Award-winning theses from the 2022/23 academic year
Dr. Antonia Maria Bruneder, BA: A critical examination of artistic freedom using the example of German-language gangsta rap
Dr. Christoph Kölbl: National Legal Protection in EU State Aid Law - An Analysis of Austrian Law with Special Consideration of Private Enforcement
Dr. Lisa Neubauer: Related Party Transactions
Dr. René Renner: Agency and death - At the same time a contribution to the systematization of the 22nd main section of the Austrian Civil Code (ABGB)
Dr. David Michael Schneeberger, BA BA MA: The use of machine learning in administration and the role of the duty to give reasons: An attempt to resolve a tense relationship
Dr. Daniel Sudi: The dissolution of the simple co-ownership community with special consideration of partition execution
Dr. Tobias Weidinger: Crypto assets in insolvency. A private and insolvency law analysis based on Bitcoin
Dr. Lily Zechner: New intermediaries in VAT law using the example of services in the platform economy
Award-winning theses from the 2021/22 academic year
Dr. Erwin Dervić, LL.M.: Residential rent and rent restrictions in a legal comparison - Austria, Germany and Croatia
Mag. Dr. Melanie Maurer: Applicability of Proportionality to Equality Rights Reasoning. A case study of Canada
Mag. Dr. Marielena Plieseis: The statutory default interest according to § 1333 Abs 1 ABGB. On the structure, effect and legal nature of the statutory interest lump sum in the event of default by the debtor with a monetary claim
Dr. Kerstin Waxnegger: Artificial intelligence and criminal law - fundamental questions and legal solutions
Award-winning theses from the 2020/21 academic year
MMag. Dr. Georg Königsberger: Social security law (re)classification of employment relationships in ASVG and GSVG
Dr. Teresa Alexandra Mörth: International Law in Times of Emergency. The Challenge of Regulating Emergencies in General International Law and Human Rights Treaties
Dr. Julia Pick: Liability law aspects in the parallel insolvency of the general partnership or limited partnership and its shareholders
Dr. Martin Udo Sumper: Taxation as the basis for democracy and the rule of law
Award-winning theses from the 2019/20 academic year
Dr. Maximilian Gunther Eder: Selected civil law issues relating to the provision of housing in the sharing economy using the example of Airbnb
Dr. Nina Kaiser: The Center for Interdisciplinary Criminal Sciences - From Hans Groß 's Criminalistics Station to an interdisciplinary "one-stop store" for forensic expertise
Dr. Marcus Schinnerl: The importance of form in European VAT law
Mag. Dr. Lisa Sonnleitner: Evolutive Interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights: A Constitutionalist Approach
Dr. Martin Trummer: The "Hire Purchase" of Real Estate in Austrian Private Law
Dr. Anna Vaclavek: The liability of the gift recipient towards the beneficiary of the compulsory portion (§§ 789 ff ABGB)
Dr. René Manuel Wind, MSc Bakk.: Accompanying control, legal certainty and game theory in tax law
Award-winning theses from the 2018/19 academic year
Mag. Dr. Florian Caks: Potential and Limits of Information as A Means of Consumer Protection: Normative Conclusions from Behavioural Insights in the Effectiveness of Pre-Contractual Information Provisions for Mobile Telecommunications and Financial Services
Dr. Sebastian Gölly: § 2 StGB - Commitment by omission in Austrian criminal law
Dr. Georg Jeremias: The insurer's refusal of coverage according to § 12 VersVG
Dr. Rahim Rastegar: The shareholder action in the GmbH
MMag. Dr. Stefan Salomon: Constructing Europe. A Spatial-theoretical Analysis of the Construction of Territory in International Law and EU Law
Mag. Dr. Christina Schnittler: Training relationships from a labor and social law perspective
Mag. Dr. Anja Stahr, LL.M.: Civil law aspects of the medical treatment of minors
Dr. Sandra Tauß-Grill: International tax authority cooperation in the area of conflict between the protection of secrecy and the public interest in taxation. An investigation in the area of direct taxes
Award-winning theses from the 2017/18 academic year
Dr. Diana Maria Carina Bernreiter: "Bilanzdelikte": Kriterien der Strafbarkeit von Darstellungen in Jahresabschluss und Lagebericht. In particular on the distinction between errors relevant under criminal law and errors found in enforcement
Mag. Dr. Marlene Brosch, Bakk.: Choice of Law and Jurisdiction Agreements in International Family and Succession Law in the EU
Dr. Tanja Guggenberger: The matrimonial home in the post-marital division of property
Dr. Clemens Jenny: Civil procedural law and the statute of limitations. Systematics and organization of the interruption of the statute of limitations through concerns within the meaning of § 1497 sentence 1 2nd case ABGB
Dr. Benjamin Koller: The mitigating circumstance of § 34 (1) Z 1 StGB
Dr. Valentina Diamonde Köllich: Post-marital maintenance in Austria. Justification and assessment de lege lata and de lege ferenda
Dr. Siniša Pejić: Disaster-induced Displacement. The protection of disaster-affected people in international law
Dr. Matthias Pendl: The limitation period for claims for damages of a corporation against board members and auditors
Dr. Chiara Rockenschaub: Deficits and potentials of the water law dispute settlement procedure. A competitive procedure due to the natural scarcity of water resources
Dr. Martina Spreitzhofer: Expropriation in the provincial road laws in the light of the Railway Expropriation Compensation Act as a "general expropriation norm"
Award-winning theses from the 2016/17 academic year
Diploma theses
Stephanie Adelwöhrer: The impact of the ECJ judgment in Case C-137/14 on preclusion in environmental proceedings
Magdalena Byma-Tschmelak: The extension of the protection of sexual self-determination (ieS) in Austria and Germany through § 205a StGB and § 177 dStGB nF
Clemens Coll: The expert witness system from a criminological perspective with special consideration of the Graz School from 1880 to 1920
Hannah Maria Schöffmann: The constitutional limits of the admissibility of inducement legislation in Austria
Florian Seibert: Adoption and women in Roman antiquity
Gudrun Sicher: Taxation of the "Sharing Economy" using the example of Airbnb - Is our tax system still up to date?
Katharina Anna Christine Uran: The safeguarding of the best interests of the child by the child and youth welfare agency and its interim competence according to § 211 ABGB
Heinrich Wallner: Domestic jurisdiction and international jurisdiction for investor lawsuits against states
Dissertations
Dr. Anna-Maria Anderwald: The distinction between sham and avoidance transactions in tax law. An analysis against the background of civil law
Dr. Johannes Peter Burgstaller: Securitization special purpose vehicles in European financial market law. Regulation and supervision in the EU
Dr. Marie-Therese Fritzer: Form and execution of gifts
Dr. Michael Haider: The reimbursement of education costs
Dr. Richard Kettisch: Chain transactions in value added tax
Dr. Meinhardt Schweditsch: A uniform regulatory administrative law? - The homogenization of access to infrastructure networks
Dr. Matthias Zußner: Discretion within the meaning of the law. Fundamental questions of an Austrian discretionary domicile after the entry into force of the Administrative Jurisdiction Amendment 2012
Award-winning theses from the 2015/16 academic year
Diploma theses
Maria Sonja Petra Buchner: Solar energy use in urban areas Part I. Spatial issues. Selected legal issues as a limiting factor in the implementation of solar projects in urban areas
Sophie Ertl: The condominium ownership of the owner partners in the event of death with special consideration of an agreement pursuant to § 14 para. 5 WEG
Gregor Lukas Fischer: The Human Rights Responsibilities of International Non-Governmental Organizations on the Example of FIFA
Iris Sarah Gigacher: The reduction of validity in Austrian and German private law
Ulrich Heidinger: The Einheits-GmbH & Co KG and the possibilities of its international structuring
Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Philipp Hense-Lintschnig: Constitutional and administrative law issues and problems of the Graz police station
Marielena Plieseis: The ABGB regulations on the statute of limitations (§§ 1478-1502): essential content and linguistic revision
Martin Sumper: The taxation of contests in gambling law
Philipp Gerald Suppan: Freedom of religion and protection against discrimination. Strengthening and weakening of religious freedom through GlBG and "leveling up"
Dissertations
Dr. David Gumhold: The volatility of assets in investment advisor liability
Dr. Lisa Maria Heschl, E.MA: Extraterritorial Responsibility. Protecting the Rights of Refugees Beyond European Borders
Dr. Jessica Moser: Forfeiture and Abusive Assertion of Marital and Post-Marital Maintenance Claims - Including General Considerations on Abuse of Rights in Civil Law
Dr. Wiebke Kornelia Peperkorn: The Binding Effect of Decrees in Tax Law
Dr. Zurab Simonishvili: Discharge resolutions in stock corporation and limited liability company law
Dr. Michaela Andrea Zirm: Commencement, exercise and termination of the profession of self-employed pharmacist. At the same time a contribution to the license
Award-winning theses from the 2014/15 academic year
Diploma Theses
Katrin Eichinger: On the contractual penalty in German and Austrian private law
Otto Ferrari: The liability of the vicarious agent towards the injured party
Sebastian Gölly: "NE BIS IN IDEM" - The prohibition of double jeopardy under EU law with a focus on the provisions of the Schengen Convention
Mag. Walter Hermann, Bakk. Bakk.: The Beneficiary in the Case of Prohibited Return of Deposits. Implications from 6 Ob 14/14y
Georg Jeremias: The ABGB provisions on property rights (§§ 353-364 and §§ 423-446): essential content and linguistic revision
Florian Kraschitzer: The potential deadlock of the ECtHR and CJEU - Dublin cases and non-refoulement in Europe. A case study
Michaela Georgina Lexer: Effects of the Working Time Directive on the working time of doctors
Julia Reisinger: The right to an interpreter in asylum proceedings - challenges and opportunities in a globalized world
Chiara Rockenschaub: The prohibition of deterioration under the Water Framework Directive and its implementation based on current case law in Austria and Germany. Discussion and effects of the prohibition of deterioration under the WFD
Martin Schlick: The criterion of bad faith in the settlement of domain disputes (- a comparison of the ICANN arbitration procedure and the .eu ADR)
Martin Schopper: "Hacktivism" - The power of social networks. A (computer) criminal law consideration
Clemens Treiber: Discharge of residual debt in the insolvency of the consumer with comparative consideration of French law
Dissertations
Dr. Marko Kmezić, LL.M. M.E.S.: Europeanization by Rule of Law Implementation in the Western Balkans
Mag. Dr. Philipp Alexander Lindermuth, I.I.L.L.M.: The planning of network investments in the electricity industry
MMag. Dr. Martina Melcher, Bakk. MJur: Services of general economic interest in European private law
Dr. Verena Ruß: The amicable termination of employment relationships
Dr. Elizaveta Samoilova: Cross-contractual agreements of the European Union after Lisbon
Dr. Alexander Scala: Liability problems in the supply of temporary workers
Dr. Johannes Wühl: Majority of security and elimination of individual means of credit security
Dr. Barbara Wurm: Jurisdiction over foreign states in enforcement proceedings
