Ferdinand Kerschner
Ferdinand Kerschner (born April 8, 1953 in Amstetten , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian lawyer and professor of civil law and environmental law at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz . Until his retirement on March 1, 2014, he was director of the Institute for Environmental Law and the Institute for Civil Law and Head of the Department for Environmental Private Law. He continues to work at the Institute for Environmental Law, Department for General Environmental Law and Environmental Technology Law.
Life
After taking his school leaving examination in 1971 , Ferdinand Kerschner studied law at the JKU. In 1977 he received his doctorate and worked as a university assistant in the Department of General Civil Law Doctrine at the Institute for Civil Law. In 1984 he was granted the license to teach civil law. After his time as assistant professor, he was initially promoted to associate professor. appointed for civil law. Since 1993 he has been Univ.-Prof. the Department for Environmental Private Law, from 1996 to 2014 he headed the Institute for Environmental Law. From 2005 Kerschner was deputy director of the Institute for Civil Law, from November 2009 to February 2014 he also headed this institute.
From December 1, 2008 to October 1, 2009, Kerschner was Senate Chairman of the JKU Linz.
Since 1994 Kerschner has been the editor of the series Law of the Environment and editor and co-editor of the magazine Law of the Environment (RdU). Kerschner is also co-editor of the 3rd edition of the major commentary on the ABGB (sound).
In 2013, on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Kerschner was given the commemorative publication Interdisciplinary Jurisprudence - Protection Claims and Protection Tasks in Law , published by Erika Wagner and Wilhelm Bergthaler .
Since the beginning of 2016, Kerschner and Peter Bydlinski have been the publisher of the textbook series "Bürgerliches Recht" at Springer Verlag, after Peter Apathy resigned from his meritorious and successful editorial work due to his retirement at the end of 2015.
In 2016, Kerschner was appointed visiting professor at the Charles University in Prague .
Main focus of work and research
- General civil law
- Public liability
- Employee liability
- Right to enrichment
- Compensation for expropriation (property valuation)
- Family law
- Genetic engineering law
- International private law
- Property valuation
- Expert law
- Medical law (especially patient rights, living will, health care proxy)
- Methodology
- Neighbor law
- Natural disaster law
- Expert law
- Environmental Liability Law
- Environmental mediation
- Entrepreneurial business
- Traffic law
- Water law
- Border areas between private and public law
Awards
- 1983 Prize of the Vienna Legal Society
- 1983 Richard Büche Prize
- 1992 Culture Promotion Prize of the Province of Lower Austria, Science division
- 1992 VOEST Prize "Environment and Economy"
- 1992 Science Prize of the State of Lower Austria Promotion Prize
- 1993 Science Award of the Chamber for Workers and Employees for Upper Austria
- 1995 Lower Austria Environment Prize 1994 Category Environmental Journalist 1st place
- 2002 Leopold Kunschak Prize
- 2004 ÖAMTC science award
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kerschner, Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian lawyer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amstetten |