In 2025, the Principality of Liechtenstein has once again been ranked the best location in the world for charitable foundations and philanthropic engagement. This is the result of the 2025 Global Philanthropy Environment Index (GPEI), recently published by the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University. Liechtenstein has thus maintained its leading position, which it first achieved in the 2022 edition of the GPEI.

On 7 and 8 May 2025, the renowned annual STEP Alpine Conference took place at the Congress Kursaal Interlaken. Experts from academia and professional practice gathered to jointly discuss current legal and economic issues in the field of private wealth structuring. A particular focus was placed on the protection of family businesses, including their identity and core values.

On 27 May 2025, the Professorships for Company, Foundation and Trust Law; Banking and Financial Market Law; and Economic Criminal Law, Compliance and Digitalisation hosted the Compliance Day 2025. Around one hundred professionals from the legal, business, and industrial sectors filled the SAL (Saal am Lindaplatz) to exchange insights on the latest practice-relevant developments 

Prof. Dr. Jan vom Brocke, Visiting Professor at the Liechtenstein Business School of the University of Liechtenstein, has been elected as the next President of the international Association for Information Systems (AIS), the world association for research and teaching in information systems.

On the evening of Friday, 16 May 2025, Prof. Dr. Konstantina Papathanasiou, LL.M., had the honour of delivering a welcome address as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Onassis Foundation.

The European Erasmus+ project “SocioEcoHoods”, which is led by the Liechtenstein School of Architecture and its staff members Cornelia Faisst and Johannes Herburger, was officially launched with a kick-off meeting in Vaduz. The aim is to promote civic engagement, social participation and sustainable urban development in neighborhoods in four European cities through inter- and transdisciplinary learning.

On 12 and 13 May 2025, the Professorship for Economic Criminal Law, Compliance and Digitalisation conducted the intensive course “Tax Criminal Law”.

From 11 to 17 May 2025, the students of the Executive Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Company, Foundation and Trust Law undertook a nearly week-long study trip to New York and Washington, D.C.