He previously held academic positions: as  Director of the Institute for Law and Regulation of Digitalisation  and Professor of Law at the Philipps-University Marburg, where he was teaching Contract Law, Company Law and Capital Markets Law, <nd at the Universities of Berlin, St. Gallen, and Bremen, and visiting fellowships in Italy (Florence, European University Institute), the US (NYU, Stanford and Berkeley), Australia (University of Sydney), Spain (CEU San Pablo, Madrid) and Denmark (Aarhus). Having graduated from the Faculty of Law in Munich, he also holds academic degrees from the University of Paris-Assas (licence en droit) and London (LL.M. in International Business Law). Florian Möslein published three monographs and over 80 articles and book contributions, and has edited seven books.

His current research focus is on regulatory theory, corporate sustainability and the legal challenges of the digital age.