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Arthur Miller CBE is this nation's leading scholar in the field of civil procedure and is coauthor with the late Charles Wright of Federal Practice and Procedure, the legendary treatise in the field. Professors Miller and Wright are among the most-often cited and well regarded law treatise writers today. Their multi- volume series is an essential reference for judges and lawyers. Arthur Miller is also one of the nation's most distinguished legal scholars in the areas of civil litigation, copyright and unfair competition, and privacy. He is the author of more than 40 books and numerous articles, including The Assault on Privacy: Computers, Data Banks, and Dossiers, the first book warning of the threat to privacy posed by modern information technology. Miller is currently a University Professor at New York University and the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies. This professorship is conferred on outstanding scholars in recognition of the in- terdisciplinary dimension and breadth of their work. Previously, Miller was the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law at Harvard, where he earned his law degree and taught for 36 years. Miller is the recipient of numer- ous awards, including five honorary doctorates, three American Bar Association Gavel Awards and a Special Recognition Gavel Award for promoting public understanding of the law.
Professor Miller was honored by the Queen of England for his charitable and media work by being named to the Commander of the Order of the British Empire. A renowned commentator on law and soci- ety, he won an Emmy for his work on "The Constitution: That Delicate Balance," one of the several acclaimed PBS series which he has moderated. Miller also served for two decades as the legal editor for ABC's Good Morning America and hosted several weekly issue shows on national television. Miller has argued cases in all of the US Circuit Courts of Appeal and several before the US Supreme Court. He has worked in the public interest in the areas of privacy, computers, copyright, and the courts and has served as a member and reporter of the Advisory Committee of Civil Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States by appointment of two Chief Justices of the United States, as Reporter and Advisor to the American Law Institute, a member of a special advisory group to the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and as a member of various American Bar Association committees, among others. In addition, Miller was appointed by President Ford as commissioner on the United States Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Work.
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- Co - Founder and Co - CEO, Pallas Global Group LLC
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- Chairman, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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- Chief Legal Officer and Partner, Trian Fund Management
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- Partner and Global Chief Compliance Officer, KKR
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- Assistant Director, Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement
Carolyn Renée Pautz, PhD has split her career between research and strategic planning for business, policy and the arts. She holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Dance Studies from Temple University ('19), focusing on issues of post/secularism and embodiment in American civil discourse and the public sphere, and a Master of Arts from NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study ('10) with a focus in Anthropology and Religious Studies. She is a frequent guest lecturer on culture, politics and civil discourse as well as a guest teaching artist at Webster University. She is a member of the Dance Studies Association's Latin American and Caribbean Studies working group and the recipient of the Edrie Ferdun Scholarly Achievement Award for her work on the impact of the WIPO's intellectual property guidelines on subaltern cultural capital. Carolyn's recent research includes the impact of COVID-19 on the NYC creative economy, findings of which contributed greatly to the New York City comptroller's advisement report to the mayor's office for a racially equitable revitalization of the arts post-COVID; accessibility, equity and potential for reform of the New York City Council's discretionary funding processes; the on-going impact of Trump-era immigration reforms on the commercial performing arts sector; post/secularism within American civil discourse and participatory parity; mappings of intellectual property law and capital flow into and out of subaltern communities; and African-derived religions in American civil discourse and public health policy. Her Scholarship has been published in American Psychologist Journal, the International Journal for Cultural Property, The Journal of Ecumenical Studies, the Society for Dance History Scholars and in several public reports published by the City of New York.
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- General Counsel and Secretary, Tessera Therapeutics
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- Chief, Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney 's Office for the Southern District of New York
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- Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
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- General Counsel, Brightwood
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- Managing Director, Three Mile Capital LLC
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- Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
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- Senior Mediator, JAMS, Inc
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David Siffert is an attorney born-and-raised in New York City. David serves as Director of Research & Projects at the Center on Civil Justice, having previously served as Research Coordinator. David is also an Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law at NYU School of Law, teaching NYU's State Legislative Externship. David is also the Legal Director at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project.
Prior to joining the Center, David was a civil litigator at Boies, Schiller & Flexner. David clerked for Hon. Robert S. Smith, Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, and Hon. Barbara S. Jones, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York. David is an alumn of New York University School of Law ('09) and the University of Chicago (AB '06).
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- Senior Vice President, Global Head of Financial Crimes and Customer Protection, PayPal
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- Managing Director, Co - Head Cybersecurity and Privacy Law, Morgan Stanley
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- Partner and Global Vice Chair, White Collar Defense & Investigations Practice, Latham & Watkins LLP
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- Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Pfizer Inc.
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- General Counsel, the Sudler Companies
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- Clinical Fellow, Rutgers Law School
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- Senior Presidential Fellow and Martin Cherkasky Professor of Health Policy & Management at NYU Wagner, New York University
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- of Counsel, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
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- Vice Chair Emerita ( 2018 - 2023 ), President, the Starr Foundation
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- Managing Director and General Counsel, Spotlight Advisors
Geoffrey Miller is author or editor of eight books and more than 200 articles in the fields of compliance and risk management, financial institutions, corporate and securities law, constitutional law, civil procedure, legal history, jurisprudence, and ancient law. He has taught a wide range of subjects including property, corporations, compliance and risk management, financial institutions, land development, securities, the legal profession, and legal theory. Miller received his BA magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1973 and his JD from Columbia Law School in 1978, where he was a Stone Scholar and editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review. He clerked for Judge Carl McGowan of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and Justice Byron White of the US Supreme Court. After two years as an attorney adviser at the Office of Legal Counsel of the US Department of Justice and one year with a Washington, DC, law firm, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School in 1983, where he served as associate dean, director of the Program in Law and Economics, and editor of the Journal of Legal Studies. He joined the faculty of NYU School of Law in 1995. Miller has been a visiting professor or visiting scholar at Columbia University, Harvard University, University of Minnesota, University of Basel, University of Genoa, University of St. Gallen, University of Frankfurt, Study Center Gerzensee, Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Sydney, University of Auckland, and the Bank of Japan. Miller is a founder of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies, co-convener of the Global Economic Policy Forum, director of the NYU Law Center for Financial Institutions, and co-director of the NYU Law Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement. He serves on the board of directors of State Farm Bank. In 2011, Miller was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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- Partner and Global Head, Litigation & Arbitration Practice, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
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- Vice Chairman, Investment Banking, Lazard
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- President and Co - Founder, MGG Investment Group
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- Director, Division of Enforcement, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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Beverly is the fourth generation in her family to practice law in Macon, Georgia. Prior to taking her oath as a U.S. Judge, Beverly served as the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia as well as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in that office. She represented the State of Georgia between 1984 and 1994 as an Assistant Attorney General in Atlanta. She began her legal career in Macon with the law firm of Martin, Snow, Grant & Napier LLP in 1981.
Beverly received her JD from the University of Georgia School of Law and her BA from Stetson University.
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- Co - Chief Executive and Portfolio Manager, Gilder Gagnon Howe & Co
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James Kaye - Chief Legal Officer
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Janet Sabel is the Founding Director of the Access to Justice Initiative at NYU Law School's Center on Civil Justice. The initiative is an ambitious effort to assist state courts in building robust, equitable and sustainable programs and policies to address the needs of self-represented persons in a reimagined civil court system. Leveraging the resources of NYU Law School, and marrying scholarship and advocacy, transformative ideas and practical steps, the initiative will work with judges and courts nationwide to build a more accessible, problem-solving civil court system that delivers justice to members of underserved communities in housing, family, consumer collection and small claims matters. Janet has worked for nearly forty years as an advocate for social and economic justice. Most recently, she was the Executive Director and Attorney-in-Chief of The Legal Aid Society in New York City, where she previously had spent the first decades of her professional career in Legal Aid's Civil Practice, representing clients in Housing Court, bringing law reform cases around disability and health law issues, running a neighborhood office, and leading the Immigration Law Unit before serving as Legal Aid's General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer.
In between her stints at Legal Aid, Janet spent eight years at the New York State Attorney General's office, serving initially as Executive Deputy Attorney General for Social Justice and ultimately as a Chief Deputy to two Attorneys General. In these capacities, Janet oversaw the affirmative enforcement work of the Attorney General's Social and Economic Justice Bureaus, including Civil Rights, Environmental Protection, Labor, Charities, Health Care, Consumer, Antitrust, and Investor Protection.
Janet's work has been recognized by Cranes (Notable Women in Law), City & State (Power 50, Nonprofit Power, Law Power), the New York State Bar Association (Public Interest Law), New York County Lawyers' Association (Public Service Award), and The Legal Aid Society (Servant of Justice Award).
Janet received her BA from Harvard College and her JD from NYU Law School where she was a Root Tilden scholar. Janet clerked on the First Circuit Court of Appeals for the Honorable Frank M. Coffin.
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- Co - Managing Partner, Washington, D.C. Office, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
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- Chairman and Chief Investment Officer, Monarch Capital Holdings
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Jennifer Arlen is a faculty director of the Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement.
Professor Arlen's scholarship focuses on corporate liability, experimental economics, and medical malpractice. Professor Arlen has published over 35 articles and book chapters in leading scholarly publications, including the RAND Journal of Economics; Journal of Law, Economics and Organization; Journal of Legal Studies; Journal of Law and Economics; the Yale Law Journal; and the New York University Law Review. She has had three articles selected as one of the 10 best articles in corporate and securities law of the year. She edited the Research Handbook on Corporate Crime and Financial Misdealing (2018) and Research Handbook on the Economic Analysis of Torts (2013). Her corporate liability scholarship includes theoretical and empirical analysis and focuses on how to structure individual and corporate liability for securities fraud and corporate crime to deter corporate crime.
Professor Arlen is one of the founders of the Society of Empirical Legal Studies (SELS), was its co-President in 2007, and is a member of the Board. She co-organized the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies in 2006-2008. She also serve two terms as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Law and Economics Association (1991-1993, 2006-09). She edits the Experimental and Empirical Studies series on the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) and is a member of the Editorial Board of the American Law and Economics Review. She also has chaired the Remedies, Torts, and Law and Economics sections of the Association of American Law Schools.
Professor Arlen earned her BA from Harvard University (magna cum laude in Economics) and earned both a JD (Order of the Coif) and a PhD in Economics from New York University. She also clerked for the Honorable Phyllis Kravitch of the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School (fall 2006), Yale Law School (2001-02), California Institute of Technology (winter 2001), and USC Law School (1993-94). She also has taught one week graduate courses abroad including in Corsica, Gerzensee, Milan, and Hamburg. Prior to coming to NYU, she was the Ivadelle and Theodore Johnson Professor of Law and Business at USC Law School.
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- Senior Partner, Ehrenkranz Partners L.P
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- Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
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- Chief Legal Officer and Chief Compliance Officer Apollo Global Management
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- Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Meta
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Mr. Facciponti is a former federal prosecutor and in-house law department leader whose experience is in white-collar defense, internal investigations, cybersecurity, and data privacy.
For nearly nine years, Mr. Facciponti served as a prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, where he handled complex and high-profile cases involving computer hacking, fraud, money laundering, and intellectual property theft. In 2010, he received an FBI Director's Award for outstanding cyber investigation, based on his work in investigating and disrupting a major international computer hacking ring that targeted financial institutions.
After leaving the U.S. Attorney's Office, Mr. Facciponti held a supervisory position in the legal department of HSBC, where he was responsible for leading global internal investigations and for advising HSBC on remedial measures and compliance policy changes. He advocated for the bank's interests before U.S. and foreign regulators as well as HSBC's independent compliance monitor.
Prior to joining PCCE, Mr. Facciponti spent six years in private practice counseling corporate clients on financial crime, cybersecurity, and data privacy issues. As a cybersecurity and privacy expert, Mr. Facciponti has lectured at NYU School of Law, and is an adjunct professor at Cornell Law School/Cornell Tech, where he teaches Cyber Law. He has also spoken at past PCCE events. Mr. Facciponti maintains close ties with the legal community, and is currently the Co-Chair of the New York State Bar Association's Committee on Privacy, Data Security and Information Technology Litigation, and the former Chair of the NYC Bar Association's Cybersecurity & Cybercrime Subcommittee of the Information Technology & Cyber Law Committee.
Joe holds a JD from Cornell University, where he graduated magna cum laude and was Editor-in-Chief of the Cornell International Law Journal, and holds a BA in Philosophy from Yale University.
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- Chief Deputy Attorney General for the Criminal Justice Division for the Office of the NYS Attorney
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- Partner & General Counsel, KKR
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Kevin Davis's Financing Development seminar provides a global perspective.
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- Executive Vice President and General Counsel, MF Global
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- Senior Counsel, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
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- Managing Director, Mergers and Acquisitions, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
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- Chairman & CEO, Lord Baltimore Capital Corporation
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- Senior Counsel, Davis, Polk & Wardwell
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- Chief, Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney 's Office for the Eastern District of New York
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- President, Marc Platt Productions
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- Chief Legal Officer, Royal Bank of Canada
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- Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, Walmart
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- Executive Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer, MetLife
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- Partner, Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP
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- Vice Chairman & General Counsel ( Retired ), Altria Group
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- Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, Voya
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- Partner and Co - Chair, White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice, Covington & Burling LLP
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- Chairman Emeritus, Astronautics Corporation of America
Jennifer Arlen '86 is the Norma Z. Paige Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and is the founder and Director of the Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement. She also is the Director of the Center for Law, Economics and Organization. She teaches Business Crime, Corporations, a seminar on Corporate Crime and Financial Misdealing: Legal and Policy Analysis, and the Colloquium on the Economic Analysis of Law. She also has taught Securities Fraud Litigation and Torts.
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- President, the Sudler Companies
Peter Zimroth was the founding director of NYU Law School's Center on Civil Justice. While serving as an adjunct professor at the Law School, he also served as the independent monitor appointed by the United States District Court to oversee the New York City Police Department's compliance with the court's orders regarding the NYPD's practices and policies regarding "stop, question and frisk" and enforcement of trespass laws.
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- Partner, Crowell and Moring LLP
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Samuel Issacharoff is the Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law. His wide-ranging research deals with issues in civil procedure (especially complex litigation and class actions), law and economics, constitutional law, particularly with regard to voting rights and electoral systems, and employment law. He is one of the pioneers in the law of the political process, where his Law of Democracy casebook (co-authored with Stanford's Pam Karlan and NYU's Richard Pildes) and dozens of articles have helped to create a vibrant new area of constitutional law. He is also a leading figure in the field of procedure, both in the academy and outside. He served as the Reporter for the Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation of the American Law Institute.
Professor Issacharoff is a 1983 graduate of the Yale Law School. After clerking, he spent the early part of his career as a voting rights lawyer. He then began his teaching career at the University of Texas in 1989, where he held the Joseph D. Jamail Centennial Chair in Law. In 1999, he moved to Columbia Law School, where he was the Harold R. Medina Professor of Procedural Jurisprudence. His published articles appear in every leading law review, as well as in leading journals in other fields. Professor Issacharoff is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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- Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer for Institutional Impact, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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- Co - Chair, NYU Center for Cybersecurity and Distinguished Fellow, Reiss Center on Law and Security
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- Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
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- Chairman, Delphi Capital Management
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- President, RG Advisory Services
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- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, L & M Equity Participants
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Scott Hemphill's research focuses on the law and economics of competition and innovation, and has included influential work on the pharmaceutical industry.
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- Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
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- Partner, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
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- Member of the PCCE Board of Advisors
- Partner and Head, Securities and Commodities Investigations and Enforcement Practice, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
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- Co - Founding Partner, Blue 9 Capital
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- Professor of Law at the University of Innsbruck
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 as well as at the University of Erfurt in Germany. 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, Mag. Iur.), the Universitá Statale di Milano (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.
In 2001, Professor Augenhofer was appointed as Senior Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School, where she was a Visiting Professor in spring 2020 and held the position of Associate Research Scholar from 2014-2020. In spring 2018, she taught at New York University School of Law, where she was a Global Hauser Senior Fellow in 2016-2017 and is currently a Fellow at the NYU Civil Justice Center. She currently serves as a Member of the Council of the European Law Institute (ELI) as well as a Co-Chair of the ELI Austrian Hub. In 2022 she was elected by the ELI as one of three reporters on third party funding and in 2023 she was elected by the ELI as lead-drafter of a response by the ELI to the proposal by the European Commission on the right to repair.
Professor Augenhofer has advised the European Parliament and the European Commission on various issues regarding European fair trading as well as consumer law (including product liability) and its enforcement. She is a member of the Advisory Group on Consumer Policy of the European Commission and the Academic Society for Competition Law. Her research areas include consumer law, contract law, antitrust law and fair-trading law as well as questions of (aggregated) enforcement. Humboldt University in Berlin, Professor Augenhofer was the co-founder of the Humboldt Consumer Law Clinic, the first German legal clinic for consumer rights. She is also a member of the Advisory Board "Smart Regulation" at the University of Graz.
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 antitrust law. A special emphasis is placed on the enforcement of consumer rights, as well as legal comparison in the context of the harmonization of private law in the European Union and transnational settings. Her current research focuses on the liability of businesses for corporate speech, warranty law in the digital age and during the green transition, and the current state of class actions in the United States and Europe.
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- of Counsel, Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti
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- Partner ( Retired ), Cravath, Swaine & Moore
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- General Counsel & Company Secretary, Diageo
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- Senior Advisor to the President, Princeton University
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- Retired Executive Chairman, FCB Financial Holdings, Inc
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- of Counsel, Sullivan & Cromwell
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- Managing Partner, Court Square Capital Partners
- Principal, Conversion Capital Partners