Deputy Director of the Department of Italian Law an the Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck/Austria

Professorship at the Department of Italian Law and at the Department of Private Law at the Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck/Austria

Visiting Professor, European and Comparative Private Law, Riga Graduate School of Law/Latvia

Chair of Company, Foundation and Trust Law, University of Liechtenstein, Vaduz

Law Degree Program, University of Regensburg/Germany, University of the Saarland/Germany, University of Perugia/Italy, University of California San Diego/USA

First Legal State Examination (Law Degree)

Doctoral studies in Italian, Austrian and German Private as well as Commercial Law. Focus: Law of Foundations and Trusts

Completion of PhD studies. Topic of the PhD thesis: Foundation and Enterprise (published: Nomos, Baden-Baden, 1998)

Second Legal State Examination (Bar Exam) in Munich/Germany

Habilitation (Venia legendi in Private Law and Comparative Law), Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck/Austria. Focus: European Contract Law, European Private Law, Comparative Law