Prof. Dr. Christoph Busch, Maître en droit is Professor of European Private and Commercial Law and Private International Law and Director of the European Legal Studies Institute at the University of Osnabrück. In addition, he is an Affiliated Fellow at Yale Law School as part of the Yale Information Society Project.
His research interests include contract law and consumer law as well as legal issues of digital business models, platform regulation, and algorithmic decision-making. His comparative research on contract law and consumer law focuses on China, Korea, and Japan. As a member of the EU Consumer Policy Advisory Group and the EU Observatory on the Online Platform Economy, he advises the European Commission on the regulation of digital platforms and the implementation of the European Consumer Agenda.
Professor Busch is a Fellow and Council Member of the European Law Institute (ELI) and co-chair of the ELI Digital Law Group. He is a co-founder of the Journal of European Consumer and Market Law and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Consumer Policy. Professor Busch studied law in Münster and Paris-Nanterre. He received his doctorate in law in Bielefeld and his post-doctoral degree (Habilitation) in Osnabrück. He held visiting positions in Kyoto, New Haven, Seoul, Turin, and Warsaw.
