Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stefan Hammer
Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stefan Hammer
Academic position:
Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stefan Hammer
Career:
2004: Habilitation treatise (Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Legal Philosophy) at the University of Vienna: „Wissenschaftsfreiheit und Universität“
1981: Graduation Dr. iur.
1975-1980: Studies of Law and Oriental and Islamic Studies at the University of Vienna
Employments:
since 2011: Guest professor at the University Paris Descartes - Paris V (History of Constitutional Legality, Federalism and the relation between State and Religion in Central Europe)
2007: Appointment to permanent guest professor of Constitutive Law at the Bratislava University of Law, Slovakia
2004: Nomination to ao. University Professor at the University of Vienna
1995: Exchange professor at the University of Kansas School of Law
since 1994: Assistant professor at the Department of State- and Administrative Law at the University of Vienna
1989-90: 16 months months at the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Office of International Law), deputy leader of the Department of Human Rights
1986-87: 13 months at the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Office of International Law); Austrian delegate at international conferences, esp. concerning human rights
since 1979: Assistant at the Department of State Law and Administrative Law at the University of Vienna, since then teaching of Public Law
Other activities:
since 2014: Mandatory teaching assignment in the context of LLM programme for employees in the Ethiopian Department of Justice in Addis Abbaba and at the Universities of Mekelle and Ziway (foundation course „Rule of Law and Constitutionalism“, "Legal Theory", advanced courses "Bill of Rights", "Federalism")
since 01.10.2020: Substitute member of the Ethics Committee of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna.
2012 - 2020: Advisory Board member of the International Development Law Organisation, Rome (IDLO)
2014 - 2019 Ombudsperson and Chair of the Ombuds Office of the University of Vienna for Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice.
since 2009: Coordination of the bilateral Dialog conference with Indonesia and Iran concerning questions about political justice, human rights and religious pluralism
2009-2010: Organisation of a cooperation Project between the Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna and the Faculty of Political Science at the University Sarajevo about constituional reforms in Bosnia
2006-2007: Research projects on behalf of the Forum of Federations (Ottawa, Kanada), about „Außenbeziehungen im Bundesstaat“ (Vienna) and „Intraföderale Beziehungen“ in the course of the IV.World Congress on Federalism (New Delhi)
1994: Election observer of the UN at the first free elections in South Africa
since 1989: Austrian delegate at international conferences concerning human rights, esp. CSCE
1988-89: Five months as visiting researcher at the University of Dakar (Senegal)
Main focus of research:
Comparative and European Constitutional Law, esp. Federalism
Political Philosophy, Theory of Constitution and Law
Human rights and constitutionalism in intercultural perspective
Basic rights
Selective bibliography:
Politische Säkularität heute, in: Menschenrechte und Gerechtigkeit: Beiträge aus Religion, Theologie, Ethik, Recht und Wirtschaft. Festschrift für Ingeborg G. Gabriel. Klissenbauer, I., Gassner, F., Steinmair-Pösel, P. & Kirchschläger, P. G. (Hrsg.). Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2020, 293-305
Sozialkontrakt und Vertragsbegriff, in: Festschrift für Thomas Simon zum 65. Geburtstag, Land, Policey, Verfassung, Verlag Österreich, 2020, 93-112
Die Aleviten im österreichischen Religionsrecht - ein Kampf um Anerkennung. Der schwere Abschied vom Ausschließlichkeitsgrundsatz, in: Österreichisches Archiv für Recht und Religion, 65. Jhg./2018, Bd. 1, 1-17, erschienen 2019. https://www.univie.ac.at/recht-religion/archiv/
Kommentierung des Art 17 Abs StGG (Wissenschaftsfreiheit) in: Korinek/Holoubek (eds.), Bundesverfassungsrecht – Text und Kommentar, Lfg 2016.
Öffentliche Religionen zwischen Kulturalismus und säkularer Vernunft, in: Appel/Guanzini (eds.), Europa mit oder ohne Religion? II, 2016, 167-180.
Zur konfessionellen Bindung der Theologie aus Sicht der Wissenschaftsfreiheit, Wien 2014, in: Schinkele et. al., Recht Religion Kultur - Festschrift für Richard Potz zum 70. Geburtstag (2014), 117-132.
Rechtswissenschaft als Argumentation, in: Busch/Konrath, Schreib Guide Jus, 3. edition 2013, 20-32 (2. edition 2006, 103; 1. edition 2002, 67).
Ed: Religious Pluralism and Religious Freedom, Religions, Society and the State in Dialogue, Contributions to the Austrian-Indonesian Dialogue (with Fatimah Husein), Wien-Yogyakarta 2013.
Menschenrechte – Weltethos – Menschenpflichten, in: Pelinka (ed.), Weltethos und Recht, 2011, 35.
The Meaning of Political Secularity: Turning Conflict into Debate, in: Potz et al. (eds.), State, Law and Religion in Pluralistic Societies – Austrian and Indonesian Perspectives, Vienna 2010, 173.
Braucht die Rechtstheorie einen Begriff vom subjektiven Recht? Zur objektivistischen Auflösung des subjektiven Rechts bei Kelsen, in: Paulson/Stolleis (eds.), Hans Kelsen. Staatsrechtslehrer und Rechtstheoretiker des 20. Jahrhunderts, 2005, 176.
Zur Ungleichbehandlung von Religionsgemeinschaften in der neueren Rechtsprechung, öarr 2005, 209.
Beitrag zum Diskussionsthema: Gott in der Verfassung?, Österreichisches Archiv für Recht und Religion 2002, 361.
Säkularität als Menschenrecht?, in: Khoury/Vanoni (eds.), Geglaubt habe ich, deshalb habe ich geredet. FS Andreas Bsteh, 1998, 136.
A Neo-Kantian Theory of Legal Knowledge in Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law?, in: Paulson/Paulson (eds.), Normativity and Norms. Critical Perspectives on Kelsenian Themes, 1998, 177.
Geltung und diskursive Legitimität - zur institutionellen Abhängigkeit des Geltungsbegriffs, in: Varga/Weinberger (eds.), Rechtsgeltung (ARSP Beiheft 27), 1986, 37.