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IRINA DOMURATH

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Ricercatrice a tempo det. art. 24 c.3 lett. B L. 240/2010

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VIA DEL SANTO, 28 - PADOVA

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Since 2025: Assistant Professor, Comparative Private Law, University of Padova
2023-2025: Adjunct Professor, University Adolfo Ibañez, Chile
2020-2023: Associate Professor, Central University, Chile
2017-2020: Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Amsterdam and Pontific Catholic University Chile
2016-2017: Researcher, Ministry of Justice, Germany
2012-2015: PhD, University of Copenhagen and University of Iceland, thesis: Consumer Debt and Contract Law
2010-2011: LL.M., International Environmental and Natural Resources Law, University of Iceland
2007-2008: LOGOS Legal Services
2005-2007: Referendaire, Court of Appeals, Berlin
1999-2004: Law studies, Humboldt University, Berlin

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Publications

Recent publications

Monographies and edited volumes
2025: Transnational Mortgage Law, co-author,with Guido Comparato, Hart Publishing (forthcoming).
2023: Derecho Privado y Desigualdad, edirot, Tirant Lo Blanch.
2022: Special Issue: Law and …? Interdisciplinary Studies in the Law’, co-editor with S Gamonal & J Willenmann, Latin American Legal Studies, Vol 10 No 2.
2017: Autore Consumer Vulnerability and Welfare in Mortgage Contracts, author, Hart Publishing.
2015: Consumer Debt and Social Exclusion in Europe, co-editor, HW Micklitz, Ashgate.

Articles
2024: ‘Digital Private Law’, European Review of Contract Law Vol 20, Issue 4, with HW Micklitz.
2024: ‘Re-imagining Housing Provision from Markets to Welfare’, with Diego Gil McCawley, German Law Journal, imminente.
2023: ‘Diritto Privato Europeo come motore della integrazione’ with HW Micklitz, Contratto e Impresa Europa 2023 no.3, 377-404.
2023: ‘Rage against the machine: Profiling and Power in the Data Economy’, in Golia & Teubner (eds): Digital Constitution: On the Transformative Potential of Societal Constitutionalism, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies Vol 30, Nr. 2, 131-163.
2022:‘Platform Economy and Individual Autonomy’ in Ulfbeck (ed): Platform Governance, European Review of Private Law Vol 30 No 6, 951-974.
2022: ‘Verbraucherkredit als Daseinsvorsorge?’ Wirtschaftsdienst 102(3), 189-192.
2020: ‘Housing Justice and Private Law in Europe’ with Ch Mak, Modern Law Review Vol 83 No 6, 1188-1220.
2019: ‘Housing as a “Double Irritant” in EU Law: towards an SGEI between market and local needs’, Yearbook of European Law Vol 38, 400-447.
2019: ‘If Mohammed Aziz was Chilean: The role of law in financial inclusion and protection of mortgagors from Europe to Chile’, Latin American Legal Studies, Vol 5, 69-110.
2018: ‘Platforms as Contract Partners – Uber and beyond’, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law Vol 25 No 5, 565-581.
2017: ‘Mortgage Debt and the Social Function of Contract’, European Law Journal Vol 22 No 6, 758-771.
2015: ‘Financialisation and its implications for private autonomy in consumer credit law’ with G Comparato, Osservatorio del diritto civile e commerciale 1/2015, 269-288.
2013: ‘The case for vulnerability as the normative standard in European consumer credit and mortgage law – an inquiry into the paradigms of consumer law’, Journal of European Consumer and Market Law Vol 2 No 3, 124-137.
2013: ‘The Three Dimensions of Solidarity in the EU Legal Order: Limits of the Judicial and Legal Approach’, Journal of European Integration Vol 35 No 4, 459-475.

Book Chapters
2025: ‘The Political Economy of Housing in European Private Law‘ in Bartl, Mak & Burgers (eds) European Private Law, Open Access Publisher.
2024:‘Debt Society’ and ‘Overindebtedness’ in Namysłowska & Micklitz (eds.) Encyclopedia of Consumer Law (Elgar).
2024: ‘Digital Vulnerability and Private Autonomy’ in De Franceschi et al (eds) Digital Vulnerability in European Private Law (Hart – Nomos – Beck).
2023: ‘European Integration after Mohammed Aziz’ wirh HW Micklitz in Gardner & Ramsay (eds.) Landmark Cases of Consumer Law, Hart Publishing.
2022: ‘The Politics of Interdisciplinarity in Law’ in Bartl & Lawrence (eds) Beyond Method: The Politics of Legal Research, Edward Elgar.
2019: ‘Technological Totalitarianism: Data, Profiling, and the Law’, in: Almeida et al (eds) Transformation

Research Area

European Private Law, Data Protection, Regulation of new technologies, Privacy and AI, Consumer Credit and Housing