🚨 WATCH: A paraglider gets hit by a Cessna 172 near the Austrian town of Zell am See.The paraglider was able to pull her rescue parachute and land safely shortly after the incident on Saturday.According to police, the 44-year-old Austrian
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Petition Summary: Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods from Austria, Taiwan, and the United Arab Emirates
On April 2, 2026, U.S. OCTG Manufacturers Association (“USOMA”), United States Steel Corporation (“U. S. Steel”), and the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC (the “USW”) (collectively “Petitioners”), filed…
Google Signs Global Anti-Scam Accord at UN Fraud Summit
Google says it has joined a new international industry accord aimed at strengthening the fight against online scams and fraud. The announcement was made at the UN Global Fraud Summit in Vienna, where a group of major companies said they…
JKU Linz: Tenure-Track Position for European and International Civil Procedure Law
Johannes Kepler University Linz is currently advertising a tenure-track professorship in “European and International Civil Procedure Law”.
The full advertisement reads as follows:
The Institute of Civil Procedure Law at the JKU’s Faculty of Law is seeking to fill a…
Avantgarde der Geschlechtervielfalt
Der österreichische Verfassungsgerichtshof (VfGH) hat kürzlich mit einem bahnbrechenden Erkenntnis zur rechtlichen Anerkennung der individuellen Geschlechtsidentität aufhorchen lassen. Darin klärt das Gericht eine zentrale Frage, die es in seiner ersten wegweisenden Entscheidung zu Intergeschlechtlichkeit aus 2018 noch offen gelassen hatte:…
CFP: Narrating Justice: Postwar Trials in Memory and Culture
Dhondt on Jurisdiction and Taxation in the Habsburg Netherlands
Frederik Dhondt has posted Jurisdiction and Taxation in the Habsburg Netherlands: The Manuscripts of Goswin Arnould de Wynants, Emperor Charles VI’s Belgian Councillor, which also appears in Handelingen van de Koninklijke Commissie voor de Uitgave der Oude Wetten en …
Scharf, lückenhaft, unterbelichtet
Vor kurzem wurde der Chefredakteur des rechtsextremistischen „Aula“-Magazins in Österreich wegen „Wiederbetätigung im nationalsozialistischen Sinn“ sowie Verharmlosung des Holocaust zu vier Jahren Haft verurteilt – bislang allerdings nicht rechtskräftig. Das Urteil macht sichtbar, dass sich die liberale Demokratie in Österreich…
"This is the open question. When people are doing something risky or dangerous together, how much is one person responsible for the other?"
Said a University of Innsbruck law professor, quoted in “A Woman Froze to Death on an Alpine Trek. Is Her Boyfriend to Blame? A man in Austria was charged in the death of his girlfriend after leaving her behind, in…
Learning from Inadmissibility: The Latest on Climate Change in Fliegenschnee
On 11
December 2025, the Court published its most recent climate ruling: the Fourth
Section’s unanimous decision in Fliegenschnee and Others v. Austria.
This is the latest in the Court’s mounting number of inadmissible climate cases – after Plan …
