Functions
Full professor in Financial Law, ADA Chair in Financial Law and Inclusive Finance
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Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance
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Department of Law
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Weicker 4, rue Alphonse Weicker L-2721 LUXEMBOURG LUXEMBOURG
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WEI, E01 C107
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I. CURRENT POSITION
Professor of Law, Holder of the ADA Chair, Faculté de Droit, d’Économie et de Finance (FDEF), University of Luxembourg, from 1 March 2016.
(non-executive) Director, Center for Business & Corporate Law, Faculty of Law, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, 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 (“HHU”), 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
Humboldt Gymnasium, Duesseldorf, Germany, 1985 – 1994
