Elisabeth Holzleithner
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Elisabeth Holzleithner (born 1970) is an Austrian university professor specializing in legal philosophy and gender studies at the University of Vienna where she heads the Institute of Legal Philosophy. Considered to be one of the leading scholars in the field of legal gender studies, she has received several awards including the Gabriele Possanner State Prize for Scientific Achievement in Gender Studies in 2017.[1][2][3]
Born in Baden bei Wien in 1970, Elisabeth Holzleithner studied law at the University of Vienna from 1988, receiving a master's degree in 1993. In 2000, with a thesis on Grenzziehungen. Pornographie, Recht und Moral (Borders, Pornography, Law and Morals) she earned a Ph.D. She received her habilitation in 2011 with a dissertation titled Dimensionen gleicher Freiheit. Recht und Politik zwischen Toleranz und Multikulturalismus (Dimensions of Equal Freedom. Law and Politics between Tolerance and Multiculturalism).[2][4]
