Helmut Koziol, born 1940 in Vienna, studied law in Graz and received his degree (Dr. iur.) in 1963. He worked as a research and teaching assistant at the University of Bonn from 1963 to 1967, afterwards in Vienna and qualified 1967 as a Universitätsdozent (non-tenured associate professor) of private law. In 1967 he was awarded a tenured professorship in private law in Linz (Austria) and he held a full professorship post at the University of Vienna from 1969 to 2000. Koziol has presided over the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law as Managing Director since its establishment in 1999 and he acted as Managing Director of the Research Unit (now Institute) for European Tort Law of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is a Full Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, honorary professor at the Universities of Graz and Budapest, holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Innsbruck and Budapest and was Member of the European Group on Tort Law. As a visiting professor he has lectured in Jerusalem, London, Pretoria, Beijing and Yantai. His main fields of research are tort law, banking law and the law of bankruptcy. He has published among others Österreichisches Haftpflichtrecht (Austrian Liability Law), Vol. I., 3rd ed. (Vienna 1997), Vol. II., 2nd ed. (Vienna 1984); Basic Questions of Tort Law from a Germanic Perspective (Vienna 2012).
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