Franz-Stefan Meissel#
| Membership Number: | 6386 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LAW |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://roemr.univie.ac.at/team/franz-stefan-meissel/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9081-1573 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2020 Director of the Advanced Research School in Law and Jurisprudence (ARS IURIS), Doctoral School of the University of Vienna
- Since 2018 Head of the Institute of Roman Law and Antique Legal History, University of Vienna Law School
- Since 2016 Vice Dean of the University of Vienna Law School
- 2010 - 2020 Member of the Advisory Board concerning Art Provenance Questions with regard to the Leopold Museum, Ministry of Art of the Federal Republic of Austria
- Since 2009 Dean of Studies for Doctoral Studies Program in Law, University of Vienna Law School
- 2008 - 2012 Dean of Studies (Diploma Program), University of Vienna Law School
- Since 2007 Academic Director of the international “Sommerhochschule” (founded in 1949), Univie:summerschool European and International Studies
- Since 2005 Full Professor of Roman Law (with particular focus on the evolution of Private Law in a comparative perspective), University of Vienna Law School
- 2000 - 2005 Associate Professor of Roman Law and History of European Private Law, University of Vienna Law School (2000-2005)
- 2000 - 2003 Head of a Project team investigating Austrian restitution measures for victims of national socialism, Historians´Commission of the Federal Republic of Austria
Fields of Scholarship
- Contemporary legal history
- Methodology of law
- Roman law
- Comparative law
- History of private Law
- Art Restitution law
- Private law
Honours and Awards
- 2016 International Award of the University of Vienna
- 2000 Prix Boulvert for the best monograph (worldwide) of a junior scientist in the area of Roman Law
- 2000 Gold medal of the University of Naples Federico II
- 1994 Figdor Award for Legal, Social and Economic Sciences of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
