Biography
Ernst Karner is Director of the Institute for European Tort Law and the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law as well as full Professor at the University of Vienna. Born in 1969, he studied law in Vienna (Dr. jur. 1997 with distinction) and completed his habilitation in 2004 with a thesis on bona fide acquisition. He is a member of the commission for the reform of Austrian tort law established by the Ministry of Justice and co-editor of the Journal of European Tort Law (JETL). He has written extensively in the fields of Austrian and European tort law and was granted several prizes (Figdor-Preis der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften für Rechts-, Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften 1997; Walther Kastner-Preis 2005; Kardinal‐Innitzer‐Förderungspreis 2005; Brandl/Talos – Intersectional Legal Studies Award 2008; ÖVFA‐Kapitalmarktpreis 2010).
Main Areas of Research
Main Areas of Research
- Austrian and European tort law
- Comparative law
- Property law
- Private law
Selected Publications
Selected Publications
- Der Ersatz ideeller Schäden bei Körperverletzung (1999), Springer Verlag Wien, 249 pages.
- Der Ersatz ideellen Schadens im österreichischen Recht und seine Reform. Gutachten zum 15. Österreichischen Juristentag, Band II/1 (2003), Manz Verlag, 163 pages (co-authored with H Koziol).
- Gutgläubiger Mobiliarerwerb. Zum Spannungsverhältnis von Bestandschutz und Verkehrsinteressen (2006), Springer Verlag Wien, 495 pages.
- Quantification of Moral Damages in Personal Injury Cases in a Comparative View, in Essays in Honour of Jaap Spier (2016), 117–136.
- Essential Cases on Misconduct under Austrian Law, in Winiger/Karner/Oliphant (eds), Digest of European Tort Law III: Essential Cases on Misconduct (2018), 60 pages.