Sebastian Scholz
Sebastian Scholz is Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Technology and Innovation Law at the Department of Public Law and Political Science at the University of Graz.
He obtained his habilitation in 2024 at the University of Graz in the fields of public law and European law, with a thesis on the subject of 'Steering the Implementation of EU Law through Soft Law'.
His research focuses on technology and innovation law, public commercial law, the interplay between EU law and state law, public procedural law (in particular judicial protection) as well as parliamentary law.
From February 2014 to August 2017, Sebastian Scholz gained practical legal experience in the Austrian Parliamentary Administration, the Austrian Federal Chancellery Constitutional Service and in two leading Viennese law firms.

- Fundamental rights protection in public commercial law: freedom of occupation and entrepreneurial freedom, ÖZW 2024 (in print)
- GDPR and committees of enquiry. Reflections on the occasion of the judgement of the Austrian Data Protection Authority, ÖJZ 2024, 400-407
- Binding in multi-stage administrative (court) proceedings, in Holoubek/Lang (eds.), Bindingswirkungen zwischen Verfahren (2023) 281-298
- Data Recording for Responsible Robotics, in 2023 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts, 103-109 (with Jon Skerlj, Maximilian Braun, Sophia Witz, Svenja Breuer, Abdeldjallil Naceri, Ruth Müller, Sami Haddadin and Iris Eisenberger
- Evidence-based use of AI in medicine: The contribution of law, in Wieland/Eisenberger/Niemann (eds.), Smart Regulation: Theory- and Evidence-based Policy (2023) 37-64
- Soft law: Legal protection potential of nullity actions and preliminary ruling proceedings, EuZW 2022, 453-458
- Administrative soft law and opening clauses in the constitutional legal protection system, JRP 2022, 367-379
- Market access in outpatient healthcare (2014)
To the complete list of publications in the research portal of the University of Graz.