Christian Hofmann joined the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2013, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He also serves as Deputy Director of the Centre for Banking & Finance Law and as Civil Law Cluster Coordinator at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies. Prior to joining NUS, he held a professorship at the Private University in the Principality of Liechtenstein and served as Senior Legal Counsel at the Deutsche Bundesbank (German Central Bank). He has also held visiting professorships at Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of Cologne, and conducted research at UC Berkeley as a Humboldt Fellow and at NYU School of Law as a Global Research Fellow.
Alongside his role at NUS, Christian has held teaching and research appointments at several leading institutions. These include serving as Senior Research Fellow at the Commercial Law Centre, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, Visiting Professor at the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies in London, to which he will return as Co-Director in the academic year 2025–26, and Senior Fellow at the Forum Basiliense, University of Basel. He has also advised the European Parliament and the International Monetary Fund in a consultancy capacity.
Christian studied law at the Albert-Ludwig-University of Freiburg and passed the German bar examination. He earned his PhD from the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and obtained his professorial qualification (Habilitation) from Humboldt University in Berlin. In addition, he holds LL.M. degrees in Global Business Law from NYU and in Corporate and Financial Services Law from NUS. His early professional experience includes a traineeship at the European Commission and work with several law firms.
His research focuses on banking law, the regulation of financial institutions and markets, monetary law and central banking.
Book Chapters
Christian Hofmann, 'The Advance Effect of Directives' in Karl Riesenhuber (ed), European Legal Methodology (Intersentia Cambridge 2021) 405
Journal Articles
Christian Hofmann, 'The Impact of a Digital Dollar on Singapore’s Depositors, Banking Sector and Monetary System' (2023) 39 (3) Banking and Finance Law Review 381
