Mag.^a Mag.^a Dr.ⁱⁿ Clara Rauchegger, LLM

Biography

Dr Clara Rauchegger is a tenure-track Senior Assistant Professor of EU Law and Digital Technology Law. She joined the University of Innsbruck from the European University Institute in Florence, where she was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow for two years.

She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where she was a member of Trinity Hall. At the University of Cambridge, Clara also served as Managing Editor of the Cambridge International Law Journal.

Clara’s expertise lies in European Union law, with a particular focus on fundamental rights protection and technology regulation. She is currently working on her Habilitation project on the governance of intermediary online platforms in the EU. At the University of Innsbruck, she is a member of the Digital Science Centers, a new research center that examines digital innovation from an interdisciplinary perspectve.

Clara has won several prestigious research awards, including the University of Innsbruck France Focus Award, including the Eduard Wallnöfer Award and the Research Award of the City of Innsbruck. Her publications have appeared in leading journals such as the Zeitschrift für öffentliches Recht, the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law and the Common Market Law Review and as articles and commentaries in well known publishing houses such as Manz, Beck, Cambridge University Press and Hart Publishing. 

Prior to her academic career, Clara worked at the Representation of Tyrol to the EU, the European Parliament and the Court of Justice of the EU.

Research interests

• EU constitutional law (EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, general principles of EU law, relationship between EU law and national law, judicial protection)
• Implementation and interpretation of EU law in the Member States, in particular by national (constitutional) courts
• Governance of intermediary online platforms and digital technology in the EU
• Interdisciplinary research on digital innovatio

Publications and Presentations

A list of publications is available here.

A list of presentations is available here.

Grants

• FFG KIRAS (head of the legal part of the DeFiTrace project - data-driven methods for analyzing illegal payment flows in cross-ledger DeFi ecosystems)
• ERA-PerMed - ERA-Net for personalised medicine (ArtiPro consortium)
• COST - European Cooperation in Science and Technology (Global Digital Human Rights Network, Management Committee)
• Austrian Science Fund FWF (Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship)
• Austrian Academy of Sciences ÖAW (DOC Fellowship)
• UK Arts & Humanities Research Council (DTP Fellowship)
• Funding for various projects from Trinity Hall Cambridge,
• the Tyrolean Science Fund and
• Förderkreis 1669

Awards

• Research Award of the City of Innsbruck
• Eduard Wallnöfer Award
• Rotary Club Innsbruck Award for outstanding academic achievements
• University of Cambridge St Edmund’s College Award for First Class LLM degree
• University of Innsbruck France Focus Award
• Winner of the Austrian Federal Language Competition in French

Media appearances

Clara regularly comments on current developments in digitalization law for radio and print media. Her interviews have appeared in daily newspapers such as Der Standard, Falter, Kronen Zeitung and Tiroler Tageszeitung as well as on ORF radio (Radio Tirol, Ö1 Digital Leben, Ö1 Morgenjournal) and ORF television (Tirol Heute, konkret, ZIB Magazin).
You can find a selection of media articles here.

Teaching

Clara teaches European Union law, technology law and legal research methods for the Master degrees and the PhD degree in law. In addition, she teaches interdisciplinary courses on the law and governance of digital technology for the Minor in Digital Science.

She holds two teaching certificates: the Teaching Certificate of the University of Innsbruck and the Max Weber Teaching Certificate of the European University Institute and Humboldt University Berlin.