This event is part of the CirCus webinar series ‘Legal Landscape of Circular Supply Chains’.
Claiming the Right to Repair in Cross-border Contexts
CirCus webinar.
This seminar is part of the CirCus webinar series on the Legal Landscape of Circular Supply Chains. Dr Sommerfeld presented on issues of private international law in relation to the right to repair as one step of circularity. In particular, she will discuss issues of applicable law and jurisdiction for consumer claims for product repair.
Bio
Antonia Sommerfeld has been a senior research fellow at the Institute since 2023. She is also a lecturer at the University of Hamburg. Her article “Circular Fashion and Legal Design”, which represents her research on private law and the circular economy, won the 18th annual José María Cervelló Business Law Prize (2024), awarded by IE Law School and the law firm Ontier. Antonia Sommerfeld was a visiting lecturer at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) and a visiting scholar at Kyōto University (Japan). Since 2025 she has been a fellow of the Lindemann Fellowship for Private International Law.