Gibt es eine österreichische Europarechtswissenschaft?

European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2023 8(1), 99-115
European Forum Insight of 24 May 2023
The paper addresses the question whether there exists a specific “Austrian” community of EU law scholars. This forms part of the broader question whether there exists a peculiar German or German-speaking community of EU law scholars (to which the current issue is devoted). To this end, the paper examines three fields – the impact of the legal positivist tradition in the Kelsenian style on EU law re-search in Austria, the constitutional framework for the Austrian participation in the EU as well as empir-ical factors specific to Austrian EU law academia and practice – and concludes that one may well make a case for the existence of a genuinely “Austrian” community of EU law scholars.