Lena Hornkohl

University of Vienna

Prof. Dr. Lena Hornkohl is a tenure-track Professor of European Law at the University of Vienna. Her research focuses on European and German private law, economic law, and civil procedure, with particular emphasis on the interaction between national, EU, and international law.

Her work covers State aid, competition law, foreign subsidies, platform regulation, digital and data protection law, liability law, and the enforcement of economic law claims, with a particular interest in the doctrinal links between these fields. She is Co-Principal Investigator of the research project Empowering Growth: State Aid and Industrial Policy in the European Union and contributes to the European Commission study on the review and simplification of the Foreign Subsidies Regulation.

Prof. Hornkohl studied law at Heidelberg University and Uppsala University, completed an LL.M. at the College of Europe, and obtained her doctorate from Heidelberg University. Before joining the University of Vienna in 2022, she practised European competition law in Brussels and subsequently served as Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg.

An award-winning scholar, she received the 2026 Antitrust Writing Award in the Private Enforcement category. She is co-editor of several leading journals and blogs on European competition law and is actively involved in academic networks, legal education, and the promotion of early-career scholars.