Biography

Summary

Nikolai Badenhoop is a lawyer whose research covers European Union law, financial regulation, competition, contract and tort law, corporate governance, consumer protection, professional secrecy and Brexit. He currently focuses on sustainable finance.

As a European Lawyer, he holds law degrees from Humboldt University Berlin (German state examination), Sapienza University of Rome (Laurea Magistrale in Giurisprudenza) and King’s College London (LL.M.). Nikolai obtained his Ph.D. from Humboldt University Berlin exploring EU banking regulation and its impact on national private law in his doctoral thesis. He speaks English, German, French, Italian and Spanish fluently.

Nikolai gained practical experience working several years for international law firms in London and Berlin, the German Federal Ministry of Finance and a leading European start-up bank.  He is a fully qualified lawyer (Volljurist) and holds the necessary qualification to become a judge in Germany.

His teaching experience includes German administrative and constitutional law courses at Sapienza University of Rome where he taught Italian law students at bachelor and master level.

During his Max Weber Fellowship at the EUI, Nikolai focuses on sustainable finance in the EU legal framework. His research reaches from the definition of environmental, social and governance sustainability goals to their implementation within financial markets, banking regulation and corporate law. Starting from the European Green Deal, he analyses how existing regulatory tools impact sustainability goals and how the tools can be enhanced to increase sustainability.

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles in law journals

• Private Law Duties Deriving From EU Banking Regulation and its Individual Protection Goals, 16(2) European Review of Contract Law (2020) 233–266

• Towards a single standard of professional secrecy for supervisory authorities – A reform proposal, 44 (3) European Law Review (2019) 295-318 (with René Smits)
  
  
• Financial Services and Brexit – Navigating Towards Future Market Access,19(4) European Business Organization Law Review (2018) 679-714 (with Henning Berger)
  

Book

• Europäische Bankenregulierung und private Haftung
  – Die Durchsetzung von System- und Individualschutz mit Mitteln des Privatrechts,
  Schriften zum Unternehmens- und Kapitalmarktrecht, Band 81
  (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck)
  

        Book review: Maria Lucia Passador, Banca, borsa, titoli di credito 74 (2021) 463–464

Commentary

• Chapter 27 – Article 35 ECSPR Professional Secrecy, in Eugenia Macchiavello (ed), European Crowdfunding Service Providers for Businesses Regulation – A Commentary, Elgar Commentaries In Financial Law Series (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2022)
  

Contribution to books

• The Individual Protection Goal in EU Prudential Regulation – A Process Towards Private Law Enforcement, in Stefan Grundmann and Pietro Sirena (eds), European Contract Law in the Banking and Financial Union (Cambridge: Intersentia, forthcoming 2021)

Articles in law journals

• Brexit – Folgen für Kreditinstitute, Wertpapier-Mitteilungen (2018) 1078-1085 (with Henning Berger)

• A dignidade humana e os novos direitos no direito comparado: a discussão sobre a clonagem no direito constitucional alemão, Revista Brasileira de Direitos Fundamentais e Justiça 2011, 227-243 (with Ana Paula Barbosa-Fohrmann)
  

Case note

• Banking Communication Non-binding and Burden-sharing Approved: Kotnik,13(3) European Review of Contract Law (2017) 299–309 

Miscellaneous

• The Education of Lawyers in Italy,
  Sapienza Legal Papers 2014-2015, Parte Seconda, 141-142
  

Education

2021    Second German legal state examination at the Higher Regional Court of Berlin

2019    Ph.D. in Law from Humboldt University Berlin on “European banking regulation and private liability

2010-2016    Graduate and postgraduate law studies in the European Law School:

• First German legal state examination in Berlin (Humboldt University of Berlin)
  
• Laurea Magistrale in Giurisprudenza (Sapienza University of Rome)
  
• LL.M. on financial regulation and commercial arbitration (King’s College London)
  

2009    German A-level (Abitur)

2007    French A-level (Baccalauréat Littéraire)

Languages

English (near native – C2)

French (near native – C2)

Italian (near native – C2) 

Spanish (excellent command – C1)

Latin (proficient reader)

German (native speaker)