ALLAN
KUNNER
Mr. Kanner has enjoyed a distinguished forty-one-year career representing individuals, businesses, and governmental entities in hundreds of complex, multi district, and high profile cases in both state and federal courts. Starting with In re: Three Mile Island Litig. (M.D. Pa.) and In re: Louisville Sewer Explosions Litig. (E.D. Ky.), he has played a leading role nationally in shaping the field of environmental and toxic tort litigation. Mr. Kanner published a leading treatise in the field, ENVIRONMENTAL AND TOXIC TORT TRIALS (Lexis Nexis 1991), as well as numerous law review articles relied upon by courts and practitioners.1 Today his work and writings continue to influence the field of environmental and natural resource law and damages. See, e.g., Kanner, Tortious Interference with The Public Trust, 36 J. ENV’T LAW AND LITIGATION, p 101 (2021); Kanner, Natural Resource Restoration, 28 TUL. ENVT. L. J. 335 (Summer 2015); Kanner, Expertise and Discretion: New Jersey’s Approach to Natural Resource Damages, 50 ELR 10030 (Jan. 2020); Kanner, Environmental Gatekeepers: Natural Resource Trustee Assessments and Frivolous Daubert Challenges, 49 ELR 10420 (May 2019); Kanner, The Public Trust Doctrine, Parens Patriae, and the
Attorney General As the Guardian of the State’s Natural Resources, 16 DUKE ENVT’L. L & POLICY F., 57 (Fall 2005); Kanner, Emerging Trends in Perflourinated Chemical Regulation and Litigation, ABA ENVTL. & ENERGY LITIG. NEWSL. (Aug. 28, 2017); Kanner & Morrison, Environmental Forensics andNatural Resource Damages in ENVIRONMENTAL FORENSICS (2012). Mr. Kanner regularly lectures on natural resource damage claims and trial practice.
Mr. Kanner is highly regarded nationally in multiple fields as a trial lawyer and legal strategist. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and Lawdragon 500 Hall of Fame. In 2014, Law360 recognized Mr. Kanner as a “Titan of the Plaintiffs’ Bar.” According to Chambers USA, “Allan Kanner is a leading plaintiff litigator with an outstanding reputation in major environmental and consumer fraud disputes. He offers considerable expertise [in] class action claims and acting for public sector institutions in natural resource damage disputes.” In 2020, The National Law Journal recognized the firm as “Environmental Law Firm of the Year. In 2021 U.S. News & World Report, recognized the firm as a Best Law Firm.
Susanne
Augenhofer
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.
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 and as a member of the Advisory Group on Consumer Policy of the European Commission. She has advised the European Parliament and the European Commission on various issues regarding European consumer law and its enforcement. She was a co-reporter of the ELI principles on Third Party Litigation Funding which were approved in October 2024.
Before her appointment as Associate Professor at Humboldt University in 2009, she conducted research at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Hamburg, Germany), the London School of Economics (Great Britain) and the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). Professor Augenhofer 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.
MR JUSTICE
ROTH
Judge of the High Court of England & Wales (Chancery Division) and Acting President of the Competition Appeal Tribunal (UK)
JUDGE REMO
CAPONI
Italian Supreme Court Judge & Prof. of Civil Procedure Code
DR. DANTE QUAGLIONE
Managing Director in BRG’s London office
DR. ARIEL
FLAVIAN
Herzog Law and Visiting Lecturer Haifa University
MR ALLAN
KANNER
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- 26 September 2025
- Camera di Commercio di Firenze
- Piazza dei Giudici, 3, 50122 Firenze FI, Italy