Gender equality in the legal professions
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Erwin-Schrödinger-Saal
Plenary
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in deutscher SpracheWhy is the share of women among judges and prosecutors increasing while it shrinks at the level of lawyers? How can legal professionals in the public and in the private sector balance the different areas of their lives? A multi-layered examination of working conditions in Austria and abroad.
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Mag. Paul KESSLER
Senior Associate, Brenner & Klemm Rechtsanwälte, Vienna
| After finishing school in 2007, Paul Kessler studied law and founded a coaching business for students. He finished law school in 2012 and began to work as an associate for different law firms in Vienna. Besides the work as an Associate Mr. Kessler studied medical law at Johannes Kepler University Linz and worked self-employed in the commercial business and as a speaker. He passed his bar exam in 2017. On the 2nd of October 2018 Paul Kessler will establish his own law firm in Vienna. |
Dr. Elisabeth LOVREK
President, Supreme Court, Vienna
| 1977-1981 | Study of Law, University of Vienna |
| 1987-1990 | Judge, District Court Central District, Vienna |
| 1990-1997 | Judge, Vienna Regional Court, Vienna |
| 1998-2002 | Judge, Vienna Court of Appeals, Vienna |
| since 2003 | Judge, Supreme Court Austria, Vienna |
| 2015-2018 | Vicepresident, Supreme Court, Vienna |
| since 2018 | President, Supreme Court, Vienna |
Andrea TITZ
Direktorin, Amtsgericht, Wolfratshausen
| 1988-1993 | Studium Rechtswissenschaften, Universität Passau |
| 1993 | Erstes Juristisches Staatsexamen |
| 1993-1995 | Referendariat |
| 1996 | Zweites Juristisches Staatsexamen |
| 1996-2001 | Staatsanwältin, Staatsanwaltschaft Traunstein |
| 2001-2002 | Richterin, Amtsgericht, Mühldorf und Altötting |
| 2002-2005 | Richterin, Landgericht Traunstein |
| 2005-2012 | Oberstaatsanwältin, Staatsanwaltschaft München II |
| 2012-2017 | Richterin und Pressesprecherin, Oberlandesgericht München |
| seit 2017 | Direktorin, Amtsgericht, Wolfratshausen |
Dr. Margarete VON GALEN
Attorney at Law, Galen Rechtsanwälte, Berlin
| Margarete von Galen has been practicing as a lawyer in Berlin since 1983 and as a specialist criminal lawyer since 1998. She advises on compliance issues and acts as External Ombudsperson for several companies. She has published essays and decision notes, and contributed to publications in the field of criminal law. From 2004 to 2009 she was President of the Berlin Bar. She has been a Judge at the Constitutional Court of the State of Berlin since 2014. She has been advising the European Commission as a member of the Commission’s Expert Group on EU criminal policy since 2012. She has been Vice-President of the CCBE since 2018. |
Philipp AICHINGER
Redakteur, Innenpolitik und Rechtspanorama, Die Presse, Wien
| Geboren 1980 in Graz, Studium der Rechtswissenschaften an der Universität Wien. Seit 2004 Journalist bei der Tageszeitung "Die Presse" in Wien. |
