The Scientific Committee

Alan Schwartz is President of the Steering Committee. He is a Sterling Professor at Yale University. His appointments are in the Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management. Professor Schwartz’s academic specialties include corporate finance and corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy, contracts and commercial transactions. He has published numerous articles and books in these fields. He...

Associate Professor of Financial Markets and Banking Legislation at Bocconi University, since 2007, previously at University of Bologna (since 1998). He holds his teaching courses in English and in Italian, and, since 2007, he teaches at Bocconi University in the top-ranked international course of the University (Finance). At University of Bologna (1998-2007) he also taught Competition Law, and Banking...

Jennifer H. Arlen Norma Z. Paige Professor of Law, NYU School of Law Founder and Faculty Director, Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement Jennifer Arlen is an internationally recognized expert on corporate criminal and civil enforcement, director and officer liability, and compliance. Author of more than 50 scholarly publications, she currently is the Associate Reporter for Principles of the...

Thomas is an assistant professor at the Columbia Business School. Prior to this, he was assistant professor at the School of Business and Management of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. In 2015 he received his Ph.D from HEC Paris in management sciences. He studied at the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan in the economics and management...

Luca Enriques is Professor of Corporate Law at the Faculty of Law of Oxford University. He is a coauthor of The Anatomy of Corporate Law and of Principles of Financial Regulation. He has published several articles in major European and US reviews and journals, including the Journal of Economic Perspectives, the Cornell Law Review, and the Harvard Business Law...

Olivier Gossner is a specialist of Game Theory working at the intersection of Economics and Mathematics. His main research interests lie in repeated games, the strategic use of information, and bounded rationality. In recent work, he develops new models of strategic reasoning, and proposed a reform of Solvency II that would allow to allocate more insurance capital to the...

Aurelio Gurrea-Martínez is an Assistant Professor of Law at Singapore Management University, where he teaches company law, financial and securities regulation, corporate governance, and comparative and international insolvency law. He is also the head of the Singapore Global Restructuring Initiative and co-chair of the SMU-3CL Cambridge Roundtable on Corporate Insolvency. Before joining SMU, he was a Fellow of the...

Narine Lalafaryan a Lecturer (equiv. Assistant Professor) in Corporate/Financial Law at the Faculty of Laws, UCL (University College London), where she teaches Corporate Finance Law; Economic Analysis of Law: Corporations and Markets; Legal Aspects of International Finance; and Liquidation and its Consequences. She is also a doctoral candidate in financial law and a Hogan Lovells Scholar in English Private...

Prof. Pierre Larouche holds the chair of Law and Innovation at Université de Montréal, where he is Associate Dean for Curriculum Development and Quality, and Director of the new PhD programme on Innovation, Science, Technology and Law. A graduate of McGill University, Bonn University and Maastricht University and a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada, Pierre Larouche...

Researcher and professor emeritus at the University of Montreal, specialized in the economic analysis of law and intellectual property, Ejan Mackaay was awarded the 2013 Vogel prize in economic law for his work Law and Economics for Civil Law Systems. In 2009, he was appointed as Fellow at the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en analyse des organisations (interuniversity research...

Saura Masconale is Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona Department of Political Economy and Moral Science and Affiliated Faculty as the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. She is also the Associate Director of the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, a university center in the  Office for Research, Innovation & Impact which provides research, teaching, and...

Christophe Moussu is Professor of Finance at ESCP Business School since 1993, after a visiting scholar position at the Simon School (University of Rochester). He graduated from ESCP, the University of Paris I (Ms in Financial Economics), the University of Dijon (PhD) and the University of Lille (HDR). He has been the scientific director of numerous Master’s and executive...

Alessio Maria Pacces (Naples, 1971) is the full professor of law and finance at the Amsterdam Law School and the Amsterdam Business School. Moreover, he is the director of the Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics (ACLE) and of the Master in Law and Finance at the University of Amsterdam. Previously, Alessio was endowed professor of law and finance...

Thomas is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, and holder of a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Economics professor at New York University and the Paris School of Economics. Between June 2012 and August 2013, he was Economic Advisor to the French Ministry of Finance. Administrator of the Europanova think tank, he is a member...

Professor at the Sorbonne law faculty (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and associate professor of private law (2001). Founder and Director of the “financial law” Master of Research at the Sorbonne law faculty. Member of the Executive Committee of the “financial regulation” laboratory of excellence. Scientific director of the Revue Trimestrielle de Droit Financier (quarterly review of financial law)...

With an aggrégation in public law, Lucien Rapp is Professor at Toulouse-Capitole University where he heads the IDET-Com, a laboratory specializing in the field of territorial law and the digital economy. He is the scientific director of the Space Institute for Research on Innovative Uses of Satellites, a corporate chair created in 2013 by the CNES, Airbus Defense &...

Georg Ringe is Professor of Law and Director of the Institute of Law & Economics at the University of Hamburg. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford, Faculty of Law. His research focuses on questions of corporate law, capital markets, insolvency law and financial regulation, from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. He is a Research...

Mark J. Roe is a professor at Harvard Law School, where he teaches corporate law and corporate bankruptcy. He wrote Missing the Target:  Why Stock Market Short-Termism Is Not the Problem (Oxford, 2022), Political Determinants of Corporate Governance (Oxford, 2003), Strong Managers, Weak Owners: The Political Roots of American Corporate Finance (Princeton, 1994), and a casebook, Bankruptcy and Corporate...

Martin is a tenured Associate Professor of Finance at Oxford Saïd. He is also a Research Affiliate with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London) and CESIfo (Münich), and a Research Member with the European Corporate Governance Institute (Brussels). Martin previously served as the NBD Bancorp Assistant Professor in Business Administration, Harry H. Jones Research Scholar, and as an Assistant...

Simone Sepe is Chester H. Smith Professor at the University of Arizona, and Professor of Law and Finance at the University of Arizona and the University of Toulouse 1 Capitole. His areas of expertise include business organizations, contract theory, law and economics, empirical methods, and jurisprudence. His main scholarship focuses on theoretical and empirical problems related to corporate governance,...

Konstantinos Sergakis is Professor of Capital Markets Law and Corporate Governance and Director of the LLM in Corporate and Financial Law at the University of Glasgow. His research focuses on capital markets, corporate governance and sustainable finance. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Corporate Law Studies and the European Business Organization Law Review among others. He serves...

Felix Steffek is Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge, Director of Studies at Newnham College and Global Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame. At Cambridge, he serves as Director of the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law (3CL) and Director of International Strategy and Partnerships. He has been awarded a JM Keynes Fellowship...

Tom Vos is a full-time visiting professor at the Jean-Pierre Blumberg Chair at the University of Antwerp, where he conducts research and teaching on corporate governance. He currently focuses on short-termism in corporate governance, using methods from law and economics, including empirical research. Tom obtained his PhD at the KU Leuven in 2021, with a thesis on the topic...