As is generally true whenever there is a dramatic change in administration of a government having important ties with Austria and the EU, more questions than answers regarding how respective laws, business, processes, economies and relationships, might be affected, become immediately clear.  With the surprise election of Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of…

“The Comfort Derived from its Shroud of Secrecy”  A public discussion and analysis of the tension between the new law’s addressing how a well-intentioned attempt to promote governmental transparency and citizens’ access to information can become frustrated in practice, when legislative and broad-ranging government-interest exceptions rule the day.. “Information Freedom versus Secrecy – How the…

ArbitralWomen, VIAC and KNOETZL conducted the continued workshop on unconscious bias on Friday, 21 October 2016. The program was remarkably well attended by business leaders, government officials and a variety of professional service providers. Speakers discussed how to manage unconscious bias in the workplace and in international arbitration, and demonstrated how to apply this knowledge in the…

On 24 October 2016, Judith Schacherreiter gave a lecture at a conference on banking law at the University of Vienna  on the subject of responsibility attaching to the prospectus in private international law. Dr. Schacherreiter examinded how the prospectus directive has harmonised the obligation to publish a prospectus and established the country-of-origin principle for its…

On October 10, 2016, the Working Group Compliance of Transparency International, Austrian Chapter, hosted a compliance event titled “Awful but Lawful Practices”. Professor Nikos Passas, who teaches at the International Anti-Corruption Academy, provided his key note speech focusing on the need to act in a social responsible way and not only to comply with the…

The European Forum Alpbach which was founded in 1945 by Otto Molden, who had been active in the Austrian resistance movement was held from August 18 to September 3 this year. Each year, more than 4000 people from over 70 countries attend and participate in the European Forum.  The Forum’s events are held in the…

Philip Marsch and his team, including Michael Kienzl and Judith Schacherreiter, through their representation of a pro bono client in an extradition proceeding, have effected an interesting and important change before the Higher Regional Court of Vienna in surrender proceedings (extradition proceedings within the European Union) on the basis of a recent judgment of the…