ORCID Profile
I. CURRENT POSITION
- Professor of Law, Holder of the ADA Chair in Financial Law (Inclusive Finance), Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF), University of Luxembourg, from 1 March 2016.
- (non-executive) Director, Center for Business & Corporate Law, Faculty of Law, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf (HHU), since August 2012
II. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
University of Liechtenstein, Institute for Financial Services, 1/2010 – 2016
- Professor of Law, Propter Homines Chair for Banking and Securities Law, University of Liechtenstein / House of Finance, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
- Member of the University’s Senate and the Habilitation Committee
Heinrich Heine University (HHU), Faculty of Law, Duesseldorf, Germany, 9/2004 – 2/2012
- Degree: Postdoctoral thesis (“Habilitation”)
- Thesis title: “Principles of Collective Investments”
- Supervisor: Professor Dr. Ulrich Noack, Professor Dr. Christian Kersting, LL.M. (Yale)
Provincial Court of Duesseldorf, Germany, 11/2004 – 12/2006
- Degree: Assessor Juris (Equivalent to Bar Exam)
- Training included work for the 10th Commercial Chamber (Germany), the Prosecution Department for Organized Crime, Hengeler Mueller Rechtsanwälte (Germany) and Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP (Toronto, ON)
University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, ON, Canada (“U of T”), 8/2003 – 8/2004
- Degree: Master of Law (LL.M.)
- Thesis “Explicit and Implicit System of Corporate Control” (A+), supervised by Prof. Iacobucci
- President of the Graduate Law Students’ Association
Heinrich Heine University, Faculty of Law, Duesseldorf, Germany, 1999 – 2004
- Degree: Doctor Juris
- Grade: Summa Cum Laude [recognition for best dissertation of the year]
- Thesis: “Shareholder Information in Public Corporations“, supervised by Professor Dr. Ulrich Noack, Professor Dr. Gerd Krieger
- Disputation on “The Price of Justice – the Method of Law and Economics”
Heinrich Heine University, Faculty of Law, Duesseldorf, Germany, 1994 – 1999
- Degree: First Juridical State Exam [J.D. equivalent] – with honours
Humboldt Gymnasium, Duesseldorf, Germany, 1985 – 1994
- Majors: Mathematics, History
- President of the Students’ Committee 1992/1993
