Leopold SPECHT, LL.M., SJD (Harvard)

Professional Experience

• Specht Rechtsanwalt GmbH, Managing Partner
  (since 2001)
• Rechtsanwaltskanzlei Dr. Leopold Specht
  (1993 - 2001)

Bar Admission

Practice Areas

• International Taxation
• Privatization, Project Financing
• International Contracts, Mergers & Acquisitions
• International Arbitration
• Corporate / Commercial Law

Education

• Harvard Law School, S.J.D. (1994)
• Harvard Law School, LL.M. (1988)
• University of Vienna, J.D. Law (1981)
• University of Naples, Instituto Orientale, Chair of Comparative Legal Studies (1980)
• University of Rome, Facolta di Magistero (1979/1980)

Publications

• Land and Land Domain (2001)
• Property, Money and Transformation; an anti-necessitarian Prospective (Leiden Journal of International Law 2000)
• The Post Shock Agenda: How to Make the Market – Forms of Property and Control. After the Market Shock (joint effort by Agenda Group), 293 – 303, (1994) Republished in German in: Sozioökonomische Forschungsansätze, 131 – 144 (1995)
• Property as a Bundle of Rights: After the Market Shock (1994)
• The Market Shock (joint effort by Agenda Group) (1992)
• Svoje i obscee, The Particular and the General, Narodnij deputat, 104 – 106 (1992)
• On the New Thinking: Legal Reform as Basis of Perestrojka, Quaderni, Anno IV, Nuova Serie n 6, 129 – 142 (1992)
• Unarmed Neutrality. The Future of the Army, 187 – 207, (1991)
• Austrian Membership in the European Community, Harvard International Law Journal 31, 497 – 461 (Co-author Professor David Kennedy) (1990)
• Austria and the European Community, Common Market Law Review 26, 613 – 641 (Co-author David Kennedy) (1989)
• The Law as Steering Medium, Kansainoikerus-Ius Gentium 5, 1 – 2, 162 – 192 (1988)

Professional and civic activities

• Chairman, Austrian- Russian Legal Society (since 2003)
• Member, Austrian Constitutional Convention (2003-2004)
• Law Forum – Online (Feb 2001 – Present). Founder and Co-ordinator of online international law forum network.
• Member of the Austrian Bar Association, Vienna, Austria
• Member of Academic Council, Harvard European Law Research Center (1995 – Present), Cambridge, MA

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