Elisabeth Steiner (lawyer, 1956)

Elisabeth Steiner 2014

Elisabeth Steiner (born March 21, 1956 in Vienna ) is an Austrian lawyer . From 2001 to 2015 she worked as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights .

Life

Steiner first studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and graduated in 1978 with a degree in cultural management. Then she decided to study law at the University of Vienna . There she received her doctorate in 1981. After studying business administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration , she obtained her master's degree in 1982 and her doctorate in 1985 in social and economic sciences.

From 1987 she practiced as a lawyer in Vienna, until 2001 in a partnership with Daniela Witt-Dörring as a trusted lawyer of the ÖAMTC . She also took over u. a. representing tens of thousands of former forced laborers from Ukraine , Belarus and Russia who negotiated compensation with the Austrian federal government .

In April 2001 she was elected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to succeed Willi Fuhrmann as judge at the European Court of Human Rights . She received 127 of 174 votes and prevailed against the diplomats Elisabeth Bertagnoli and Jutta Stefan-Bastl . She took office on November 1, 2001. She put aside her participation in the law firm “ Lansky , Steiner & Partner” in order to preserve her independence (Art. 21 Para. 3 ECHR ).

Elisabeth Steiner is a lecturer at the University of Vienna and the Danube University Krems. As part of her teaching at Kültür University in Istanbul , she participated in the preparatory work for a Sino-European institute for human rights . Elisabeth Steiner is also a lecturer at the Renmin Law School in Beijing , where she was also involved in the design of an internship program for Chinese students at the ECHR.

In 2007, Elisabeth Steiner was re-elected as Austrian judge at the European Court of Human Rights for a further six-year term and prevailed over Ursula Kriebaum and Stefan Rosenmayr. In addition to her office as judge, she was Vice-President of Section 1 at the Court of Justice in administrative matters. Her term of office at the Court ended on October 31, 2015, when Gabriele Kucsko-Stadlmayer was appointed her successor .

Works

• The Rule of Law in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. Conference : Strengthening the Rule of Law in Europe. From a Common Concept to Mechanisms of Implementation. April 3, 2014. University of Innsbruck, Department of European Law and Public International Law.

• The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights. Symposium "Human Rights and Disability" within the framework of the Austrian Presidency of the Council of Europe. April 10, 2014, Vienna, Hofburg.

• Impulses from Strasbourg for the reorganization of custody through the Childhood and Name Rights Amendment Act 2013 - relevant case law of the European Court of Human Rights. In: Stefan Perner : Festschrift for Attila Fenyves. Verlag Österreich , Vienna 2013. ISBN 978-3-7046-6474-7 . Pp. 361-378.

• Just Satisfaction under Art 41 ECHR: A Compromise in 1950 - Problematic Now. In: Attila Fenyves , Ernst Karner, Helmut Koziol , Elisabeth Steiner: Tort Law in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights . In series: Tort and Insurance Law Volume 30. Electronic Resource. De Gruyter Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3-11-026000-7 . Pp. 3-27.

• Some reflections on the process which led to the preparation of the European Convention on Human Rights. In: Dean Spielmann , Marialena Tsirli, Panayotis Voyatzis: La Convention européenne des droits de l'homme, un instrument vivant / The European Convention on Human Rights, a living instrument: Mélanges en l'honneur de / Essays in Honor of Christos L. Rozakis . Bruylant Verlag, Brussels 2011. ISBN 978-2-8027-3499-4 .

• Fair Trail and Criminal Defense - Defense Rights of Article 6 of the European Convention for Human Rights. Lecture at the “1. Three-Country Forum on Criminal Defense ”, February 18, 2011. Innsbruck. In: Effective Criminal Defense. 1. Three-Country Forum on Criminal Defense. Innsbruck, 18./19. February 2011. Series of publications of the Association of Austrian Criminal Defense Lawyers ZDB -ID 2127808-8 . Volume 18. ISBN 978-3-7083-0778-7 . Pp. 15-38.

• Changes in the proceedings before the ECHR in the light of the innovations of the 14th Additional Protocol. In: Renate Kicker (Ed.): Council of Europe: Pioneer and indispensable guarantor for human rights and democracy. In the series: Association for Politics and Contemporary History in Styria (Hrsg.): Politicum. Volume 30, No. 108. Graz, May 2009. ISSN  1681-7273 . Pp. 39-44.

• The special form of the European human rights protection of the European Convention for Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms - using examples from the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. In Waldemar Hummer (Ed.): Austria in the Council of Europe 1956-2006: Balance of 50 years of membership. Böhlau, 2008. ISBN 978-3-205-77650-5 . Pp. 493-550.

literature

• Peter Wrabetz: Austria's lawyers past and present. 2nd Edition. Publishing house Austria. Vienna 2008. ISBN 978-3-7046-5269-0 .

Web links

• Candidates for the 2007 judge election

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Law firm Steiner-Witt-Dörring until 2001 (accessed March 18, 2015).
2. ↑ Elisabeth Steiner succeeds Willi Fuhrmann . News from April 26, 2001 in the Wiener Zeitung
3. ↑ Lecture in Vienna and Strasbourg ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed March 8, 2015).  
4. ↑ Lecturer at the Department for European Integration and Business Law (accessed March 8, 2015).
5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Elisabeth Steiner, Bahri Öztürk, Hans-Heiner Kühne : Draft for the establishment of a Chinese-European Human Rights Institute. (accessed March 8, 2015). 
6. ↑ China's and European Human Right. (accessed March 8, 2015).
7. ^ Judge Elisabeth Steiner and Her companions from the European Court of Human Rights Visit RUC Law School (accessed March 8, 2015).
8. ^ Sections of the ECHR . (accessed March 8, 2015).
9. ↑ ECHR: Kucsko-Stadlmayer becomes Austria's judge, daily newspaper Die Presse . April 21, 2015.