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

 


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