Team

• EU Law
• Fundamental & Human Rights
• IP & Unfair Competition
• International Arbitration
• Labour Law
• Public Procurement & State Aid

• 1987 Admission to the Bar, Chamber of Attorneys for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland
• 1985 Doctor of Economics (Dr. rer. soc. oec.), University of Economics, Vienna: Doctorate (business administration)
• 1982 Doctor of Law (Dr. iur.), University of Vienna, Faculty of Law
• 1982 Master of business administration (MBA), University of Economics (specialisation in business economics, Vienna)
• 1981 Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of Vienna, Faculty of Law
• 1978 Diploma in Cultural Management (Dipl. Cult.), University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna

• Since 2015 Attorney at LANSKY, GANZGER, GOETH, FRANKL + partner Attorneys at Law in Vienna, Austria
• 2001 – 10/2015 Judge at the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg
• 2011 – 10/2015 Vice-President of Section I of the European Court of Human Rights
• 2007 Re-election to the European Court of Human Rights as a judge
• 2001 Election to the European Court of Human Rights as a judge
• 1999 – 2001 Representation of 80,000 former slaves and forced labourers from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, involving extensive fact-finding missions in those countries
• 1988 – 20001 Legal practice as attorney and founder of Steiner & Witt-Dörring Attorneys at law, Vienna
• 1987 Admission to the Bar, Chamber of Attorneys for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland
• 1985 – 1987 Training to become a lawyer
• 1985 Court practice

• Member of ICMPD’s External Appeals Tribunal
• Deputy President of the International Council of Arbitration for Sport (ICAS, Lausanne)
• Deputy President of the Appeals Arbitration Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS)
• Member of the external and independent Appeals Tribunal of the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD)
• Member of the external and independent Appeals Tribunal of the International Anti-Corruption Acadamy (IACA)
• OSCE Expert for the Human Dimension Mechanism (appointed in 2018 for a term of three years)
• President of the Austrian chapter of the International Women`s Forum (IWF)
• Former Member of the Grand Chamber Working Group
• Former Member of the Status Committee of the European Court of Human Rights
• Former Member of the Committee of the Rules of the European Court of Human Rights
• Former Member of the Judicial Studies Programme, Committee of the European Court of Human Rights
• Former Attendance of several conferences and colloquia on human rights

VISITING PROFESSOR (IN EXTRACTS)

• 2016 Visiting Professor at Hongkong University, Hongkong, China
• 2016 Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, USA
• 2014 Visiting Professor of Yantai University, Yantai, China
• Since 2012 Professor at the Renmin Law University of China, Beijing
• 2012 Visiting Professor at the China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing
• 2011 – 2013 Visiting Professor at the Istanbul Kültür University, Turkey

LECTURER (IN EXTRACTS)

• 2016 Lecturer at Stanford University
• Since 2015 Lecturer at the University of Graz, Austria
• Since 2011 Lecturer at the Donau Universität, Krems, Austria: Courses for Master Students Human Rights
• 2010 Lecturer at the University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, on the Convention and the jurisprudence
• 2009 – 2014 Teaching Austrian judges on the Convention and Human Rights and their application Lecturer at the Renmin University of China, Beijing, on the Convention and Human Rights
• since 2008 Lecturer at the University of Vienna on the Human Rights Convention and the Court (Master Programm)
• 2007 Lecturer in Seoul, South Korea, European Convention of Human Rights and Social Charter

• Steiner, The Rule of Law in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, Conference Strengthening the Rule of Law in Europe: From a Common Concept to Mechanisms of Implementation, 3rd April 2014.
• Steiner, Die Rechtsprechung des EGMW, Fachtagung „Menschenrechte und Behinderung“ im Rahmen der österr. Präsidentschaft des Europarates, 10th April 2014.
• Steiner/Steiner, Impulse aus Straßburg zur Neuregelung der Obsorge durch das Kindschafts- und Namensrechts-Änderungsgesetz 2013 – relevante Rechtsprechung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte, in Perner/Rubin/Spitzer/Vonkilch, Festschrift für Attila Fenyves.
• Fenyves/Karner/Koziol/Steiner, Tort Law in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (2011).
• Steiner, Some reflections on the process which led to the preparation of the European Convention on Human Rights, in Spielmann/Tsirli/ Voyatzis, Melanges Rozakis (2011).
• Steiner, Fair Trial und Strafverteidigung – Verteidigungsrechte des Artikels 6 der Europäischen Konvention für Menschenrechte, speech held on the 18th February 2011 at the „Dreiländerforum Strafverteidigung“ in Innsbruck, published in JSt 2011, 6 ff.
• Steiner, Changes in the proceeding before the European Court of Human Rights in the light of changes following Protocol No 14, in Kicker (ed.), Council of Europe: Pioneer and undisputable guarantor for Human Rights and Democracy, Politicum 108 (2009).
• Steiner, The Strasbourg law in defamatory judgments, in Engel (ed.), Freedom of the media, power of the media and individual protection (2008).
• Steiner, The particular shaping of the European human rights protection of the European Convention on Human Rights and Freedoms, in Hummer (ed.), Austria in the Council of Europe 1956-2006 (2008).