Curriculum Vitae

Marilena Wirz has been part of the Villa Vigoni’s team since Summer 2025.
After high school she spent a year in Canada. Afterwards, she studied law in Bonn and in Vilnius, Lithuania. She passed the First State Exam in 2022 and specialized in “State and Constitution in the Process of Internationalisation”.
From December 2022 until January 2025, she completed the various stages of her legal clerkship at the German Embassy in Rome, a big international law firm in Cologne and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) in Bonn. After passing successfully both state exams (die zweite juristische Staatsprüfung), she moved to Italy.

Areas of expertise:

  • Legal research and work
  • Intercultural competence

Research areas:

  • Intersections between law and politics
  • International Public and Humanitarian law and Human Rights protection
  • Democratic processes