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Biography

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

She is a member of BaFin's (German securities market oversight body) 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). 

Current Projects

Katja’s current research projects focus on FinTech (data protection and anti-discrimination in credit scoring) and corporate governance of banks (lessons from Wirecard; behavioral and cognitive corporate governance).

Research Interests

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 (data protection and anti-discrimination in credit scoring) and corporate governance of banks (lessons from Wirecard; behavioral and cognitive corporate governance).

Working Papers

Blogs

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