Ms. Lejla Hasanovic

Lejla Hasanović is a legal scholar specialising in business and company law, currently a Teaching Assistant at the University of Sarajevo – Faculty of Law, where she teaches and researches in company law, corporate governance, and the digitalisation of company law. She is completing her doctorate (Dr. iur.) at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany, with a dissertation titled Piercing the Corporate Veil: Shareholder Liability for Abuse of Corporate Form under German and Comparative Company Law. The dissertation has been accepted for oral examination and has secured publication with Springer Nature in its series on business, corporate and banking law.

Her academic path spans four countries and reflects a consistent engagement with comparative and international legal scholarship. She holds a Master of Laws and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Sarajevo, an MSc in International Public Policy (with Distinction) from University College London as a Chevening Scholar, and a specialisation in comparative law from the Washington College of Law as a Fulbright fellow. She is a qualified lawyer, having passed both the Bar Exam and the Judicial Exam in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Alongside academia, she has built substantial experience in institutional reform and governance. She served as Deputy Director at the National Center for State Courts and as Legal Advisor on a USAID-funded governance reform project, leading justice-sector reform, policy analysis, and capacity-building initiatives. She has contributed to numerous legislative drafting working groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina and currently coordinates the Women’s Mentorship Network in the Judiciary and the Business Opportunity Internship Program.

Her research focuses on corporate governance, shareholder liability, and the digitalisation of company law in EU accession contexts, with recent publications on business register digitalisation, directors’ liability, and the intersection of artificial intelligence and company law. She is a member of COST Action CA21133 and an alumna of the Chevening, Fulbright, Humanity in Action, and Open Society Foundations programmes.