SP iR Hon.-Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kuras

SP iR Hon.-Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kuras

Honorary Professor of the University of Vienna since 2009

Supreme Court Judge 1999 to 2024; from 1/1/2015 Senate President until 29/2/2024

1995 - 1999 Judge of the Vienna Higher Regional Court in the areas of employment and social law as well as general civil law

1992-1994 Legislation at the Federal Ministry of Justice;

1987-1992 Judge of the Vienna Labour and Social Court

1986 trainee judge

50 years of ArbVG in Supreme Court case law, in Mosler (ed.) 50 years of Labor Constitution Act (2024), 501

Reimbursement of training costs — interplay of individual contract, collective agreement and Union law, in Auer-Mayer/Felten/Niksova/Pfeil, Schrattbauer/Warter (ed.) FS Mosler (2024), 239

Changes in meaning in the Federal Constitution as a result of the framework of the European “Constitution” using the example of jurisdiction, in FS Machacek/Matscher (2008)

Significance of case law on company pensions, in Drs. (ed), Betriebspensionsrecht (2008), 221

Termination protection for disabled people — from fragmentation to unity of the legal system (s). Harmonization of Union law and established protection mechanisms in the Member States, in Köck/Niksova/Risak/Wolf, Liber Amicorum Wolfgang Mazal, (2019), 63

Mere share liability of several negligent employees, in FS Pfeil (2022), 155Brussels IIa-VO and protection of the best interests of the child in enforcement proceedings. Free spaces in the process coordination system, in Fischer-Czermak/Tschuggül (ed.), Liber Amicorum Edwin Gitschthaler, (2020), 139

Federal Care Allowance Act — Legal Aspects, Society of Expert Physicians — Issue 44/1993, 38The “revision model” of the Code of Civil Procedure, opportunity or risk in the state of justice, ÖJK 2013, 353 The employment relationship from admission to termination, Manz 1997, including delivery of updates

The ASGG model for labor court proceedings on the EU test bench, ASoK 2012, 242

The new care benefits system, ZAS 1993, 161The “free” service contract — anthology from a creative period, Festschrift Bauer/Maier/Petrag Contributions to Labor and Social Law, (2004), 37

The expert in social security — The court procedure in social law cases, in Emberger, The medical report, (2002), 143 (also preliminary edition) Regulation (EEC) 1408/71 in Austrian case law, in Pfeil Social Security in Austria and Europe, 1998, 43

The Code of Civil Procedure from the Judiciary's Perspective, in Mayr, 100 Years of Austrian Civil Procedure Laws, (1998), 65Decision Discussion on 10 OBs 156/88, ZAS 1991, 26Payment Rules in Works Agreements, in Tomandl (ed), Works Agreements (2010), 51

EEA organization and effects on legal practice. Aspects of EU membership, Orac 1994

European law quo vadis? In the memorial document Robert Rebhahn (2019), 287 Training in Community Law, Speaking in Law in Europe, series of the Federal Ministry of Justice 95, (1999), 311

Thoughts on expanding fundamental rights protection: “Justice must not only be done it also must be seen to be done” — Information as an obligation of the rule of law, in Current Issues of Fundamental Rights Protection, Austrian Lawyers' Commission Volume 26, (2005), 179

Community offense of Section 14 (3) TzBfG, discussion of the ECJ judgment of 22.11.2005 — RS C-144/04 (Mangold) RdA 2007, 169

Commentary on Art 141 TEC together with Kucsko-Stadlmayer, in Mayer (ed.) MGA EU and EC Treaty (2006)

Commentary on Art 157 TFEU together with Brameshuber, in Jäger/Stöger (ed) MGA EUV and TFEU (2022) Commentary on Art 157 EAEC together with Kucsko-Stadlmayer, in Mayer/Stöger (ed) MGA EUV and TFEU, (2013)

Several amendments to the MGA Labor Law to the Labor Constitution Act and ASGGMGA Employees Act Commentary Sections 28 to 34, (2007)

Possibilities and limits of individual contract arrangements in an upright employment relationship, ZAS 2003, 100

Predicted sick leave as a cause of dismissal, dismissal and retirement. Convergences and differences between approaches to employment and social law, in: Neumayr (ed,) Liber Amicorum for Peter Bauer, (2019), 53

Legal Aspects of Gambling Addiction, Congress Proceedings of the 10th Forensic Conference, The Psychiatric Assessment of Disorders and Impulse Control, (2003)

Considerations on the effectiveness of procedural law — “worker-like” in ASGG, in Kietaibl/Schörghofer/Schrammel (ed.), jurisprudence and jurisprudence, (2014), 45

Prohibition of discrimination based on age, in: Mazal/Muranaka, Austria — Japan, (2020), 245

Prohibition of discrimination based on age; European Law Symposium of the Federal Labour Court, RdA 2003 Special Supplement, 11

Duty to submit and usefulness of submissions, in Kozak, ECJ and Labor Law Vienna, 2015, 1; revised publication also in RZ 2016, 82 and 102

Preliminary rulings — Practical experience, 10 years of application of Community law in Austria, series of publications by the Federal Ministry of Justice 129, (2005), 139

Between tax office and court, ecolex 1990, 562