Elisabeth Holzleithner

Elisabeth Holzleithner (born June 8, 1970 ) is an Austrian lawyer , legal philosopher and university professor for legal philosophy and legal gender studies at the University of Vienna .

Elisabeth Holzleithner at the European Lesbian Conference 2017 6th october 2017

Life

After graduating from the AHS (HIB Saalfelden), Elisabeth Holzleithner studied law at the University of Vienna , where she also did her doctorate in law . From 1989 on, she also studied philosophy and Scandinavian studies (Norwegian) for a few years . From 1991 Holzleithner was employed as a study and contract assistant at the Institute for Legal Philosophy and Legal Theory . She began teaching independently at the law faculty in 1995. From 2006 Holzleithner worked as an assistant professor at the Institute for Legal Philosophy, Religious and Cultural Law. In the same year she was invited to the University of Zurich as a visiting professor . In 2011 he completed his habilitation in the fields of legal philosophy, legal theory, legal sociology and legal gender studies. In 2014 Elisabeth Holzleithner was appointed professor for legal philosophy and legal gender studies at the University of Vienna.

In 2001 Holzleithner was awarded the Käthe Leichter Prize for the women's history of the workers' movement in 2000 (Federal Minister for Social Security and Generations) and the Gabriele Possanner Prize for scientific achievements that are beneficial to gender democracy in Austria (Federal Minister for Education, Science and Research), excellent. In 2017 she received the Frauenring Prize and the Gabriele Possanner State Prize .

Her main research interests are in the area of ​​legal gender studies, and she is considered one of the leading scientists in this field. She performs numerous functions in the field of science management and the scientific community: Vice Head of Studies in Law at the University of Vienna (since 2012), Substitute Member of the Ethics Committee of the University of Vienna (since 2013), Member of the Arbitration Commission of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna (since 2011), Substitute Member of the Arbitration Commission at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (since 2010), disciplinary attorney at the Federal Ministry for Science and Research (2013-2017) and member of the German section of the International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy, Secretary of the Society for Applied Ethics and Social Philosophy. In addition, Holzleithner was a member of the UniFrauenJubel working group for the preparation of events on the occasion of the 650th anniversary of the University of Vienna (2013–2015), member of the arbitration commission at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2006–2011), chairwoman of the working group for equal treatment issues of the University of Vienna (1994–2001), member of the working group for equality issues in the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture (1994–2001), as well as spokeswoman for the Young Forum on Legal Philosophy (1997–2001).

Holzleithner is also a member of the scientific advisory board and the jury

• the magazine for human rights,
• of the juridikum. magazine for criticism right society,
• the journal for legal philosophy,
• the section on fundamental rights of the Austrian Judges' Association,
• by Momentum Quarterly,
• for the award of the Johanna Dohnal Prize,
• the agpro award (working group Gay Professionals),
• von Kritique Jeune - publication competition for queer diploma and master's theses as well as
• Member of the anti-sexism advisory board of the Austrian Advertising Council.

Elisabeth Holzleithner keeps giving lectures on current topics. In 2017 she took part in the first European Lesbian Conference in Vienna. On September 19, 2019, she gave a lecture at the plenary session of the 37th Conference of the Society for Comparative Law at the University of Greifswald on the subject of "Equality and Equal Treatment Today - Concepts and Concepts in Conflict".

Publications

Books

• Elisabeth Holzleithner / Sabine Strasser (eds.): Multiculturalism read queer: Forced marriage and same-sex marriage in plural societies. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2011.
• Justice . A volume in the series utb profile, Vienna: facultas, 2009.
• Law makes sex. Legal Gender Studies. An introduction, Vienna: facultas, 2002.

Articles, contributions (selection)

• Implementation of Art. 5 CEDAW in Austria, in: Schläppi / Ulrich / Wyttenbach (ed.): CEDAW. Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. General comments - Implementation in Switzerland - Implementation in Austria, Bern / Vienna: Stämpfli / Manz, 2016, 439-464.
• "The Game is Rigged": Fictions of Lawyering, in: Hiebaum / Knaller / Pichler (Eds.): Law and Literature in Between / Law and Literature In-Between: Current inter- and transdisciplinary approaches / Contemporary Inter- and Transdisciplinary Approaches, Bielefeld: transcript 2015, 287-303.
• Impossible life. Intergender in Ulrike Draesner's dowry. An essay with interference by Susanne Hochreit, in: Baier / Hochreiter (Hg), Inter * sexual physicalities. Discourse / Encounters in the Narrative Text, Vienna: Zaglossus, 2014, 97-124.
• Human rights and tolerance, in: Schinkele / Kuppe / Schima / Synek / Wallner / Wieshaider (eds.): Law - Religion - Culture. Festschrift for Richard Potz for his 70th birthday, Vienna: facultas, 2014, 205-228.
• Emancipatory law - a queer_intersectional analysis, in: Philipp / Meier / Starl / Schmidlechner (ed.): Intersectional disadvantage and discrimination. Social realities and legal practice, Baden Baden: Nomos, 2014, 103-124.
• What should "we" want? Debates about legally institutionalized relationships, in: Bannwart / Cottier / Durrer / Kühler / Küng / Vogler (eds.): No time for utopias? Perspectives on the politics of life style in law, Zurich / St. Gallen: Dike Verlag, 2013, 169-192.
• Interrogating Exit in Multiculturalist Theorizing: Conditions and Limitations, in: Borchers / Vitikainen (Ed.): On Exit. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Right of Exit in Liberal Multicultural Societies, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012, 13-33.
• Study on Equality Bodies set up under Directives 2000/43 / EC, 2004/113 / EC and 2006/54 / EC - Synthesis Report by Margit Ammer, Niall Crowley, Barbara Liegl, Elisabeth Holzleithner, Katrin Wladasch, Kutsal Yesilkagit, October 2010.

Web links

Commons : Elisabeth Holzleithner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Elisabeth Holzleithner's homepage
• Elisabeth Holzleithner on the website of the Institute for Legal Philosophy at the University of Vienna
• Elisabeth Holzleitner's dissertation “Boundaries: Pornography, Law and Morality”, April 2000
• Smoking debate: Bad air in the living room - donations for the article by Franziska Zoidl in "Der Standard", February 7, 2015
• Von Trampeln und Tschoperln: How stereotypes still favor gender discrimination - Interview in “philtrat. the munich student magazine “, July 11, 2013
• Higher quota of women, more success - guest commentary in “Die Presse”, August 4, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ derStandard.at: Award for rap as resistance and women's history . Article dated April 5, 2017, accessed April 10, 2017.
2. ↑ Ministry of Science awards the Gabriele Possanner Prize . OTS notification dated December 15, 2017, accessed December 17, 2017.
3. ↑ Participation in the European Lesbian Conference in Vienna 2017 (short biography)
4. ^ Society for Comparative Law: Conference program of the conference from September 19 to 21, 2019. Accessed on November 29, 2019 .