Siegfried Fina

Personal bio
Professor Siegfried Fina is a Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law and a Visiting Professor of Law from the University of Vienna at Stanford Law School. His academic work focuses on the business-related and the technology-related law and policy of the European Union and the international community as well as on governance issues of the transatlantic marketplace. He co-founded and co-directs the Stanford-Vienna Transatlantic Technology Law Forum, a joint international initiative of Stanford Law School and the University of Vienna School of Law, Austria. In Austria, Professor Fina directs the Vienna Technology Law Program and the LLM Program in European and International Business Law at the University of Vienna School of Law. He was re-elected four times as Secretary-General of the Austrian Association for European Law and serves on the board of directors of the International Federation for European Law (FIDE). He also serves as an Associate Director of the Department of European Integration at Danube University Krems, Austria, a post-graduate university for advanced degree programs. In 2009, he was honored by the European Union and awarded one of the EU's distinguished and prestigious Jean Monnet Chairs for European Union Law for his achievements in research and education in EU law. In addition to his academic work and family, he enjoys ballroom dancing and Argentine tango.

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