„The great sceptics versus science and the value of law, a Tolstoi, a Daumier, an Anatole France, are invaluable admonitors for stocktaking of oneself. Only a lawyer with bad conscience can be a good lawyer.“

Gustav Radbruch

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Education | Professional Activities | Publications | Honorary Activities


Education

Elementary School and Secondary School in Vienna; Studies of Law at the University of Vienna; thesis "Sexuality, Youth Protection and Human Rights - On the Right of Children and Adolescents to Sexual Self-Determination"; Bar Exams before the Bar-Exams-Commission at the Upper Regional Court of Vienna.

Professional Activities

Legal Assistant at Vienna Courts; Legal Assistant in an Accountant's Firm in Vienna; Candidate Attorney in Vienna; Practical Course in a law firm in Prague; since 18.02.2000 attorney-at-law in Vienna; since 27.04.2000 also admitted in the Czech Republic; lectures and publications on national and international level; Member of the European Group of Experts on Combating Sexual Orientation Discrimination appointed by the European Commission 2002-2004; Co-Coordinator and Austrian member of the European Commission on Sexual Orientation Law (ECSOL) founded in 2005; Director for Europe of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Intersex Law Association (ILGLaw) (since 2000); member of the national Helpline for Victims of Crime (2005-2007); Since 1992 Co-President of the Austrian Society for Sex Research (ÖGS); 1991 co-founder and hitherto president of Rechtskomitee LAMBDA; since 2002 lecturer at the University of Innsbruck (Sexuality & the Law); since 2006 lecturer at the Academy of European Law; since 2011 lecturer at the Vienna Academy of Sexology. Counsel in leading cases before the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECtHR: L. & V. v. Austria 2003, S.L. vs. Austria 2003, ECJ: Tadao Maruko v. Versorgungswerk der deutschen Bühnen 2008, Jürgen Römer v. City of Hamburg 2011 and others) as well as before the Austrian Constitutional Court, the Administrative Supreme Court and the Supreme Court; legal advicer to ILGA-Europe; expert heard by the German federal parliament (Bundestag), the Austrian federal parliament (Nationalrat) and Austrian Ministers of Justice. Temporary Advicer of UNAIDS.

Publications

„Jurisprudence is like beer; at first you shiver, but once you sip at, you cannot abstain“

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1770)

Honorary Activities

„Where law ends, tyranny starts“

William Pitt