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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Susanne Augenhofer is a full-time professor at the University of Innsbruck's Institute for Corporate and Tax Law, specializing in Corporate Law. She holds additional visiting professorships at LUISS in Rome (2025), NYU School of Law (2023/24), and Columbia Law School (2016). She is a Co-Chair of the Austrian Hub of the European Law Institute (ELI) and a member of the European Commission's Consumer Policy Advisory Group (CPAG). Her research focuses on consumer law, competition law, European private law, and the digital age's legal challenges.
Educational Background:
- Mag. iur. (University of Graz)
- Dr. iur. (University of Vienna)
- LL.M. (Yale Law School, supported by a Yale Fox Fellowship)
- LL.M. (Free University of Berlin)
Research Interests:
Her work emphasizes efficient legal enforcement mechanisms, EU harmonization of private law, digital markets, and consumer protection. Current projects include the Digital Markets Act, class actions, and private antitrust enforcement. She co-organized the 2020 conference on EU Sales of Goods Directive implementation and authored the BeckOGK commentary on consumer sales law.
Professional Activities:
- Founder of Germany's first Consumer Law Clinic (Humboldt University)
- Member of ASCOLA (Academic Society for Competition Law)
- Advisory roles at Karl-Franzens University of Graz and NYU's Center on Civil Justice
Grants & Collaborations:
- European Commission advisory work on the New Consumer Agenda
- Research stays at Max Planck Institute (Hamburg), LSE, and EUI (Florence)
