Professor Joasia Luzak is a full Professor of Private Law and one of the leading voices in the field of European consumer law, the Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) and Director of Global Engagement for the Law School. The latter role means she is part of the executive of the department. Prevoiusly, she was also interim Head of the Law School (July 2022 - April 2023). She is a Visiting Professor at the Amsterdam Centre for Transformative Private Law (ACT) (previously Centre for the Study of European Contract Law - CSECL) at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Professor Luzak is a board member of the International Association of Consumer Law (as of 2023), one of the editors of the Journal of European Consumer and Market Law (EuCML) (as of 2016), as well as of the Dutch Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht & handelspraktijken (TvC) (as of 2018) and sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Consumer Policy (JCP) (as of 2016). She is also a reviewer of funding proposals/grant applications for the National Science Centre (Poland).
She has participated in many projects of the European Commission, of the European Parliament and of the European Consumer Organization (BEUC) as an expert or a consultant on European, Polish and Dutch consumer law. To name a few, she was part of the consortiums working on the “Economic study on consumer digital content products” and on the “Study on consumers’ attitudes towards terms and conditions” for the European Commission (both finalized in 2015). She has also drafted the Polish report for the "Study for the fitness check of EU consumer and marketing law" (2016), as well as prepared the Dutch report for the "Compliance assessment of the Directive 2015/2302/EU on package travel and linked travel arrangements" (2019), both commissioned by the European Commission. She has co-written the report for the European Parliament on the need to "Update the Unfair Contract Terms directive for digital services" (2021). Most recently (2022-2023), she was advising the European Commission on the 'Study to support the Commission's policy development on promoting repair of consumer goods and contracts in the data economy' and 'Behavioural study on the assessment of a lawbot assisting consumers on online dispute resolution'.
In December 2015 she has been awarded funding within the Open Research Area (ORA) to a 3-year project led by her: “The ABC of Online Disclosure Duties: Towards a More Uniform Assessment of the Transparency of Consumer Information in Europe” (see more under Research). Currently, Professor Luzak sits on advisory boards of various international and advisory research projects, such as: Consumer ID (Leiden University), Branded Content Governance (University of the Arts London), Business in Democracy Initiative (Copenhagen Business School).
Professor Luzak is also a founder and an administrator of the popular blog on Recent Developments in European Consumer Law.
Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Private Law A of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2008-2016). At this university, as of 2015, she was a Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law, as well as the Director of the European Private Law LL.M program. She has also coordinated master thesis process in three private law LL.Ms (2012-2015). She has joined Exeter's Law School in 2016 as an Associate Professor (until August 2021).
She holds a PhD in Law (2011) from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands (book available here). She obtained her LL.M degree in Law cum laude at the University of Warsaw, Poland (2004). She also graduated with distinction from a two-year course on English and European Law co-organized by Cambridge and Warsaw Universities (2003).
She was a Visiting Professor at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London (2013); at the University of Houston Law Center, United States (2014); and at the International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki, Greece (2014-2016).
