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Ass.-Prof.

Dr. Lena Hornkohl, LL.M.

Tenure Track Professor for European Law

Schottenbastei 10-16 (Juridicum)

1010 Wien

Stiege 1, 5. Stock, Raum 516

T: +43-1-4277-35904

E-Mail: lena.hornkohl [AT] univie.ac.at

 

Consultations

Consultations are subject to prior registration via email: lena.hornkohl [AT] univie.ac.at

Curriculum Vitae

Lena Hornkohl studied law in Heidelberg and Uppsala. After obtaining her first state exam in 2014, she completed her legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court Karlsruhe (with stages, inter alia, at the European Commission) and completed the second state exam in 2016. After having earned a master’s degree from the College of Europe in European Law and Economic Analysis in 2019, she received a Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg for a dissertation on the protection of confidential information in private enforcement of European Competition Law in 2020.

During her doctoral studies, she worked as a Research Assistant at the Chair for Civil Law, Corporate and Commercial Law, European Law and Comparative Law of Professor Müller-Graff at the University of Heidelberg. In 2019, she commenced her work as a lawyer in the competition law department of a major international law form in Brussels before joining the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law as a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of European and Comparative Procedural Law in 2020. She has taught at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, the University of Trier, Ghent University, the European University Institute, the Summer School of the University of Vienna, the University of Applied Sciences for the Administration of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Justice Academy of North Rhine-Westphalia. She is a member of the board of IUS Omnibus and CELIS. She is currently pursuing her postdoctoral studies (Habilitation) at the University of Heidelberg under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dres.h.c. Burkhard Hess, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Thomas Pfeiffer und Prof. Dr. Christian Heinze. In 2022, she was appointed as Tenure Track Professor for European Law at the University of Vienna. Her research interests focus on European, Economic, Private, Procedural and Comparative Law.

Current Publications

  • Schadensersatzansprüche wegen Verstößen gegen Verhaltensnormen des digitalen Binnenmarktrechts, in: EuZW 2024, p. 941 – 950 
  • Antitrust Damages Actions in National Courts: Trends in the Case-Law of the European Court of Justice, in: Sarmiento/Conac/Baillet/Bruno (Eds.), Yearbook of the Forum on Procedural Law of the CJEU, Fifth Edition (1 LCEL Research Paper Series, 2024), p. 24 – 39 (with Nils Imgarten), available here
  • Collective Actions for Competition Law Violations and DMA Infringements Following the Transposition of the Representative Action Directive (Germany), in: JECLAP 15 (2024), p. 311 – 318, available here
  • Transparency Unveiled: Access to Information in Digital Markets Act Proceedings on EU Level, in: NJEL 7 (2024), p. 69-104, available here
  • Kartellrecht und Zukunftstechnologien, Conference Volume Young Competition Law 2023 (Nomos 2024), edited with Eva Fischer, available here
  • Public Compensation for Private Harm: Fair Funds for Consumer Competition Law Redress, in: World Competition 47 (2024), p. 89 – 108 

Forthcoming publications

  • The Extraterritorial Application of Statutes and Regulations in EU Law in: Buxbaum (Ed.), Extraterritoriality of Statutes and Regulations (IACL Congress Report) (2024), draft available here
  • Collective Actions and the Digital Markets Act: A Bird Without Wings (with Alba Ribera Martinez), draft available here
  • Der Diskriminierungsmissbrauch nach Art. 102 AEUV – Eine Kategorisierung unter besonderer Betrachtung der Selbstbevorzugung auf digitalen Märkten, in: Becker (Eds.), Wettbewerb auf digitalen Märkten (Nomos, 2024)
  • Schadensersatz im digitalen Binnenmarktrecht: Schadensbegriff, Schadensumfang, Schadensposten und Schadensberechnungsmethoden, in: Bauermeister/Schwamberger (Eds.), Private Enforcement im Digitalen Binnenmarkt (Mohr Siebeck, 2024)
  • Commenting on Art. 5 DMA in: Jaeger/Kokott/Pohlmann/Schroeder/Seeliger (Eds.), Frankfurter Kommentar zum Kartellrecht (2024, with Björn Christian Becker)
  • Commenting on Art. 81 TFEU in: von der Groeben/Schwarze/Hatje/Terhechte (Eds.), Europäisches Unionsrecht, 8. Edition (Nomos, 2024)
  • Commenting on § 18 GWB, in: Spindler/Schuster/Kaesling (Eds.), Recht der elektronischen Medien, 5. Auflage (Beck, 2024/2025)

 A full list of publications can be found here.

Presentations

  • Collective actions for competition law violations in the EU: state of play, XLII Competition Law Scholars Forum Workshop (Clasf): Private Antitrust Enforcement: Taking stock and looking ahead, IE University, Madrid, Spain, 10/2024
  • Grenzen des Vertrauens: Rechtsstaatlichkeitsmangel vs. gegenseitiges Vertrauen und gegenseitige Anerkennung im europäischen Privatrecht, 3. Austrian IPR Workshop, Wien, 06/2024
  • Schaden und Beweislast im Digitalen Binnenmarkt, ‘Private Enforcement im Digitalen Binnenmarkt‘, Regensburg, Germany, 06/2024
  • Public Compensation for Private Harm: Fair Funds and Other Involvement of Public Authorities in Consumer Competition Law Redress, Workshop ‘Deterrence as a concept in private enforcement of EU law’, Maribor, Slovenia, 05/2024

A full list of presentations can be found here.

Exams

Information on the written European law examinations „FÜM I – europarechtlicher Teil“ here and „MP Introduction to International Law (IREWI) - European Law“ here.

Ass.-Prof. Dr. Lena Hornkohl offers two exam preparation exercises for the written exam in winter semester 2024/2025. 

Please note that Ass.-Prof. Dr. Lena Hornkohl cannot offer any individual study tips or answer questions on the content of the exams via email. Consider to attend one of the exercises or make an appintment.

General information on the oral European law examinations can be found here. Information on the oral European Law examinations with Ass-Prof. Dr. Lena Hornkohl can be found here.

Ass.-Prof. Dr. Lena Hornkohl offers an exam preparation exercises for the oral exam in winter semester 2024/2025. 

Teaching