Konrad Lachmayer is Professor for Constitutional and Administrative Law in the Department of Public Law at the Faculty of Law, Business and Economic, University of Salzburg, Austria.
Short biography
Konrad Lachmayer studied law at the University of Vienna, where he gained his Ph.D. in public law. He visited the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Germany) and the Central European University (Hungary). From 2013/14 to 2016, he held a research chair at the Institute of Legal Studies, Centre for Social Sciences at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and was first a research fellow and then a visiting fellow at Durham Law School (United Kingdom). From 2017 to 2026 he has been Professor for Public Law, European Law and Foundations of Law in the Faculty of Law at Sigmund Freud University (SFU) in Vienna. Since October 2026 he is Professor for Constitutional and Administrative Law at the Department of Public Law in the Faculty of Law, Business and Economic, at University of Salzburg.
His research focuses on Austrian and European public law, particularly in terms of democratic legitimation, rule of law and human rights; comparative constitutional law; sustainablity and environmental constitutionalism.
Research and Teaching
Professor Lachmayer has written more than 180 articles for Austrian and international journals and has edited various collections of papers. He has given more than 250 presentations and lectures in 30 different countries and has organized around 50 conferences, panel discussions and other events.
Konrad Lachmayer has been teaching with great enthusiasm for more than 20 years, contributing to the development of new teaching/learning formats. He currently teaches at the University of Salzburg and has also worked and taught at other Austrian universities, including the University of Vienna, Sigmund Freud University Vienna, the Danube-University Krems and the Technical University Leoben. Internationally, he has held courses and given guest lectures in England, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Norway, Romania and Slovakia on subjects including Austrian public law, EU law, comparative constitutional law, international environmental law as well as legal methodology.
Review and Board Activities
Professor Lachmayer is a regular reviewer for journals, publishing houses or research organizations, including the Vienna Journal of International Constitutional Law, Zeitschrift für Öffentliches Recht, Austrian Law Journal, Vienna Law Review, Israel Law Review, Big Data & Society, NanoEthics, Perspectives on Federalism, Government and Opposition, Social Science & Medicine, Hart Publishing, Routledge Publishing, Edward Elgar Publishing, European Journal of Risk Regulation, European Policy Analysis, Contemporary Central & East European Law, The Journal of Legislative Studies, Comparative Constitutional Studies, European Research Council (ERC), Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft, Swiss Nation Science Foundation, Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), Flanders Research Foundation (FWO), Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office and the European Science Foundation (ESF). He was a member of the FWO Review College from 2022 to 2024.
Konrad Lachmayer is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Parliamentary Studies (Brill), the Board of Advisors of the Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law (De Gruyter), the Editorial Board of the Hungarian Journal of Legal Studies (Akadémiai Kiadó) and the Editorial Board of DANUBE: Law, Economics and Social Issues Review (EACO).