Bea Verschraegen

Since 1998 full professor of Private International Law and Comparative Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna and since 2004 at the Pan European University Bratislava. Full professor of Civil Law and related branches at the Europa-University Viadrina (1992-1994), full professor at the University of Bielefeld of Civil Law, Private International Law, Comparative Law and European Integration (1994-1998). Head of the Austrian Section of the International Academy of Comparative Law, immediate past President of the International Society of Family Law, Présidente honoraire de la Commission Internationale de l’État Civil, Vice-Rector for International Relations at Uninova Private University Bratislava.

Stefan Griller

Born in 1956; 1978-1991 Assistant at the Institute for Constitutional and Administrative Law of Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Vienna (Prof. Heinz Peter Rill); 1988 Habilitation in “Public Law” at Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Vienna; 1991 Professor for Public Law with special regards to European Law; 1994-1996 Associate Professor at the European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht / Luxemburg; November 1994 Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute for European Studies, Tamkang University, Taipeh, Republic of China; Since autumn 1995 Jean Monnet-Professor for Legal Problems of European Integration; 1996-1999 Visiting Professor at the European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht / Luxemburg; 2002-2008: Secretary General of the European Communities Studies Association – Austria (ECSA Austria); 1998-2002: Vice-chairman of the Austrian federal commission for public procurement; 2007-2008: Fernand Braudel-Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy; Since July 2005: Head of the Research Institute for European Affairs (also 1990-1999); Since November 2008: President of the European Communities Studies Association – Austria (ECSA Austria) (also 1996-2002).

Research Interests: Constitutional issues of European integration; International economic law with a focus on WTO law; Public procurement.

Theodor Öhlinger

Prof. Dr. Theo Öhlinger, born on June 22nd, 1939 studied philosophy and law at the Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna. From 1967 till 1972 he was working at the so-called “Constitutional Service” of the Federal Chancellery. He finished his inaugural dissertation (”Habilitation”) at Innsbruck University in 1972 and became associate professor. In 1974 he was appointed Professor of Public Law at the Faculty of Law in Vienna.
He served as a deputy member of the Austrian Constitutional Court from 1978 until 1989 and as a member of the Committee of Independent Experts of the European Social Charter from 1984 until 1992. From 1989 until 1996 he was Director of the Federal Academy of Public Administration. From 1995 until 2005 he was head of the Department for Constitutional and Administrative Law at the Law Faculty of Vienna University.
From 1992 until 2004 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL). He was a visiting professor at the Universities of Paris X, Aix-en-Provence-Marseille, Fribourg and at Dickinson School of Law, Carlisle, PA. Since 1999 he is Vice-president of the Board of the Kunsthistorische Museum in Vienna.

Peter Doralt

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Anna Gamper

Born in 1975; since 2008 full professor at the Institut für öffentliches Recht, Staats- und Verwaltungslehre at the University of Innsbruck; since 2004 member of the International Association of Constitutional Law; since 2004 member of Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer; since 2005 Austrian representative in the Group of Independent Experts of the Council of Europe; since 2005 member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the European Academy of Bolzano; since 2006 member of the board of Tiroler Juristische Gesellschaft; since 2006 co-editor of Schriften zum internationalen und vergleichenden Öffentlichen Recht; since 2006 member of Societas Iuris Publici Europaei; since 2006 member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Devolution Club; since 2007 member of Österreichische Gesellschaft für Gesetzgebungslehre; since 2007 member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Vienna Online Journal on International Constitutional Law (ICL-Journal); since 2007 Chairwoman of Euroregionale Vereinigung für vergleichendes öffentliches Recht und Europarecht/Associazione Euroregionale di Diritto Pubblico Comparato ed Europeo; since 2009 member of the Academic Senate of the University of Innsbruck; since 2009 co-editor of Juristische Blätter.

Martin Schauer

Professor at the Institute of Civil Law, University of Vienna (since 2001); 1994-2001 Professor for Civil Law, Commercial and Securities Law, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration; 1995-2001 Head of the Institute for Central and Eastern European Business Law, Vienna University of Economics and Business Adminstration; Visiting professor at the Universites of Salzburg and Klagenfurt; Visiting lecturer at the Jagellonian University Krakow, Masaryk University Brno, Kültür University Istanbul, Hochschule Liechtenstein and other institutions; Memberships: International Academy of Comparative Law (associated member); Scientific Advisory Board of the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and International Private Law; Scientific Advisory Board of Secola, Member of the Board of the Austrian Insurance Institute (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Versicherungsfachwissen); Areas of interest: European private law, insurance contract law, law of succesion, foundation law, law of guardianship.

Leopold Specht

Education: Harvard Law School, S.J.D. (1994); Harvard Law School, LL.M. (1988); University of Vienna, J.D. Law (1981)

Professional Experience:
Legal Practice: Specht Rechtsanwalt GmbH, Principal (since 2001); Rechtsanwaltskanzlei Dr. Leopold Specht (1993-2001)
Current Academic Position: Brown University, Watson Institute for international relations, Providence, RI; Visiting Professor (Comparative Law; International Law; Legal Theory; Globalization)

Other professional and civic activities: Member of the Academic Council of the Harvard European Law Research Center, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA (since 1995)

Jürgen Busch

Studies of history, political science, law, and legal theory in Vienna, Leuven, Brussel, Florence, and Linz (Mag. phil. 2000, LL.M. and D.E.A. in 2005); since 2010 researcher and lecturer at the Department of European, International and Comparative Law at the University of Vienna (http://ipr.univie.ac.at); (part time) lecturer at Masaryk University in Brno and at Pan-European University Bratislava. 1999-2003 assistant positions at the legal history department of the University of Vienna; 2000-2007 project coordinator (part time) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Commission of Austrian Legal History. 2004-2006 program manager Erasmus in the Austrian Exchange Service (OeAD); 2006-2010 researcher in the project “Biographical Research on Hans Kelsen” funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) back at the law faculty of the University of Vienna. In spring semester 2010 visiting researcher at Law Department of the Central European University Budapest. Currently, participation in the International Constitutional Law Initiative in Vienna: co-director of the Erasmus Intensive Program NICLAS (Network International Constitutional Law and Administrative Studies Summer School; www.univie.ac.at/icl), member of the editorial board of the Vienna Online Journal on International Constitutional Law (www.icl-journal.com); member of the steering committee of the Central and Eastern European Forum of Legal, Political and Social Theorists (www.cee-forum.org); Secretary General of the European Academy of Legal Theory (EALT) in Brussels (www.legaltheory.eu), project director of the EALT consortium Erasmus Multilateral Project AMELIE (Advanced Master Programme of the European Academy of Legal Theory in European Legal Culture and Jurisprudence). Current research interests combine legal theory, international constitutional law, comparative law, and history of legal science.

Prof. Mauro Bussani (Triest)

Prof. Dennis Davis (Kapstadt, Südafrika)

Prof. Talia Einhorn (Tel Aviv/Indianapolis)

Prof. Dr. Axel Flessner (Berlin)

Prof. Dr. Helmut Heiss (Zürich)

Prof. Duncan Kennedy (Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Prof. Vernon Palmer (Louisiana)

Prof. Jan Svak (Bratislava)

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christiane Wendehorst, LL.M. (Wien)

Prof. Alexander Makovsky (Moskau)