Damjanovic, Dragana

“My research focuses on how state control of markets can be shaped through law in order to ensure socially and environmentally sustainable social structures. I concentrate on infrastructure sectors and sectors of public services that meet people's basic needs and are also central to climate change mitigation.”

• Public commercial law
• Infrastructure law and law governing public services
• Planning, environmental, and climate protection law

• 1994-1998 Studied law at the University of Vienna, with an Erasmus exchange at the Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain, in the winter semester of 1997/98
• 1999-2001 Research assistant and university assistant (PraeDoc) at the Institute for Constitutional and Administrative Law (Michael Holoubek department) at the Vienna University of Economics and Business
• 2001 Doctorate (Dr. Iuris) at the University of Vienna
• 2002-2003 Trainee lawyer at EY Law, Wietrzyk Dullinger Rechtsanwälte GmbH
• 2003-2004 LL.M. studies at UC Berkeley Law School, CA, USA (Fulbright Scholarship and Postgraduate Scholarship from the Ministry of Science)
• 2004-2009 University assistant (postdoc) at the Institute for Austrian and European Public Law (IOER); Vienna University of Economics and Business – Michael Holoubek Department
• 2009-2014 Elise Richter Fellow (FWF), with research stays at the European University Institute (EUI) and the Salzburg Center of European Studies (SCEUS)
• 2015 Habilitation at the Vienna University of Economics and Business with a habilitation thesis on “Regulatory Structures of the EU Social Market Economy”; teaching qualification in public law and European law
• 2016-2018 Senior Post Doc and Visiting Professor at the Institute for Austrian and European Public Law (IOER), Vienna University of Economics and Business
• 2018-2020 Private lecturer and deputy head of the Institute for Legal Studies, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
• 2020-2025 University professor of public law and head of the research area of legal studies at TU Wien
• Since March 2025 University professor of administrative law at the Faculty of Law, University of Vienna