Verica Trstenjak

Verica Trstenjak is former Advocate General of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg and a professor of European Union law. She teaches in Austria (Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna) and Slovenia (Universities of Ljubljana) and at various LLM programmes in Europe (eg. University in Vienna) . From 2004 to 2006 she was a judge at the General Court of the European Union in Luxembourg and from 2006 to 2012 an advocate general of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. She was an advocate general also in cases concerning fundamental (economic) freedoms (e.g. free movement of goods, services, companies, capital in the EU), fundamental (human) rights and in consumer protection cases, intellectual property cases, state aid and public procurement.

Since 2019, she is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, an arbitrator on the list of the Vienna International Arbitration Centre (VIAC) and an arbitrator at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). Since 2017, she is a Member of the Management Board and since October 2017 a Member of the Executive Board of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights. She is a member of the Advisory Board (comparable with arbitration) of the international organization “Energy Community” and an external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law. Since 2020 she is a substitute member of Venice Commission (Council of Europe).

Professor Trstenjak has written expert opinions for law firms and arbitration in many cases concerning European law and legal protection in the EU. She has published several books and more than 300 articles and has been a lecturer at many universities worldwide and at international and European conferences. She is a member of editorial boards of several important legal journals, e.g. European Law Review.

In Slovenia, she was also State Secretary for Science and a member of the negotiation group for the Slovenian Membership in the European Union.

In 2020, the Austrian President, Van der Bellen, awarded her with the Austrian state decoration “Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class”.