Austrian lawyer newspaper

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Austrian lawyer newspaper

Area of ​​Expertise Jurisprudence
language German
publishing company Manz'sche publishing and university bookstore
First edition 1946
Frequency of publication Fortnightly
Editor-in-chief Gerhard Hopf
Web link www.oejz.at
ISSN 0029-9251

The Österreichische Juristen-Zeitung (ÖJZ) is an Austrian legal journal .

It was founded in 1946 and has been published in uninterrupted fashion in the Manz'sche publishing and university bookstore ever since . Franz Hohenecker, President of the Senate of the Supreme Court , acted as the first editor . It was a dedicated goal to “create an organ which, after a period of seven years of lawlessness, made it its task to awaken the idea of ​​the rule of law and to bring the content of the legislation closer to the general public”.

It is published annually with 24 issues and usually comprises 48 pages per issue, on which the fields of civil law , criminal law and public law are dealt with.

In addition to contributions, important components are the evidence sheet and the compact rendition of the case law with the essential decisions of all national supreme courts , the ECJ and the European Court of Human Rights , some with comments. Further components are book reviews , forum contributions and the rubric “Language and Law”.

editorial staff

  • Gerhard Hopf (editor-in-chief)
  • Robert Fucik
  • Kurt Kirchbacher
  • Hans Peter Lehofer

Evidence sheet:

  • Eckart Ratz
  • Christoph Brenn
  • Helge Hoch
  • Ronald Rohrer
  • Martina Weixelbraun-Mohr

How to quote

Articles from the ÖJZ are usually quoted as follows , in accordance with the " abbreviation and citation rules of the Austrian legal language and legal sources under European law ":

Author or author , title of the article, ÖJZ year, page

Example: Parapatits , The relationship between contract in favor of third parties and instruction, ÖJZ 2012, 341

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catherine Mumelter: The history of the publishing house Manz. Diss. Innsbruck 2001, p. 206.
  2. ↑ In 2014, a part of the articles in this category appeared collected in: Redaktion der Österreichische Juristen-Zeitung (Ed.): Language and Law . Manz, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-214-00809-3 .