Mag.a iur. Zarah Kosutnik

Zarah Kosutnik has been a university assistant in Prof. Melcher’s research group since October 2026. After successfully completing her law degree in May 2025, she worked as a project assistant at the Institute for Civil Law, Foreign and International Private Law.

Even whilst she was a student, she developed a particular passion for issues relating to international civil law, which she furthered, amongst other things, through her participation in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court. 

In her doctoral thesis, she intends to examine the private-law remedies available against manipulative or deceptive 
AI systems within the framework of the AI Regulation.