Univ.-Ass. Dr. Julius Schumann - Curriculum Vitae
Academic Background
03/2017 – 05/2023 | PhD studies in law, University of Vienna Thesis: “Rechtssatz, Rechtsinformation, Rechtseinheit” |
02/2023 | Winter School in Data Analytics and Machine Learning, Université de Fribourg Participation in the courses on “Predictive and Causal Machine Learning in R” und “Text Analysis in R” |
07/2017 | Austrian Arbitration Academy, Strobl/Wolfgangsee |
10/2012 – 03/2017 | Diploma studies in law, University of Vienna |
Professional Experience
07/2023 – today | Research and Teaching Assistant (“post doc”) at the Department of Civil Procedure Law of the University of Vienna |
06/2023 | Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair of Civil Procedure, Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law of Prof. Dr. Tanja Domej at the University of Zurich |
09/2021 – 05/2023 | Assistant at the Chair of Civil Procedure, Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law of Prof. Dr. Tanja Domej at the University of Zurich |
07/2021 – 08/2021 | Scholarship holder of the “Hochschulstipendienstiftung für Hörer der Rechte” |
03/2019 – 06/2019 | Research Assistant at the Austrian Supreme Court |
03/2017 – 06/2021
| Research and Teaching Assistant („prae doc“) at the Department of Civil Procedure Law of the University of Vienna |
07/2016 | Internship in a law firm |
02/2016 | “Rechtshörerschaft” at the Commercial Court of Vienna |
03/2015 – 02/2017 | Student Assistant at the Department of Civil Procedure Law of the University of Vienna at the Chair of Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Paul Oberhammer
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10/2013 – 06/2015
| Student Assistant at the Department of Roman Law and Ancient Legal History at the University of Vienna at the Chair of Univ.-Prof. Dr. Johannes Platschek resp. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Philipp Scheibelreiter
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Research Stays
02/2022 – 03/2022 | Guest at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt am Main for two months in the department of Prof. Stefan Vogenauer, MJur (Oxford), FBA |
01/2018 – 02/2018 | Visiting Researcher at the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre of Excellence for International Courts in Copenhagen for three weeks at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Henrik Palmer Olsen |
Scholarships and Prizes | |
| 2023 | Award of Excellence - State prize for the best dissertations |
2022 | Dialogue Scholarship from the Max Planck Society |
2021 | Scholarship from the “Hochschulstipendienstiftung für Hörer der Rechte” |
2015 – 2017 | Multiple awards of scholarships according to the StudFG as well as from the funds of the “Hochschulstipendienstiftung für Hörer der Rechte” |
2014 – 2016 | Multiple awards of the “Wilhelm-Dantine-Stipendium” of the “Dr.-Wilhelm-Dantine-Gedächtnisfonds” |
Memberships und Activities
Since 2023 | Member of the Wissenschaftlichen Vereinigung für Internationales Verfahrensrecht e.V. |
Since 2022 | Founding member of the Junges Netzwerk Rechtsgeschichte |
Since 2022 | Member of the Center for Legal Data Science (CLDS) at the University of Zurich |
Since 2022 | Member of the Max Planck Law-Initiative Law | Tech | Society |
Since 2020 | Member of the Gesellschaft Junger Zivilrechtswissenschafter e.V. |
Since 2019 | Member of the jury for the call for grants for children's and youth universities of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research |
Since 2018 | Member of the NoLesLaw-Network of the Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences |
Since 2017 | Member of the editorial board of the open access journal University of Vienna Law Review |
Since 2017 | Fellow of the Vienna Doctoral Academy Communicating the Law – Innovative Approaches to Law and Society (now: Advanced Research School in Law and Jurisprudence) at the University of Vienna |
02/2019 – 06/2019 | Advisory member of the working group to revise the guidelines for the official headnotes of the Austrian Supreme Court (“RIS-Rechtssätze”) |
2018 – 2021 | Coordination of the summer and winter programme of the Austrian Arbitration Academy of the University of Vienna in Strobl/Wolfgangsee |
2017 – 2020 | Member of the editorial team of the journal of business law ecolex for the dispute resolution section |
2015 – 2021 | Member of the board of the Wiener Rechtsgeschichtliche Gesellschaft at the University of Vienna |
Organised Conferences |
1. “Opening the Black Box of Precedent and Case-Based Reasoning”, 18.-19 January 2019 in Wien, together with Amalie Frese, PhD (University of Copenhagen). 2. 2nd Max Planck Law-Tech-Society Graduate Student Symposium, 26 May 2023 online, together with Christian Boulanger (MPI Frankfurt am Main), Nina Grgić-Hlača (MPI Saarbrücken and Bonn), Anselm Küsters (MPI Frankfurt am Main), Frederike Zufall (MPI Bonn). 3. Early Career Researchers' Conference for legal history on “Conflicts over Truth”, 26.-28 June 2023 Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt am Main, together with Luca von Bogdandy (MPI Frankfurt am Main) und Christoph Resch (MPI Frankfurt am Main).
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Outreach Activities |
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2017 – 2021, 2023 | Courses at the Vienna Children's University: „Sagen eigentlich immer alle vor Gericht die Wahrheit?“ and „Wie hoch ist eigentlich ein Höchstgericht?“ together with Ass.-Prof. Dr. Florian Scholz-Berger, Mag. Laura Widerhofer as well as Mag. Silke Schusser |