Roland Riz

Roland Riz (born May 12, 1927 in Bozen ) is a South Tyrolean politician, lawyer and legal scholar.

Scientific career

Riz closed in July 1948, his study of law at the University of Milan from ( laurea in giurisprudenza) , then joined the legal profession, and subsequently led a large law firm in Bolzano. He taught Italian criminal law at the Universities of Modena and Padua , comparative law at the Ponitificia Universitas Lateranensis , and for more than 30 years Italian constitutional law and autonomy law at the University of Innsbruck . He is the author of scientific publications on Italian criminal law as well as Italian constitutional and autonomous law.

Political career

Roland Riz was elected Vice Mayor of Bolzano in 1957. From 1958 to 1963 and from 1968 to 1987 he was a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies for the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP) . In 1987 he moved into the Senate , to which he was a member until 1996.

From 1976 to 1979 Riz was the first Vice-President of the Justice Committee of the European Parliament ; from 1979 to 1983 he served as President of the Constitutional Committee of the House of Representatives, from 1983 to 1993 as President of the Judiciary Committee of the Senate. From 1995 to 1996 he was President of the Committee for the Reform of the Italian Criminal Code.

From April 1991 to November 1992 he was chairman of the South Tyrolean People's Party, which he had taken over from his long-time companion Silvius Magnago .

Roland Riz was a member of all commissions that dealt with the reform and implementation of the South Tyrolean Statute of Autonomy (Commission of 19, Commission of 13, Commission of 12, Commission of 6; preparatory parliamentary committee for the statute reform of 1972).

Awards and honors (extract)

• Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1996)
• Large silver medal on ribbon for services to the Republic of Austria
• Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class
• Great Bavarian Order of Merit
• Decoration of honor of the state of Tyrol
• Pro Cultura Hungarica
• Grand Cross Sancti Gregorii Magni
• Honorary Senator of the University of Innsbruck

literature

• Klaus Dubis (Ed.): Roland Riz 75: Festschrift . Athesia, Bozen 2002, ISBN 88-8266-186-5
• South Tyrolean Provincial Government (Ed.): Südtirol-Handbuch 1996 . Brochure, Bozen 1996, p. 152 ( online )

Web links

• Literature by and about Roland Riz in the catalog of the German National Library