Joseph Marko

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Joseph Marko (born April 2, 1955 in Wagna / Leibnitz ) is an Austrian legal scholar and political scientist .

Education and career

Marko studied law and translation / interpreting at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz and graduated as Dr. iur. as well as an MA in English. Since 1974 he has been a member of the Catholic student association KÖHV Carolina Graz in the ÖCV . After postgraduate studies at the University of Munich in the fields of political science and sociology, he returned to Graz, became a university assistant and assistant professor and completed his habilitation in 1994. He has a venia docendi for " General State Doctrine , Austrian and Comparative Constitutional Law and Political Science ". Since 2006, Marko has been a full professor at the Institute for Austrian, European and Comparative Public Law, Political Science and Administrative Studies at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. In the past, Marko has often taught as a visiting professor at various universities around the world. In 2008 he founded the interdisciplinary competence center Southeast Europe (today the Center for Southeast European Studies) at the University of Graz. In addition, Marko is the head of the EURAC Institute for Minority Rights in Bozen / Bolzano in South Tyrol. From 2011 to 2016 Marko held the office of Dean of the Faculty of Law.

Other functions

  • 1997 to 2002 International Judge at the Constitutional Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina, appointed by the President of the European Court of Human Rights
  • 1998–2002 and 2006–2008 member of the Advisory Committee of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe under the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
  • 2007 Political Advisor to the High Representative and the EU Special Representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina, Dr. Christian Schwarz-Schilling, commissioned by the Austrian Federal Government
  • Since 2016 Legal Consultant of the Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General on Cyprus
  • 2017 Collaboration with the High Commissioner on National Minorities in the Graz Recommendations on Access to Justice and National Minorities
  • From 2008 he was a member of the University Council of the Medical University of Graz
personal data
SURNAME Marko, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian legal scholar and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Wagna , Leibnitz