Verica Trstenjak

Verica Trstenjak (born December 9, 1962[1]) is Slovene Doctor of Laws, and since 2013 Professor of European Law at the University of Vienna. From 2006 to 2012 she has been an Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg.

Early legal work

Verica Trstenjak passed her bar exam in 1987 and obtained her doctor's degree at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana in 1995. She worked as a head of the legal service at the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Slovenia between 1994 and 1996, and as State Secretary at the same ministry between 1996 and 2000. In 2000 she held a post of a Secretary-General of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia.

Work in professorships

Verica Trstenjak pursued her doctoral studies at the University of Zürich (Universität Zürich), the Institute of Comparative Law of the University of Vienna (Institut für Rechtsvergleichung der Universität Wien), the Max Planck Institute for Private International Law in Hamburg (Max-Planck-Institut für Internationales Privatrecht), and the Free University of Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). In 1996 she became a professor for Theory of Law and State and Private Law, and in 2006 a full professor for Civil and European Law.

She was a visiting professor at the universities of Vienna (Universität Wien), Freiburg (Germany) (Universität Freiburg), Bucerius Law School in Hamburg and at the universities in Heidelberg, Bonn, Salzburg, Zürich, Liechtenstein, Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam), Luxembourg, Haag and Ferrara. Until 2006 she was a member of the Study Group on a European Civil Code.

She has published more than 250 legal articles and several books on European and private law;[2] she gives speeches at numerous international conferences in Slovenia and abroad (e.g. conferences on Common Frame of Reference (Münster, Osnabrück, Trier); Luxembourg: European Jurists' Forum 2011; Trier: Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung 2011; Berlin: Humboldt-Universität, 2012; Salzburg: 24. Europäische Notarentage, 2012; Barcelona: European Jurists' Forum 2013).

She is a visiting professor of Masters Study (Litigation in EU Intellectual Property Rights) at the University of Luxembourg and of Masters Study (Evropsko civilno pravo/European Civil Law, Primerjalno pravo in veliki pravni sistemi/Comparative Law and the great Legal Systems, Pravosodni sistem Evropske unije/Judicial System of the European Union) at the European Law Faculty (Evropska pravna fakulteta) in Nova Gorica, Slovenia. She has cooperated also with non-governmental organizations in Slovenia and contributed to preparation of Foundations Act. From 1997 to 2000 she was also a leader of the working group 17 for the accession negotiations of Slovenia with EU.

In 2012 she was appointed external scientific member of the newly established Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law in Luxembourg and in 2013 appointed Professor of European Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna (Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Wien).

Societies and honors

Member of Editorial boards of a number of legal periodicals in Slovenia and abroad:

Member of Scientific boards:

Member of a number of Lawyers' Associations:

In 2003 she won a prize of the Association of Slovene Lawyers, 'Lawyer of the Year 2003'.

Work at the Court of Justice of the EU

She worked as a judge at the Court of First Instance of the European Communities (now General Court) from 7 July 2004 to 6 October 2006 and was an Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union from 7 October 2006 to 28 November 2012.

Selection of some relevant published articles

Selection of relevant cases

1. Consumer protection

2. Social and labour law

3. Intellectual property law

4. Corporate law

5. Public procurement

6. Immigration and asylum law

7. Health policy

8. Other

See also

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