Biography
Karl Wörle is Professor of Business Law and Head of the Department of Business Law at the University of Applied Sciences for Business & Society in Vienna. His research sits at the intersection of corporate law, EU law, digital economy law, and dispute resolution, with a strong grounding in comparative law and law-and-economics methodologies. His comparative work spans the legal systems of Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, France, and the United States.
Professor Wörle practised as an attorney-at-law in Vienna for eight years, representing corporations and states in international arbitral proceedings, negotiating joint venture agreements between Austrian and Chinese parties, advising on M&A transactions, and acting in corporate restructuring matters. He holds a doctorate from the University of Innsbruck, where he also served as a university assistant. His award winning doctoral thesis examined the French law of international arbitration and the "règles matérielles du droit français de l'arbitrage international". His international academic career includes an Erasmus semester at the Université catholique de Louvain and an excellence fellowship at the University of Geneva, invited by Professor Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler.
Professor Wörle is currently Co-Investigator on the international funded project "Fostering International Civil Society Cooperation: the EU CSDDD as a New Entry Point for Just Transition" (Austrian Climate Research Programme), where he analysis the role civil society in global value chain regulation. For his research and teaching he has received five academic awards.