Langenbucher, Katja

Katja is a law professor at Goethe-University's House of Finance in Frankfurt, affiliated professor at Sciences Po, Paris, and long-term guest professor Fordham Law School, NYC. She has held visiting positions at Sciences Po, Paris (Alfred Grosser Chaire); Sorbonne, Paris; Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Vienna; London School of Economics, London; Columbia Law School, NYC and Fordham Law School (Edward Mulligan Distinguished Professorship), NYC; a Bok Visiting International Professorship at PennLaw, Phildalphia, is planned for 2021 (COVID-19 allowing).

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).

Katja’s current research projects focus on FinTech, artificial intelligence and corporate governance of banks. She is a member of the German securities market oversight body’s (BaFin) supervisory board and of the German Federal Ministry of Finance’s working group on capital markets law. 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 (2019-20).

Fields of Expertise: 

• Corporate law
• Capital markets law

Publications: 

• With Ester Faia, Andreas Hackethal, Michalis Haliassos, Financial Regulation: A Transatlantic Perspective, Cambridge University Press 2015
• With Franklin Allen, Ester Faia, Michalis Haliassos, The Capital Market Union and Beyond, MIT Press, December 2019
• Economic Transplants, On Lawmaking for Corporations and Capital Markets, Cambridge University Press 2017
• Insider Trading, An exercise in (economic and legal) transplants, Revue Trimestrielle de Droit Financier No 4 2013/ No 1 2014, p. 35
• Diversity on corporate boards – why, how?, Revue Trimestrielle de Droit Financier 2015, 63
• Shareholder activism, institutions of corporate governance and re-reading Roe, Revue Trimestrielle Droit Financier 2016, 70 (note available at Oxford Business Law Blog, OBLB)
• Hedge fund activism in Germany and in the US - on convergences, differences and normative reasoning, Liber amicorum Theodor Baums, 2017, 743
• Initial coin offerings - where do we stand and should we move?, Revue Trimestrielle Droit Financier 2018, 40
• A Common Language of Law and Economics? Integrating Economic Transplants into the Legal Web, in: Muir-Watt/Arroyo, Global Private International Law: Adjudicating without Frontiers, 2019, S. 351
• Corporate Governance in State-Owned Financial Institutions (with: J. Adolff, C. Skinner) in: Busch/Ferrarini/van Solinge, Corporate Governance of Financial Institutions, Oxford University Press 2019, p. 326
• The ECJ in „Lafonta“ and economic transplants for judges, in: Muir-Watt/Bizikova/Brandao de Oliveira/Arroyo/, Global Private International Law: Adjudicating without Frontiers, Edward Elgar 2018, 350
• Regulation of digital assets – How France and Germany are paving the way for an EU reform (with Jennifer d’Hoir) RTDF 2019, 40
• Training for Temptation – thoughts on a law school class, in: FS Karsten Schmidt, 2019, 775
• Responsible A.I. credit scoring - a legal framework, European Business Law Review 2020, 527
• Regulatory Arbitrage, Economic Clichés and Expert Talk, Accounting, Economics and Law: A Convivium, 2020, published online, print version to be published in 2021
• Financial Rewards for Whistleblowing and Motivation Crowding Theory – A Lesson from Psychology for Transposing EU Directive 2019/1937, 
  in: Liber Amicorum Windbichler, 2020, p. 1379
• Responsible AI credit scoring – a lesson from upstart, with Patrick Corcoran, European Company and Financial Law Review 2021