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
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
