Rate My Professor Dragana Damjanovic

Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.iur. Dragana Damjanovic, LL.M. (Berkeley), serves as Professor of Administrative Law at the Faculty of Law, Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law, University of Vienna, a position she assumed in March 2025. Previously, from March 2020 to February 2025, she was University Professor of Public Law and Head of the Research Unit Legal Sciences at TU Wien. Earlier roles include Privatdozentin and Deputy Director of the Institute of Law at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (March 2018 to February 2020); Senior Postdoc and Visiting Professor at the Institute for Austrian and European Public Law, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien) (2016–2018); university assistant (postdoc) at the same institute (2004–2009); and research assistant and university assistant (PraeDoc) there (1999–2001). She also worked as a trainee lawyer (2002–2003). Damjanovic studied law at the University of Vienna (1994–1998), including an Erasmus exchange at Universidad de Alcalá, Spain, earning her Mag.iur. and Dr.iur. (2001). She completed an LL.M. at UC Berkeley School of Law (2003–2004) with a Fulbright Scholarship and Austrian Ministry of Science postgraduate funding. Her habilitation in 2015 at WU Wien covered public and European law, based on the thesis “Legal Structures of the EU Social Market Economy.”

Her research centers on public economic law, exploring legal mechanisms for state market control to achieve socially and environmentally sustainable outcomes, with emphasis on infrastructure, public services for basic needs, and climate mitigation. Core areas encompass infrastructure law, public services regulation, planning law, environmental law, and climate protection law. She has led interdisciplinary projects and served as a guest researcher, including at the European University Institute in Florence. Damjanovic received the Elise Richter Fellowship (FWF, 2009–2014). With 86 publications, including 41 book chapters, 22 articles, and 3 books, notable works feature her 2015 habilitation, “Staatsrecht und Marktdesign” (Deutsches Verwaltungsblatt, 2025), and “50 Jahre Stadterneuerungsgesetz: Erkenntnisse für die Herausforderungen der Stadterneuerung im Klimawandel” in Sanfte Stadterneuerung Revisited (2025). Her scholarship shapes discourse on sustainable state-market dynamics.