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Verica Trstenjak

Verica Trstenjak has been appointed by Slovenia as a conciliator of the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration in 2019 and was re-elected as a member of its Bureau in November 2025.

Conciliator of the Court

Verica Trstenjak has been appointed by Slovenia as a conciliator of the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration in 2019 and was re-elected as a member of its Bureau in November 2025.

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Court of Conciliation and Arbitration

Biography

Verica Trstenjak (national of Slovenia, based in Austria, Vienna) is a lawyer and professor of European Union law.

From 2004 to 2006 she was a judge at the General Court of the European Union and from 2006 to 2012 an Advocate General of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. In these positions, she played a significant role in shaping and advancing European Law. 

Professor Trstenjak was a Member of the Management Board and then a Member of the Executive Board of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (2017-2022). She is an external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg and a Vice-President of the ethics commission of the Slovenian Olympic Committee. In 2024, she was appointed to the Administrative Board of Review (the highest control body) of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. She is a member of two international academies of science: Academia Europaea (Academy of Europe, London) and the European Academy of Science and Art (Salzburg). In the past, she held the function of State Secretary for Science in Slovenia. 

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

Verica Trstenjak is Professor of European law and teaches at universities in Austria and Slovenia. She has published numerous books and more than 300 articles. She has been a lecturer at many universities worldwide (e.g. Zurich, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Luxemburg, Valetta, Sydney, Montreal, Singapore, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Kyoto, Seoul, Nursultan, Aruba) and at different international and European conferences. She is a member of editorial boards of several important legal journals, e.g. European Law Review. Her main research topics include European Law, human rights, legal protection and artificial intelligence.

Professor Trstenjak has been appointed by Slovenia as a conciliator of the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration in 2019 and was re-elected as a member of its Bureau in November 2025.