Prof. Dr. Katja Langenbucher joins IMFS

On April 1, 2026, Prof. Dr. Katja Langenbucher, Professor for Private Law, Financial Markets and Banking Regulation, Monetary and Digital Assets Law, joined the IMFS, succeeding Prof. Dr. Roland Broemel who left the institute to focus his research more on topics outside the fields covered by IMFS and to take up a Chair of Public Law at the Faculty of Law.

Katja Langenbucher 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).

Katja Langenbucher 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) and previously served as 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.

The other IMFS professors are Volker Wieland, Alexander Meyer-Gohde, Michael Binder, Michael Haliassos, Rainer Haselmann, Tobias Tröger, and Helmut Siekmann.