Elisabeth Steiner

Elisabeth Steiner ( born March 21, 1956 in Vienna) is an Austrian lawyer. Since 1 November 2001, she has worked as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights.

Life

Steiner studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in 1978 and made her diploma in cultural management. Then she decided to study law at the University of Vienna. She did her doctorate in 1981. After studying business administration at the Vienna University of Economics in 1982 she obtained a master's degree in 1985 and a doctorate in social and economic sciences.

From 1987, she practiced as a lawyer in Vienna. She took over, inter alia, representation of tens of thousands of former forced laborers from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, who negotiated with the Austrian Federal Government on compensation.

In April 2001, she was elected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council as the successor of Willi Fuhrmann to judge at the European Court of Human Rights. She received 127 of 174 votes and won against the diplomats Elisabeth Bertagnoli and Jutta Stefan- Bastl. On 1 November 2001 she took office. Previously, she had her name from the recently incurred legal fees GesmbH " Lansky, Steiner & Partner " deregister and return their share of it, because it seemed the Euro Europe questionable whether this with their judicial independence (article 21, paragraph 3 of the ECHR ) was compatible.

2007 Elisabeth Steiner was re-elected for a further term of six years as an Austrian judge at the European Court of Human Rights.