Bridge Professor
LawLab – Fintech & AI
The LawLab – Fintech & AI was founded on 1 November 2021 and is designed to address legal questions on the regulation of technological changes in financial services due to digital transformation (fintech) as well as on the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI). An interdisciplinary approach is a characteristic feature. The LawLab – Fintech & AI is closely tied to the SAFE Policy Center and headed by Katja Langenbucher, Professor of Civil Law, Commercial Law, and Banking Law at the House of Finance of Goethe University Frankfurt, as SAFE Bridge Professor.
At its core, the LawLab – Fintech & AI serves as platform for scientific workshops in exchange with other international universities, thus covering not only the German market for fintech and AI. In addition, frequent event formats incorporate experiences from politics and regulatory practice.
News
Interview: AI & Board Decision-Making
Featured Interview in the April 2025 edition of the ecgi The Future of Corporate Governance newsletter
Katja Langenbucher wins the 2025 Cleary Gottlieb Law Prize for the Best Paper in the ECGI Law Working Paper Series
She was awarded for the paper: “Ownership and Trust: A corporate law framework for board decision-making in the age of AI”
SAFE Finance Blog: Explaining credit scores – the European Court of Justice rules on automated credit assessments
Katja Langenbucher and Kevin Bauer: The European Court of Justice strengthens consumer rights in credit scoring, but does its ruling truly enhance transparency?
New publication: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICYMAKING
A High-Level Panel of Experts’ Report to the G7
Further Links
The Geopolitical Case for CMU and Two Different Pathways Toward Capital Market Integration
SAFE White Paper No. 102 joint with Florian Heider, Jan Pieter Krahnen, Vincent R. Lindner, Jonas Schlegel, and Tobias Tröger
Gruppendenken und Corporate Governance – illustriert am Beispiel des Wirecard Skandals
SAFE White Paper No. 97
KI in der Leitungsentscheidung des Vorstands der Aktiengesellschaft
SAFE White Paper No. 96
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2024
SAFE Finance Blog: Artificial intelligence: New responsibilities for German financial supervisors?
Katja Langenbucher: The EU AI Act demands independent oversight of high-risk AI in the financial sector – a challenge for national implementation10th Fintech Conference
Conference of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg“Stock exchange, crypto assets and AI - old and new legal issues in regulatory and technological change” with Deutsche Börse
Conference of the Institute for Law and Finance of Goethe University together with Deutsche Börse on the impact of regulatory and technological changes crypto assets and AI has on the work of stock exchanges"Wie man ein verbrauchergerechtes Scoring einführen könnte" (contribution by Katja Langenbucher)
Börsen-Zeitung, 13 August 2024Empowering Women in Law and Finance
Workshop for women highlights current research and provides platform for exchange of experiencesSAFE Finance Blog: AI-based credit default risk assessments require regulation
Katja Langenbucher: The EU is still struggling to find an appropriate regulation. The issues at stake go beyond current anti-discrimination lawThe influence of middlemen on the economy
In a SAFE LawLab event, economists and lawyers discussed the assessment of Columbia Law School Professor Kathryn Judge on the transformation of the economy through middlemen, from financial aspects to consumer goodsThe future of money
In a SAFE Fintech Policy Lecture, practical and academic experts discussed a "digital euro" and regulatory challenges -
2023
Blog: The European Court of Justice Tightens the Requirements for Credit Scoring under the GDPR
Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement at New York University School of Law, 2023AI in the Boardroom
Speaker, WCD Europe Institute 2023, 26 October 2023Statement on the public hearing of the Legal Affairs Committee on the subject of the motion of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group on "Making business relationships in banking transactions legally secure in the future as well" (in German only)
Deutscher Bundestag, 26 March 2023Blog: Consumer Credit in The Age of AI – Beyond Anti-Discrimination Law
Oxford Business Law Blog, 9 March 2023Blog: Explaining MiCA: Part of the EU’s Approach to Crypto and Digital Asset Regulation
Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement at New York University School of Law, 2023 -
2022
Blog: Regulating AI – The Next “Brussels Effect”?
Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement at New York University School of Law, 2022Video: The Rise of the Middleman Economy and the Power of going to the Source
LawLab Lunch with Kathryn Judge (Columbia University) - The Middlemen Economy, 11 November 2022Blog: Artificial Intelligence and the “S” in ESG
European Corporate Governance Institute, 13 September 2022Video: Predictably Unequal. The Effects of Machine Learning on Credit Markets
SAFE "LawLab - Fintech & AI" Workshop, 27 June 2022Blog: Did the German stakeholder model fail in Wirecard and Volkswagen?
European Corporate Governance Institute, 24 May 2022 -
2021
Video: Digitalisation of finance: the challenges from a central bank and supervisory perspective
ECB Legal Conference 2021, panel discussion, 26 November 2021Video: Pacemaker Brussels?
SAFE-LawFin Policy Workshop, 7 December 2021Video: AI as a Product? Algorithmic Credit Scoring as a Test Case for Regulation
Hamburg Network for AI & Law (NAIL), Bucerius Law School and University of Hamburg, NAIL Research Seminar, 6 December 2021
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