A graduate of Paris-Assas University and Sciences Po Paris, Professor Véronique MAGNIER has earned a PhD in Law from Paris-Assas University. She is Full Professor of Law at Paris-Saclay University Graduate School of law, where she is Director of two Master’s degrees, the Business, Tax & Financial Market law and the Law, Entrepreneurship and Digital Masters. She also heads the Grande Ecole du droit, a selective international program for undergraduates that she founded in 2009. She then founded the Legal Clinic program of Paris-Saclay which provides consulting services to citizens, associations, small companies, and startups. She has been offered to join Georgetown University Law Center as an Adjunct Professor, where she has been teaching “Comparative Corporate Governance” to LL.M. and JD students since 2010.
She was Director of the Institute Law, Ethics & Patrimony for ten years, where she developed collective research projects on corporate governance and Business Ethics at the international level. In 2020, she joined the Board of the Graduate School of law, in charge of the international relations.
She is a frequent author and speaker of Corporate law and governance, Business and Ethics, European and comparative law issues. She co-authors, with Prof. Michel Germain, the seminal treaty « Sociétés commerciales, Traité de Droit commercial par Ripert et Roblot », Paris LGDJ ed. Her most recent publications include a monography, “Comparative corporate governance. A legal perspective”, edited by Edward Elgar publishing in 2017, and a collective book on “Blockchains, Corporate law and governance”, with Dalloz ed. in 2019. She is the Scientific Director of The DALLOZ ENCYCLOPAEDIA for Corporate Law since 2003.
Véronique Magnier is on the board of Transparency International France since 2014 and an active member of such various national, European or international associations or institutes as Trans Europe Experts, Société de Legislation comparée, European Corporate Governance Institute.
