Law and Economics, part II

The 20th century

More than any other institution of the University of Vienna, the Faculty of Law and Economics was hit by the political transformations of the 20th century. More than half of its professors were retired after 1938; two were killed at the Theresienstadt concentration camp. After the Austrian republic’s reestablishment in 1945, the faculty existed for another 30 years, until it was divided into smaller entities in 1975. Today, the Faculty of Law as well as the Faculty of Economics and the Faculty of Informatics stand in the old institution’s tradition.