Jesper Lau Hansen

CV

Education:

2001: Doctor Juris (Dr. Jur.), University of Copenhagen
1993: Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of Cambridge
1992: Advokat (lawyer), admitted to the bar of the Court of Appeal
1989: Candidatus Juris (Cand. Jur.), University of Copenhagen

Professional career:

2003-: Professor of Financial Markets Law (full tenure)
2001-03: Associate Professor
1999-2001: Assistant Professor
1995-99: Research fellow, University of Copenhagen
1989-1995: Kromann & Münter, law firm, Copenhagen

Memberships:

• The Nordic Network for Company Law
• The Nordic Corporate Governance Network
• The Danish Corporate Governance Association
• The Danish Association for Company Law
• The Danish Association for Arbitration
• European Forum on Securities Regulation
• International Corporate Governance Society
• International Academy of Comparative Law
• The Danish Management Society
• The Association Norden
• Kredsen Mars og Mercur
• The Law Society
• FOCOFIMA

Appointments and positions:

• Chairman, Rector's Election Committee, U. of Copenhagen (2011-)
• Member of the Rector's Selection Committee, Crown Princess Mary's Scholarship (2004-)
• Member, Commission's Informal Company Law Expert Group (ICLEG 2014-)
• Member, Academic Committee, European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI), (2017-)
• Member of the board of the Danish Association for Company Law (2012-)
• Member, Executive Committee of the Danish Committee of the Int. Academy of Comparative Law
• Director or chairman of the board in several mutual funds (UCITS and AIF) connected to the financial group Nykredit.
• Member of the board of NASDAQ OMX Nordic Foundations, Sweden (2011-)
• Member and presently Vice-Chairman, CEPOS (a think-tank) (2003-)
• Member, VL group 12 (2012-), Chair (2018)
• Member of the editing committee, Juridisk Formularbog (DJØF Publishers), a survey of Danish laws (2004-)
• Editorial Committee, Nordisk Tidsskrift for Selskabsret (Nordic J. of Corporate Law) (2009-)
• Editorial Committee, FinansInvest (2014-)
• Managing editor, European Company and Financial Law Review (2019-)
• Arbitration in various cases, appointed by the Danish Institute of Arbitration

 Former appointments:

• Academic member of ESMA's Stakeholder Group (2011-13). Reappointed and elected chair (2013-16).
• Member of the Danish FSA committee on the education of directors in financial undertakings (independt expert) (2015-16).
• Member of the public Committee on regulation of SIFIs (independent expert), 2012-13.
• Member of the public Committee to Modernise Danish Company Law (independent expert), 2006-08
• Member of the public Committee on the ban on insider dealing (independent expert), 2005-10
• Member of the Reflection Group on the future of EU company law, expert committee appointed by the European Commission (2010-11)
• Member and later chairman of the board, Nordisk Kollegium (a college), 2002-2010.
• Editorial board, Journal of Corporate Law Studies (2005-2014).

Primary fields of research

• Financial Markets Law, i.e. regulation of financial services and securities trading
• Regulation of publicly traded companies and financial institutions
• EU law and comparative Nordic law
• Criminal law as a sanction of business law
• Arbitration

Current research

A commentary on the new Danish Capital Markets Act, a monograph on MAR, a textbook on securities trading and a new 2nd edition of Introduction to company law and capital markets law. All works are in Danish. Furthermore, 2018 involves work on assessing academic dissertations at the universities of Aarhus, Oslo, Stockholm and London.

Knowledge of languages

• Danish and English.
• Understands Norwegian and Swedish.

Fields of interest

• Financial Market Law
• Corporate Law
• Market Law, incl. Competition Law
• EU and EC Law
• Comparative Law
• Arbitration

Teaching

Jesper Lau Hansen has responsibility for these courses, some of which are taught by external lecturers:

• Kapitalmarkedsret (Danish, fall)
• Selskabsret og kapitalmarked (Danish, fall)
• Selskabsret (Danish, spring and fall)
• Private Equity, in cooperation with the Economics Department (English - Spring)
• Iværksætterens juridiske udfordringer (Danish, spring and fall)
• Køb og salg af virksomheder (Danish, spring and fall)
• Selskabsformerne (Danish, fall)

Jesper Lau Hansen is presently tutoring one Ph.D.-students and acts as tutor in respect of papers by LL.M. students within Financial Markets Law including publicly traded companies and securities trading.

Honours

Lecturer of the Year 2009