curriculum Vitae
Susanne Augenhofer has been a full Professor of Law at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, since January 2020. Before then, she was a Professor of Law at Humboldt University in Berlin and at the University of Erfurt in Germany. For the academic year 2023/24 Professor Augenhofer has been reappointed as a Senior Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School, where she was a Visiting Professor in fall 2024 and spring 2020 as well as an Associate Research Scholar from 2014 to 2020. In spring 2025 she will be a Visiting Professor at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali (LUISS). Since 2022 she has been a Fellow at the Center on Civil Justice at NYU School of Law, where she served as Global Adjunct Professor of Law in 2018 and was a Global Hauser Senior Fellow in 2016–2017. Susanne Augenhofer also was a Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School (2016), Radzyner Law School Herzliya (2017) and Tongji-University (2012/2013).
Professor Augenhofer is a member of the Council of the European Law Institute (ELI) as well as the Co-chair of the Austrian Hub of the ELI. She was the co-reporter of the ELI Principles on Third Party Litigation Funding (together with Mrs. Justice Cockerill) which were adopted in October 2024. Furthermore, Professor Augenhofer is a member of the Consumer Policy Advisory Group (CPAG) of the European Commission and a member of the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA). She has advised the European Parliament and the European Commission on various issues regarding European fair trade as well as consumer law, including product liability, and its enforcement. At Humboldt University in Berlin, Professor Augenhofer was the co‑founder of the Humboldt Consumer Law Clinic, the first German legal clinic for consumer rights.
Her research focuses on a range of issues across consumer law, including international and European contract law, fair trade and advertising law, as well as competition and antitrust law. A special emphasis is placed on the enforcement of consumer rights, as well as legal comparison in the context of the harmonisation of private law in the European Union and transnational settings. Her current research focuses on the liability of businesses for corporate speech, self-regulation of privacy law, warranty law in the digital age, the proposal for the Digital Markets Act, the private enforcement of antitrust law, and the current state of class actions in the United States and Europe.
Before her appointment as Associate Professor at Humboldt University in 2009, Professor Augenhofer conducted research at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Hamburg, Germany), the London School of Economics (United Kingdom), and the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). She studied law at the University of Graz (Austria, Magister iuris), the Università degli Studi di Milano Statale (Italy), the University of Vienna (Austria, Doctor iuris), and as a Fulbright scholar at Yale Law School (LL.M.) as well as at the Free University Berlin (Germany, LL.M.), where she was supported by a Yale Fox Fellowship.