Our REWI Circles
New ideas and pioneering initiatives are an expression of the Faculty of Law's promise to provide its students with the best possible preparation for the challenges of the job market. With your support, you will help us to make our students' time at our faculty even more productive - with improved infrastructure, exceptional excursions and a mentoring and excellence program that has no need to shy away from international comparison.
Become part of one of our REWI Circles, e.g. the
Leopoldine Schmidt Circle
Leopoldine Schmidt was the first at the University of Graz: on July 14, 1923, the 25-year-old received her doctorate in law. While the majority of law students today are women, 100 years ago there were only a handful. The path for women to enter law faculties was a long one: it would take 19 years from the first application in 1900 before women were allowed to study law - in contrast, female students were admitted to the faculties of philosophy from 1897 and to the medical faculties from 1900.
Our current members of the Leopoldine Schmidt Circle are
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Austrian Standards
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Grazer Wechselseitige Insurance
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Province of Styria
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SCHIMA | MAYER | STARLINGER Attorneys at Law
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Styrian Chamber of Commerce
Ota Weinberger Circle
The National Socialists persecuted him as a Jew, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia wanted to prevent him from advancing. Nevertheless, the democrat Ota Weinberger, who survived four years in a concentration camp, became a professor of law - and an outstanding member of our university. He headed the Institute for Philosophy of Law at our faculty from 1972 to 1989 and was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1994.
Our current members of the Ota Weinberger Circle are:
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Baker McKenzie Attorneys at Law
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EISENBERGER Attorneys at Law
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Energie Steiermark AG
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Niederhuber & Partner Attorneys at Law
Walter Wilburg Circle
And it does move! Walter Wilburg's "movable system", which is used in the assessment of contractual and tortious liability, serves to weigh overlapping and conflicting legal principles and then apply them accordingly. The eminent civil law lecturer was a full professor at our faculty from 1945, then Dean of REWI Uni Graz a total of seven times and also Rector of our university. He often held his fascinating lectures only based on a few lines scribbled on a tiny piece of memo paper, and his appreciative approach towards everyone stuck in the memory of his collagues and students. Numerous honorary doctorates and distinctions testify to his high reputation in German-speaking jurisprudence.
Our current members of the Walter Wilburg Circle are:
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Muhri & Werschitz Attorneys at Law
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Rabel & Partner Chartered Accountants and Tax Consultants
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Styrian Bar Association
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Hellwig Torggler, Honorary Professor for Commercial and Tax Law of REWI Uni Graz
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Best-of-REWI Top 3 2022/23:
Anna Deopito, Carina Stefanie Piber and Jakob Mühlbacher
