible A.I. Based Credit Scoring: A Legal Framework
    Wharton FinReg conference 
    17 April 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19 outbreak)

  • Cryptocurrencies as a challenge for securities regulation?
    German/Asian Symposion, Frankfurt 
    2-3 April 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19 outbreak)
  • Moderator for Borgogno, Data, Innovation and Competition in Finance: The Case of the Access to Account Rule
    4th Oxford Business Law Blog Annual conference, Fintech Startups and Incumbent Players: Policy Challenges and Opportunities, Oxford 
    Online, 27 March 2020
  • Developing Integrated Capital Markets within and across Borders – The Role of Access, Data and Transparency
    Symposium on Building the Financial System of the 21st Century: An Agenda for Europe and the United States, PIFS/Harvard law School, Washington 
    5-7 March 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19 outbreak)
  • Moderating Martha Farah, PhD/UPenn; Joseph J. Finns, M.A., M.A.C.P., F.R.C.P. Weill Cornell Medical School/Yale Law School; Paul W. Glimcher NYU School of Medicine; Yasmin L. Hurd, PhD, School of Medicine Mount Sinai
    Neuroscience and Law Center, Cutting Edge Developments in Neuroscience and Law
    New York City, 25 February 2020
  • Responsible A.I. Credit Scoring
    Max-Planck-Institut on Collective Goods 
    Bonn, 20 January 2020
  • Regulating Cryptocurrencies
    Joint International Conference on Globalization and Convergence of Laws: Comparative Legal Approach, Fordham School of Law and SKKU Law School Institute of Legal Studies
    8 January 2020

  • Digital currencies and payments
    IOSCO/PIFS program, Harvard Law School
    Cambridge, 12 December 2019
  • Unternehmensstrafrecht als ein Bestandteil im System normativer Steuerung des Unternehmens
    (Corporate criminal law as a component in the system of normative control of the company)
    Economy, Criminal Law, Ethics, X. Symposion
    Frankfurt (Main), 22-23 November 2019
  • Machine Learning, Credit Scoring and biased AI
    Privacy Research Group, NYU Law School
    New York, 25 October 2019
  • Künstliche Intelligenz – wie können wir Algorithmen vertrauen?
    (Artificial intelligence – how can we trust algorithms?)
    Panel contribution, Bad Homburg Conference 2019
    Bad Homburg, 19 September 2019
  • On regulatory arbitrage
    Penn Law School Faculty Workshop 
    Philadelphia, 17 September 2019
  • Author Meets Critics – 
    Discussion of my book “Economic Transplants”, critics: Reuven Avi-Jonah, John Cioffi, Matthias Thiemann
    SASE Conference 2019 
    New York City, 28 June 2019
  • Regulatory Arbitrage, Economic Clichés and Expert Talk,
    SASE Conference 2019 
    New York City, 28 June 2019
  • Initial coin offerings
    IOSCO/PIFS program, Harvard Law School
    Cambridge, 6 December 2018

  • European Finance – no more room for variety?
    Panel contribution
    6th Frankfurt Conference on Financial Market Policy
    Frankfurt (Main), 14 December 2018
  • The Promise of Measurability – a “Nightmare or a Noble Dream”?
    Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung
    Köln, 7 November 2018
  • European Securities Law – are we in need of a new definition?
    Faculty workshop, Fordham Law School
    New York City, 20 September 2018
  • Initial coin offerings – where do we stand and should we move?
    German-French Symposion, MPI Hamburg
    Hamburg, 7 July 2018
  • Global institutional shareholders 
    East Asia and Germany Commercial Law Forum, Beijing University
    Beijing, 23 March 2018
  • Virtual corporations and virtual funding?
    Oxford Business Law Workshop
    Oxford, 15 November 2017
  • Economic transplants – book launch
    LSE 
    London, 14 November 2017
  • Digitales Finanzwesen – vom Bargeld zu virtuellen Währungen?
    (Digital Finance – from fiat currency to virtual currency?)
    German Association of Private Law Reachers, University of Zurich
    Zurich, 11 September 2017
  • Cross-sectoral regulation
    Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Jan Ronse Instituut, Kick-off meeting
    Leuven, 7 February 2017
  • Economic Transplants and Transnational Law – a dialogue
    Séminaire PILAGG 
    Paris, 25 November 2016      
  • Insider Trading and Director’s Dealings in Germany and France
    Symposion Cabinet Gide, 
    Paris, 24 November 2016
  • Shareholder activism
    German-French Symposion, MPI Hamburg
    Hamburg, 7 July 2016
  • Die Marktmissbrauchsverordnung 2016 – eine Kooperation von Judikative und Legislative
    (The MAR 2016 – a cooperation of adjudication and legislation)
    Arbeitskreis Wirtschaft und Recht 
    Leverkusen, 3 June 2016
  • Who is afraid of reasonable investors? – on lawmaking for financial markets
    Séminaires du programme doctoral de Droit, SciencesPo, Ecole de Droit
    Paris, 14 April 2016
  • Economic transplants in der Marktmissbrauchsverordnung
    (Economic transplants in the Market Abuse Regulation)
    Symposion on the Market Abuse Regulation, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Nürnberg
    Nuremberg, 8 April 2016
  • Economic Transplants – on lawmaking for financial markets
    Law&Economics Lunch Talk, Columbia Law School
    New York City, 29 February 2016
  • Regulierungsstrategien im Wirtschaftsstrafrecht
    (Regulatory Strategies in Criminal Law)
    ECLE VII Symposion, Goethe Universität Frankfurt
    Frankfurt, 20 November 2015
  • Aufsichtsrecht und Bankrecht
    (Supervisory law and corporate law)
    Symposion on Corporate Law, Wirtschaftsuniversität Vienna
    Vienna, 28 September 2015
  • Diversity on corporate boards – why, how?
    German/French Symposion, Sorbonne
    Paris, 2-3 July 2015
  • On the German law of corporate groups
    German/Asian Symposion, MPI Hamburg
    Hamburg, 28-29 May 2015
  • Aktienrecht und Kapitalmarktrecht – 50 Jahre AktG
    (Capital markets Law and Corporate law after 50 years of the German Code on stock corporations)
    Symposion 50 Jahre AktG, University of Bonn
    Bonn, 27 March 2015
  • Erosion aktienrechtlicher Leitbilder
    (erosion of capital markets law models)
    Symposion Perspektiven des Gesellschaftsrecht, Humboldt Universität 
    Berlin, 19 February 2015
  • Ever more transparency – investor’s duties according to the EU proposal on an amendment of the shareholder’s rights directive
    European Forum on Securities Regulation (EFSR)
    Vienna, 5 December 2014
  • Economic Transplants and the normative challenge 
    Séminaires du programme doctoral de Droit, SciencesPo, Ecole de Droit 
    Paris, 10 April 2014
  • Anlegerschutz durch Haftung im deutschen und europäischen Kapitalmarktrecht, 
    (Investor protection under German and European capital markets law)
    Karlsruher Forum 
    Karlsruhe, 21 February 2014
  • Stimmrechtsberater (proxy advisors)
    Symposium „Das Europäische Gesellschaftsrecht vor neuen Herausforderungen“, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
    Münster, 22 November 2013
  • Insiderinformationen nach neuem Recht, 
    (The new regime of inside information) 
    Bankrechtsforum, Wien
    Vienna, 5 November 2013
  • Vorstandsvergütung – vom Vertragsrecht zu “say on pay”, 
    (Board remuneration – from contracts law to „say on pay“)
    German-Greek Symposion arranged by the law faculties of national and Kapodistrias’ university Athens and Goethe-University Frankfurt
    Athens, 25 October 2013
  • Economic transplants and the normative challenge 
    Presentation, Law and Economics panel, LSE London, respondent: Charles Goodhart, LSE London, 3 July 2013
  • Opérations d’initiés: les limites de la prohibition
    (Insider Trading – the prohibition and its limits)
    IRJS Sorbonne Finance & Sorbonne Affaires, Séminaire franco-allemand, Paris 1 – MPI
    Paris, 28 June 2013
  • Insider Trading in US and EU Law 
    Presentation “LLM Specialist Series“, LSE 
    London, 14 March 2013
  • Limits of Shareholder Value 
    LSE London, Corporate Law and Finance Roundtable, Comment to John Armour
    London, 28 February 2013
  • Is Bank Governance Special? 
    LSE London, Response to Guido Ferrarini; Chair: Niamh Moloney
    London, 23 January 2013
  • Some lessons from the crisis – does the law set the right incentives for board composition and liability in financial institutions? 
    Lecture series “Séminaire Doctoral”, SciencesPo, Ecole de droit 
    Paris, 4 October 2012
  • Financial innovations, CEO liability and corporate governance in regulated industries Symposion, University St. Gallen, „Financial innovations“
    St. Gallen, 31 May – 1 June 2012
  • Epistemic goals and tools
    IVR workshop on disciplinary perspectives and legal truth, 25th World congress IVR 
    Frankfurt (Main), 15 August 2011
  • Class actions in Securities litigation under German law
    L'action de groupe des investisseurs: une ardente nécessité, 
    Sénat, organized by: Yann Paclot/Véronique Magnier
    Paris, 31 March 2011
  • On the future of capital markets law 
    Deutsch-Brasilianische Juristenvereinigung
    Frankfurt (Main), 7 November 2009
  • The DCFR – Agency Authority and its Scope – A Glance at Corporation Law 
    SECOLA Conference 
    Barcelona, 7 June 2008
  • Kreditsicherheiten und Basel II, 
    (Credit Collateral and Basel II)
    Bank- und Kapitalmarktrechtssymposion der Deka-Bank 
    Frankfurt (Main), 6 November 2007

Forthcoming

  • Insider Trading in Crypto Asssets – Back to first principles?
    Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law 31 (2026)
  • Finanzprofiler als trusted intermediary
    (Financial profiler as a trusted intermediary)
    FS Bayer, expected 2026
  • Managerial Groupthink and the Law: Shaping, Nudging, and Enabling 
    in: Masson/Do Carmo Silva/Bouthinon-Dumas, Law and Management Handbook, Oxford University Press, 2025, (Peer-reviewed)
  • AI-Gatekeepers
    Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft 2026
  • Stablecoin Regulation – A comparative analysis of U.S. and EU law
    Liber amicorum Cynthia Lichtenstein editors: Christoph Gortsos and Rosa Maria Lastra, 2026
  • Supervision of the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Financial Institutions
    in: Judicial Review in the European Banking Union, Vol. II
    Editors: Chiara Zilioli and Karl-Philipp Woijcik
  • Zur Unabhängigkeit von Zentralbanken – Ein rechtsvergleichender Seitenblick
    (On the independence of central banks – a comparative-law analysis)
    in: Liber Amicorum Peter Mülbert, 2027