Law & Finance

The cluster Law & Finance brings together expertise from all departments to address central, particularly interdisciplinary issues, including the effectiveness of different regulatory approaches to financial markets and institutions as implemented in different jurisdictions in recent years, and the impact of consumer protection legislation in the financial sector. Corporate finance issues are addressed in cooperation with the departments Financial Intermediation and Financial Markets.

The department will be closely linked with the DFG Kolleg research group on "Foundations of Law and Finance" established in 2017.

Publications

Author/s Title Area Type Published
Kevin Bauer, Lucia Franke, Andrej Gill, Katja Langenbucher Institutionalizing Explainability in Credit Scoring
Policy Letter No. 114 		Law and Finance Policy Paper 2026
Alexander Morell, Daniel Schellenberg Regulating Third-Party Litigation Funding? Weighing the Arguments in the Light of Extant EU Consumer Protection Safeguards
SAFE Working Paper No. 482 		Law and Finance SAFE Working Paper 2026
Kevin Bauer, Katja Langenbucher Agentic AI, Corporate Communication, and Market Integrity
Policy Letter No. 113 		Law and Finance Policy Paper 2026
Alexander Morell, Daniel Schellenberg The Incentive Structure of Litigation Finance: How Free Coordination Turns Financed Collective Redress into an Indispensable Internalization Tool
SAFE Working Paper No. 481 		Law and Finance SAFE Working Paper 2026
Luca Enriques, Casimiro Antonio Nigro, Tobias Tröger Templates in the EU Inc. Regulation Proposal
SAFE Working Paper No. 483 		Law and Finance SAFE Working Paper 2026
Fatjon Kaja The Asking Price of Incorporation: State Leverage and the Evolution of Corporate Purpose
SAFE Working Paper No. 476 		Law and Finance SAFE Working Paper 2026
Tobias Tröger Systematic Stewardship on the Waterbed
SAFE Working Paper No. 472 		Law and Finance SAFE Working Paper 2026
Kevin Bauer, Katja Langenbucher Corporate Communication, Agentic AI, and Prompt Injections
forthcoming in Hacker, Philipp (ed.): Oxford Intersections: AI in Society, Oxford Academic 		Law and Finance Published Paper 2026
Nikolai Badenhoop Restitution Claims – EU Consumer Law Principles and the Mortgage Credit Directive as an Overarching Value Model
forthcoming in Unfair Contract Terms and Restitution in European Private Law - the National and ECJ Litigation on House Loans Indexed in a Foreign Currency (Cambridge) 		Law and Finance Published Paper 2026
Nikolai Badenhoop, Julian Stolte EuG 10.09.2025 - T-625/22: Ermessensspielraum der Kommission bei delegierter Rechtsetzung: Zur ökologischen Nachhaltigkeit von Kernenergie und Erdgas
Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht (EuZW) 		Law and Finance Published Paper 2025
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