Dr. Catalina Goanta is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University. She received her LL.B. from the Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest. She then completed an LL.M. at the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University, specializing in European comparative and international law, and then obtained an M.Sc. in public policy and human development from the United Nations University-MERIT Maastricht Graduate School of Governance. Her doctoral research on the ‘Convergence in European Consumer Sales Law – A Comparative and Numerical Approach’ was funded by the UM-HiiL Chair on the Internationalisation of Law at Maastricht University’s Faculty of Law, under the supervision and mentorship of Jan Smits (as chair-holder) and Caroline Cauffman. This research was presented at the European University Institute and the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School. Catalina has given workshops on various topics of consumer contract law, European law, and law and technology at conferences in Edinburgh, Shanghai, Sibiu, Pavia, and Sarajevo, among others. Moreover, she has participated in two previous grants from the European Commission aiming to map the implementation of European Union law by Member States (‘An inventory of legal form and shareholding requirements in the EU services sector and their economic assessment’ and ‘Exploratory study of consumer issues in the sharing economy’), where she drafted the Romanian national reports. Catalina is passionate about education development and social entrepreneurship and co-founded the Faculty of Law’s Corporate Social Responsibility Clinic with Mark Kawakami, and the Maastricht Mediation Clinic. She also coaches student teams for ADR competitions, mentors student researchers in various research projects, and helped to establish the interdisciplinary Technolawgeeks independent network together with Caroline Calomme and Arturo Sánchez Barbado. Catalina also blogs on mepli.eu. Catalina is a TTLF Fellow as of 2017.