Biography

Summary

Nikolai Badenhoop is a legal researcher who focuses on European Union law, financial regulation, competition, contract and tort law, Brexit, corporate governance, consumer protection and sustainable finance. 

He is a European Lawyer and 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.). He 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

2021

• 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)

2020

• 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)

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

2019 

• Towards a single standard of professional secrecy for supervisory authorities
  – A reform proposal,
  44 (3) European Law Review (2019) 295-318 (with René Smits) 

2018 

• Financial Services and Brexit – Navigating Towards Future Market Access,19(4) European Business Organization Law Review (2018) 679-714
  (with Henning Berger) 
  
  previous version: Market Access for Financial Services after Brexit, Working Paper 1/2018 Center for German and International Law of Financial Services at Johannes Guttenberg University Mainz

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

2017 

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

2015 

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

2011

• 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) 

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)