Michael Rami

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Michael Rami (2018)

Michael Rami (born February 2, 1968 ) is an Austrian lawyer , attorney and constitutional judge. Rami has been a member of the Austrian Constitutional Court since April 11, 2018 .

education

Michael Rami was born on February 2, 1968 and attended lower and upper secondary schools in Vienna. At the Bernoulligymnasium Wien XXII, Rami passed the matriculation and diploma exams in 1987 . He then began studying law at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna . During his studies he worked continuously for the Kreditschutzverband von 1870 . In 1994 the graduation to Magister iuris ( Mag. Iur. ) Followed and the court year immediately afterwards . After Michael Rami had found in 1995 in the legal department of the Victoria-Volksbanken Versicherungs AG a job, he graduated at the same time to also the Doctoral Program in Law and was then in 1997 with a dissertation on the subject of secret protection in civil procedure for Doctor of Law ( Dr. iur. ) PhD .

Professional background

From 1998 to 2002 Michael Rami then worked in Dieter Böhmdorfer's law firm as a trainee lawyer. After successfully passing his bar exam , he has been a registered attorney in Vienna since 2002 and partner of the law firm Gheneff Rami Sommer Rechtsanwälte OG since 2003 , specializing in media law, commercial criminal law and insurance contract law. Since 2002 he has also been a member of the advisory board of the specialist journal “Medien und Recht”. In 2009 Michael Rami was given a teaching position at the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Vienna, where he has been teaching individual courses since then.

At its meeting on March 15, 2018, the Austrian Federal Councilor nominated Michael Rami as the successor to Eleonore Berchtold-Ostermann, who had previously retired for reasons of age, as a member of the Constitutional Court. His nomination was requested by the ruling party FPÖ and decided with the votes of the governing parties ÖVP and FPÖ in the Federal Council. After the appointment by Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen and the swearing in by VfGH President Brigitte Bierlein on April 11, 2018, Rami became the youngest member of the 14-member judges' committee at the VfGH.

Rami's full-time activity as a lawyer was the reason for media discussions in January 2019 about the activity of constitutional judges as a secondary office, after Michael Rami had represented FPÖ members of the federal government as plaintiffs and private prosecutors in two court hearings that took place in two quick succession. Commentators from various media as well as constitutional law experts Heinz Mayer and Peter Bußjäger saw it as a "bad look" in view of Rami's work at the VfGH, while VfGH President Brigitte Bierlein defended the existing regulation regarding the professional activities of VfGH members. At the end of January 2019, Michael Rami finally announced to the Kleine Zeitung that he would no longer represent top politicians in law.

Web links

Commons : Michael Rami  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Benedikt Kommenda: FPÖ lawyer should move into the Constitutional Court. In: DiePresse.com . February 19, 2018, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  2. ^ Attorney Rami becomes the youngest constitutional judge. In: orf.at. March 15, 2018, accessed April 11, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Attorney Michael Rami completes the judges' bench of the Constitutional Court. In: Website of the VfGH. Constitutional Court, April 11, 2018, accessed April 11, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Sebastian Fellner, Maria Sterkl: Mr. Strache, his lawyer and the truth. In: derStandard.at . January 19, 2019, accessed January 21, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Benedikt Kommenda: Blue legal friend over the red line. In: DiePresse.com . January 20, 2019, accessed January 21, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Lukas Kapeller: Criticism of the dual role of Strache's lawyer. In: kurier.at . January 21, 2019, accessed January 22, 2019 .
  7. ^ Philipp Aichinger: Strict rule for judges. In: DiePresse.com . January 16, 2019, accessed January 21, 2019 .
  8. ^ Constitutional judge Rami "no longer represents top politicians". In: DiePresse.com . January 30, 2019, accessed January 30, 2019 .
  9. ^ Georg Renner: Strache lawyer | Constitutional judge Rami "no longer represents top politicians". In: Small newspaper . January 30, 2019, accessed January 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rami, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and attorney
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd February 1968