Bernhard Schima
Legal Adviser, Assistant to the Director General of the European Commission’s Legal Service; studied law in Vienna (magister iuris 1991, doctor iuris 1994) and Paris and at Harvard Law School (LL.M. 1994); from 1995 to 2003 member of the chambers of Judge Dr Peter Jann at the European Court of Justice; postdoctoral qualification to lecture in European law (Habilitation) obtained at the University of Graz in 2004; honorary professor of European Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (since 2010); EU Fellow at Yale University (2013-2014).
Selected publications: Das Vorabentscheidungsverfahren vor dem EuGH. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Rechtslage in Österreich und Deutschland (3rd ed. 2015); author of several contributions in: Mayer/Stöger (eds.), Kommentar zu EUV und AEUV; EU fundamental rights and Member State action after Lisbon: putting the ECJ's case law in its context, Fordham International Law Journal 2015, 1097-1133; Das Verfahren vor dem EuGH, in: Bergthaler/Grabenwarter (eds.), Musterhandbuch öffentliches Recht (2015).