Heinz Barta

Heinz Barta (* 1944 in Aurolzmünster ) is an Austrian legal scholar and emeritus professor at the University of Innsbruck .

Barta studied law at the University of Innsbruck and from 1967 initially worked at the Institute for Civil Law in Innsbruck under Professor Franz Gschnitzer . From 1975 to 1978 he completed a study visit to Munich at the Institute for International and Comparative Social Law. In 1983 he completed his habilitation in Berlin with a thesis on causality in social law. In the same year he was appointed to the professorship in Innsbruck .

Since 2004, Heinz Barta has been organizing regular conferences in cooperation with Robert Rollinger and Martin Lang under the title "Living (ig) e legal history", which particularly addresses research into cuneiform rights . In addition, he works on the origins of European law in ancient Greece, which culminates in a four-volume work entitled "Graeca non leguntur?" The Legal History Prize, which he established in 2011, is awarded to outstanding work on work in this very field.

Works (selection)

• Civil right. Workbook with graphic representations on CD-ROM 5 editions, Vienna 1995–1999.
• Medical liability. Can the historical model of statutory accident insurance serve as a model for modern medical liability? A historical and current sketch of ideas , Innsbruck 1995.
• Causality in Social Law , Westhofen 1983.
• Co-determination and home ownership. Thoughts on the Austrian deficit of co-determination in terms of housing law , Linz 1983.
• Commentary on the Condominium Act , Vienna 1976.

Web links

• Homepage at the University of Innsbruck