Bernd-Christian Funk

Bernd-Christian Funk (born September 14, 1943, in Trofaiach) is an Austrian legal scholar and educator. Funk is a former professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Vienna, the dean and academic director of the Sigmund Freud University Vienna Faculty of Law, and one of the governors of the Medical University of Innsbruck.

Early life

Bernd-Christian Funk was born September 14, 1943, in Trofaiach.

Academic career

Funk studied business and economics education at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, graduating with a master's degree in social and economic sciences. He also read law at the University of Vienna, receiving his doctorate of law in 1968. After graduating, Funk secured employment as an assistant professor with the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law ; he excelled to the point that he could submit his habilitation thesis after only six years, in 1974. He spent the next four years as a staff researcher with the Austrian Economic Chamber.

In 1978, he was appointed full professor for public law at the University of Graz. By 1987, he was the dean of the faculty, a position he would hold until 1991.

In August 1999, Funk was appointed head of the Department of University Law at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. In October of the same year, he also accepted a chair at the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law with the University of Vienna.

In 2011, Funk retired from his professorship in Vienna, his ministry position, and the Theresian Academy. Two years later, he retired from his remaining two teaching positions but joined the ethics commission of the University for Continuing Education Krems and became one of the governors of the Medical University of Innsbruck.

In 2016, Funk became the founding dean and academic director of the Sigmund Freud University Vienna Faculty of Law.

Funk is the author of numerous books, textbooks, papers, and monographs. The convention was charged with exploring reform. Funk spent two years serving the convention as the chairman of the committee for fundamental rights. the appointment of Gerhart Holzinger to the Austrian Constitutional Court, the legality of civilian video recording of police officers, the interrelation between economic insecurity and police violence, the Constitutional Court's annulment of the 2016 Austrian presidential election, social security reform, and smoking bans, among many other topics.

Honors

2003: Festschrift 2009: Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria

Publications

Standard textbooks

Together with Ludwig Adamovich, Gerhart Holzinger, and Stefan Leo Frank, Funk is the author of , a four-volume general introduction to Austrian constitutional law. The first volume was first published in 1997, the last volume in 2009; all four volumes have been revised and reprinted at least once:

Selected other books