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
Engert A, Enriques L, Ringe W, 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)
Publications
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’ [2023] (140) European Banking Institute Working Paper Series 2023 -
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’
Ringe W-G, ‘Investor-Led Sustainability in Corporate Governance’ (2022) 7(2) ANNALS OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 93
Goezluegoel 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
Gortsos C, Ringe W-G, Annunziata F, and others, ‘Financial Stability Amidst the Pandemic Crisis: On Top of the Wave’
Ringe W-G, ‘Stewardship and Shareholder Engagement in Germany’ (2021) 22(1) EUROPEAN BUSINESS ORGANIZATION LAW REVIEW 87
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’ (2021) 43(1) UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 79
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
Gortsos C, Ringe W-G, Busch D, and others, ‘Pandemic Crisis and Financial Stability’ [2020] SSRN Electronic Journal
Ringe W-G and Ruof C, ‘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
Ringe W-G, ‘International Handbook on Shareholders’ Agreements. Regulation, Practice and Comparative Analysis’ (2019) 83(2) RABELS ZEITSCHRIFT FUR AUSLANDISCHES UND INTERNATIONALES PRIVATRECHT 448
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
Ringe W and Ruof C, ‘A Regulatory Sandbox for Robo Advice’ [2018] EBI Working Paper No 26/2018
Ringe W-G, ‘Alternative Initial Public Offering Models. The Law and Economics Pertaining to Shell Company Listings on German Capital Markets’ (2018) 82(3) RABELS ZEITSCHRIFT FUR AUSLANDISCHES UND INTERNATIONALES PRIVATRECHT 826
Ringe W-G, ‘The Irrelevance of Brexit for the European Financial Market’ (2018) 19(1) EUROPEAN BUSINESS ORGANIZATION LAW REVIEW 1
Ringe W-G, ‘Bank Bail-in Between Liquidity and Solvency’ (2018) 92(3) AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY LAW JOURNAL 299
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, ‘CONTESTING SHAREHOLDER RESOLUTIONS IN GREAT BRITAIN’ (2017) 81(2) RABELS ZEITSCHRIFT FUR AUSLANDISCHES UND INTERNATIONALES PRIVATRECHT 249
Ringe W-G, ‘<i>Kornhaas</i>/and/the/Challenge/of/Applying/<i>Keck</i>/In/Establishment’ (2017) 42(2) EUROPEAN LAW REVIEW 270
Ringe W-G, ‘The Deconstruction of Equity’
Ringe W-G, ‘Regulatory Competition in Global Financial Markets - The Case for a Special Resolution Regime’ (2016) 1(3) ANNALS OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 175
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, ‘Anmerkung’ (2016) 71(11) JuristenZeitung 573
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
Ringe W-G, ‘Changing Law and Ownership Patterns in Germany: Corporate Governance and the Erosion of Deutschland AG’ (2015) 63(2) AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW 493
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
Gordon J and Ringe W-G, ‘BANK RESOLUTION IN THE EUROPEAN BANKING UNION: A TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVE ON WHAT IT WOULD TAKE’ (2015) 115(5) COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW 1297
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
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
Ringe W, ‘Menügesetzgebung Im Privatrecht’ (2013) 213 Archiv für die civilistische Praxis (AcP) 98
Ringe W-G, ‘Independent Directors: After the Crisis’ (2013) 14(3) EUROPEAN BUSINESS ORGANIZATION LAW REVIEW 401
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
Armour J and Ringe W, ‘European Company Law 1999-2010: Renaissance and Crisis’ (2011) 48(1) Common Market Law Review 125
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, ‘Corporate Ownership and Control: British Business Transformed’ (2011) 12(1) EUROPEAN BUSINESS ORGANIZATION LAW REVIEW 173
Ringe W, ‘Company Law and Free Movement of Capital’ (2010) 69(2) Cambridge Law Journal 378
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 and Hellgardt A, ‘Internationale Kapitalmarkthaftung Als Corporate Governance’ (2009) 173(6) ZHR 802
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
Ringe W-G, ‘The Politics of Capital Markets Union’ SSRN Electronic Journal
Ringe W-G, ‘Bail-In Between Liquidity and Solvency’ SSRN Electronic Journal
Ringe W-G, ‘Domestic Company Law and Free Movement of Capital: Nothing Escapes the European Court?’ SSRN Electronic Journal
Gordon J and Ringe W-G, ‘Banking Union Resolution Without Deposit Guarantee: A Transatlantic Perspective on What It Would Take’ SSRN Electronic Journal
Gözlügöl A and Ringe W-G, ‘Private Companies: The Missing Link on The Path to Net Zero’ SSRN Electronic Journal
Ringe W-G, ‘Investor-Led Sustainability in Corporate Governance’ SSRN Electronic Journal
Patel J and Ringe W-G, ‘MAR’s Jar? Information Quality’ SSRN Electronic Journal
Ringe W-G, ‘Changing Law and Ownership Patterns in Germany: Corporate Governance and the Erosion of Deutschland AG’ SSRN Electronic Journal
Ringe W-G, ‘Stewardship and Shareholder Engagement in Germany’ SSRN Electronic Journal
Ringe W-G, ‘Forum Shopping Under the EU Insolvency Regulation’ SSRN Electronic Journal
Ringe W, The Deconstruction of Equity: Activist Shareholders, Decoupled Risk, and Corporate Governance (Oxford University Press 2016)
Ringe W-G, Shareholder Activism (J 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, Illmer M, Ringe W, and others, Englisches Handels- und Wirtschaftsrecht (Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft 2012)
Bernitz U and Ringe W, Preface (2011)
Bernitz U and Ringe W, Company Law and Economic Protectionism: New Challenges to European Integration (2011) 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, ‘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)
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 (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 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 D and Ringe W, ‘How to Rescue Startups During the Pandemic’ in H Eidenmuller, L Enriques, G Helleringer, 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, ‘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 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, ‘Shareholder Activism: A Renaissance’ in J Gordon and W Ringe (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance (OUP 2018)
Armour J, Enriques L, Pargendler M, and others, ‘Beyond the Anatomy’, 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)
Rock E, Davies P, Kanda H, and others, ‘Fundamental Changes’, The Anatomy of Corporate Law (Oxford University Press 2017)
Ringe W-G, ‘Independent Directors A Theoretical Framework’, INDEPENDENT DIRECTORS IN ASIA: A HISTORICAL, CONTEXTUAL AND COMPARATIVE APPROACH (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)
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, ‘Changing Law and Ownership Patterns in Germany: Corporate Governance and the Erosion of Deutschland AG’, Research Handbook on Shareholder Power (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)
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)
Bernitz U and Ringe W, ‘Company Law and Economic Protectionism-an Introduction’, Company Law and Economic Protectionism: New Challenges to European Integration (2011)
Ringe W, ‘Deviations from Ownership-Control Proportionality-Economic Protectionism Revisited’, Company Law and Economic Protectionism: New Challenges to European Integration (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, ‘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, ‘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 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)
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)
Engert A, Enriques L, Ringe W, 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, Baum H, Fleckner A, 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-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)