Franz Merli

Franz Merli (* 1958 in Graz ) is an Austrian law scholar and university professor . Merli has been a professor for constitutional and administrative law at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna since 2015 . Before that he was university professor for public law at the University of Graz from 2006 to 2015 , Jean Monnet professor for the law of European integration and comparative law at the Technical University of Dresden from 1998 to 2006 and professor for public law from 1995 to 1998 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

education

Franz Merli was born in 1958 in the Styrian capital of Graz, where he also began studying law in 1976 . At the same time Merli also studied Slavic Studies , where he also attended the Russian University of Voronezh . In 1980 he became a Doctor of Law ( Dr.iur. ) PhD . From 1981 onwards, Franz Merli worked as a university assistant and university lecturer at the Institute for Public Law, Political Science and Administrative Studies at the University of Graz. In 1994, as a result of his habilitation at the University of Graz, he was granted the license to teach ( venia docendi ) for Austrian and comparative constitutional and administrative law. This was also the time when Franz Merli was able to conduct research as a Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg from 1987 to 1988 .

Professional background

Franz Merli was first appointed to a professorship in 1995, when he was able to accept a C3 professorship for public law at the German University of Heidelberg . During this period he was also a visiting professor at the US Rutgers School of Law in Camden (New Jersey) in 1996 . In 1998, Franz Merli was offered a professorship at the Jean Monnet Chair for the Law of European Integration and Comparative Law at the Law Faculty of the Technical University of Dresden . In Dresden, Merli was instrumental in managing the newly established LL.M. - Postgraduate course in the Common Legal Area Europe responsible. In 2003, he completed another year in this position as visiting professor at the Emory University School of Law in Atlanta .

He taught and researched at the TU Dresden for a total of 8 years before he was called back to his alma mater , the University of Graz , in 2006 . Franz Merli took up a professorship for public law at the Faculty of Law there, where he stayed again for nine years. In 2015 he finally accepted a professorship for constitutional and administrative law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Vienna .

Web links

• Franz Merli's curriculum vitae on the website of the Institute for Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Vienna.
• Interview with Franz Merli in the jusalumni magazine of the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna, issue 02/2015, pages 10-11.