emer. o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Richard Potz
emer. o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Richard Potz
Member of the Centre´s Council
Academic position:
Professor Emeritus of Canon Law at the Department of Legal Philosophy, Religious and Cultural Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Vienna
Career:
1972: Habilitation in the subject of Canon Law at the University of Vienna
1969-70: Research at the University of Thessaloniki, at the Patriachal Academy in Istanbul and at the Papal Instituto Orientale in Rome
1966: University assistant at the Institute of Canon and Ecclesiastical Law of the Faculty of Law, Vienna
1965-66: Court Practice
1961-65: Study of Law at the University of Vienna, Studies of History and Byzantine studies
Tasks:
Advisor of the Pontificia Commissio Codici Iuris Canonici Orientalis Recognoscendo
2007–2011: President of the Society for the Law of the Eastern Churches
2006-2010: Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law
Since 2004: Head of the Postgraduate Programme "Canon Law for Lawyers"
1991-2003: Head of the study commission of the Faculty of Law, Vienna
2001: President of the European Consortium for State and Church Research
2001: President of the European Consortium for State and Church Research
Since 1984: Austrian member of the European Consortium for State and Church Research
Other activties:
Since 2001: Lecturer at the Islamic Pedagocial Academy in Vienna
1997: Visiting Professor in Eskisehir and Ankara
Co-editor of the "Austrian Archive for Canon Law"
Co-editor of „Recht und Anthropologie"
Co-editor of „Kanon – Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für das Recht der Ostkirchen"
Member of the Curriculum Committee of the University of Vienna
Permanent participant at the Iranian-Austrian Theology-Law Conference
Selective bibliography:
with H. Kalb & B. Schinkele: Religionsgemeinschaftenrecht – Anerkennung und Eintragung, Wien 1998
with B. Schinkele: Religionsrecht, Wien 2003, 2. Aufl. Wien 2006 mit K. Korinek, A. Bammer & W. Wieshaider: Kulturrecht im Überblick, Wien 2004
with E. Synek: Orthodoxes Kirchenrecht. Eine Einführung, Freistadt, 2007
Das Islamgesetz 1912 - eine österreichische Besonderheit, Wien 2013, in: SIAK Journal. Zeitschrift für Polizeiwissenschaft und polizeiliche Praxis, Ausgabe 1, 45 – 53
Religion and Criminal Law in Austria, Leuven 2013, in: Religion and Criminal Law, European Consortium for Church and State Research, 13 - 21, with B. Schinkele
Welchen Beitrag kann Religionsrecht zur Integration leisten? Göttingen 2013, in: Religion und Gemeinschaft, 131 - 148, eds (Rothgangel M., Aslan E., Jäggle M.), Vienna University Press
Österreich, wie hast du´s mit den Freikirchen? Überlegungen aus Anlass der Aufhebung der Anerkennung der Herrnhuter, Wien 2012, in: Donauwellen. Zum Protestantismus in der Mitte Europas; Festschrift für Karl W. Schwarz, 183-195
Lokalkirche, Kanonisches Territorium und Diaspora - Eine historisch-rechtsvergleichende Einleitung, Hennef 2012, in: Diaspora (Kanon XXII), 12 - 24
Research in connection with RaT:
Austrian and European Law on Religion
History of Canon Law
Law of the Eastern Churches
Orthodox Canon Law
Islam in Europe
Law on Culture
Legal Anthropology