Genevieve Helleringer

Genevieve Helleringer is a law professor at ESSEC Business School and Oxford Law Faculty, an Research Member and vice-chair of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and a member of the American Law Institute and of Prime Finance.

Her research focuses on comparative contract, corporate and financial law, as well as commercial dispute resolution. It draws on insights from psychology, as well as economics, and sociology. Genevieve  is an academic editor of the Oxford Business Law Blog, and a founding and executive editor of the Journal of Financial Regulation (OUP). She has been a visiting professor at UCLA and Paris Pantheon Assas, and a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg.

Genevieve holds a JD from Columbia University (1999), an MSc in legal sociology from Paris Panthéon Assas University (2009), as well as an MSc and a doctorate in private law from the Sorbonne University (2010) (receiving four national prizes for her doctoral thesis). She is admitted to the New York and the Paris Bars and a qualified mediator. She studied philosophy, mathematics and literature, as an undergraduate, and economics and social sciences later at Essec Business School and Sciences-Po Paris, as well as experimental psychology at graduate level at Oxford University. Before completing her doctoral work, she worked for Shiseido in Japan and practised private equity and capital market law at Willkie Farr & Gallagher and at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in New York and Paris (2000-2006).

Genevieve was the mediator for the French Retail Market Association (2017-2020). She was appointed in 2021 by the European Banking Authority on the Board of Appel of the European Financial Supervisory Authorities. Her research has been cited by courts, policy documents and news organisation in France, United Kingdom and the US. Genevieve has appeared as an expert witness before various jurisdictions. 

In her spare time, Genevieve plays the piano and writes short stories.