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• JKU Linz: Tenure-Track Position for European and International Civil Procedure Law

  Johannes Kepler University Linz is currently advertising a tenure-track professorship in “European and International Civil Procedure Law”. The full advertisement reads as follows: The Institute of Civil Procedure Law at the JKU’s Faculty of Law is seeking to fill a tenure-track position for a person with a doctorate/Ph.D at the earliest possible date. The position...

• Avantgarde der Geschlechtervielfalt

  Der österreichische Verfassungsgerichtshof (VfGH) hat kürzlich mit einem bahnbrechenden Erkenntnis zur rechtlichen Anerkennung der individuellen Geschlechtsidentität aufhorchen lassen. Darin klärt das Gericht eine zentrale Frage, die es in seiner ersten wegweisenden Entscheidung zu Intergeschlechtlichkeit aus 2018 noch offen gelassen hatte: ob auch Personen, die sich zwischen den Geschlechtern identifizieren, aber keine somatische Intergeschlechtlichkeit aufweisen, einen...

• Publication and Webinar: ELI Report on the EU Parenthood Proposal

  Yesterday, the Project Report of the ELI Project “

• CFP: Narrating Justice: Postwar Trials in Memory and Culture

  [We have the following CFP.  DRE.] On behalf of the organizers, the Polish Academy of Sciences – Scientific Centre in Vienna, the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw, and the Museum of the Second World War, we invite you to participate in the conference “Narrating Justice: Postwar Trials in Memory and Culture”, which will take...

• "This is the open question. When people are doing something risky or dangerous together, how much is one person responsible for the other?"

  Said a University of Innsbruck law professor, quoted in “A Woman Froze to Death on an Alpine Trek. Is Her Boyfriend to Blame? A man in Austria was charged in the death of his girlfriend after leaving her behind, in a case testing ideas of freedom and responsibility in the mountains” (NYT). The case has...

• Learning from Inadmissibility: The Latest on Climate Change in Fliegenschnee

  On 11 December 2025, the Court published its most recent climate ruling: the Fourth Section’s unanimous decision in Fliegenschnee and Others v. Austria. This is the latest in the Court’s mounting number of inadmissible climate cases – after Plan B. Earth, Metabody, Humane Being, Duarte Agostinho, Carême, Engels, Uricchio and De Conto. The outcome of...

• Austria approves school headscarf ban for girls under 14

  Austrian lawmakers on Thursday voted by a large majority to approve a law banning headscarves in schools for girls under 14, a move that is now facing criticism from experts and human rights groups. The only party to oppose it was the opposition Green Party, which argued that the law is unconstitutional. The ban was...

• Analysis finds problems with Austria’s foodborne outbreak data collection

  An analysis of foodborne outbreak data collection in Austria has found issues with completeness and consistency. A report published by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) shared results of a data flow mapping and analysis methodology applied to Austria’s foodborne outbreaks data collection. It contains information on the steps, organizations, tools, systems, formats, structural and...

• Austria discloses details of multi-country Salmonella outbreak

  More than 40 people have been infected with a rare strain of Salmonella in Austria. The Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) said 49 sick people come from all nine federal states and have been infected with Salmonella Kenya since August 2025. Cases include 29 females and 20 males, with a median age of...

• Austria continues to battle Salmonella outbreak with 72 now confirmed sick

  The number of people sick in a Salmonella outbreak in Austria has more than doubled. The Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) said 72 people are now ill, up from the previous total of 35. Patients were detected between December 2024 and July 2025 and live in eight federal states. 32 people had...

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• Austrian Police Arrest Overeager Photographers in Fritzl Case

  Police have arrested more than a dozen photographers attempting to get pictures of Elisabeth Fritzl and her children, who are at the center of the rape-incest case in a town in Austria. Spokespersons for law enforcement said that photographers were very enterprising, even dressing up as police...

• EU: Advocate General comments on radio and TV in hotel rooms

  Guests entering hotel rooms expect to be able to turn on the TV or listen to the radio. Accordingly, TVs and radios feature in almost any hotel room around the world. However, this commodity has been the trigger for numerous legal disputes in recent years. As always, the quarrel is about money. In...

• General Contractor Sharing Consumer Data With Subcontractor on Home Renovation Job OK Under GDPR Says Austrian DPA

  GDPR permits a general contractor to disclose personal information of the client who hired them for a home renovation to subcontractors, for their purpose of carrying out the renovation as well as for the correction of defects within the scope of the warranty. The legal basis for this is that it is ...

• Unified Patent Court: Protocol on Provisional Application enters into force

  Following yesterday’s deposit by Austria of its instrument of ratification of the Protocol on Provisional Application of the Agreement on the Unified Patent Court, the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union has just declared that the Protocol has now entered into force. Similar...

• Unlocking Success in Commercial Real Estate: Interview By Authority Magazine With Dr. Friedrich Helml

  Aliant Austria’s Managing Partner, Dr. Friedrich Helml, was interviewed by Authority Magazine (a branch of medium.com) on 5 Things You Need to Create a Highly Successful Career in the Commercial Real Estate Industry Today.   The dynamic world of commercial real estate, where innovation, global...

• Publication and Webinar: ELI Report on the EU Parenthood Proposal

  Yesterday, the Project Report of the ELI Project “...

• Immigrant of the Day: Rosika Schwimmer (Austria Hungary)

  Rosika Schwimmer (1877-1948) was born on September 11, 1877 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. In 1897, Schwimmer founded the Hungarian Feminist Association, helped to found Hungarian National Council of Women, later organized the first Women’s Trade Union in Hungary and was a board member in the...

• CJEU: Advocate General comments on radio and TV in hotel rooms

  Guests entering hotel rooms expect to be able to turn on the TV or listen to the radio. Accordingly, TVs and radios feature in almost any hotel room around the world. However, this commodity has been the trigger for numerous legal disputes in recent years. As always, the quarrel is about money. In...

• Austria sees continued decline in foodborne outbreaks

  The number of foodborne outbreaks in Austria continues to decline with only 52 reported in 2018. This figure was 69 in 2017, 80 in 2016 and 368 a decade ago, according to a report from the Federal Ministry for Labour, Social Affairs, Health and Consumer Protection (BMASGK) and Austrian Agency for...

• Unified Patent Court: Protocol on Provisional Application enters into force

  Following yesterday’s deposit by Austria of its instrument of ratification of the Protocol on Provisional Application of the Agreement on the Unified Patent Court, the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union has just declared that the Protocol has now entered into force. Similar...