Since April 2023, Christoph Weilhartner has been working as a university assistant (pre doc) at the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law of the University of Vienna’s Faculty of Law. There, he is writing his doctoral thesis under the supervision of Professor Michael Lysander Fremuth. Aside from his teaching and publishing activities at the University of Vienna, he has been conducting research at the LBI-GMR on his doctoral thesis and other topics in international and (comparative) constitutional law.

Christoph has studied law both at the University of Vienna and Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II). Additionally, he holds a Bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Vienna. He has gained professional experience in previous positions as a student assistant and project assistant at our institute. Moreover, Christoph was a visiting scholar at the Academy for European Human Rights Protection of the University of Cologne (Chair of Prof. Dr. Angelika Nussberger). Outside academia, he completed corporate internships in the United States, Canada and Greece and worked for the Austrian Federal Competition Authority in Vienna.

Publications

2026

• Weilhartner, Christoph: Der religiös neutrale Staat (er-)trägt sein Kreuz, in: Juridikum, 2026, S. 104–113.
• Weilhartner, Christoph: Geschichtsstunde im US-Supreme Court, in: Juridikum, 2026 (erscheint demnächst).
• Weilhartner, Christoph: Nicolás Maduro vor fremdem Richter – Die Immunität des ausländischen Staatsoberhauptes, in: Journal für Rechtspolitik, 2026, S. 68-77.

2025

• Aschauer, Dorit; Bernard, Martin; Dalpra, Elio; Fetköter, Paul M.; Lientschnig, Philipp; Lumerding, Alexander; Maurer, Michael; Palmanshofer, Helena; Seller, Leonie; Soldan, Miriam; Weilhartner, Christoph; Wittich, Stefan: Öffentliches Recht, in: Dalpra, Elio; Kogler, Gabriel (Hrsg.), Übungsbuch zur Einführung in die Rechtswissenschaften und ihre Methoden, 2025, S. 3–93.
• Weilhartner, Christoph: Öffentliches Recht Prüfung 10, in: Dalpra, Elio; Kogler, Gabriel (Hrsg.), Übungsbuch zur Einführung in die Rechtswissenschaften und ihre Methoden, 2025, S. 241–244.

2024

• Weilhartner, Christoph: Denn ungestraft zu tun, was beliebt, heißt Tyrann sein. – Die rechtliche Verantwortlichkeit des Staatsoberhauptes, in: Journal für Rechtspolitik (JRP), 2024, S. 270–278.