Univ.-Ass.

Dr. Adnan Tokić

 

Schottenbastei 10-16 (Juridicum),

1010 Vienna

Stairway 1, 5th floor, room 518

Phone: +43 1 4277 35908

E-Mail: adnan.tokic@univie.ac.at

Curriculum vitae

Adnan Tokić studied law at the University of Vienna. He completed his degree, for which he was awarded several merit scholarships, in 2020 ahead of schedule. He completed his doctoral studies in 2025 on the topic of "Liability of corporate groups in antitrust law".

Between 2017 and 2020, Adnan Tokić worked at two renowned law firms in Vienna. After completing his studies, he completed his legal clerkship at the Vienna Higher Regional Court.

Adnan Tokić was initially research and teaching assistant (prae doc) to Univ.-Prof. Dr. Florian Schuhmacher, LL.M., from 2021 until his death in 2024, and then to Univ.-Prof. Dr. Friedrich Rüffler, LL.M., at the Department of Commercial and Business Law at the University of Vienna. In addition, Adnan Tokić was a research assistant at the Austrian Supreme Court. 

Since October 2025, Adnan Tokić has been postdoctoral researcher and habilitation candidate (post doc) at the Department of European, International and Comparative Law at the chair of Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Jaeger, LL.M.

During his work at the Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna, Adnan Tokić was awarded research grants by the Graf Hardegg'sche Privatstiftung and Ars Iuris Vienna – Doctoral School. He also completed a research stay at Bocconi University in Milan. Adnan Tokić is a member of the editorial team of the University of Vienna Law Review, a founding member and organiser of the "Wirtschaftsprivatrechtliche Nachwuchstagung", a young scholars conference on private commercial law, and editor of the annual conference proceedings, as well as a member of the "Junge Rechtswissenschaft Juridicum" alumni association.

Key research areas

  • European economic law
  • Antitrust law
  • Unfair competition law
  • Intellectual property law
  • Law and Economics

Publications

Monographs

  • Konzernhaftung im Kartellrecht – Rechtsdogmatik und Rechtsökonomik (Verlag Österreich; forthcoming).

Articles

  • Gesellschaftsrechtliche Probleme des Konzernregresses, GES 2025 (forthcoming).
  • Wettbewerbsrecht und Digitalisierung – Marktmachtmissbrauch in der Digitalwirtschaft am Beispiel EuGH C-48/22 P, Google Shopping, wbl 2025, 509-520.
  • Optimal fines in EU competition law – an economic analysis, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice 2025, 16(3), 196-207 (open access).
  • Keine Wouters-„Ausnahme“ für Hardcore-Preiskartelle, zugleich eine Besprechung von EuGH C-128/21, Lithuanian Chamber of Notaries, wbl 2024, 241-247.
  • Effective enforcement of the European Commission's decisions under antitrust law – a survey-based analysis, European Competition Law Review (E.C.L.R.) 2023, 44(9), 385-402 (with Helene Hayden).
  • Freistellungsfähigkeit von Nachhaltigkeitsvereinbarungen nach europäischem und novelliertem österreichischen Kartellrecht, wbl 2022, 301-313.

Collected editions

  • Die Rechtsprechung des Obersten Gerichtshofs in Urheberrechtssachen im Jahr 2023, in Staudegger/Thiele/Schmitt (eds), Geistiges Eigentum. Jahrbuch 2024 (2024) 61-91 (with Melani Dumancic and Daniel Lutzky).
  • Sustainability and Competition Law in Austria, in Këllezi/Kobel/Kilpatrick (eds), Sustainability Objectives in Competition and Intellectual Property Law (2024) 27-50 (with Adrian Kubat).
  • Die Rechtsprechung des Obersten Gerichtshofs in Urheberrechtssachen im Jahr 2022, in Staudegger/Thiele (eds), Geistiges Eigentum. Jahrbuch 2023 (2023) 53-83 (with Florian Schuhmacher).
  • Die Rechtsprechung des Obersten Gerichtshofs in Urheberrechtssachen im Jahr 2021, in Staudegger/Thiele (eds), Geistiges Eigentum. Jahrbuch 2022 (2022) 55-94 (with Florian Schuhmacher).
  • Die Rechtsprechung des Obersten Gerichtshofs in Urheberrechtssachen im Jahr 2020, in Staudegger/Thiele (eds), Geistiges Eigentum. Jahrbuch 2021 (2021) 49-82 (with Florian Schuhmacher).

Commentaries

  • § 28a KartG (dominant position in a multi-sided digital market) in Petsche/Urlesberger/Vartian, Kartellgesetz, 3rd edition 2025, MANZ Verlag (with Florian Schuhmacher).
  • §§ 3, 4 UWG (misleading information in newspapers and media) in Holzweber/Homar/F. Schuhmacher, UWG (in publication), Verlag Österreich.
  • §§ 10, 13 UWG (bribery of officials or agents) in Holzweber/Homar/F. Schuhmacher, UWG (in publication), Verlag Österreich.
  • § 16 UWG (tort law/private enforcement) in Holzweber/Homar/F. Schuhmacher, UWG (in publication), Verlag Österreich (with Stefan Holzweber).
  • §§ 33a, 33b, 33c UWG (clearance sale regulations) in Holzweber/Homar/F. Schuhmacher, UWG (in publication), Verlag Österreich.
  • § 34 UWG (aiding and abetting) in Holzweber/Homar/F. Schuhmacher, UWG (in publication), Verlag Österreich.
  • § 39 UWG (pictorial representations) in Holzweber/Homar/F. Schuhmacher, UWG (in publication), Verlag Österreich.
  • §§ 43, 44, 45 UWG (ancillary provisions) in Holzweber/Homar/F. Schuhmacher, UWG (in publication), Verlag Österreich.

Didactic work

  • "Fall und Musterlösung: FÜM II – Unternehmensrecht", JAP 2021/2022, 176-180 (with Florian Schuhmacher and Stefan Holzweber).

Editorship

  • Markt als Paradigma. Beiträge zur 2. Wirtschaftsprivatrechtlichen Nachwuchstagung, Verlag Österreich, 2025, 380 pages (with Simon Ewerz and Leonard Soldo).
  • Wirtschaft und Methode. Beiträge zur 1. Wirtschaftsprivatrechtlichen Nachwuchstagung, Verlag Österreich, 2024, 450 pages (with Simon Ewerz and Leonard Soldo).

Blogs

  • Wouters Exception for Hardcore Price Fixing? Blog comment on CJEU C-128/21, Lithuanian Chamber of Notaries, Kluwer Competition Law Blog, 15.02.2024 (available here).

Lectures

  • „Der Konzern als schadenersatzrechtlicher Haftungsverbund im Kartellzivilrecht”
    Privatissimum, Department for Civil Law, Foreign and Private International Law, University of Graz, 05.12.2024
    Discussant: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Walter Doralt (University of Graz)
  • „Konzernhaftung im Kartellrecht – Rechtsdogmatik und Rechtsökonomik"
    Kolloquium, Departments for Civil Law and Employment and Business Law, Paris Lodron University Salzburg, 06.11.2024
    Discussants: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Auer, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Georg Graf, MA (both Paris Lodron University Salzburg)
  • „Optimale Sanktionen im Kartellrecht – eine ökonomische Analyse”
    Jour Fixe, Chair of Univ.-Prof. Dr. Chris Thomale, LL.M., University of Vienna, 21.10.2024
    Discussant: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Chris Thomale, LL.M. (University of Vienna)
  • „Competition Law and Economics – Optimal Antitrust Sanctions for Undertakings”
    International Doctoral and Postdoctoral Conference in the Law and Law Related Fields “SPLITLAW2024”, Faculty of Law, University of Split, 10.05.2024
  • „Comparing Legal Approaches towards Sustainability in Competition Law”
    The Guild Doctoral Workshop on „Unlocking Legal Perspectives for Sustainable Development”, University of Vienna, 23.02.2024
    Discussants: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Brigitta Zöchling-Jud, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Franz-Stefan Meissel, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ursula Kriebaum, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Wittich (all University of Vienna)
  • „Economic Analysis of the Single Economic Entity Doctrine in Antitrust Law”
    Department Seminar Series, Angelo Sraffa Department of Legal Studies, Università commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 27.10.2023
    Discussants: Prof. Dr. Federico Ghezzi, Prof. Dr. Giovanni Tuzet (both Università commerciale Luigi Bocconi)
  • „Shades of Green – Nachhaltigkeit im Wettbewerbsrecht”
    Legal Lunch Seminar, University of Vienna, 23.01.2023
    Co-Speakers: Adrian Kubat (University of Vienna) and Ralph Taschke, LL.M. (Austrian Competition Authority)
  • „Private Enforcement in Antitrust Law: The Single Economic Entity Doctrine”
    The Guild Doctoral Workshop on „Personae, res, actiones? Taxonomies and borderlines in contemporary private law research framework”, University of Bologna, 28.10.2022
    Discussants: Prof. Dr. Michel Tison (University of Ghent), Prof. Dr. Michael Anderson Schillig, LL.M. (King’s College London)
  • „Die wirtschaftliche Einheit im Kartellschadenersatzrecht“
    "5. Offenes Düsseldorfer Doktorandenseminar im Kartellrecht", Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, 06.09.2022
    Discussants: Prof. Dr. Christian Kersting, LL.M. (Yale), Prof. Dr. Peter Meier-Beck (both Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf)



Research stays

  • Università commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Angelo Sraffa Department of Legal Studies, Milan, Italy, September 2023.

Awards and research grants

  • Research grant for dissertation by Ars Iuris Vienna – Doctoral School (2025).
  • Research grant for dissertation by Graf Hardegg’sche Privatstiftung (2022).

Memberships

Miscellanea

  • „Praktische rechtliche Themenstellungen der Aufsichtsratstätigkeit“, seminar for supervisory board members of public companies of the City of Vienna, Wien-Akademie, 21.05.2025 (with Simon Ewerz).
  • „Junge Aufsichtsräte – Potenzial und Notwendigkeiten“, exchange event between supervisory board members and academia, Am Hof 8, 13.03.2025 (with Finders & Company).
  • „Praktische rechtliche Themenstellungen der Aufsichtsratstätigkeit“, seminar for supervisory board members of public companies of the City of Vienna, Wien-Akademie, 10.09.2024 (gemeinsam mit Simon Ewerz).
  • Interviewpartner, „Wie die erste Wirtschaftsprivatrechtliche Nachwuchstagung den Nerv der Zeit trifft“, LawFinder.at, November 2023 (available here)