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Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights

Astrid Steinkellner

Key competences

  • Legal research and consultancy on business and human rights and European human rights protection
  • Development and implementation of the Fundamental Rights Module for Austrian judgeship trainees (training materials, teaching/training)
  • Project design, management and implementation


Professional record

  • Legal researcher at Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights, team "Human Rights in Development Cooperation and Business"
  • Research assistant to Vice-chair of European Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) Management Board Hannes Tretter
  • Trainee lawyer at law firm Martin Paar
  • Administrative assistant at World Vision Austria, Association for Development Assistance and International Understanding


Education

  • PhD on fundamental freedoms and human rights (University of Vienna), specialization on business and human rights, international relations and European law (not completed)
  • Law degree (University of Vienna), specialization on legal gender studies, business and tax law


Publications

  • Protecting Individuals from Non-Majoritarian Groups in the ECtHR: Litigation and Jurisprudence in Austria, in: The European Court of Human Rights and the rights of marginalised individuals and minorities in national context, Brill/Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden/Boston 2010, together with Kerstin Buchinger and Barbara Liegl

  • OECD Leitsätze für Multinationale Unternehmen, in: Menschenrechte und Wirtschaft [OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, in: Human Rights and Business], study by Karin Lukas and Franz-Josef Hutter, Neuer Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Vienna 2009

  • Zur überfälligen Errichtung einer nationalen Menschenrechtsinstitution in Österreich [As to the overdue establishment of a national Human Rights Institution in Austria], MenschenRechtLos?!, Österreichische HochschülerInnenschaft, Vienna 2009, together with Helmut A. Prantner

  • Grundrechte im gerichtlichen Berufsalltag, Skriptum zum RiAA-Grundrechtsmodul 2008 [Fundamental rights in judicial practice, textbook for the fundamental rights training of Austrian judgeship trainees 2008], Bundesministerium für Justiz, Vienna 2008, together with Veronika Bauer, Kerstin Buchinger, Philip Czech et.al., published on the Website of the Austrian Association of Judges, http://www.richtervereinigung.at/images/Texte/grundrechtsskriptum.pdf

  • Strasbourg Jurisprudence and Minorities: Litigation and Implementation in Austria, European Commission, Luxemburg 2008, together with Barbara Liegl, Kerstin Buchinger and Hannes Tretter, published on the Website of the European Court of Human Rights' Library, http://www.echr.coe.int/Library/DIGDOC/JURISTRAS-2007-EN-Austria.pdf

  • Vorschläge zur Errichtung einer nationalen Menschenrechtsinstitution in Österreich [Recommendations for the establishment of a national Human Rights Institution in Austria], Journal für Rechtspolitik 15/2007, Springer Verlag, Vienna 2007, together with Manfred Nowak and Hannes Tretter


Membership in professional bodies/networks

  • Assistant member of CSR standard committee at the Austrian standardisation institute
  • Working group member of the Social Responsibility Network (NeSoVe)