Robert Kert

Robert Kert (* 1971 in Vienna ) is an Austrian lawyer and university professor . Kert is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law and Head of the Institute at the Institute for Austrian and European Economic Criminal Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business .

education

Robert Kert was born in Vienna in 1971 and grew up in Feldkirch in the state of Vorarlberg , where he first attended elementary school and from 1982 to 1990 the Bundesgymnasium Feldkirch . From 1990 to 1994 Kert studied law at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna . On November 21, 1994, he graduated as a master of law (Mag.iur.).

In 1995, this was followed by a doctoral degree in law, which Robert Kert interrupted in 1995 and 1997 for research stays of several months at the Research Center for German and European Food Criminal Law at the University of Bayreuth as part of a grant from the Federal Ministry of Science and Research . In 1996 he also completed civilian service at the Association for Probation Assistance and Social Work in the area of ​​the Vienna office of the out- of- court settlement of offenses . On 13 July 2001 Kert at the University of Vienna with a dissertation on the impact of European law on the Austrian food Criminal Law for Doctor of Law (Dr. iur.) Graduated .

Professional background

During his doctoral studies and beyond, Robert Kert was employed as a university assistant at the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Vienna from October 1997 to April 2009 . From February to September 2006 he completed a research stay at the Chair of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law at the University of Bayreuth with Professor Gerhard Dannecker . On May 1, 2009, he was appointed assistant professor for criminal law and criminal procedure law at the University of Vienna.

On October 1, 2013 Robert Kert was appointed professor for criminal law and criminal procedure law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business . After Wolfgang Brandstetter , who until then had been head of the Institute for Austrian and European Economic Criminal Law, was sworn in as Minister of Justice in December 2013, Kert succeeded him as director of the institute. Even after Brandstetter's return to the University of Economics and Business Administration in January 2018, Robert Kert remained head of the Institute for Criminal Law at WU.

Web links

• Robert Kert's résumé on the Vienna University of Economics and Business website.
• Presentation of Robert Kert on the website of the University of Vienna.