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Biography

Franziska is an Associate Professor at UCL and a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales. She teaches and researches in insurance law, insurance regulation, and reinsurance law. She is the editor of ‘The Law of Reinsurance and England and Bermuda’ (6th edn, Sweet & Maxwell, 2024) and one of the editors of ‘MacGillivray on Insurance Law’ (16th edn, Sweet & Maxwell, 2025). Her monographs 'Insurance, Climate Change and the Law’ (Routledge, 2024) and ‘Insurable Interest and the Law’ (Routledge, 2020) won prizes, and she has published in leading legal journals. Franziska sits on the AIDA Presidential Council, is an AIDA Europe Committee member, a BILA Committee member, and a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Insurers. She is the editor of the BILA Journal and a co-editor of Current Legal Problems. She has assisted the English Law Commission and has given evidence on insurance regulation in the UK Parliament.