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Professor Katja Langenbucher is a distinguished academic specializing in corporate and capital markets law at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. She holds the Chair of Civil Law, Commercial Law and Banking Law at the House of Finance and serves as an affiliated professor at SciencesPo, Paris. Additionally, she is a permanent visiting professor at Fordham Law School in New York City and coordinates the LawLab – Fintech & AI as Bridge Professor at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE.
Her academic affiliations span multiple prestigious institutions:
- Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Primary appointment)
- SciencesPo, Paris (Affiliated professor)
- Fordham Law School, NYC (Permanent visiting professor)
- Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE (SAFE Fellow)
- Ecole de Droit, SciencesPo, Paris (Affiliated professor)
Professor Langenbucher's research focuses on corporate and capital markets law, with particular emphasis on banking corporate governance, FinTech, artificial intelligence, and algorithm-based credit scoring. Her work bridges legal theory with practical applications in financial regulation and technological innovation.
Her publications reveal a strong focus on the intersection of law, finance, and technology, with recent work concentrating on AI applications in credit scoring, digital asset regulation, and corporate governance frameworks. She has developed expertise in legal transplants - the process by which legal concepts move across jurisdictions - and applies this perspective to analyze corporate and capital markets law.
Professor Langenbucher has received notable recognition for her work:
- Alfred Grosser Chaire at SciencesPo, Paris (2008)
- Edward Mulligan Distinguished Professorship at Fordham Law School (2018)
- Bok Visiting International Professorship at PennLaw, Philadelphia (2022)
She maintains significant professional engagement through various appointments:
- Member of the Administrative Board of BaFin (German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority)
- Member of the Advisory Board of Alte Leipziger/Halle'sche Nationale Group
- Member of the Administrative Board of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politique
- Member of the Center for AI and Digital Policy-Global Academic Network
- Former Supervisory Board Member of Postbank
- Former Member of the EU Commission's High Level Forum on Capital Markets Union
- Board member of the Association of Banking Law
- Board member and funding committee member of the Economics and Law Working Group of the Donors' Association for the Promotion of Sciences and Humanities in Germany
- Former expert reviewer at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Professor Langenbucher's work demonstrates a commitment to connecting academic research with practical regulatory challenges, particularly in the rapidly evolving areas of financial technology and artificial intelligence applications in finance.
