Assistant Professor Dr David Messner-Kreuzbauer, Dr iur.
David Messner-Kreuzbauer has held the tenure-track professorship in Private Law and Comparative Private Law at the Centre for European Private Law since 1 October 2026. His research focuses in particular on the areas of liability law, contract law and the law of evidence, including their international dimensions.
In his projects, he frequently collaborates with the Institute for European Tort Law at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Graz (ETL) in Vienna, as well as with the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL).
David Messner-Kreuzbauer studied law from 2011 to 2021 at the University of Vienna (Mag. iur. 2015, Dr. iur. 2021) and at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (People’s Republic of China). From 2015 to 2019, he was a research assistant (pre-doctoral) at the ETL, a university assistant (pre-doctoral) at the University of Graz from 2019 to 2022, and a research assistant (post-doctoral) at the ETL from 2022 to 2026.
His periods abroad include fellowships at Harvard Law School (USA) in the summer of 2019, at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (France) in the spring of 2023, and at Keble College, Oxford, for the first half of 2025.