The Young Forum of the Austrian Commission of Jurists offers a Plattform for Young Scholars and Practitioners in all fields of law for dealing with current challenges of law and legal politics in public debate. The Forum contributes to the efforts of the Austrian Commission of Jurists (OeJK), advocating justice, the rule of law and fudamental rights. The Austrian Commission is the national section of International Commission of Jurists that was founded in 1952 and is located in Geneva. Activities of the Young Forum are accompanied by publications on the http://www.juwiss.de/category/junges-forum-oejk/JuWissBlog (mainly in German) to initiate broader discussion.
Climate Change and Human Rights
At the spring meeting of the Austrian Commission of Jurists 2022, three members of the Young Forum ÖJK gave lectures: Maria Bertel spoke on "Rights of Future Generations and Rights of Nature?" , Miriam Hofer shed light on "Climate protection obligations of the legislator" and Teresa Weber analyzed "Rationality and evidence-based legislation".
Law and Climate Change
Schwerpunkt des Jungen Forums ÖJK
Law and Climate Change
Climate change poses many challenges to the law. On the occasion of the opening conference of ClimLaw: Graz (Research Center for Climate Law) in June 2020 at the University of Graz, the Junge Forum der Österreichischen Juristenkommission in cooperation with ClimLaw: Graz has designed a JuWiss-focus week. The various contributions illuminate the complex topic of "Law and Climate Change" from a variety of perspectives.
The contributions - and all other texts of the Young Forum ÖJK - can be read on the Juwiss-Blog. They can be found: here.
Treaty of Saint Germain - 100 Years later
In October, the Young Forum ÖJK was involved in a conference on the State Treaty of Saint Germain and its legacy for Austria and the protection of minorities 100 years after the signing of the treaty. For the Young Forum ÖJK Deva Zwitter (ICJ, The Hague) gave a lecture on the topic: The Minority Education System.
Parallel to the conference Prof. Dr. Péter Sólyom analysed the developments in Hungary and published a contribution on the CPD Policy Blog on the topic: The heritage of the Paris contracts and the autocracy in Hungary.
Family and Diversity
The annual spring conference of the Austrian Commission of Jurists (May 30th to June 1st) focused on "Family and Diversity". The Young Forum contributed with two presentations: Thomas Schoditsch spoke about fundamental rights in civil law and Jürgen Pirker analyzed power and violence in families and the state. Additionally, the Young Forum published a series of international articles regarding the general topic of the conference on the Juwiss-Blog.
Challenges of legal studies from the perspective of science and practice
On September 19th the Young Forum OeJK hosted an event dealing with the challenges of legal education. Structural issues of legal studies were discussed by experts and members of the Young Forum, focusing on requirements defined by science and legal practice.
Program: here.
Data Protection and Privacy
The Young Forum contributed to the Conference of the Austrian Commission of Jurists from 31.5.-2.6. on "Data Protection and Privacy" (Programm) with a speech on an international agreement for the regulation of public observation by Dr. Oskar Gstrein (Gröningen). Additionally, the Young Forum published several articles on data protection on the Juwiss Blog for Young Science in Public Law.
New and Old Minorities
In October 2017, the Young Forum participated in a conference on "New and Old Minorities: Integration, Law and Politics". The Young Forum released a series of articles on the Juwiss-Blog, which deal with current challenges of minority protection in South Tyrol, Quebec and in international law.
Crisis of Liberal Democracy
In May 2017 the Young Forum contributes to the conference of the Austrian Commission of Jurists on the "Crisis of Liberal Democracy".
Legal Politics
The initial event of the Young Forum in Jannuary 2017 is dedicated to the question: "Shall Courts do Legal Politics? Addtionally, the president of the Austrian Commission of Jurists, gives a speech on the Austrian Constitutional Court and its judgements on national elections. Invitation
Steering Committee of the Young Forum OeJK
Steering Committee of the Young Forum OeJK
Dr.in Maria BERTEL
Dr. Oskar GSTREIN
RA Dr. Michael HAIDER
Dr. Florian HERBST
Assoz. Prof. DDr. Jürgen PIRKER
Assoz. Prof. Dr. Thomas SCHODITSCH
RA Dr.in Alexia STUEFER
Ass.-Prof. Dr. Markus VAŠEK
Ass.-Prof.in Dr.in Teresa WEBER
Dr.in Malina WILLGRUBER
Available contributions
Christoph Romirer, Balancing decisions in climate protection law - Interdisciplinary approaches as the key to increased acceptance?, juwiss 2020.
Miriam Karl, Law in (climate) change: On the protection of "legitimate expectations" in the climate crisis, juwiss 2020.
Louisa Parks, Community Protocols and local community participation in international environmental law, juwiss 2020.
Carlotta Garofalo, The strategic role of Courts in advancing climate policy, juwiss 2020.
Andreas Gutmann, The Ecuadorian Chevron Judgement: Blueprint for a neoconstitutional environmental law?, juwiss 2020.
Markus Scharler, Resettlement as a spatial adaptation measure to climate change?, juwiss 2020.
Julian Pekler, Will eco-bonds save the European economy from the corona crisis?, juwiss 2020.
Isabel Staudinger, The European Green Deal: Transitioning to climate neutrality and sustainable development while respecting the rule of law, juwiss 2020.
Lydia Omuko-Jung, A. WTO Rules on Border Carbon Adjustment for the EU ETS: Key GATT Principles, juwiss 2020.
Maria Bertel, Editorial on the focus "Law and Climate Change", juwiss 2020.
Péter Sólyom, The Legacy of the Paris Suburbs Agreements and Autocracy in Hungary, CPD Policy Blog 2019.
Dorjana Bojanovska Popovska, Faith organizations actors in the legislative process? Abortion laws and the "firm no" in the case of North Macedonia, juwiss 2019.
Hannah Mautner, Marriage for all in Austrian, juwiss 2019.
Oskar J. Gstrein, Family and Children in the Digital Age: Creating a safe online environment for children, juwiss 2019.
Monika Stempkowski, Between tradition and open-mindedness - Changes in Austrians' values on family-related issues since the 1990s, juwiss 2019.
Pin Lean Lau, The Impact of the Family Unit on Reprogenetics, juwiss 2019.
Thomas Schoditsch, JuWiss Focus Week on the occasion of the ÖJK Conference 2019 - "Family and Social Diversity", juwiss 2019.
Judith Sikora/Jürgen Pirker, Die Welt im Datenrausch: JuWiss focus week on data protection law, juwiss 2018.
Christopher Giogios, A guest with friends? Transmission of violent offender sports data sets to Russian authorities in the course of the 2018 World Cup, juwiss 2018.
Stefan Kieber, Data protection law and privacy: European Court of Human Rights strengthens individual rights, juwiss 2018.
Felix Krämer, The EU data protection package - about big steps and missed opportunities, juwiss 2018.
Verena-Maria Niedrist, Privacy Shield - the resurgence of Safe Harbor?, juwiss 2018.
Sebastian Piecha, From Strasbourg to Steinheim: The new data protection law in North Rhine-Westphalian municipalities, juwiss 2018.
Bartholomäus Regenhardt, GDPR = vision, illusion or fiction? In the interest of those affected, juwiss 2018.
Peter Ivankovics, Gentle control or manipulative influence? On the possibility of interfering with fundamental rights through nudging, juwiss 2018.
Anna Schimke, Data protection or right of expression? On the role of media privilege on the internet, juwiss 2018.
Oskar Gstrein, Surveillance, Security, Privacy: What direction to reach the end of the tunnel?, juwiss 2018.
Stefan Kieber, Important recent judgments of the European Court of Human Rights on data protection and privacy, juwiss 2018.
Félix Mathieu, Fragile Nations and Interculturalism: The Case of Québec, juwiss, 2017.
Roberta Medda-Windischer, The Nexus between Old and New Minorities, juwiss, 2017.
Marc Röggla, The Autonomy Convention: South Tyrol on the way to a participatory autonomy statute?, juwiss, 2017.
Daniela Pichler, Life and coexistence of language groups in South Tyrol. Effects of autonomy and minority protection on schools and the population, juwiss, 2017.
Jürgen Pirker, "Old" and "new" minorities - old and new challenges for law and politics, juwiss, 2017.
Aiste Myckonite, Russia's Standoff with Europe: Contemporary Dilemmas of International and Constitutional Law. Discussion at the University of Graz, juwiss, 2017.
Daniel Toda Castan, Spain and Catalonia in the Constitutional Crisis, juwiss, 2017.
Markus Scharler, The Soldier Follows - But Whom?, juwiss, 2017.
Claudia Wutscher, Is there an obligation to assume responsibility for financial crises of federal states?, juwiss, 2017.
Theresa Weber, Crisis of liberal democracy - a topic (not only) of the Austrian Commission of Jurists, juwiss, 2017.
Eva Schulev-Steindl and Rudolf Müller, When the courts make legal policy, diepresse.com, 2017.
Young Forum ÖJK, Five questions to ... Dr. Rudolf Müller, juwiss, 2017.
Thomas Schoditsch, Courts as legal policy actors, juwiss, 2017.
Jürgen Pirker, Rechtspolitik durch Gerichte und Wahlen vor dem Verfassungsgerichtshof, juwiss, 2017.