Dr. Maria Lucia Passador

Maria Lucia Passador is an Assistant Professor of Corporate Law and Financial Markets Regulation, she also attained the National Qualification as Associate Professor in the IUS/04 (Corporate Law) field in May 2022.

In 2025, she was awarded the Feltrinelli Prize (under 40) in Legal Sciences by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, and is currently a member of the Centro Linceo Giovani.

She holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School, a Ph.D. in Business Law, and a Combined Bachelor and Master of Science in Law summa cum laude from Bocconi.

Throughout her academic career, inter alia, she served as a John M. Olin Fellow in Empirical Law and Finance at Harvard, a Fellow in the Harvard Law School’s Program in Corporate Governance, and a Postdoc Researcher at the University of Luxembourg. She was appointed Visiting Professor at Sciences Po (2025) and the University of Notre Dame (2024), and has been a Visiting Scholar at SMU (2025), the Max Planck Institutes in Luxembourg (2023) and Hamburg (2018), the University of Oxford, Columbia Law School, and Harvard Law School.

Her research and teaching focus on corporate governance, financial regulation, and comparative company law. She is also an Associated Researcher at the European Banking Institute and a Transatlantic Technology Law Forum Fellow at Stanford Law School, where her work explores the global regulatory challenges of emerging technologies.