About me

Dr. Simon Burger has been part of the Benn-Ibler team since September 2016. Initially as a legal assistant and after completing his court practice from February 2022 as an associate. During his diploma and subsequent doctoral studies in law, he worked as a student assistant and university assistant at the Departments of Private Law (2014-2017) and Public Law, International and European Law (2017-2021) at the University of Salzburg.
International and European law is also one of his main areas of interest. He also wrote his dissertation on “The admissibility under international economic law of unilateral cross-border worker protection regulation through foreign trade measures: an examination of the GATT, TBT and Anti-Dumping Agreement” in this area. Other areas of interest include international business law, supply chain regulation and CSR.

In addition to public commercial law, his practice focuses on corporate and inheritance law as well as contentious civil law.

Even during his studies, he was able to gain negotiation experience by participating in moot courts - not only as a participant, but most recently also as an arbitrator at the Foreign Direct Investment Moot in Nairobi.

Numerous publications in renowned specialist media testify to Simon’s enthusiasm for law and demonstrate his specialist knowledge, which is already very wide-ranging at the start of his career.

1. Qualifications
2. Publications
3. Lectures

Qualifications

• Bar exam at the Vienna Bar Association
• Supplementary studies in Global Studies
• Doctoral program in law in Salzburg
• Diploma program in law in Salzburg

Publications

• Der Grundsatz der persönlichen Strafbarkeit nach Art 6 EMRK bei der Rechtsnachfolge juristischer Personen, NLMR 2025, 103
• Die außergerichtliche Bestreitung von Ansprüchen des Verbrauchers als irreführende Geschäftspraktik iSd § 2 Abs 1 Z 7 UWG, wbl 2024, 625
• EDF Energies Nouvelles/Spanien: Schweizerisches Bundesgericht zur Zuständigkeit von Investitionsschiedsgerichten für Intra-EU-Streitigkeiten aus dem Energiecharta-Vertrag, NR 2024, 286
• The Settlement of Corporate Human-Rights Due Diligence (CHRDD) Disputes in Commercial Arbitration, in Roth/Geistlinger (Hrsrg.) Yearbook on International Arbitration and ADR. Volume 8, Wien (2024), 185-202
• Rechtliche Anforderungen an das Menschenrechts- und Umwelt-Risikomanagement nach dem französischen Sorgfaltspflichtengesetz: Urteil des Tribunal judiciaire de Paris im Verfahren Sud PTT gegen La Poste, NR 2024, 69
• Streikrecht und Arbeitsvölkerrecht. Zur Wirkungsweise völkervertraglicher Vorgaben auf die nationale Rechtsordnung am Beispiel zulässiger Streikziele (von Alberto Povedano Peramato). Buchrezension, DRdA 2021/6, 529
• Philip Morris Arbitration Cases (Philip Morris v Uruguay; Philip Morris v Australia), in Peters (Hrsg.), The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (Stand August 2020)
• Urbaser v Argentina Arbitration, in Peters (Hrsg.), The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (Stand August 2020)
• Transnational Supply-Chain Regulation – Between the Fight Against Corporate Impunity and the Risk of Interference in States’ Regulatory Sovereignty, AfronomicsLaw Blog (03.11.2019)
• Arbitration Clauses in Investment Protection Agreements after the ECJ’s Achmea Ruling: a Preliminary Evaluation, in Roth/Geistlinger (Hrsg.), Yearbook on International Arbitration and ADR, Vol. 6, Wien (2019), 121-148
• Recht und Sprache, Tagung der Österreichischen Assistentinnen und Assistenten Öffentliches Recht, Band 9, Wien (2019) (Mitherausgeber)
• 55 Years after Austria’s accession to the New York Convention: Crucial Issues in Light of the Supreme Court’s Case Law, in Roth/Geistlinger (Hrsg.), Yearbook on International Arbitration and ADR, Vol. 5, Wien (2017), 93-104

Lectures

• Extraterritorial Duties Imposed by Home States – Is the ‚New Human Rights Approach‘ a Feasible Way to Make Foreign Investment (More) Socially Responsible?, Vortrag (25.10.2019) auf der Konferenz zu Socially Responsible Foreign Investment under International Law, Lissabon
• Transnational Supply-Chain Regulation: a Watershed for Stakeholders and Policymakers in Africa or Business as Usual?, Vortrag (19.07.2019) auf der 4th Biennal Conference of the African International Economic Law Network, Nairobi