Anna Sporrer

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Anna Sporrer (born July 7, 1962 in Mödling ) is an Austrian legal scholar and judge . She has been Vice President of the Austrian Administrative Court since January 2014 .

education

Anna Sporrer was born on July 7, 1962 in the Lower Austrian town of Mödling . From 1983 to 1990, she first completed her degree in law at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna, followed by a doctorate there. At the same time, in 1990 she also completed a six-month legal practice at the Youth Court and the District Court of Vienna Inner City. Finally, in March 1995, Sporrer was awarded a dissertation on the subject of “Equal rights and the principle of equality - equal treatment and the advancement of women from the point of view of constitutional and European law”Doctor of Law (Dr. iur.) PhD .

Professional background

Shortly before her doctorate and afterwards, Anna Sporrer worked as a lecturer at the University of Vienna , including at the Institute for Constitutional and Administrative Law and at the Institute for Political Science. During her doctoral studies, she also worked as a constitutional assistant at the Constitutional Court until the end of 1993 and from 1994 to 1995 as a research assistant at the Federal Administration Academy in the “European Academy” course. In May 1995, the Federal Chancellor entrusted Sporrer with the chairmanship of the Equal Treatment Commission in accordance with Section 3 of the Federal Act on Equal Treatment of Women and Men in Working Life. In 1996, he switched to the constitutional service of the Federal Chancellery , where Sporrer, as a legal trainee lawyer, was responsible for the areas of “Constitutional and Community Law Matters of Financial Law and Monetary Union” and “Constitutional and Community Law Aspects of Labor and Social Law”.

From 2004 to 2008 Anna Sporrer was on leave of absence from public service in order to be able to devote herself to training as a lawyer. She was a trainee lawyer until June 2008, passed the bar exam in July 2008 and then worked as a lawyer until the end of the year. On December 31, 2008, she waived her right to practice law and returned to the constitutional service at the beginning of 2009. There she was subsequently deputy head of the department , where she was responsible for coordinating departments V / 5 (international affairs and other administrative matters, in particular international human rights protection, home affairs, justice, labor and social law), V / 6 (national minority matters), as well as V / 8 (commercial law matters, especially financial law, commercial law and procurement law).

From September 2010 to April 2011, Sporrer was the office manager of Federal Minister Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek , but in May 2011 she switched back to her previous position in the constitutional service . From January 2012, she also took over the management of the department for commercial law matters. In January 2014 Anna Sporrer was finally appointed Vice-President of the Administrative Court and thus a judge at one of the three Austrian supreme courts. Since 2015 she has also been a lecturer at the University of Vienna as part of the university course European Studies for the course “Gender, Law and Social Policy in the European Union”.

Until 2017 she was a member of the bioethics commission at the Federal Chancellery .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b President of the Administrative Court is a member of the ÖVP. In: derStandard.at . July 25, 2013, accessed November 5, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Bioethics Commission is newly appointed in July: Four new members in the advisory body for the Federal Chancellor . OTS notification dated June 27, 2017, accessed June 28, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Sporrer, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian legal scholar, Vice-President of the VwGH
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Mödling