Konrad Lachmayer

Dr. Konrad Lachmayer is Vice Dean of Research and Professor for Public law, European law and Foundations of law at the Faculty of Law at Sigmund Freud University (SFU) in Vienna. He visited the University of Cambridge, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and the Central European University. He held a research chair at the Institute of Legal Studies, Centre for Social Sciences at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and was research fellow at Durham Law School. His research focuses on International Constitutional Law, data protection, and Austrian and European public law, especially democratic legitimation, rule of law and human rights.

Elisabeth Paar

Dr. Elisabeth Paar is a legal scholar specializing in constitutional law, legal and state theory, and technology law. She is a Postdoctoral University Assistant at the Institute for Public Law and Political Science at the University of Graz. Her research also touches on medical law and legal philosophy.

She completed her Doctorate in Law at the University of Graz in 2024 with distinction, focusing on the constitutional limits of artificial intelligence in court proceedings. She also earned an LL.M. from Yale Law School as a Fulbright Scholar and was a resident fellow at Yale’s Information Society Project.

Andreas Orator

Dr. Andreas Orator is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg. In 2022/23 he has been Visiting Professor of Public Law and International Law at Humboldt University Berlin. Previously, he served as assistant professor at the Institute of European and International Law of WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. Extended research stays include the University of Michigan and the Max Planck Institute of Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. He directs a project on the transformation of the European fiscal constitution after the EU Recovery Plan. His research focuses on EU constitutional and administrative law, especially EU agencies and the European composite administration.

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Maria Bertel

Dr. Maria Bertel is Professor of Public Law at the University of Graz. She hold  former post-doc positions at the University of Graz and at the University of Innsbruck (Elise-Richter-Fellowship of the Austrian Science fund). In 2018/2019 she was a post-doctoral fellow at Central European University (team of former vicepresident of the ECHR, Prof. András Sajó). Her research focuses on Austrian public law as well as comparative constitutional law (especially Latin America) and questions related to freedom of information and energy transition.

Christina Binder

Dr. Christina Binder holds the Chair for International Law and International Human Rights Law at the Bundeswehr University Munich. Before, she was University Professor of International Law at the Department of European, International and Comparative Law at the University of Vienna and Deputy Director of the interdisciplinary Research Centre of Human Rights. She also served as legal and electoral expert for EU and OSCE/ODIHR election observation and assessment missions in several countries. She likewise acts as electoral expert for the Council of Europe Congress of Local and Regional Authorities.

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Lorenz Dopplinger

Dr. Lorenz Dopplinger is university assistant at the Institute for Constitutional and Administrative Law in the Faculty of Law, University of Vienna. Before he was working at the Constitutional Service of the Federal Minister of Justice.

Iris Eisenberger

Dr. Iris Eisenberger is a Professor of Public Law and European Economic Law at the University of Vienna. Before she was Professor of Law and Head of the Institute of Law at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. She has held visiting positions at numerous renowned universities including the European University Institute in Florence, the University of Freiburg, the Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard University, the Mekelle University in Ethiopia, the Macau University and the Technical University Munich. Her research focuses on public economic law, innovation and technological law and the protection of human rights.

Anuscheh Farahat

Anuscheh Farahat is Professor of Public Law in European Context at the University of Vienna. Previously, she was a Professor of Migration Law and Human Rights Law at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (2019–2024) Between 2017 and 2024 she headed an Emmy-Noether research group on the role of constitutional courts in transnational solidarity conflicts in Europe. Since 2023, she has been a Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle with her project “JUST MIGRATION: Labour migration regimes in transnationalised contexts”. Anuscheh studied law in Frankfurt, Paris and Berkeley. She received her PhD in law from the Goethe University Frankfurt. Anuscheh Farahat publishes widely on issues of European and national constitutional law, migration and citizenship law, and international human rights law. She has a particular interest in legal issues concerning socio-economic inequality, conflicts around solidarity, and the economic dimensions of migration.

Marie-Luisa Frick

Dr. Marie-Luise Frick is an Associate Professor in the University of Innsbruck at the Department of Philosophy. Prior she was Lecturer at the training course for prospective ethics teachers, PHT and from 2009-2013 Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Health Studies (FHG Tirol). Her research focuses on ethics, legal and political philosophy, philosophy of religion, history of ideas of the 17th and 18th century as well as the philosophy of science.

András Jakab

Dr. András Jakab LL.M. is Professor of Austrian Constitutional and Administrative Law at the Paris Lodron Salzburg University. Prior he was the Director of the Institute for Legal Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, where he also holds a tenured research chair. As former Schumpeter Fellow at the MPIL he led a five years project on Constitutional Reasoning in a Comparative Perspective. Formerly he held different research and teaching positions at the Pázmány University in Budapest, at the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales (CEPC) in Madrid, at the University of Liverpool, at the Nottingham Trent University and at the MPIL in Heidelberg. His research interests concerns Constitutional and Administrative Law, Comparative Law, EU Law, Legal Theory, Public International Law.

Lando Kirchmair

He was a research and teaching fellow at the Department of Public Law, Public International Law and EU law at the University of Salzburg (2010-2013), briefly visited the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, and was post-doc fellow at the Institute for Legal Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the National University of Public Services in Budapest. His research focuses on the relationship between legal systems, constitutional courts, the protection of cultural heritage, legal philosophy as well as interdisciplinarity and the law among other things.

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Mathias Möschel

Prof. Mathias Möschel (Department of Legal Studies) is Pro-Rector for External Relations at the Central European University (CEU), Vienna (Austria). His research, teaching and publications fall broadly in the field of comparative (constitutional) law, international human rights law and non-discrimination law. His most recent book publication “Ex-Ministers as Constitutional Judges” (OUP, 2025) deals with the question of what happens when former high-level politicians join constitutional courts by specifically looking at the cases of Austria, France, Germany and Italy.

He has obtained his undergraduate law degree from University of Milan (Italy), has a postgraduate diploma in comparative law from the Faculté Internationale de Droit Comparé de Strasbourg (France), an LL.M. from University of California, Berkeley School of Law (United States) and a Ph.D. from the European University Institute of Florence (Italy). He has held research and teaching positions at University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, New York University and at the Institut de Droit Comparé of University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas).

Besides his academic qualifications, he is also admitted to the New York Bar.

Andreas Th Müller

Dr. Andreas Th. Müller is  Professor of European Law, International Law and Human Rights, University of Basel. Prior he held visiting professorships at Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City and at Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid and 2016 – 2017 he got the Substitution of a Chair at the Department of Public International Law and European Law, University of Göttingen. 2011 – 2016 he was Assistant Professor, subsequently Associate Professor at the Department of European Law and Public International Law, University of Innsbruck. His research focus concerns international and European human rights law, international humanitarian law or the relationship of domestic law and international/European law.

Katharina Pabel

Dr. Katharina Pabel is Professor of Public Law and International Law at the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna and from 2015-19 she was Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Linz. From 2010 to 2020 she was Professor of Public Law at the University of Linz and Head of Department of Administrative Law and Administrative Studies. Her research focuses on the European convention of human rights as well as on administrative courts.

Laura Pavlidis

Dr. Laura Pavlidis is post-doc university assistant at the Institute for Austrian and European Public Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business in Vienna. Prior she was university assistant at the University of Vienna’s Institute for Constitutional and Administrative Law and then working at the Austrian Constitutional Court.

Jürgen Pirker

Jürgen Pirker is Professor for Law and Governance and Head of the Department of Global Governance at the Institute for the Foundations of Law of the University of Graz. He is the Austrian Member of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts according to the European Charter for Regional- and Minority Languages. He has held several international research and teaching positions, such as a Substitute-Professorship at the Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg (Germany), a Visiting Professorship at Bar Ilan University (Israel), a Fulbright Scholarship at University of Denver (USA) or a Guest Professorship at University of Minnesota (USA), and others. Having graduated in Law and History, his teaching and research focusses on issues at the intersection of public law, history and politics, particularly in the fields of: fundamental rights protection, minority rights, cultural diversity and interactive conflict transformation in Europe.

Monika Polzin

Dr. Monika Polzin is Professor of Public Law at the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna. Prior she held visiting professorships in Berlin, Potsdam, Göttingen and München and she was Junior Professor of Public Law at the University of Augsburg. From 2018-2020 she was member of the Bavarian Constitutional Court. Her research interests comprises public international law, constitutional identity, the relationship between public international law, European law und national law, constitutional amendments and constituent power as well as European economic law.

Alexander Somek

Dr. Alexander Somek is Professor of legal philosophy in the Faculty of Law, University of Vienna. Prior he held the Charles E. Floete Chair in Law in the College of Law, University of Iowa, and held visiting professorships at Princeton University and at the London School of Economics. He was a Law and Public Affairs fellow at Princeton in the academic year 2012/2013 and a fellow in the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin during 2007/2008. His research concerns legal theory, legal philosophy, public law and EU law.

Karl Stöger

Dr. Karl Stöger is Professor for Medical Law at the Institute of Constitutional and Administrative Law, University Vienna. Prior he was Professor at the Karl-Franzens University Graz at the Institute of Public Law and Political Science. He was visiting professor at the University Paris-Dauphine and the Ethiopian Civil Service University. His research focuses public law, medical law and regulatory law.

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Erika de Wet

In 2020 Erika de Wet commenced as Professor of International Law and Head of the Institute of International Relations in the Faculty of Law, University of Graz, Austria. Since July 2015 she is also Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Bonn, Germany. Between 1991 and 2019, Erika de Wet studied and worked in various capacities in Germany, Switzerland, the United States, The Netherlands and South Africa. Immediately before joining the University of Graz, she was the first South African Research Initiative (SARChI) Professor of International Constitutional Law in the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, South Africa (2016-2019).

She obtained her B.Iur and LL.B as well as her LL.D at the University of the Free State, South Africa. She holds an LL.M from Harvard University and completed her Habilitationsschrift at the University of Zurich, Switzerland in December 2002. A revised version, entitled the Chapter VII Powers of the United Nations Security Council, was subsequently published with Hart Publishing in 2004. Her work has been widely cited, including by the European Court of Human Rights, the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court and the United Kingdom Supreme Court. Her most recent book is entitled Military Assistance on Request and the Use of Force. It was published with Oxford University Press in 2020 and was subsequently nominated by the publisher for the European Society of International Law Book Prize 2021. She is inter alia a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of ICON and since October 2020 Erika de Wet is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law.

Maria Bertel

Dr. Maria Bertel is Professor of Public Law at the University of Graz. She hold  former post-doc positions at the University of Graz and at the University of Innsbruck (Elise-Richter-Fellowship of the Austrian Science fund). In 2018/2019 she was a post-doctoral fellow at Central European University (team of former vicepresident of the ECHR, Prof. András Sajó). Her research focuses on Austrian public law as well as comparative constitutional law (especially Latin America) and questions related to freedom of information and energy transition.

Lorenz Dopplinger

Dr. Lorenz Dopplinger is university assistant at the Institute for Constitutional and Administrative Law in the Faculty of Law, University of Vienna. Before he was working at the Constitutional Service of the Federal Minister of Justice.

Konrad Lachmayer

Dr. Konrad Lachmayer is Vice Dean of Research and Professor for Public law, European law and Foundations of law at the Faculty of Law at Sigmund Freud University (SFU) in Vienna. He visited the University of Cambridge, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and the Central European University. He held a research chair at the Institute of Legal Studies, Centre for Social Sciences at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and was research fellow at Durham Law School. His research focuses on International Constitutional Law, data protection, and Austrian and European public law, especially democratic legitimation, rule of law and human rights.

Laura Pavlidis

Dr. Laura Pavlidis is post-doc university assistant at the Institute for Austrian and European Public Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business in Vienna. Prior she was university assistant at the University of Vienna’s Institute for Constitutional and Administrative Law and then working at the Austrian Constitutional Court.

Andreas Orator

Dr. Andreas Orator is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg. In 2022/23 he has been Visiting Professor of Public Law and International Law at Humboldt University Berlin. Previously, he served as assistant professor at the Institute of European and International Law of WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. Extended research stays include the University of Michigan and the Max Planck Institute of Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. He directs a project on the transformation of the European fiscal constitution after the EU Recovery Plan. His research focuses on EU constitutional and administrative law, especially EU agencies and the European composite administration.