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  • The Theory of Seperability in Austrian Arbitration Law: Is it on stable Pillars ?, Arbitration International 2017 (in print)
  • Austrian Handbook on Arbitration (with M. Schauer and A. Deixler-Hübner, 2018
  • Handbook on Choice of Forum and Arbitration Clauses in International Commerce (with R. Geimer, 2017);
  • The Law Applicable to the Arbitration Agreement, Austrian Yearbook on International Arbitration, 2015, 130;
  • Applying the Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Contracts in International Arbitration, FS Schnyder (2017);
  • Recognizing Court Decisions vacating Arbitral Awards: A re-birth of bilateral Treaties on the Enforcement of Judgements in Europe, FS Geimer II (2017), 45;
  • Arbitration Clauses in Testaments, in Schurr/Umlauft, FS Bernhard Eccher (2017), 275ff;
  • Waiving the Right to challenge the Award under Austrian Law, JBl 2016, 69;
  • The Jurisprudence oft he Supreme Court in Arbitral Matters, ÖJZ 2016, 1000;
  • Determining the Applicable (substantive) Law in Arbitration, wbl 2016, 301;
  • Shareholder and third Party Beneficiary in Arbitration Proceedings, in: Schurr (Hrsg), Handbuch Asset Protection (2015);
  • The International M&A Transaction before the Arbitrator, GeS 2014, 63.
  • Arbitration Agreements in Austrian Corporations, SchiedsVZ 2014, 86
  • The Consumer in the Arbitration Agreement: Applicable Law, RdW 2014, 251
  • Vacating an Arbitral Award for Lack of Due-Process under Austrian Law, JBl 2014, 295;
  • Determining the Proper Law in Arbitration: National Conflicts of Law or Rome-I Regulation ? wbl 2013, 554;
  • The New York Arbitration Convention and Arbitration involving Trusts and Foundations, LJZ 2012, 59
  • No Need for the Translation of Foreign Arbitral Awards, RdW 2012, 649
  • Liechtenstein under the New York Arbitration Convention, News & Jus 2012, 17
  • The Law Applicable to the Arbitration Agreement in Transnational Contracts, ZVglRWiss (111), 2012, 429
  • The New Liechtenstein Law on Arbitration, RIW 2012, 751
  • Commentary to the New York Arbitration Convention (2007)
  • Choice of Law Clauses in International Arbitration, wbl 2004, 458
  • Jurisprudence of the Austrian Supreme Court in Arbitration Cases, ÖJZ 2016, 1000.
  • Mandatory Provisions before the Arbitral Tribunal and the Rome-I Regulation, RIW 2016, 701.
CONFLICTS OF LAWS
  • Determining the Applicable Law in International M&A Transactions, in: Althuber/Schopper, Handbuch Unternehmenskauf (2014)
  • Choice of Law Agreements in Austrian Conflicts of Law, ZfRV 2013, 157;
  • Aspects of Transnational Trusts in Liechtenstein, LJZ 2006, 110
  • Austrian Corporate Law and the US Notary Public, GesRz 2002, 19
  • Collaterals in International Banking, ÖBA 2000, 361
  • Commentary to the Rome Contracts Convention (2001)
  • The Rome Convention: New International Private Law for Transnational Contracts in Austria, ÖJZ 1998, 681
  • Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG): Adapting the Choice of Law to the Needs of the Parties, Wbl 1997, 230
INTERNATIONAL LITIGATION
  • Commentary to the Brussels Convention on International Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Judgments in Europe (1st Ed. 1997, 2nd Ed. 2003, third Ed. 2009, fourth Ed 2015)
  • New Aspects in Austrian-American Litigation by the Hague Choice of Forum Convention, wbl 2012, 309;
  • International Procedural Law in Trusts and Estates, in Gruber/Kalss/Müller/Schauer, Trusts and Estates (2010)
  • Lex Solutionis in the European International Civil Procedure (wbl 2002, 337)
  • Austrian-American Transnational Dispute Settlement, JBl 2002, 613
  • Enforcing Foreign Judgments and Awards in the people’s Republic of China, RIW 1995, 650,
  • Enforcing Austrian Judgments in the United States of America, wbl 1995, 10
  • Jurisdiction in rem under the European Judgment Convention, AnwBl 1996, 286
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY LAW
  • European Law of Jurisdiction and Private International Law for Transnational Banking Contracts (ÖBA 1998, 661)
  • Legal Problems of Transnational Retail Banking in the European Union, ÖBA 2006, 873
  • Developments of Austrian Commercial Law after the Accession to the European Union, RIW 2000, 265
  • New Aspects of Transnational Dispute Settlement after the Accession of Austria to the European Judgments Convention (JBl 1998, 745)
  • Enforcing Foreign Awards in the People’s Republic of China, RIW 1995, 650
Memberships
  • New York State Bar Association
  • German Academic Association for International Procedural Law
VARIOUS
  • Handbook on Austrian Contract law (2007, 2nd 2017, 3rd 2019)
  • Law studies completed in Innsbruck, Tübingen and New York
  • Honorary Professor at the University of Innsbruck
  • Lecturer at the University of Liechtenstein
  • Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London)
  • Various publications in the areas of international contract law, international civil procedure and European law
  • Admitted as a lawyer in Austria, Italy and the Principality of Liechtenstein
  • Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Fellow Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
  • Member of ICC Institute of World Business Law
  • For further information, visit www.schiedsrichter.at

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