Verica Trstenjak and Marco Ventoruzzo appointed as External Scientific Members

August 12, 2024

The Senate of the Max Planck Society (MPG) has appointed two new External Scientific Members to the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. Both have been associated with the MPG for many years.

Prof. Dr. Verica Trstenjak teaches in several European LL.M. programmes, including at the Postgraduate Center of the University of Vienna and at the University of Ljubljana. From 2004 to 2006 she was a judge at the Court of First Instance of the European Union and from 2006 to 2012 Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg. In 2013, she was appointed professor of European law at the University of Vienna. She is a founding member of the European Law Institute, a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, and was, until June 2024, a substitute member of the Council of Europe's Venice Commission for Democracy and Law. Since 2013 she has been an External Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law. She has been associated with the Hamburg Institute for many years as a visiting scholar. Her academic focus is on European private law, comparative law, human rights protection, and the law of digitalization.

Prof. Dr. Marco Ventoruzzo is a professor of corporate and capital markets law at the renowned Bocconi University in Milan. Previously, he was a full professor at Penn State Law School and, from 2012 to 2013, director and thereafter External Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law. From 2016 to 2022 he headed the Bocconi Angelo Sraffa Department of Legal Studies. He has held visiting professorships at multiple universities in Europe, the USA, and Asia, and he has been a Research Associate with the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) since 2009. In his research he is comparatively examining corporate law, capital markets law, takeover law, and the field of corporate governance.

“We are highly pleased with these appointments,” says Institute Director Prof. Dr. Anne Röthel. “Verica Trstenjak and Marco Ventoruzzo are leaders in their respective disciplines. With their academic profiles and their complementary international experience, they will indelibly enrich our Institute.”