Wolf-Georg Ringe
Visiting Professor
Biography
Wolf-Georg Ringe is Professor of Law and Finance at the University of Hamburg and Director of its Institute of Law & Economics. He taught full-time at Oxford between 2007-12 and continues this role as a regular Visiting Professor within the Faculty. In Oxford, he is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law and an editorial board member of the Oxford Business Law Blog.
Georg specialises in European and global issues of corporate and financial law. He is an editor of the Journal of Financial Regulation, which has been published by Oxford University Press since 2015. He is a Research Member with the European Corporate Governance Institute, Brussels, and a Fellow at the European Banking Institute, Frankfurt. He has been advising both the European Commission and the European Parliament on issues of European Corporate Law. Georg teaches various courses in the field of corporate and business law, and his current research interests are in the areas of Law and Finance, Comparative Corporate Governance, Capital and Financial Markets, with a particular focus both on new technology and sustainability.
E-mail: georg.ringe [at] law.ox.ac.uk
Tel: +44-1865-281610
Fax: +44-1865-281611
SSRN author page: http://ssrn.com/author=836081
Featured Publications
Gordon J and Ringe W, The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance (OUP 2018)
Publications
Martino E and Ringe W-G, ‘The Social Cost of Blockchain’ [2024] (80) ILE Working Paper
RINGE W, ‘Net-Zero Transition and Divestments of Carbon-Intensive Assets’ [2023] UC Davis Law Review
Azzutti A, Batista P and Ringe W-G, ‘Navigating the Legal Landscape of AI-Enhanced Banking Supervision: Protecting EU Fundamental Rights and Ensuring Good Administration’
Ringe W, ‘Investor empowerment for sustainability’ (2023) 74(1) Review of Economics 21
Azzutti A, Ringe W-G and Stiehl H, ‘The regulation of AI trading from an AI life cycle perspective’
Gözlügöl A and Ringe W-G, ‘Private companies: the missing link on the path to net zero’ (2022) 22(2) Journal of Corporate Law Studies 887
Gözlügöl A and Ringe W-G, ‘Private Companies: The Missing Link on The Path to Net Zero’
Ringe W-G, ‘Investor-Led Sustainability in Corporate Governance’ (2022) 7(2) Annals of Corporate Governance 93
Gortsos C and others, ‘Financial Stability Amidst the Pandemic Crisis: On Top of the Wave’ [2021] SSRN Electronic Journal
Ringe W-G, ‘Stewardship and Shareholder Engagement in Germany’ (2021) 22(1) European Business Organization Law Review 87
Ringe W-G, ‘Investor-led Sustainability in Corporate Governance’
Magalhães Batista P and Ringe W, ‘Dynamism in Financial Market Regulation: Harnessing Regulatory and Supervisory Technologies’ (2021) 4 Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law & Policy 203
Azzutti A, Ringe W-G and Stiehl H, ‘Machine Learning, Market Manipulation and Collusion on Capital Markets: Why the ’Black Box’ matters’
Enriques L and Ringe W, ‘Bank-Fintech partnerships, outsourcing arrangements and the case for a mentorship regime’ (2020) 15(4) Capital Markets Law Journal 374
Enriques L and Ringe W-G, ‘Bank–fintech partnerships, outsourcing arrangements and the case for a mentorship regime’ (2020) 15(4) Capital Markets Law Journal 374
RINGE W-G and Christopher R, ‘Regulating Fintech in the EU: the Case for a Guided Sandbox’ (2020) 11(3) European Journal of Risk Regulation 604
Ringe W, ‘Renforcer l’architecture de la zone euro par le marché’ (2020) 9 Journal Des Libertés 27
Gortsos C and others, ‘Pandemic Crisis and Financial Stability’
Ringe W-G, ‘Stewardship and Shareholder Engagement in Germany’
Ringe W and Patel J, ‘The Dark Side of Bank Resolution: Counterparty Risk through Bail-in’ [2019] European Banking Institute Working Paper No 31 2019
Patel J and Ringe W-G, ‘MAR’s Jar? Information Quality’
Ringe W-G, ‘The Politics of Capital Markets Union’
Ringe W-G, ‘International Handbook on Shareholders’ Agreements. Regulation, Practice and Comparative Analysis. Ed. by Sebastian Mock, Kristián Csach, Bohumil Havel. – Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter 2018. XII, 679 pp.’ (2019) 83(2) Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches Und Internationales Privatrecht 448
Ringe W and Ruof C, ‘A Regulatory Sandbox for Robo Advice’ [2018] EBI Working Paper No 26 2018
Ringe W-G, ‘The Irrelevance of Brexit for the European Financial Market’ (2018) 19(1) European Business Organization Law Review 1
Ringe W-G, ‘Moeller, Axel: Alternative Initial Public Offering Models. The Law and Economics Pertaining to Shell Company Listings on German Capital Markets’ (2018) 82(3) Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches Und Internationales Privatrecht 826
Ringe W, ‘Insolvency Forum Shopping, Revisited’ (2017) 3 Hamburg Law Review 38
Ringe W, ‘The Irrelevance of Brexit for the European Financial Market’ (2017) 19 European Business Organization Law Review 12420
Ringe W-G, ‘Das Beschlussmängelrecht in Großbritannien’ (2017) 81(2) Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches Und Internationales Privatrecht 249
Ringe W-G, ‘The Deconstruction of Equity’
Ringe W-G, ‘Anmerkung’ (2016) 71(11) JuristenZeitung 573
Ringe W-G, ‘Bail-In between Liquidity and Solvency’
Ringe W, ‘Arbitrage and Competition in Global Financial Regulation – The Case for a Special Resolution Regime’ (2016) 1(3) Annals of Corporate Governance 175
Ringe W-G, ‘Regulatory Competition in Global Financial Markets — The Case for a Special Resolution Regime’ (2016) 1(3) Annals of Corporate Governance 175
Gordon J and Ringe W, ‘Bank resolution in the european banking union: A transatlantic perspective on what it would take’ (2015) 115(5) Columbia Law Review 1297
Ringe W-G, ‘Changing Law and Ownership Patterns in Germany: Corporate Governance and the Erosion of Deutschland AG’ (2015) 63(2) The American Journal of Comparative Law 493
Ringe W, ‘Capital Markets Union for Europe - A Political Message to the UK’ (2015) 9 Law & Financial Markets Review 5
Ringe W-G, ‘Capital Markets Union for Europe: a commitment to the Single Market of 28’ (2015) 9(1) Law and Financial Markets Review 5
Ringe W, ‘Dead Man or Dead Hand? New Poison Pills in Debt’ [2015] Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper 45 2015
Gordon J and Ringe W, ‘Resolution in the European Banking Union: A Transatlantic Perspective on What it Would Take’ (2015) 115 Columbia Law Review 1297
Ringe W-G, ‘Changing Law and Ownership Patterns in Germany: Corporate Governance and the Erosion of Deutschland AG’
Ringe W-G, ‘Independent Directors: After the Crisis’ (2013) 14(3) European Business Organization Law Review 401
Ringe W, ‘Corporate Mobility in the EU - a Flash in the Pan? An empirical study on the success of lawmaking and regulatory competition’ (2013) 10 European Company and Financial Law Review 230
Ringe W, ‘Empty Voting Revisited: The Telus Saga’ (2013) 28 Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 154
Ringe W, ‘Menügesetzgebung im Privatrecht’ (2013) 213 Archiv für Die Civilistische Praxis (AcP) 98
Beale H and Ringe W, ‘Transfer of Rights and Obligations Under DCFR and CESL: Interactions with English and German Law’ [2013] Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17 2013
Gordon J and Ringe W-G, ‘Bank Resolution in the European Banking Union: A Transatlantic Perspective on What it Would Take’
Ringe W, ‘Hedge Funds and Risk-Decoupling – The Empty Voting Problem in the European Union’ (2013) 36 Seattle University Law Review 1027
Ringe W, ‘Der Nacherfüllungsanspruch im Kaufrecht’ (2012) 65 Neue Juristische Wochenschrift 3393
Kettunen M and Ringe W, ‘Disclosure Regulation of Cash-Settled Equity Derivatives – an Intentions-Based Approach’ (2012) 2012 Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 227
Ringe W-G and Hellgardt A, ‘The International Dimension of Issuer Liability--Liability and Choice of Law from a Transatlantic Perspective’ (2011) 31(1) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 23
Ringe W-G, ‘Brian Cheffins, Corporate Ownership and Control: British Business Transformed (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2008), XVIII, 423 pp., hardback ISBN 978-0-19-923697-8’ (2011) 12(1) European Business Organization Law Review 173
Armour J and Ringe W, ‘European company law 1999-2010: Renaissance and crisis’ (2011) 48(1) Common Market Law Review 125
Ringe W-G, ‘COMPANY LAW AND FREE MOVEMENT OF CAPITAL’ (2010) 69(2) The Cambridge Law Journal 378
Ringe W-G, ‘Domestic Company Law and Free Movement of Capital: Nothing Escapes the European Court?’
Ringe W-G, ‘The European Private Company (SPE): A Critical Analysis of the EU Draft Statute’ (2010) 35(6) EUROPEAN LAW REVIEW 899
Ringe W, Gullifer L and Théry P, ‘Preface’ [2009] Current Issues in European Financial and Insolvency Law: Perspectives from France and the UK v
Ringe W and Hellgardt A, ‘Internationale Kapitalmarkthaftung als Corporate Governance’ (2009) 173(6) ZHR 802
Ringe W-G, ‘Forum Shopping Under the EU Insolvency Regulation’
Ringe W-G, ‘The Volkswagen Case and the European Court of Justice’ (2008) 45 Common Market Law Review
Ringe W, ‘Keine Berufungszuständigkeit des OLG nach § 119 GVG bei Beteiligung einer Scheinauslandsgesellschaft’ (2008) 2008 EuZW 44
Ringe W, ‘The European Company Statute in the context of Freedom of Establishment’ (2007) 7 Journal of Corporate Law Studies 185
Ringe W, ‘Überseering im Verfahrensrecht’ - Zu den Auswirkungen der EuGH-Rechtsprechung zur Niederlassungsfreiheit von Gesellschaften auf das Internationale Zivilprozessrecht’ [2007] IPRax 388
Ringe W, ‘No freedom of emigration for companies?’ [2005] 16 EBLR 621
Martino E and Ringe W-G, ‘The Social Cost of Blockchain’
Ringe W, The Deconstruction of Equity: Activist Shareholders, Decoupled Risk, and Corporate Governance (Oxford University Press 2016)
Ringe W-G, Shareholder Activism (JN Gordon and W-G Ringe eds., Oxford University Press 2015)
Fleischer H, Hansen J and Ringe W, German and Nordic Perspectives on Company Law and Capital Markets Law (Mohr Siebeck 2015)
Ringe W and Huber P, Legal Challenges in the Global Financial Crisis: Bail-outs, the Euro and Regulation (Hart Publishing, Oxford 2014)
Triebel V and others, Englisches Handels- und Wirtschaftsrecht (Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft 2012)
Bernitz U and Ringe W, Preface (2011)
Ringe W, Gullifer L and Théry P, Current Issues in European Financial and Insolvency Law: Perspectives from France and the UK (2009) 1
Ringe W, Die Sitzverlegung der Europäischen Aktiengesellschaft (Mohr Siebeck 2006) 294
Azzutti A, Ringe W-G and Stiehl H, ‘Regulating AI trading from an AI lifecycle perspective’, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN FINANCE (2023)
Ringe W, ‘Commentary on Articles 3 - 6 EIR’ in R Bork and K van Zwieten (eds.), Commentary on the European Insolvency Regulation (OUP 2022)
Ringe W, ‘Brexit and how it affects capital markets (regulation)’, Brexit: Legal and Economic Aspects of a Political Divorce (2021)
Ringe W-G and Ruof C, ‘Robo advice – Legal and regulatory challenges*’, Routledge Handbook of Financial Technology and Law (Taylor & Francis 2021)
Ringe W, ‘Lessons from the pandemic for European finance: a twin transformation towards green technology’ in C Gortsos and W Ringe (eds.), Financial Stability Amidst the Pandemic Crisis: On Top of the Wave (EBI 2021)
Gordon J and Ringe W, ‘Bank Resolution in Europe: The Unfinished Agenda of Structural Reform’ in D Busch and G Ferrarini (eds.), European Banking Union (OUP 2020)
Ringe D and Ringe W, ‘How to Rescue Startups During the Pandemic’ in H Eidenmuller and others (eds.), Covid-19 and Business Law (Beck / Hart / Nomos 2020)
Ringe W, ‘Interne und externe Corporate Governance bei Banken’ in S Grundmann and others (eds.), Festschrift für Klaus J. Hopt zum 80. Geburtstag (de Gruyter 2020)
Ringe W, ‘COVID-19 and European Banks: no time for lawyers’ in C Gortsos and W Ringe (eds.), Pandemic Crisis and Financial Stability (EBI 2020)
Ringe W, Morais L and Ramos D, ‘A Holistic Approach to the Institutional Architecture of Financial Supervision and Regulation in the EU’, European Financial Regulation: Levelling the Cross-Sectoral Playing Field (2019)
Ringe W, ‘Bail-in: a Post-Crisis Learning Process’ in S Brodie (ed.), Bank Resolution: Key Issues and Local Perspectives (Insol International 2019)
Ringe W-G, Morais L and Muñoz D, ‘A Holistic Approach to the Institutional Architecture of Financial Supervision and Regulation in the EU’, SSRN Electronic Journal (Elsevier 2019)
Ringe W, ‘Shareholder Activism: a Renaissance’ in J Gordon and W Ringe (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance (OUP 2018)
Ringe W-G, ‘Independent Directors’, Independent Directors in Asia (Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2017)
Rock E and others, ‘Fundamental Changes’, The Anatomy of Corporate Law (Oxford University Press 2017)
Davies P, Hopt K and Ringe W-G, ‘Control Transactions’, The Anatomy of Corporate Law (Oxford University Press 2017)
Armour J and others, ‘Beyond the Anatomy’, The Anatomy of Corporate Law (Oxford University Press 2017)
Ringe W, ‘Commentary on Articles 3 - 6 EIR’ in R Bork and K van Zwieten (eds.), Commentary on the European Insolvency Regulation (OUP 2016)
Ringe W-G, ‘Changing law and ownership patterns in Germany: corporate governance and the erosion of Deutschland AG’, Research Handbook on Shareholder Power (Edward Elgar Publishing 2015)
N. Gordon J and Ringe W, ‘Bank Resolution in Europe: The Unfinished Agenda of Structural Reform’ in D Busch and G Ferrarini (eds.), European Banking Union (OUP 2015)
Ringe W, ‘The Law of Assignment in European Contract Law’ in L Gullifer and S Vogenauer (eds.), English and European Perspectives on Contract and Commercial Law: Essays in Honour of Hugh Beale (Hart Publishing 2014)
Ringe W and Huber P, ‘Introduction’, Legal Challenges in the Global Financial Crisis: Bail-outs, the Euro and Regulation (2014)
Beale H and Ringe W, ‘Transfer of rights and obligations’ in G Dannemann and S Vogenauer (eds.), The Common European Sales Law in Context – Interactions with English and German Law (OUP 2013)
Ringe W and Hellgardt A, ‘Transnational Issuer Liability after the Financial Crisis: Seeking a Coherent Choice of Law Standard’ in D Fairgrieve and E Lein (eds.), Extraterritoriality and Collective Redress (OUP 2012)
Ringe W, ‘Sparking Regulatory Competition in European Company Law - The Impact of the Centros Line of Case-Law and its Concept of ’Abuse of Law’’ in R de la Feria and S Vogenauer (eds.), Prohibition of Abuse of Law - A New General Principle of EU Law (Hart Publishing 2011)
Ringe W, ‘Is Volkswagen the new Centros? Free Movement of Capital’s Impact on Company Law’ in D Prentice and A Reisberg (eds.), Corporate Finance Law in the UK and EU (OUP 2011)
Ringe W-G, ‘Deviations from Ownership-Control Proportionality—Economic Protectionism Revisited’, Company Law and Economic Protectionism (Oxford University Press (OUP) 2010)
Ringe W, ‘Public Capital and Private Capital in the internal market – Securing a level playing field for public and private enterprises (UK Report)’ in G Carlos Rodriguez Iglesias and L Ortiz Blanco (eds.), PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIDE XXIV CONGRESS MADRID 2010 - VOLUME III: Public Capital and Private Capital in the Internal Market (Servicio de Publicaciones de la Facultad de Derecho, Complutense University, Madrid 2010)
Ringe W, ‘Protectionnisme économique en droit des sociétés après la crise’ in V Magnier (ed.), La gouvernance des sociétés cotées face à la crise - Pour une meilleure protection de l’intérêt social (LGDJ 2010)
Ringe W and Gullifer L, ‘Summary’, Current Issues in European Financial and Insolvency Law: Perspectives from France and the UK (2009)
Ringe W, ‘Strategic Insolvency Migration and Community Law’, Current Issues in European Financial and Insolvency Law: Perspectives from France and the UK (2009)
Ringe W, ‘Nichts ist vor ihm sicher? Allgemeines Gesellschaftsrecht im Visier des EuGH - Untersuchungen zum Anwendungsbereich der Kapitalverkehrsfreiheit’ in H Baum and others (eds.), Perspektiven des Wirtschaftsrechts - Deutsches, europäisches und internationales Handels-, Gesellschafts- und Kapitalmarktrecht. Beiträge für Klaus J. Hopt aus Anlass seiner Emeritierung (de Gruyter 2008)
Ringe W and Zimmer D, ‘Kommentierung der Art. 7, 8 SE-VO’ in M Lutter and P Hommelhoff (eds.), SE-Kommentar (SE-VO, SEAG, SEBG, Steuerrecht) (Otto Schmidt Verlag, Cologne 2008)
Engert A and others, Business Law and the Transition to a Net Zero Economy (Beck - Hart - Nomos 2021)
Gordon J and Ringe W, The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance (OUP 2018)
Ringe W and others, Perspektiven des Wirtschaftsrechts - Deutsches, europäisches und internationales Handels-, Gesellschafts- und Kapitalmarktrecht. Beiträge für Klaus J. Hopt aus Anlass seiner Emeritierung (de Gruyter 2008) X
Ringe W, ‘Bank bail-in between liquidity and solvency’ (2018) 92(3) American Bankruptcy Law Journal 299 (review)
Ringe W, ‘Kornhaas and the challenge of applying keck in establishment’ (2017) 42(2) European Law Review 270 (review)
Ringe W-G, ‘Forum Shopping under the EU Insolvency Regulation’ (2008) 9(4) European Business Organization Law Review 579 (review)
Ringe W, ‘Secondary proceedings, forum shopping and the European Insolvency Regulation [Sekundärinsolvenzverfahren nach der Europäischen Insolvenzverordnung (zu BGH, 8.3.2012 – IX ZB 178/11)]’ (2013) 2013 Praxis Des Internationalen Privat- Und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 330 (case-note)
Ringe W, ‘Case note on case C-112/05 Commission v Germany (VW law)’ (2008) 45(2) Common Market Law Review 537 (case-note)
Ringe W, ‘Keine Beschränkungen des Wegzugs von Gesellschaften innerhalb der EU (""Cartesio"")’ (2008) 29 Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht (ZIP) 1072 (case-note)