Christian Hofmann joined the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2013, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He served as Deputy Director of the Centre for Banking & Finance Law (2024–2026) and Deputy Director of the Centre for Asian Legal Studies (2021–2024), where he remains Civil Law Cluster Coordinator. 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 several other teaching and research appointments, including Senior Research Fellow at the Commercial Law Centre, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, Senior Fellow at the Forum Basiliense, University of Basel, and Visiting Professor (AY 2022/23 and forthcoming 2026/27), Academic Co-Director (AY 2025/26), and Academic Council Member (since 2026) at the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies in London. He has also served as a consultant to the European Parliament and the International Monetary Fund.
Christian studied law at the Albert-Ludwig-University of Freiburg and completed both German State Examinations. He earned his PhD from the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and his professorial qualification (Habilitation) from Humboldt University in Berlin. He also holds LL.M. degrees in Global Business Law from NYU and in Corporate and Financial Services Law from NUS. His early career included a traineeship at the European Commission and positions at 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, '
Central Bank Digital Currency' in Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer and Thomas Cottier (eds),
Elgar Encyclopedia of International Economic Law (Edward Elgar Publishing 2026)
Christian Hofmann and Ryan Chan-Wei, '
Singapore' in Mirjam Eggen, Linda Jeng and Sebastian Omlor (eds),
Control and Ownership of Digital Assets (Mohr Siebeck 2026) 139
Christian Hofmann, Lisa-Marie Ross and Ryan Chan-Wei, '
Singapore' in M. Lehmann and T. Morishita (eds),
Cryptocurrencies in National Laws: A Global Survey (Brill 2025) 595
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
