Cerha Hempel

Regulatory and White Collar

Partner, Public Law & European Law, Compliance & Investigations, White Collar Crime, Public Procurement, Litigation & Arbitration.

Stefan is an expert in Austrian higher education law, public and European law and highly active in compliance work, criminal law as well as white collar crime. Also one of Austria’s leading experts in export control law.​ Moreover, he has a focus on both environmental and constitutional law as well as EU law and procurement.

Prior to joining CERHA HEMPEL, Stefan was an assistant professor for EU law and administrative law at the universities of Innsbruck and Vienna. Recently, Stefan has been teaching at the University of Applied Sciences Burgenland (https://www.fh-burgenland.at/) and Vienna University of Applied Sciences. Further, he frequently speaks and chairs at conferences.

He continues to publish on both public law as well as state aid law issues. Amongst others, he is a co-author of the Austrian Handbook on Higher Education Law and contributed to the leading German commentary on Foreign Trade Law.

Admitted 2011, (Attorney at Law), Austria

German, English, French, Polish, Spanish

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University of Innsbruck, Université libre de Bruxelles (Mag. iur. 2001, Mag. phil. 2001, Dr. iur. 2003); Schloß Hofen, Lochau (LL.M. Europarecht 2004)