Asian Institute of International Financial Law (AIIFL), HKU

Visiting Fellow

Professor Eva Micheler

Affiliation AIIFL Visiting Fellow (23 October 2025) and Full Professor at the Law School of the London School of Economics and Political Science

Other Works

  1. s siteProperty in Securities (Cambridge University Press 2007)Micheler analyses the property law of securities, addressing the rules governing transfers of securities, including unauthorised transfers, equities arising out of defective issues, and the holding of securities through intermediaries. The book presents an account of the English, German and Austrian regimes. It has been written with a view to explaining the German and Austrian regime to readers with a common law background and to explaining the English regime to readers with a civil law background. Micheler also aims to determine whether globalisation will cause the two different approaches to converge. It concludes that the respective rules in all three jurisdictions have historically evolved consistently with incumbent legal doctrine. This pattern of change is likely to continue. Convergence will occur on a functional rather than doctrinal level. Moreover, recent reform initiatives advanced by the UNIDROIT and the EU will lead to functional rather than doctrinal convergence..click here for publisher 652-656. (with Luke von der Heyde)'Custody chains and asset values: why crypto-securities are worth contemplating' Cambridge Law Journal (2015) 74 (3) pp.505-533'Custody chains and remoteness: disconnecting investors from issuers' (2014) SRC Discussion Paper, No 14. Systemic Risk Centre, LSE'Intermediated Securities and Legal Certainty' LSE Law Society and Economy Working Paper Series, 03-2014'Facilitating investor engagement and stewardship' E.B.O.R. 2013, 14(1), 29-56'Disguised returns of capital - an arm's length approach' Cambridge Law Journal 69 (1) 2010, pp151-185'English and German Securities Law : A Thesis in Doctrinal Path Dependence' (2007) Law Quarterly Review pp.251-285'Dokumentenlose Namenspapiere im Russischen Recht' in S Kalss, C Nowonty, and M Schauer (eds) Essays for Peter Doralt (Festschrift für Professor Doralt) 391 (Manz Verlag Vienna 2004) (German)'Gläubigerschutz im englischen Gesellschaftsrecht - Reformvorschläge mit Implikationen für Europa' [2004] Zeitschrift für Unternehmens- und Gesellschaftsrecht 324 (German)'Investitionsrecht in der Russischen Föderation' (co-author: Ingeborg Bauer-Mitterlehner) in W Breidenbach (ed) Commercial Law in Eastern Europe (Wirtschaft und Recht in Osteuropa) (Verlag Beck Munich 2003) (German)'Allgemeines Verfahrensrecht in der Russischen Föderation' (co-author: Ingeborg Bauer-Mitterlehner) in W Breidenbach (ed) Commercial Law in Eastern Europe (Wirtschaft und Recht in Osteuropa) (Beck Verlag Munich 2003) (German)Commentary in P Doralt, C Nowotny, and S Kalss (ed) Commentary on the Joint Stock Companies Act (Kommentar zum Aktiengesetz) (Linde Verlag Vienna 2003) (German)'Recognition of Companies Incorporated in other EU Member States' (2003) 52 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 521'Farewell Quasinegotiability? - Legal Title and the Transfer of Shares in a Paperless World' (2002) The Journal of Business Law 358'Der Englische Trust im Vergleich zur österreichischen Privatstiftung, Allgemeine Bemerkungen und ausgewählte Fragen zur corporate governance von Trust und Privatstiftung' in P Doralt and S Kalss, The Austrian private foundation - current issues (Aktuelle Fragen des Privatstiftungsrechts) (Linde Verlag Vienna 2001) 291 (German) 2021