Ventoruzzo in Charge of a Max Planck Institute in Luxembourg

Marco Ventoruzzo (Department of Law) will be the first Italian to direct a Max Planck Institute of law, to open next May in Luxembourg.

The brand new Max Planck Institute for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law is a joint initiative by the Max Planck Gesellschaft and the Luxembourg government and will have three directors for three disciplinary fields. Ventoruzzo's responsibility will cover corporate law and European financial markets law, while the other two directors will deal with procedural law and European public law.

"Luxembourg is an important financial centre and a strategic location to study European financial regulation due to the presence of European institutions, and especially the Court of Justice of the European Communities", Ventoruzzo says. The position of director of a Max Planck Institute is a longed for post in the academic community, both for the prestige of the society and because it allows to focus full-time on the research activity. "The Max Planck Gesellschaft ranks second in the world for citations of its researchers' works in the scholarly literature, after Harvard", Ventoruzzo underlines. "I'm confident that my assignment in Luxembourg will create important chances of interaction between Università Bocconi and Max Planck Gesellschaft".