Harald Eberhard’s research focuses mainly on issues at the crossroads of constitutional and administrative law, at both the national and international level.

In close to 100 publications, Harald Eberhard deals with major topics in constitutional and administrative law, public economic law, and their relation to European law. He has a particular interest in the areas of international and comparative constitutional law, as well as administrative law.

Before coming to WU as a professor, he held a visiting professorship at the Insitute of Austrian and European Public Law at WU. Harald Eberhard has also worked at the Austrian Constitutional Court for several years, where he was responsible – as a member of the steering committee – for establishing the legal sciences division.

Professor Eberhard completed his law studies in Vienna and earned a doctorate in law at the University of Vienna Law School in 2002 for his work on public administrative treaties. He started his academic carrier at the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law of the University of Vienna Law School. In 2010, he earned his venia docendi from the University of Vienna for his analysis of non-territorial self-government bodies.

Harald Eberhard is co-editor of the International and Comparative Public Law Series (Facultas/NOMOS Verlagsgesellschaft), and of the Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law (ICL-Journal). Furthermore, he is the editor of the Austrian Journal for Administrative Sciences (ÖVwBl) and is a member of the steering committee of the Austrian Society of Administrative Sciences (ÖVG), the executive committee of the Austrian Society of Legislative Matters (ÖGGL), and the Scientific Advisory Board of the “Spektrum der Rechtswissenschaften”.