Venice Commission of the Council of Europe

President, Constitutional Court

1966 Born in Bruck/Mur (Austria)

1984-1989 Studies of laws and business administration in Vienna

1991 Graduation Dr. iur., University of Vienna

1994 Graduation Dr. rer. soc. oec., University of Vienna

1988-1997 Research assistant and lecturer at the University of Vienna, Institute for State and Administrative Law

1991 Member of the secretariat of the European Commission of Human Rights, Strasbourg

1994/5 Research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute of comparative law and public international law, Heidelberg, Germany

January 1997 Habilitation for Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and Comparative Public Law, University of Vienna Faculty of Law

1997-1999 Visiting professor, University of Linz/Danube

1999–2002 Full professor of Public Law, University of Bonn; Director of the Institute for canon law

2002-2005 Ad-hoc-judge at the European Court of Human Rights

2002-2006 Full professor, University of Graz

Since 2005 Judge at the Constitutional Court of Austria

Since 2006 Full professor for Public Law, Business Law and Public International Law, University of Economics, Vienna

Since 2006 Member of the Venice Commission (Vice-President from 2015 to 2017)

2014-2020 Member of the Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the ECtHR (chairman 2019/2020)

2018-2019 Vice-President of the Constitutional Court of Austria

2018/2019 Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

Since 2020 President of the Constitutional Court of Austria

Author of numerous articles and some books in the field of Austrian and German public law, European Law and the Law of the European Convention on Human Rights.