CURRICULUM VITAE
Dr. iur. Andrea Lehner
Nationality: Austria
Year and place of birth: 1982 in Vienna
Marital Status: Single
E-Mail: [email protected]
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND INTERNSHIPS
12/2014 ongoing
Erwin Schrödinger Fellow (FWF) and Visiting Scholar at the Institute of
Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK
05/2014 - 11/2014
Research Associate, Institute for European and Austrian Economic Criminal
Law, Vienna University of Economics and Business
03/2008 - 05/2014
Teaching and Research Associate, Department of Criminal Law and
Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Vienna
08/2013 - 10/2014
Researcher in a comparative study on penalties in drug law on behalf of the
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
09/2011 - 03/2013
Researcher, "Preparatory study for an impact assessment on a new legislative
instrument replacing Framework Decision 2004/757/JHA on illicit drug
trafficking" on behalf of the European Commission
12/2008 - 02/2009
Internship at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC),
Terrorism Prevention Branch, Vienna
01/2008 - 02/2008
Editorial Internship with Süddeutsche Zeitung GmbH, Munich
10/2006 - 09/2007
Associate with Fiebinger Polak Leon, attorneys at law, Vienna
12/2005 - 08/2006
Legal clerkship, Vienna
07/2004, 07/2005
Internships with law firms in Vienna and Prague
10/2003 - 11/2003
Internship at the Commercial Section of the Austrian Consulate, Chicago
02/2003
Internship at the Regional Court for Criminal Matters, Vienna
09/2001 - 02/2005
Part-time employment and internships with IBM Austria (Legal Department),
Vienna
EDUCATION
Doctorate Studies
03/2008 - 11/2014
Doctorate of Laws, University of Vienna, passed with distinction (Doctoral
Thesis in Criminal Law on the Fight Against the Financing of Terrorism)
11/2014
Specialisation in “Indigenous Legal Studies”
01/2013
Specialisation in “Business and Corporate Law”
Master Studies
10/2000 - 10/2005
Master of Laws, University of Vienna
10/2005
Specialisation in “Criminal Justice and Criminology”
Research visits and studies abroad
2010, 2012, 2013
Research visits at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International
Criminal Law, Freiburg i. Br.
06/2011
Summer School “The European Area of Criminal Justice”, Institut d’études
européennes, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
02 - 06/2005
Law studies (focus on European Law) at the Charles University Prague
Secondary Education
09/1992 - 06/2000
High school („Bundesgymnasium“) Bernoullistraße, Vienna
June 2000 A-levels („Matura“) passed with distinction
LANGUAGE SKILLS
German
mother tongue
English
fluently
French
basics
MEMBERSHIPS
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Association Internationale de Droit Pénal (AIDP), editor of the publication series of the Austrian group
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European Criminal Law Academic Network (ECLAN)
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Austrian Society for Criminal Law and Criminology
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Austrian Society for European Criminal Law
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Academic Forum for Foreign Affairs (AFA), 2007 - 2009 editor of the magazine “Global View”
SCHOLARSHIPS and AWARDS
2014
Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship, awarded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
2010
Doctoral Scholarship of the Max Planck Society for March/April 2010
2009
Research Scholarship of the University of Vienna for the year 2009
2005
Socrates/Erasmus Scholarship for law studies at the Charles University Prague
2004, 2005
Merit scholarships of the University of Vienna
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PUBLICATIONS
Book chapters
Lehner, The Austrian model of attributing criminal responsibility to legal entities, in Brodowski/Espinoza de
los Monteros de la Parra/Tiedemann/Vogel (eds.), Regulating Corporate Criminal Liability (2014), pp. 79-86
Kert/Lehner, Content and Impact of Approximation – The case of Drug Trafficking, in De
Biolley/Galli/Weyembergh (eds.), Approximation of Substantive Criminal Law in the EU: the Way Forward
(2013), pp. 169-188
Kert/Lehner, Austria, in Ligeti (ed.), Toward a Prosecutor for the European Union, Volume 1: A comparative
analysis, Hart Publishing (2012), pp. 9-57
Lehner, Strafrecht [Criminal Law], in Bergmann/Ratka (eds.), Handbuch Personengesellschaften, Linde
Verlag 2011, pp. 979-1021
Articles
Lehner/Mahler, Musterlösung Modulprüfung aus Straf- und Strafprozessrecht, Juristische Ausbildung und
Praxisvorbereitung (JAP), in preparation
Lehner, Grundlagen der verdeckten Ermittlung [Principles of Infiltration], JAP 2008/09, pp. 68-73
Lehner, Die Beweislastverteilung bei der GmbH-Geschäftsführerhaftung [Allocating the Onus of Proof for the
Liability of Managing Directors of a Company with Limited Liability], Der Gesellschafter 2005, pp. 128-133
Case notes
Lehner, Fantasiegeld als Falschgeld? [Fancy money as counterfeit money?] JAP 2012/2013, pp. 4-7
Lehner, Prison Sentence – Delay of deferral of enforcement without reasoning as a violation of Article 5
ECHR, Vienna Online Journal on International Constitutional Law 2012 Volume 6 – Issue 2, pp. 294-297
Reports
Kert/Slot/Vernimmen/Lehner/Schellekens, Study on minimum sanctions in EU Member States, Final Report,
JUST/2013/JPEN/PR/0047/A4, in preparation
Kert/Lehner, Drug Trafficking Penalties – EMCDDA Papers, in preparation
Kert/Lehner, Country Report Austria for the study Evaluation of the legal framework applicable to combating
terrorism in the EU Member States, ECLAN 2013 (35 pages), unpublished
Lehner, Country Report Austria for „Section 1: General Part“ for the XIX. International Congress
„Information Society and Penal Law“ of AIDP, Revue Internationale de Droit Pénal, No. 1-2, 2013, CD ROM
(20 pages)
Kert/Lehner, Report on the evaluation of the transposition and impacts of the Framework Decision
2004/757/JHA on drug trafficking, European Union 2013, https://bookshop.europa.eu/en/home/ (105 pages)
Kert/Lehner, Country Report Austria on “Criminal Investigation and Prosecution of Crimes Affecting the
Financial Interest of the EU – the Member States` dimension”, http://www.eppo-project.eu/ (187 pages)
Others
Lehner, Warrant Issued for Sudan’s Leader, Global View, 02/2009, pp. 8-9
Höpfel/Lehner, Gefährliche Substanzen im Visier [Hazardous Substances in Focus], Global View, 02/2009,
p. 21
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Lehner, Kampf um gestohlene Gelder [Stolen Assets Recovery Initiative], Global View, 04/2007, pp. 10-11
Lehner, Todesstrafe in Japan [Death Penalty in Japan], Global View, 03/2007, pp. 24-25
LECTURES
Minimum Sanctions in the EU Member States, Expert Group on EU Criminal Policy, European Commission,
Brussels, 30 Oktober 2014 (together with Robert Kert and Gisèle Vernimmen-Van Tiggelen)
EU Policy in Drug Trafficking – The Council Framework Decision 2004/757/JHA on illicit drug trafficking
and its implementation in Member States, International Spring Course “EU Substantive Criminal Law and
Protection of Victims” of the University of Zagreb, Dubrovnik, 25 April 2014
Der Einfluss internationaler und europäischer Rechtssetzungsinstrumente auf die Kodifikation des
österreichischen Strafrechts am Beispiel der Terrorismusgesetzgebung [The influence of International and
European law-making instruments on the Austrian codification of criminal law], Summer School
“Codification of Criminal Law” of the University of Pécs, Pécs, 6 July 2013
The Austrian model of attributing criminal responsibility to legal entities, Third AIDP Symposium for Young
Penalists on Corporate Criminal Liability, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, 13 June 2013
Bomben brauchen Geld – Die Strafbarkeit der Terrorismusfinanzierung [Bombs need Money – The
Criminalization of Terrorism Financing], Brown Bag Seminar on Economic and Financial Criminal Law,
University of Vienna, June 2012
Policy options for a new EU legal instrument to combat illicit drug trafficking, Workshop of the European
Commission, Brussels, 3 May 2012 (together with Robert Kert)
Content and Impact of Approximation – The case of Drug Trafficking, Conference “Approximation of
Substantive Criminal Law in the EU: The Way Forward”, Institut d’études européennes, Université Libre de
Bruxelles, 28 April 2012 (together with Robert Kert)
The transposition of the Framework Decision 2004/757/JHA on illicit drug trafficking into national laws,
European Commission, Steering Committee, Brussels, 13 December 2011 (together with Robert Kert)
Presentation of first results of the study on the impact of Framework Decision 2004/757/JHA on illicit drug
trafficking, Seminar of the European Commission, Brussels, 10 November 2011 (together with Robert Kert)
Die Kriminalisierung der Terrorismusfinanzierung in Österreich unter Berücksichtigung internationaler
Vorgaben und rechtsvergleichender Aspekte [The Criminalization of Terrorism Financing in Austria in
Consideration of International Standards and Aspects of Comparative Law], Max Planck Institute for Foreign
and International Criminal Law, Freiburg i. Br., April 2010
Gesetze, Strafen und Richter – Die spannende Welt des Strafrechts [Laws, Sentences and Judges – The
exciting world of Criminal Law], Children’s University Krems, July 2009 (together with Robert Kert)
Grundlagen der verdeckten Ermittlung [Principles of Infiltration], University Center Obergurgl, May 2008
COURSES
Winter Terms 2011/2012 - 2013/2014 Anfängerpflichtübungen aus Strafrecht [Compulsory Practical
Exercises in Criminal Law for Beginners], University of Vienna
Winter Terms 2010/2011 - 2013/2014 Repetitorien aus Straf- und Strafprozessrecht [Revision Course on
Criminal Law and Procedure], University of Vienna
Cambridge, April 2015
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