Franz-Stefan Meissel
Professor of Roman Law and History of European Private Law, University of Vienna; former Director of Research for the Austrian Historikerkommission investigating the restitution of assets to Nazi victims in post-war Austria; Visiting Professor at the University of Paris V (since 2005) and at the Santa Clara Law School International Study Program (2007, 2008); Director of the Sommerhochschule (since 2007); Doctoral Study Program Director of the University of Vienna School of Law.
Selected Publications: Societas (2004); together with N. Benke: two Textbooks (in German) on the Roman Law of Obligations (7th ed., 2005) and the Roman Law of Property (10th ed., 2012); together with R. Faber: Nationalsozialistisches Steuerrecht und Restitution (2006); Römisches Recht und Erinnerungskultur (2008).