Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Elisabeth Brameshuber
Professorship for Labor and Social Law at the Faculty of Law
Contact Elisabeth Brameshuber
Curriculum Vitae:
born 1987 in Graz
1997-2005 Episcopal Seminary and Grammar School Graz
2007-2009 Student assistant at the Institute for Civil Law, Foreign and International Private Law, Karl-Franzens-University Graz
2008 Erasmus study visit, Université de Poitiers, France (acquisition of the "Certificat d'initiation au droit français")
2005-2009 Diploma studies in law, Karl-Franzens-University Graz
2009-2010 Legal assistant, law firm Eisenberger & Herzog, Graz
2009-2013 Doctoral studies in law, Karl-Franzens-University Graz
2013 Defensio, title of dissertation: "Austrian labor dispute law after the Treaty of Lisbon"
2010-2011 Coach for private law, yourTARGET student e.U.
2010-2012 University assistant (Praedoc) at the Institute for Labor Law and Social Law, Karl-Franzens-University Graz
2012 Research stay at the ZAAR (Center for Labor Relations and Labor Law), LMU Munich
2012-2013 University Assistant (Praedoc) at the Institute for Austrian and European Labor Law and Social Law, WU Vienna
2013-2014 Court practice in the district of the Higher Regional Court of Vienna
2013-2014 Legal assistant at Herbst Kinsky Rechtsanwälte GmbH
2014-2014 Associate at the law firm Herbst Kinsky Rechtsanwälte GmbH
2014-2019 University Assistant (Postdoc) and University Lecturer (since 04/2019) at the Institute for Austrian and European Labor Law and Social Law, WU Vienna
2017 Research stay at the IAAEU Trier (Institute for Labor Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union, Germany) and at the University of Oxford - IECL (Institute of European and Comparative Law, United Kingdom), funded by a WU research contract
2018 Habilitation and award of the venia docendi for the subjects "Labor Law and Social Law", title of the habilitation thesis: "The Diligence of the Employee"
2018-2019 Representation of the professorship for "Civil Law, Labor Law, Commercial and Corporate Law, Comparative Law" at the Ruhr University Bochum
since January 2020 Professor of Labor and Social Law at the Institute for Labor Law and Social Law at the University of Vienna
Research areas:
* Employment contract law and its connection with general civil law
* Fundamental rights in labor law
* Collective labor relations, with a special focus on collective (contractual) aspects of the gig economy, as well as on questions of employee participation
* Social insurance of the self-employed, with special consideration of tax law issues and new forms of work