MSc Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
Doctorat in Private Law, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
M2 Legal Sociology, Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas
M2 Proprietary and Contract Laws, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
J.D., Columbia Law School
Prof. Geneviève Helleringer (JD Columbia, MSc Oxford, PhD Sorbonne, MBA/MiM Essec, MPA Sciences-Po Paris) is a professor at Oxford University, where she is a fellow of Reuben College, Oxford. Between 2005 and 2025, Geneviève was also a professor at ESSEC Business School (Paris). She currently holds visiting positions at Columbia Law School and Paris-Assas University.
Her research is interdisciplinary and, harnessing insights from economics and psychology, focuses on contracts and corporate governance i.e., how organizations structure their relationships and set their own rules. Her monograph on Contractual Terms was awarded four prizes.
Geneviève is a prize-winning lecturer with 20 years of experience teaching business law from an international perspective to lawyers and business people. She is a regular guest on media and television.
Geneviève is an elected fellow of the American Law Institute, Vice-Chair of ECGI and a member of the Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Financial Authorities. She is an academic editor of the Journal of Financial Regulation (Oxford University Press) and of the Oxford Business Law Blog.
With a French, Anglo-American and German background, Geneviève started her career at Shiseido in Tokyo and practiced law as a member of the Bar in New York and in Paris at Willkie Farr & Gallagher and Freshfields. She regularly acts as an international expert, mediator and arbitrator.
Genevieve is an enthusiastic gallery-goer, an amateur pianist, and has published several short stories.