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Antidiscrimination, Asylum and Migration BIM Annual Report 2008
Elective Course of Lectures on “Protection against Discrimination”
Summary
Following an initiative of the Chamber of Labour and in co-operation with the Ombud for Equal Treatment
and the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna, the BIM experts designed a concept for an elective
course of lectures on “Protection against Discrimination”. The elective course will be offered for the
first time in the winter term 2009/2010 at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna. The course aims
to provide students with comprehensive knowledge of anti-discrimination and equal treatment legislation.
Furthermore, the course shall enable graduates to work with the current anti-discrimination legislation
in their future jobs and to take part in debates on the further development of anti-discrimination
policy.
The current concept encompasses six lectures/seminars. One of the first lectures will elaborate on
questions concerning equality, equal treatment and non-discrimination from the point of view of the
international and European human rights system. Another lecture will deal with relevant EU law. The
further lectures will focus on the legal situation in Austria. Practical relevance of the course will be
guaranteed through the involvement of practitioners and experts as well as through the implementation
of sensitivity exercises and a moot court.
Country
Persons
involved
Austria
Project leader (BIM)
Experts
Hannes Tretter
Katharina Köhler (until February 2008, on unpaid
Leave)
Kerstin Buchinger (until November 2008)
Marta Hodasz (until April 2008, since March 2009)
Barbara Liegl
Contact person
Marta Hodasz, marta.hodasz@univie.ac.at
Lead
organisation
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute
of Human Rights
Partner
organisations
Chamber of Labour Vienna
University of Vienna, Law
Faculty
Ombud for Equal
Treatment
Starting/
end date
Ongoing since May 2007
Funded by
Chamber of Labour “Network Science“
University of Vienna
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