Geneviève Helleringer

Geneviève Helleringer is a member of the Law Faculty at the University of Oxford and the deputy director of the Institute of European and Comparative Law, and a Fellow of Reuben College, Oxford.  She is also a Law Professor at Essec Business School (Paris), a Research Member and Vice-Chair of ECGI (European Corporate Governance Institute), and a Member of the American Law Institute (ALI). She has been a visiting professor at UCLA, Columbia Law School, Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, and a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg. 

Professor Helleringer is an expert on international and comparative (French, US, UK) contract, corporate and financial law, as well as commercial dispute resolution. Her research draws on insights from economics and behavioural studies, as well as on her practical experience as a corporate lawyer, dispute resolution neutral, and policy advisor. She is a founding and executive editor of the Journal of Financial Regulation (OUP), an academic editor of the Oxford Business Law Blog, and a co-convenor of the Oxford Business Law Workshop.

Professor Helleringer's work has been recognised in a number of prizes for teaching and research, including a Social Science Division Teaching Excellence Award (2021), and research grants from the Leverhulme Trust, the European Commission and the French Research Agency. She received the French Academy Grand Prize for her monograph on contractual clauses (LGDJ, 2012). 

Professor Helleringer holds a JD in Common Law from Columbia University (1999),  an MSc in legal sociology from Paris-Panthéon-Assas University (2009), as well as an MSc and a doctorate in Civil Law from the Sorbonne University (2010) (receiving four national prizes for her doctoral thesis). She is admitted to both the New York Bar and the Paris Bar, and a qualified mediator. She studied philosophy, mathematics, and literature as an undergraduate, and economics and social sciences later at Essec Business School and Sciences-Po Paris. Before completing her doctoral work, she worked for Shiseido in Japan and practised corporate, M&A, private equity and capital market law at Willkie Farr & Gallagher and at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in New York and Paris (2000-2006). Later, she took an MSc in experimental psychology at graduate level at Oxford University.

Professor Helleringer's research has been cited by courts and policy documents and news organisations in France, United Kingdom and the US. She has appeared as an expert witness before arbitral panels, the English High Court, the US International Trade Commission, and various other jurisdictions. Since 2021, she has been a member of the Board of Appeal of the European Financial Supervisory Authorities. Professor Helleringer was the mediator for the French Retail Market Association (2017-2020) and regularly acts as a commercial mediator and arbitrator (in French and English). She also regularly advises governmental agencies, corporate executives, and is a member of handful of boards. 

Professor Helleringer is also active in the non-profit space. She is a trustee of the Oxford Law Foundation and a mentor for inclusion and diversity.  

In her spare time, she plays the piano and writes short stories. She is married with two children.