Susanne Augenhofer is a Professor of Law at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, holding a chair for Business Law. She is also a Visiting Professor of Law (fall 2024, spring 2020) and Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School as well as a fellow at the Civil Justice Center at the NYU School of Law. Before her appointment at the University of Innsbruck she was a Professor of Law at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany – where she was the co-founder of the Humboldt Consumer Law Clinic, the first German legal clinic for consumer rights – as well as at the University of Erfurt, Germany. In spring 2018 she taught at NYU School of Law, where she was a Global Hauser Senior Fellow in 2016–2017, and in 2016 at Columbia Law School. She also served as visiting professor in China and Israel.

Her focus in teaching and research ranges from (international) contract and consumer law to fair trading (advertising) law and antitrust law—with a special emphasis on the enforcement of rights. Her current research focusses inter alia on third party litigation funding (TPLF) as well as sustainability and contract law & greenwashing and the impact of AI on access to justice.