Christiane Wendehorst#
| Membership Number: | 4278 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LAW |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://zivilrecht.univie.ac.at/wendehorst |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 - today Chair for Civil Law, University of Vienna (Austria)
- 2013 - today Vice-President of the European Law Institute (ELI), from 2011-2013 Founding Member and Treasurer
- 2014 - today Member of the National Bioethics Commission at the Austrian Federal Chancellery (BKA)
- 2013 - today Member of the EU Law Advisory Board at the Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs (BMeiA)
- 2012 - today Member of the Board (currently Executive Board) of the Austrian Jurists' Association (ÖJT)
- 2016 - 2013 Founding President (2006-2009), Vice-President (2009-2013) of the European China Law Studies Association (ECLS)
- 2007 - 2013 Member of the Board of the German Association of Professors in Private Law (Zivilrechtslehrervereinigung)
- 2000 - 2008 Managing Director of the Sino-German Institute for Legal Studies
- 1999 - 2008 Chair for Civil Law, Medical Law, Private International and Comparative Law, University of Göttingen (Germany)
- 1998 - 1999 Gerd-Bucerius-Chair for Civil Law and Comparative Law in the Baltic Sea Region, University of Greifswald (Germany)
Fields of Scholarship
- Law of obligations
- Succession law
- Family law
- European private law
- Private International law
- Comparative law
- Consumer law
- Digital law
- Medical law
Honours and Awards
- 2013 American Law Institute, Elected Full Member
- 2011 Austrian Academy of Sciences, Titular Member
- 2010 International Academy of Comparative Law, Associate Member
- 2009 Austrian Academy of Sciences, Associate Member
- 1998 Cambridge University Prize for Comparative Law
- 1994 Faculty Prize of the LMU Munich University Faculty of Law
