Luca Enriques

2012-2013 Academic Year

Nomura Visiting Professor of International Financial Systems

Research Interests

• Corporate Governance
• Securities Regulation
• European Corporate Law

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

• European Law
• Italian Economy and Politics

Education

• University of Bologna Law Degree 1993
• Harvard Law School LL.M. 1996
• Universita L. Bocconi, Milan SJD 1999

Appointments

• ECGI Research Associate
• Professor of Business Law, University of Bologna Faculty of Law, 1999-2012
• Commissioner, Consob (Italian S.E.C.), 2007-2012
• Nomura Visiting Professor of International Financial Systems, 2012
• Professor of Business Law, the University LUISS "Guido Carli" Department of Law, Rome, 2012

Practice Information

Enriques was an independent consultant with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, practicing in Company Law, Securities Regulation, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Banking Law from 2003-2007.

Additional Information

Visiting Professor Enriques will teach the seminar Comparative Corporate Governance in the Fall 2012 term, and the seminar European Securities Regulation in the Spring 2013 term.

Biographical Statement

Luca Enriques is Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, Professor of Business Law at the University LUISS "Guido Carli" Department of Law in Rome, and ECGI Research Associate. From 2007 to June 2012 he was a commissioner at Consob, the Italian Securities and Exchange Commission. Before then, he was a consultant to Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and an adviser to the Italian Ministry of the Economy and Finance on matters relating to corporate, banking and securities law with a special focus on European policy initiatives. Appointed by the European Commission as a member of the Forum of Market Experts on Auditors' Liability (2005-2007) and of the Reflection Group on the Future of EU Company Law (2010-2011), he has frequently taken part as a panelist to European Union hearings and conferences on corporate governance and securities law. After the LLM at Harvard Law School in 1996, he worked at the Bank of Italy in the banking supervision department for three years and then joined the University of Bologna, where he was Professor of Business Law until 2012.

Representative Publications

• Enriques, Luca & Tobias Troger. "Issuer Choice in Europe," 67 Cambridge Law Journal 521 (2008).
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• Enriques, Luca & Martin Gelter. "How the Old World Encountered the New One: Regulatory Competition and Cooperation in European Corporate and Bankruptcy Law," 81 Tulane Law Review 577 (2007).
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• Enriques, Luca & Paolo Volpin. "Corporate Governance Reforms in Continental Europe," 21 Journal of Economic Perspectives 117 (2007).
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• Macey, Jonathan R. & Luca Enriques. "Creditors Versus Capital Formation: The Case Against the European Legal Capital Rules," 86 Cornell Law Review 1165 (2001).
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