Dr Philipp Paech

Philipp Paech is an Associate Professor of Law at LSE and has been an educator, researcher, and policy consultant specialising in the regulation and law of financial services for over 20 years. Since 2017, he has focused on the regulation of Digital Finance. He served as the chair of the EU Commission expert group on FinTech (‘ROFIEG’), and the group's recommendations became a foundational document for the EU Digital Finance Strategy.

Philipp teaches and conducts research at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where his educational portfolio includes various master's and executive courses in International Financial Regulation and International Financial Law. He also convenes five different executive master courses, covering the law and policy of financial markets, including digital financial services. He convenes and co-teaches a very popular co-curricular Digital Finance Course for all Masters and Bachelor students at LSE Law School.

Philipp has been appointed a Distinguished Global Professor of Law at Notre Dame University and a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Law and Finance of Frankfurt University. He previously held visiting appointments at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Bocconi University in Milan, and Tokyo University. He is an attorney-at-law in Frankfurt and an accredited mediator in the UK.

Dr Paech consults for public sector and international governmental organisations, including the OECD, the UK Foreign Office, the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the European Parliament. He has been a member of several international expert groups. His contributions have been instrumental in influencing legal and regulatory reforms for nearly two decades.

Research Interests

Philipp specialises in the public and private law of financial markets. His original focus was on the antagonistic relationship between risk and liquidity, with an emphasis on legal risk management through legal devices within financial institutions and the international compatibility of legal and regulatory regimes.

Since becoming chair of the EU Expert Group on Regulatory Obstacles to Financial Innovation in 2018, Philipp's research interest has shifted towards the systemic and societal implications of the digitalisation and datafication of the financial market, increasingly focusing on consumer welfare. This shift is driven by his insight into how consumers’ agency and autonomy are progressively limited by the merging of financial services and the data economy.

Publications

Teaching

LL406E Regulation of Financial Markets I

LL407E Regulation of Financial Markets II

LL410E International Financial Law and Practice I

LL411E International Financial Law and Practice II

LL4BF International Financial Regulation

LL4H4 International Financial Law

Executive Short Course on Global Financial Regulation

Executive Short Course on Regulating Digitalisation and Datafication of the Financial Market