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Susanne Augenhofer is a Professor of Law at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, holding a chair in Business Law. She concurrently serves as a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School (fall 2024) and Senior Research Scholar at NYU School of Law, where she is also a Fellow at the Center on Civil Justice. She previously held professorial roles at Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Erfurt, co-founding Germany’s first consumer law clinic. Her research focuses on consumer law, antitrust law, European private law, and digital-age legal challenges, with an emphasis on enforcement mechanisms and harmonization of EU private law.
Education: LL.M. (Yale), LL.M. (Freie Universität Berlin), Doctorate in Law (University of Vienna), Magister iuris (University of Graz).
Research Interests:
- Third-Party Litigation Funding (TPLF)
- Sustainability, Greenwashing, and Contract Law
- Antitrust Law (Digital Markets Act)
- Unfair Competition Law
- EU Consumer Policy Implementation
- AI and Access to Justice
Publications highlight her work on EU directives (e.g., Sales of Goods Directive), comparative law analyses, and critiques of legal harmonization. She advises the European Commission on consumer policy and co-authored the ELI Principles on TPLF (2024). She is a member of the ELI Council, ASCOLA, and the European Commission’s Consumer Policy Advisory Group.
