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Dominik is lawyer and historian whose research covers European private law, consumer law, contract law, tort law, digital regulation, European company law and legal theory. He is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Work, Organisation and Transformation at the University of St. Gallen and Senior Scientist (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Department of Private Law at the University of Salzburg.

Before joining the University of St. Gallen, Dominik carried out his postdoctoral project, “Transplanting EU Law: A Legal and Empirical Investigation of Consumer Credit in Swiss Courts" at the Center for Regulation and Contract Law at the University of Zurich as a Swiss Government Excellence Postdoctoral Researcher. His project is also affiliated with the Obwaldner Institut für Justizforschung at the University of Lucerne.

Education:

In 2025 Dominik defended his PhD thesis “Ordering Legal Reality: A Comparative Study on Consumer Credit in European Judiciaries” combining interdisciplinary approaches to consumer contract law (consumer credit) and conducted at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) under the supervision of Prof. Mathias Siems (co-supervisor: Prof. Mateusz Grochowski, Tulane Law School). Additionally, he holds a law degree (magister) from the University of Wroclaw (Poland) and an LLM degree from the EUI (Florence, Italy), as well as a BA degree (licencjat) and an MA degree (magister) in history, both from the University of Wroclaw.

Research:

At the EUI, Dominik assisted research projects on Start-Up Corporate Law, Legal Transplants and twice on national implementations of the Temporary Protection Directive. Additionally, Dominik was also a collaborator in the research project JuLIA (Justice and Artificial Intelligence), financed by the European Commission, at the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since January 2026 Dominik is a member of the research team "FLAIR: Fractures of Law: AI Regulation and the Reconfiguration of Rights in the EU" (funded by Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic).

His international experience includes funded research missions to France (Nancy, Paris), the Netherlands (Nijmegen), twice to Germany (in 2023 and 2024 in Hamburg; Max-Planck-Gesellschaft-Stipendium 2024), to Switzerland (Lausanne, Van Calker Scholar at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, 2024) and to Austria (Visiting Researcher at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg 2024; April-May 2025 as Land Steiermark Junior Fellow at the University of Graz, June-August 2025: re:constitution Fellow at the Institute for European Tort Law in Vienna and March 2026 University of Innsbruck). From January 2023 to October 2025, Dominik assisted the Coordinating Editor and later served as Assistant Editor on the editorial board of the Journal of European Consumer and Market Law (EuCML).

For his project Too Small to Claim, Too Big to Fail: Addressing the Stealth Dimension of the Rule of Law in the EU , Dominik has been awarded a reconstitution:fellowship for the academic year 2024-2025.

Teaching:

In the Winter Semester 2024, Dominik taught two courses (Comparative Private Law and Introduction to European Company Law) at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest as CEU Global Teaching Fellow. In the Spring Semester 2025, Dominik co-taught a course (Current Challenges to the Internal Market; Law of the Digital Markets) at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest as CEU Global Teaching Fellow. In the Winter and Summer Semesters 2025–2026, he assisted in teaching Austrian private law at the University of Salzburg (Team Graf).

As of now, Dominik teaches Introduction to Comparative Law as Lehrbeauftragter at the EBS University of Business and Law, co-teaches European Company Law as Lecturer within the European and International Business Law LL.M. Programme at the Eötvös Loránd University. He also co-teaches a course on legal methodology (Methodenlehre) at the University of St. Gallen.

Publications:

Dworniczak D. (2026) 'The Promise and Perils of Private Enforcement under EU Law: The Digital Services Act in Context' (Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies) (OA: https://doi.org/10.1017/cel.2026.10040).

Dworniczak D. (2026) 'Regulation in the Making: The Governance Effects of Civil Liability in EU Digital Regulation' (European Journal of Risk Regulation; Cambridge University Press) (OA: https://doi.org/10.1017/err.2026.10114).

Dworniczak D. (2026) ‘Fernabsatz von Finanzdienstleistungen nach der Richtlinie (EU) 2023/2673 und dem österreichischen Umsetzungsentwurf’ 3 Zeitschrift für Versicherungsrecht (ZVers), 114-129 (available on rdb.manz.at and linda.lindenverlag.at).

Dworniczak D. (2026) ‘Europäische Verbraucherleitbilder im Spiegel nationaler Rechtsprechung (Frankreich, Österreich, Polen)’ 34(2) Zeitschrift für europäisches Privatrecht (ZEuP), 315-354 (available on beckonline).

Dworniczak D. (2025) ‘Consumer Credit: Overstated APRC, Additional Charges and Sanctions for Failure to Provide Essential Information — Case C-472/23, Lexitor II’, 14(3) EuCML, see here.

Dworniczak D., Nowacka D., Paulesu C., Siems M., Ucarer O., (2025) ‘The Notion on Legal Transplants Beyond the Anglosphere: Decentring the Debate’ 16(3) Transnational Legal Theory; for a manuscript, see SSRN.

Dworniczak, D. (2023) ‘Manual Control of the Consumer Credit Litigation? Case Note on MB and Others (C-6/22) and AxFina Hungary (C-705/21)’ 20 (5) Zeitschrift für das Privatrecht der Europäischen Union/European Union Private Law Review (available at degruyterbrill.com).

Dworniczak, D. (2023) ‘Consumer Law Entangled: Comparative Approaches in European Private Law after Aziz and Addiko Bank’ 31 (4) European Review of Private Law, see here.

Bekisz, H., Dworniczak D. (2022) ‘Poland – First Empirical Insights on Article 82 GDPR in National Courts’ 8 (4) European Data Protection Law Review, DOI: doi.org/10.21552/edpl/2022/4/12.

Forthcoming:

Dworniczak D. (2026) 'Konsumkredit vor Gericht: Kantonale und bundesgerichtliche Rechtsprechung zum schweizerischen Konsumkreditrecht (Aktuelle Juristische Praxis (AJP)/Pratique Juridique Actuelle (PJA))'.

Dworniczak D. (2026) ‘Fairness in Flux? Implications of the Unfairness Case Law for the Planned Digital Fairness Act’ in Catalina Goanta and Catalin-Gabriel Stanescu (eds), Responsible Consumers, Invisible Threats: Digital Finance, AI and the Future of Consumer Law (Oxford University Press); for a manuscript, see SSRN).

Doctrinal contributions:

Dworniczak D. (2026) Anmerkung zu EuGH 23. 4. 2026, Rs C-744/24, Bank Polska Kasa Opieki, 4 Zeitschrift für Versicherungsrecht (ZVers), pp. 216-218 (available on rdb.manz.at and linda.lindenverlag.at).

Dworniczak D. (2025) ‘3. Overview of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the context of AI’ in Fabienne Jault-Seseke, Agathe Missakian (eds) JuLIA Handbook Artificial Intelligence and Data Protection (December 2025), pp. 19-33.

Dworniczak D. (2024) in K. Osajda, P. Mikłaszewicz and K. Pacuła (eds.), Ustawa o kredycie konsumenckim. Komentarz (Consumer Credit Act. Commentary), C.H. Beck (available on Legalis; in Polish).

Other contributions:

Dworniczak, D. (2026) 'Pre-Contractual Information Duties in the International Carriage of Goods by Road: A Comment on Kigas’, 277 EU Law Live Weekend Edition

Dworniczak D. (2025) 'Profit-Oriented Third-Party Enforcement of Consumer Claims: A New Policy for Consumer Rights Enforcement? Zwrotybankowe.pl (C-80/24' EU Law Live 7/11/2025 [blog case note on zwrotybankowe.pl (C-80/24)]

Bouwman T., Dworniczak D., Paulesu C. (2025), 'Case Law. CJEU Judgments on Consumer Law', 14(5) EuCML

Dworniczak D. (2025) 'Interim Relief in Consumer Credit Litigation: a Reappraisal in the Context of the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive - Comments on Myszak C-324/23' EU Law Live 11/06/2025 [blog case note on Myszak (C-324/23)]

Dworniczak D. (2025) ‘Reaffirming Established Case Law, Withholding Guidance? – CJEU in APS Beta Bulgaria (Case C-337/23)’, Recent developments in European Consumer Law, 12/05/2025 [blog case note on APS Beta Bulgaria (C-337/23)]

Dworniczak D. (2025) ‘Sanctions for Not Providing Essential Information in Credit Contracts – CJEU in Lexitor II (Case C-472/23)’, Recent developments in European Consumer Law, 21/02/2025 [blog case note on Lexitor II (C-472/23)]

Dworniczak D. (2025) ‘Taking Access to Justice Seriously? Critical Comments on Banco Santander (C-346/23)’, EU Law Live, 12/02/2025 [blog case note on Banco Santander (C-346/23)]

Dworniczak D. (2024) ‘Sharp No More? The Weakening of Protection against Unfair Commercial Practices now. Comments on Guldbrev (C-379/23)’, EU Law Live, 18/12/2024 [blog case note on Guldbrev (C-379/23)]

Dworniczak D. (2024) ‘Systematising Case Law, De-Systematising the Remedies and De-Vulnerating the Consumer. Comments on Caixabank and Others (C-450/22)’, EU Law Live, 18/07/2024 [blog case note Caixabank and Others (C-450/22)]

Dworniczak, D. (2023) ‘A truly responsible lending: patching or rearranging consumer credit law? Comments on the new Directive on consumer credits (CCD II)’ 166 EU Law Live Weekend Edition

Bekisz, H., Dworniczak, D. (2022) ‘Towards a data-subject-friendly interpretation of Article 82 GDPR: Comments on the Opinion of AG Sánchez-Bordona in Case C-300/21 UI v Österreichische Post, VerfBlog, 21/10/2022; DOI: 10.17176/20221103-121616-0.10.17176/20221103-121616-0