Thomas Olechowski

Prof. Dr. Thomas Olechowski holds a chair for Austrian and European Legal History at the University of Vienna, where he heads the Legal Sources Research Center. He is a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and is chair of its Commission for Austrian Legal History. He is also managing director of the Hans Kelsen Institute, a foundation set up by the Austrian Federal Government. 

Olechowski has authored or co-authored six monographs and well over a hundred academic articles. His most important areas of research are the life and work of the Austro-American legal philosopher Hans Kelsen, the Austrian constitutional history of the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of constitutional justice and administrative justice, and the Paris Peace Treaties 1919/20. Olechowski has taught regularly in Vienna and Bratislava (Slovakia). He gave lectures in Austria as well as in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, and Uruguay. 

At Stanford, he will teach Fundamentals of European Constitutional History in Winter Quarter 2025.