Otto, Jannik
Professorship in Corporate law at the Faculty of Law
Jannik Otto
My research
Within private commercial law, my research focuses on antitrust law. As a core element of the European single market, antitrust law seeks to keep the common market free from distortions of competition by companies. My particular interests lie in private enforcement and the concept of the undertaking as a description of the central addressee of the norm. In addition, economic developments are constantly giving rise to new research questions. These include, for example, the transformation to a sustainable and resilient economy, the upheavals caused by AI, the relationship to regulation and formative industrial policy, and, most recently, the integration of entrepreneurial market power into the geopolitical power game.
Curriculum Vitae
- 2006-2011 Studied law at Heinrich Heine University (HHU) Düsseldorf
- 2011 First state examination, Higher Regional Court Düsseldorf
- 2011-2013 Research assistant, HHU Düsseldorf
- 2014 Doctorate (Dr. iur.), HHU Düsseldorf
- 2016 Second state examination, LJPA NRW (with placements at the German Embassy in Beijing, a commercial law firm in Düsseldorf and the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg, among others)
- 2016-2019 Academic advisor and managing director of the Institute for Antitrust Law, HHU Düsseldorf
- 2019-2026 Junior professorship in commercial law, HHU Düsseldorf
- 2020-2026 Director of the Institute for Antitrust Law (IKartR), HHU Düsseldorf
- 2023 Research stay at the Institute of European and Comparative Law (IECL), University of Oxford
- 2025 Habilitation, teaching qualification in civil law, German and European corporate and competition law, and legal theory, HHU Düsseldorf
- since January 2026 Professorship in Corporate law, University of Vienna