Education:

2001: Doctor Juris (Dr. Jur.), University of Copenhagen
1993: Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of Cambridge
1992: Advokat (lawyer), admitted to the bar of the Court of Appeal
1989: Candidatus Juris (Cand. Jur.), University of Copenhagen

Professional career:

2003-: Professor of Financial Markets Law (full tenure)
2001-03: Associate Professor
1999-2001: Assistant Professor
1995-99: Research fellow, University of Copenhagen
1989-1995: Kromann & Münter, law firm, Copenhagen

Memberships:

• The Nordic Network for Company Law
• The Nordic Corporate Governance Network
• The Danish Corporate Governance Association
• The Danish Association for Company Law
• The Danish Association for Arbitration and LCIA
• European Forum on Securities Regulation
• International Corporate Governance Society
• Kredsen Mars og Mercur
• The Law Society
• FOCOFIMA

Appointments and positions:

• Member of the Rector's Selection Committee, Crown Princess Mary's Scholarship (2004-)
• Member, Commission's Informal Company Law Expert Group (ICLEG 2014-19), reappointed (2019-2023 and 2023-).
• Member, Academic Committee, European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI), (2017-)
• Member, Academic Council, Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law (SCCL), University of Stockholm (2021-).
• Member of the board of the Danish Association for Company Law (2012-)
• Member, Executive Committee of the Danish Committee of the Int. Academy of Comparative Law
• Director or chairman of the board in several mutual funds (UCITS and AIF) connected to the financial group Nykredit.
• Editorial Committee, Nordisk Tidsskrift for Selskabsret (Nordic J. of Corporate Law) (2009-)
• Editorial Committee, FinansInvest (2014-)
• Managing editor, European Company and Financial Law Review (2019-)
• Arbitration in various cases, appointed by the Danish Institute of Arbitration and the LCIA.

 Former appointments:

• Chairman, Rector's Election Committee, U. of Copenhagen (2011-22)
• Member from the Faculty of Law of Rector's Researchers Panel, an advisory group serving Rector at the UCPH (2020-2023)
• Academic member of ESMA's Stakeholder Group (2011-13). Reappointed and elected chair (2013-16).
• Member of the Danish FSA committee on the education of directors in financial undertakings (independt expert) (2015-16).
• Member of the public Committee on regulation of SIFIs (independent expert), 2012-13.
• Member of the public Committee to Modernise Danish Company Law (independent expert), preparing the new 2009 Companies Act, 2006-08
• Member of the public Committee on the ban on insider dealing (independent expert), 2005-10
• Member of the Reflection Group on the future of EU company law, expert committee appointed by the European Commission (2010-11)
• Member and later chairman of the board, Nordisk Kollegium (a college), 2002-2010.
• Member of the board of NASDAQ Nordic Foundations, Sweden (2011-2024).
• Member of the board of CEPOS (a think-tank) (2004-2024)
• Editorial board, Journal of Corporate Law Studies (2005-2014).
• The Danish Management Society, VL 12 (2012-22).
• Member, VL group 12 (2012-2022), Chair (2018).
• Expert assisting the Norwegian Research Council.

• Financial Markets Law, i.e. regulation of financial services and securities trading
• Regulation of publicly traded companies and financial institutions
• EU law and comparative Nordic law
• Criminal law as a sanction of business law
• Arbitration

A monograph on MAR, and new editions of textbooks on company law and capital markets law as well as law commentaries on the Danish Capital Markets Act and the Act on Investment Firms. Participation in various international projects on capital markets law.

• Danish and English.
• Understands Norwegian and Swedish.

• Financial Market Law
• Corporate Law
• Market Law, incl. Competition Law
• EU and EC Law
• Comparative Law
• Arbitration

Jesper Lau Hansen has responsibility for these courses, some of which are taught by external lecturers:

• Kapitalmarkedsret (Danish, MA)
• Selskabsret og kapitalmarked (Danish, BA)
• Selskabsret (Danish, MA)
• Køb og salg af virksomheder (Danish, MA)

Jesper Lau Hansen is presently co-tutoring one Ph.D.-student (Jesper Zackrisson, Gothenburg U.) and acts as a tutor for papers by BA and MA students within Company Law and Financial Markets Law.

Honours

Lecturer of the Year 2009 

Director or chair of the board of directors in several UCITS and AIF connected to the Nykredit Group, a Danish financial conglomerat.