Curriculum Vitae
Academic Record
Languages: German: Mother tongue; English: (o) very
good, (v) very good; French: (o) good; (v) good; Spanish and Italian:
(o) poor ; (v) poor.
1946-08-18: Born in Graz
1952 - 1964: Primary and High School in Graz
1964 - 1968: Study of law at the University of Graz
School of Law
1966 - 1978: Research assistent, later university
assistant at the Civil Law Chair Graz (Prof. Wilburg)
1969-02-07: Graduation and promotion to Dr.iuris
1970-1974: Post-graduate courses of F.I.E.D.C on
comparative law in France, Spain and Italy
1976: Participation in Session 176 of the Salzburg
Seminar in American studies
1978 - 1983: Assistant, later "docent" at the
Universit of Salzburg School of Law (Prof. Ostheim)
1981 - 1989: Lecturer of Law, European Courses of
McGeorge School of Law, Edinburgh, Salzburg
1982: Admission as "docent" for Austrian Civil
Law and Comparative Private Law
1983: Assistant Professor in Graz
1984: Head of the Department for Private International
Law, Comparative Private Law and Uniform Private Law, University of Graz
School of Law, Institute for Private Law
1984/1986: Visiting Professor, Rutgers School of Law,
Camden N.J.
1988-03-01: Distinguished Professor for Civil Law and
Comparative Private Law, Graz.
1991: Director of the Research Institute for European
Law, University of Graz School of Law
1991: Visiting Professor, Rutgers School of Law, Camden
1992: Organized first of a series of annual Summer
schools on European Community Law for Students of Central-/ Eastern
European Countries (1994, 1996,1998: in Olomouc Cz).
1993-07-01 : Deputy chairman of the University of Graz
Senate Commission on Foreign Relations
1995: Expert elected by the Austrian Ministry of Science
for preparation of Action Robert Schuman
Austrian Member of the Commission on European Contract
Law (Lando Commission)
1996: Expert elected by the Austrian Ministry of Justice
for the evaluation of GROTIUS-programme applications (Justice and Home
Affairs Task Force)
1997, spring: Visiting Lecturer (European Chair) at the
Law Faculty of the Palacky University Olomouc
1999, autumn: Visiting Professor, Rutgers School of Law,
Camden
2000, January: appointed Visiting Lecturer (European
Chair) at the University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
List of publications
Approximately 140 (monographs, articles, comments, notes)
mainly in German on Topics of private law in general, law of civil
liability, harmonization and unification of the laws, private
international law, European Community law.
In English:
a) Monographs
Contract Law - Austria, Monograph, 276 pp.,
International Encyclopedia of Laws (General Editor Prof. Dr. R.
Blanpain) KLUWER LAW INTERNATIONAL, The Hague - London - Boston (1996).
The Uniform Law of International Sales of Goods, in
Campbell, Remedies for International Sellers, UNI 1-UNI 44, Sweet &
Maxwell, London, 1993.
b) Articles (current number of list of articles)
23. Recent Developments of Products Liability Law in
Europe and Nearby, in: Campbell/Rohwer (ed.), Legal Aspects of
International Business Transactions I, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1984,
141-195.
27. General Features of the Austrian Statute on Private
International Law - A Short Comparative Analysis, in: Conetti (ed.),
Current Trends of Conflicts of Laws in Central- Eastern Europe,
Università degli studi di Trieste, Triest, 1985, 61-72.
28. Issues in International Products Liability Cases in:
Campbell/Rohwer (ed.), Legal Aspects of International Business
Transactions II, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1985, 61-102.
29. On the Law of International Sale of Goods: An
Introduction, in: Lafili/Gevurtz/Campbell (eds.), Survey of the
International Sale of Goods, Kluwer, Deveter/NL, 1985, 3-23.
43. Comparative Aspects of Products Liability in Europe
and the United States, in: Hulsenbeck/Campbell (ed.), Product Liability:
Prevention, Practice and Process in Europe and the United States,
Kluwer, Deveter, 1989, 123-141.
48. International Sale of Goods, in: Campbell/Pombo,
Penetrating International Markets: From Sales to Licensing to
Subsidiaries and Acquisitions, Kluwer, Deventer, 1991, 5-16.
52. Austria, in: E. Hondius, Precontractual Liability,
Kluwer, Deveter, 1991, 41-52.
61. Pacemaker Malfunction: The European Legal
Perspective (mit P. Schick), in Atlee et al., Perioperative Management
of Pacemaker Patients (1992) 104-110.
64. Product Liability in Austria, in 15 Comparative Law
Yearbook of International Business, Graham & Trotman/ Martinus
Nijhoff (1993) 87-115.
67. Common Market Draft Directive on Liability for
Defective Products, in Campbell/Kirwan/Fisher (eds.), Consumer
Protection 2000: Public Interest and Corporate Priorities in the 1990s,
Kluwer, Deventer/NL (1993) 337-344
69. International Product Liability, in
Campbell/Campbell (eds.) International Product Liability, Lloyd's of
London Press Ltd., London (1993) 1-20.
71. Product Liability and Liability for Services
Rendered under Austrian Law, in: AISJ/IALS (ed.) La responsabilité de
prestataires de services/Liability for Services Rendered, Paris 1994,
19-36.
77. An Environmental Liability Statute For Austria: A
History of Failures and Delays, 3 Environmental Liability (Sweet &
Maxwell, London) (1995) 106-108.
78. Civil Liability for Pure Economic Loss: An Austrian
Perspective (mit B. Schilcher), in Banakas, Civil Liability for Pure
Economic Loss, United Kingdom Comparative Law Series, Volume 16, (Kluwer
Law Int'l , London - The Hague - Boston) (1996) 149-179.
83. The Implementation of the EC Directive on Unfair
Contract Terms into Austrian Law, European Review of Civil Law 1997,
(KLUWER Law International, Belgique) 135-141.
87. International Law of Non-Contractual Obligations in
Europe (European International Tort Law), in von Hoffmann, European
Private International Law (Nijmegen 1998) 87-114.
90. Contract Law Becomes International: 10 Years of
Experience with the Uniform Law for International Sales in Austria, in:
development and Developing International and European Law, FS Ginther,
(Peter Lang, Franfurt/M 1999) 123-136
91. New developments in the Law of Civil Liability for
Nuclear Damage Spearheaded by Austria: From Privileges to the Nuclear
Industry to a True Protection of Mankind and the Environment, [1993] 3
Env. Liability ( LAWTEXT Publishing) , 81-83.
c. Comments, Notes
(current number of list of comments and notes)
11. New Products Liability Statute in Austria - Nouvelle
loi sur la responsabilité du fait des produits, Austria
Today/L'Autriche Présente, 1989, 12-14.
16. Austria: New Environmental Liability Law in the
Making, [1993] Env. Liability, CS 1.
18. Austria: Economic Crisis causes Further Delay in
Preparation of the Environmental Liability Act, [1993] Env. Liability,
CS 33-34.
19. Austria: The Austrian ordinance on the avoidance and
utilisation of packaging waste and certain remains of goods, [1994] Env.
Liability, CS 1-3.
20. Austria: Federal Statute on the Prohibition of
Burning of Waste, BGBl 404/1993, [1994] Env. Liability, CS 77.
26. The Substance and Machinery of the Acquis in the
Private Law Field: Some Experiences of a New Member State -- an Austrian
View, in Mádl, On the State of the EU Integration Process - Enlargement
and Institutional Reforms, ELTE, Budapest, 1997, 412-416.
Relevant date: 1.11.1999
