Univ.-Prof. MMag. Dr. Lando Kirchmair

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CV

Lando Kirchmair studied law, business law, Spanish and Portuguese as well as psychology at the universities of Innsbruck, Salamanca and Salzburg, holding Magister iuris (2009) and Magister iuris rerum oeconomicarum (2010) degrees from the University of Innsbruck and a Doctor iuris (with distinction; „Die Theorie des Rechtserzeugerkreises“, Duncker & Humblot 2013) from the University of Salzburg (2012). He was a research and teaching fellow at the Department of Public Law, Public International Law and EU law at the University of Salzburg (2010-2013) and served, within the framework of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service (as an alternative to military service) as legal advisor to the European Alliance of Cities and Regions for Roma Inclusion and as co-secretary to the Monitoring Committee of the European Charter of Local Self-Government at the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg from December 2012 to June 2013. Afterwards he spent another six months as an exile researcher and museum guide at the Casa Stefan Zweig in Rio de Janeiro. This was followed by a research stay at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg in May 2014 and a post-doc research and teaching fellowship position at the Institute for Legal Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the National University of Public Services in Budapest in 2014/2015. Lando Kirchmair then worked as a Law Clerk at the Labour and Social Court in Vienna and the Vienna District Court Fünfhaus, Criminal Law Division (2015-2016), as a lecturer and researcher at the Institute for Public Law and Public International Law at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich from April 2016 onwards and as Universitätsassitent (PostDoc) at the Institute for Public Law, Public International Law and European Union Law at the University of Salzburg from October 2017 to February 2020. In June 2020, he completed his habilitation thesis and received the venia legendi (Doctor habilitatus; “Conflicts with EU Law”) for Public Law, European Union Law, Public International Law and Legal Philosophy from the Department of Social Sciences and Public Affairs at University of the Bundeswehr Munich (CUP 2024). From April 2020 until August 2025 he was Deputy Professor for National and International Public Law with a Focus on the Protection of Cultural Heritage at the Department of Social Sciences and Public Affairs, University of the Bundeswehr Munich. He was also Co-Principal Investigator for the European Constitutional Court Network Project funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the Law Faculty, University of Salzburg (2019-2021). In July 2020 he became a member of the Arab German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities based at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW). On 1 September 2025, he took up the Euregio Endowed Chair for Sustainability and Mobility Law at the Institute for Theory and Future of Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Innsbruck.

Here you will find my detailed CV. 

Research focus

 

• International, European, and national public law
• Legal theory and philosophy of law
• Interdisciplinary aspects of law
• Sustainability and mobility
• Relationship of legal systems
• International cultural heritage law

Research Projects (Selection)

Legal regulation of moral emergencies caused by automated and autonomous vehicles: Virtual reality studies to investigate impartial decisions (EMERGENCY-VRD)

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Current Publications (Selection)

Saving the European Union from its Illiberal Member States (Oxford University Press, Oxford Studies in European Law 2025) (gemeinsam mit András Jakab).

Moral Dilemmas Involving Self-Driving Cars: How to Regulate Them and Why Your Opinion Matters (Routledge, Philosophy Series 2025).

‘Automated Vehicle Regulation Needs to Speak to Code, not to Humans: Keeping Safety and Ethics in the Public Domain’ 38 Philosophy & Technology (2025) (gemeinsam mit Leon René Sütfeld und Joshua Bronson) [peer review; open access].

Rethinking the Relationship Between International, EU and National Law: Consent-Based Monism (überarbeitete Habilitationsschrift; Cambridge University Press, ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory 2024).

Access to Waxes – The Arab Collections of the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv: Digitization and Online-Publication, special issue The World of Music (New Series) (gemeinsam mit Nadia Bahra, Matthias Pasdzierny und Albrecht Wiedmann) Vol I veröffentlcht (Vol II iE) [peer review; open access].

‘Introduction’, in: Nadia Bahra/Lando Kirchmair/Matthias Pasdzierny/Albrecht Wiedmann (Hrsg.), Access to Waxes – The Arab Collections of the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv: Digitization and Online-Publication, special issue The World of Music (New Series) (2024) (gemeinsam mit Nadia Bahra/Matthias Pasdzierny/Albrecht Wiedmann) [peer review; open access].

 ‘Taking Ethics Seriously in AV Trajectory Planning Algorithms’, Nature Machine Intelligence 5 (August 2023), S. 814–815 [open access] (gemeinsam mit Norbert Paulo).

‘How to Regulate Moral Dilemmas Involving Self-Driving Cars: On the German Act on Autonomous Driving 2021, the Trolley Problem and the Search for a Role Model’, German Law Journal 24 (7) (2023), S. 1184–1208 [peer review; open access].

‘Information Interventions in the 21st Century: Fighting Disinformation Across National Boundaries with International Information Campaigns’, Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence 2022 (2023), S. 133–142.

‘Das Klimaschutzprinzip im BVG Nachhaltigkeit: Ein schlafender Riese. Zur Verfassungswidrigkeit klimaschädlicher Gesetze in Österreich’, Journal für Rechtspolitik 31 (2023), S. 74–92 (gemeinsam mit Sebastian Krempelmeier).

'Two Ways of Completing the European Fundamental Rights Union. Amendment to vs. Reinterpretation of Article 51 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights', Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies (2022) [open access; peer review] (gemeinsam mit András Jakab).

'Enforcing Constitutional Sustainability Clauses in the Age of Climate Crisis: Insights from Social Contract Theory on How to Handle Future Generations', Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law (2022) [open access; peer review].

'Autonomous Vehicles: Crashes', in M.N.S. Sellers/Stephan Kirste (Hrsg.), Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (online available).

'Autonomous Vehicles', in M.N.S. Sellers/Stephan Kirste (Hrsg.), Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (online available).

'Cultural Heritage', Christina Binder/Manfred Nowak/Jane A Hofbauer/Philipp Janig (Hrsg.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights (online available).

'Good Governance', Christina Binder/Manfred Nowak/Jane A Hofbauer/Philipp Janig (Hrsg.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights (online available).

'Digitalisieren und zugänglich machen! Rechtliche und kulturethische Aspekte im Umgang mit historischen Klangaufnahmen des Berliner Phonogramm-Archivs’, Leviathan 50 (3) (2022), pp. 445 – 468 [open access; peer review].

'The EU and its hybrid regimes are poisoning each other. When it comes to democracy and the rule of law, we can't see the forest for the trees', politico.eu, 23.8.2022

‘Moving the International Court of Justice from Bilateralism to Serving the Community Interest – A Proposal to Refrain from Being a “National Judge”’, The Austrian Review of International and European Law 25 (2020) [veröffentlicht im Juli 2022], pp. 65–107 [open access; peer review].

 ‘The Restriction of Refugee Rights during the ÖVP-FPÖ Coalition 2017-2019 in Austria: Consequences, Legacy and Potential for Future Resilience against Populism’, in Stijn Smet/Vladislava Stoyanova (Hrsg.), Migrants’ Rights, Populism and Legal Resilience in Europe (Cambridge University Press 2022) pp. 280–300 (together with Margit Ammer) [open access].

Lando Kirchmair ea (Hrsg.), Shaping the Future of Europe (Jan Sramek 2022).

‘How to Develop the EU Justice Scoreboard into a Rule of Law Index: Using an Existing Tool in the EU Rule of Law Crisis in a More Efficient Way’, German Law Journal 22 (6) (2021), pp. 936–955 (together with András Jakab) [open access; peer review].

‘What Gustav Radbruch Teaches Us about (Authoritarian) Populism: Lies by Officials Should Not Be Referred to as Populism Because They Are a Genuine Threat to the Democratic Legal Culture’, in Stephan Kirste/Norbert Paulo (Hrsg.), Populism, Democracy and the Rule of Law (ARSP-Beiheft 2021), pp. 81–112.