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Maria Lucia Passador is an Assistant Professor of Corporate Law and Financial Markets Regulation at Bocconi University, with a concurrent role as Global Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame. She holds the Italian National Academic Qualification (ASN) as Associate Professor in Corporate Law (IUS/04), attained in May 2022. She earned an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. in Business Law from Bocconi University, where she also completed her Combined Bachelor and Master of Science in Law program summa cum laude.
Her academic career includes prestigious fellowships such as the John M. Olin Fellowship in Empirical Law and Finance (Harvard), Harvard Program in Corporate Governance Fellowship, and Postdoctoral Researcher positions at the University of Luxembourg and the Max Planck Institute. She serves as a Research Associate at University College London’s Centre for Blockchain Technologies and has held visiting roles at Oxford’s Harris Manchester College, Columbia, and Harvard.
Research focuses on corporate governance, comparative corporate law, and financial markets regulation. Notable publications address topics like SPACs in IPO markets, corporate governance codes in Europe, and boardroom accountability mechanisms. Her work has been recognized with awards including the ECB Legal Program Scholarship (2024) for research on AI-driven banking supervision and the Fondazione Confalonieri Prize for her doctoral thesis.
Teaching includes Comparative Corporate Law at Notre Dame and courses on corporate law, governance, and securities regulation at Bocconi. She contributes to academic governance as an editorial board member for Rivista delle Società and Giurisprudenza Italiana.
