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Tina Rametsteiner receives Stephan Koren Award 2024

Tina Rametsteiner received the Stephan Koren Award 2024 for her dissertation “‘Rights of Nature’: A comparative legal analysis with a particular focus on the ‘Rights of Rivers’”.

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LawGov’s Birgit Hollaus discusses the future role of nuclear energy at Environmental and Climate Movie Days

The City of Baden, the Energy and Environment Agency of Lower Austria (eNu), and Cinema Paradiso hosted the eleventh Climate & Environment Film Days in September 2024.

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LawGov’s Birgit Hollaus discusses major case law developments at Environmental Law Days

The 2024 Environmental Law Days on the topic of “The Responsibility of Companies and Public Authorities in the Climate and Biodiversity Crisis” took place from 25 September to 26 September at JKU…

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Experts discuss legislative impact assessment

According to the Federal Budget Act, legislative impact assessment (German: Wirkungsorientierte Folgenabschätzung, WFA) must be carried out for legislative proposals.

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Päivi Leino-Sandberg on Legal Expertise

Päivi Leino-Sandberg, Professor of Transnational European Law at University of Helsinki, gave a keynote on “Legal Experts and Legal Expertise in EU Policy-Making” on September 12, 2024.

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LawGov warmly welcomes guest researcher Tamás Molnár

Tamás Molnár joined the Institute for Law and Governance as a guest researcher in August 2024.

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LawGov’s Birgit Hollaus discusses legal requirements regarding incomplete science at EELF 2024

LawGov’s Birgit Hollaus participated in the 11th Annual Conference of the European Environmental Law Forum (EELF).

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Habilitation Stefan Mayr

We are delighted to announce that Stefan Mayr has completed his habilitation!

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Congratulations!

Teresa Weber took up a professorship in public law at the Sigmund Freud Private University, starting in July 2024.

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Team victory and best speaker award for WU team at Environmental Law Moot Court

For the second year in a row, victory in the Environmental Law Moot Court goes to WU Vienna.