Full Professorship for Private Law and IT-Law

Updated: over 2 years ago
Job Type: FullTime
Deadline: 01 Oct 2021

GZ B 0009/1-2021

Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg

PLUS. Competence for tomorrow.

The Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (PLUS) is an up-and-coming Austrian University with outstanding research and teaching in the fields of (Digital) Humanities, Life Sciences, the sustainability of social processes and the interlinkage between Arts & Sciences. With the four guiding themes of Art in Context, Development and Sustainability, Digital Life, and Health and Mind, the PLUS offers researchers excellent opportunities for inter- and transdisciplinary collaborations.

The Department of Private Law in the Faculty of Law and Economics is seeking to appoint as of October 1, 2022 a:

Full Professorship for Private Law and IT-Law

The Professorship is intended to represent and further develop the subject of private law in research and teaching in all its breadth, taking into account the different curricula offered at the faculty. In addition, the professorship is an important element of the guiding theme of Digital Life at PLUS. For this reason, one focus of the Professorship should be on the academic examination of the private law aspects of digitization and IT law, such as contract law in information technology, electronic business law, liability law, and intellectual property law.

General requirements include:

  • relevant academic training and a PhD/doctorate appropriate to the advertised position;
  • certified qualification to teach at University level (venia docendi) or equivalent;
  • outstanding research records and pedagogical and didactical skills;
  • pedagogical and university-didactic qualification
  • skills necessary for departmental management and leadership;
  • evidence of integration into the international scientific community (e.g. active in peer-review processes, relevant experience abroad, etc.);
  • fluency in both written and spoken German;


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