!!Helmut Koziol - Curriculum vitae
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Helmut Koziol is currently Managing Director of the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law. He was born in 1940 in Vienna and, after graduating (Dr. iuris) from the University of Graz in 1963, he worked as an assistant at the Law Faculty in Bonn. Helmut Koziol returned to Austria in 1967 when he became Professor of Private Law at the University of Linz (1967–1969), subsequently being offered a chair at the University of Vienna which he held until 2000. 
His main fields of legal research include Tort Law and Banking Law.