Walter Doralt#
| Membership Number: | 7367 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LAW |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://zivilrecht.uni-graz.at/de/ueber-das-institut/arbeitsbereich-doralt/walter-doralt/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2535-1109 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/walter-doralt-a467a9293?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=android_app |
| Publication Link: | https://static.uni-graz.at/fileadmin/_files/_rewi_sites/_zivilrecht/Mitarbeiter/Doralt/Verzeichnisse_Doralt/Publications_EN_Doralt_2025-10.pdf |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2019 Professor of Private Law, European Private Law and Comparative Law, University of Graz
- 2017 - 2009 Senior Research Fellow at Max Planck Institute (Team Prof. Zimmermann)
- 2008 - 2007 University of Oxford, Fellow, Institute of European and Comparative Law
- 2003 - 2000 European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law, ECTIL (Vienna, Austria; Research Assistant to Prof. Helmut Koziol)
Fields of Scholarship
- Company and commercial law
- Law and economics
- Private law
- Comparative law
Honours and Awards
- 2025 Teaching Award of the Law Faculty (University of Graz)
- 2023 Seraphine-Puchleitner Preis (Best doctoral supervision of the University of Graz)
- 2017 Kardinal-Innitzer-Förderungspreis and 2018 VKB-Wissenschaftspreis for the Post-Doctoral Thesis: Long-Term Contracts (published as Langzeitverträge, Mohr-Siebeck 2018)
- 2021 and 2022 Hub of the Year Award European Law Institute (together with Susanne Augenhofer and Christian Koller)
- 2005 Wolf Theiss Award and 2006 the Main Prize of the Investors Association, IVA for the Doctoral Thesis Liability and independence of auditors (published 2005)
