Wolf Georg-Ringe

Professor Wolf-Georg Ringe is Director of the Institute of Law & Economics at the University of Hamburg and Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford, Faculty of Law. His research focuses on corporate law, capital markets, and financial regulation, adopting an interdisciplinary and comparative approach. He is a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (Brussels), Vice President of the European Banking Institute (Frankfurt), Fellow of the Asian Corporate Governance and Finance Forum, and co-editor of the Journal of Financial Regulation (Oxford University Press). He regularly teaches at leading academic institutions in North America, Europe, and Asia, including Stanford University (2023 and 2024). Professor Ringe studied law at the Universities of Passau, Lausanne, Bonn, and Oxford (M.Jur., 2004) and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Bonn (2006). He worked as a research assistant at the University of Bonn and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, completed his clerkship at the Hanseatic Court of Appeal in Hamburg, and practiced as a lawyer in the same city. From 2007 to 2012, he was a Lecturer in Law at the University of Oxford (Christ Church), later serving as Professor of International Commercial Law at Copenhagen Business School (2012–2017). Since 2017, he has been Professor of Law & Finance and Director of the Institute of Law & Economics at the University of Hamburg. His research interests include the economic analysis of law, financial regulation, corporate governance, company and securities law, European integration, insolvency law, and restructuring. Among his recent publications are Good Administration in AI-Enhanced Banking Supervision: A Risk-Based Approach (Columbia Journal of European Law, 2024) and Business Law and the Transition to a Net Zero Economy (Beck/Nomos/Hart, 2022). He is currently leading projects such as the Network for AI and Law (NAIL), Law, Finance, and Technology, and Nordic Finance and the Good Society.