Gibt es eine österreichische Europarechtswissenschaft?

Abstract

(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2023 8(1), 99-115 | European Forum Insight of 24 May 2023 | (Abstract) The paper addresses the question whether there exists a specific “Austrian” community of EU law scholars. This forms part of the broader question whether there exists a peculiar German or German-speaking community of EU law scholars (to which the current issue is devoted). To this end, the paper examines three fields – the impact of the legal positivist tradition in the Kelsenian style on EU law re-search in Austria, the constitutional framework for the Austrian participation in the EU as well as empir-ical factors specific to Austrian EU law academia and practice – and concludes that one may well make a case for the existence of a genuinely “Austrian” community of EU law scholars.

Keywords

• limits to european integration
• legal positivism
• pure theory of law
• eu law friendliness
• austrian community of eu law scholars
• austria and eu law