University Professor Dr. Walter Doralt
Walter Doralt has been a professor at the Institute for Civil Law at the University of Graz since 2019. He was habilitated at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg in 2017 (teaching qualification in civil law, commercial and corporate law, private international law, comparative law, legal economics). In 2018, his habilitation thesis was published as a monograph by Mohr Siebeck 2018 ("Langzeitverträge", 554 pp).
He is co-founder of the European Law Institute (ELI). Together with Univ.-Prof. Dr. Susanne Augenhofer, LL.M. (Yale) and Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian Koller, he has headed the ELI Austrian Hub since 2021. He is also a Fellow of the European Center of Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL). Walter Doralt was a lecturer at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and Private International Law in Hamburg (France Department, team Professor Reinhard Zimmermann) and before that a research assistant at ECTIL.
Professor Doralt's work focuses on civil law, corporate law and European private law. His methodological work in these areas also includes legal economics and comparative law (Germany, England, France, Italy and Switzerland). He is Vice Dean and Dean of Research as well as Chairman of the Best of REWI Commission.
Visiting professorships: Université Paris Panthéon-Assas, 2019 - 2024,
Università Bocconi (Milan), 2008 and 2023
Visiting Fellowships or external lectureships: University of Oxford, 2007/2008,
Bucerius Law School (Hamburg), 2013 - 2018.
Languages:
German (mother tongue),
English, French, Italian (fluent), Spanish (basic knowledge)
Awards: Seraphine Puchleitner Prize 2023 (University of Graz, best doctoral supervision at the university), VKB Science Prize 2018, Kardinal Innitzer Promotion Prize 2017, Wolf Theiss Award 2005, Main Prize of the Interest Group for Investors (IVA) 2005, Scholarship Prize of the Graf Hardegg'schen Doktorenstiftung 2005, Merit Scholarship of the University of Vienna (2000, 2001, 2006).
Walter Doralt has been a full Professor at the Institute for Civil Law at the University of Graz since 2019. He completed his "Habilitation" at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg in 2017 (Civil, Corporate and Commercial Law, Comparative and Private International Law, Law and Economics). His postdoctoral thesis(Habilitationsschrift) on Long-Term-Contracts was published as a monograph with Mohr Siebeck in 2018(Langzeitverträge). He was a senior research fellow at Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg (French Law) and previously worked for the European Center of Tort and Insurance Law in Vienna. He is a correspondent of UNIDROIT (Rome).
Professor Doralt is a co-founder of the European Law Institute (ELI) based in Brussels, an International Non-Profit-Association (AISBL). He served on the ELI Council from 2011 to 2015 and 2015 to 2019. He also held the role of Chair of the ELI Membership Committee (2011-2019). Together with Professor Susanne Augenhofer and Professor Christian Koller he currently chairs the ELI Austrian Hub, he also chairs the jury of the ELI Young Lawyers Award.
Main research interests: Civil Law, European Private Law, and Company Law, with methods drawing on Comparative Law (mainly the laws of Germany, England, France, Italy and Switzerland) and Law and Economics.
Visiting Professorships and other visiting positions:
Université Paris Panthéon-Assas, 2019 - 2024
Università Bocconi, 2008 and 2023
University of Oxford (visiting fellowship, IECL and St. Catherine's College), 2007/2008
Bucerius Law School (lecturer), 2013 - 2018
Languages:
German (mother tongue),
English, French, Italian (fluent),
Spanish (basic)
Prizes:
Seraphine Puchleitner Prize 2023 (University of Graz, Best Doctoral Supervisor of the University),
VKB Wissenschaftspreis 2018,
Kardinal-Innitzer-Förderungspreis 2017,
Wolf Theiss Award 2005, Main Prize of the Austrian Investors Association (Interessensverband für Anleger, IVA) 2005,
Stipendienpreis der Graf Hardegg'schen Doktorenstiftung 2005,
Academic Achievement Scholarships (Leistungsstipendium), University of Vienna (2000, 2001, 2006).
