Sharon Schmidt, LLM
Sharon Schmidt acted on behalf of the Legal Service of the European Parliament (Brussels), providing legal assistance to its political bodies and Secretariat, representing the Unit for External Relations at committee meetings and offering legal advice to Members of Parliament on legislative matters. She also served as Consultant at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization Office of Legal Affairs. Her legal experience included working for the Special Litigation Division of the Connecticut Attorney General’s Office and acting as a Judicial Assistant to Lord Justice Henderson at the Court of Appeal (Royal Court of Justice) of England and Wales.
Combining civil law and common law experience, Ms Schmidt has been an active contributor to legal journals and newsletters focusing on international dispute resolution.
Education
LLM (London School of Economics And Political Science).
Memberships
England and Wales, Barrister-at-Law
Webinars
Languages
German, English, French
- Reconciling the role of tribunal secretaries in international arbitration
- Business Travel During The Pandemic – Austria Update
- Dispute Resolution 2021
- Austria: Preliminary Questions Referred To ECJ – Compensation For Immaterial Damages Under Art. 82 GDPR
- Austria: Caught Between Conflicting Forum Selection Clauses: Takeaways From A Recent Austrian Supreme Court Ruling
- Austria: The 2021 IBA Toolkit And The Future Of A Transnational Approach To The Arbitrability Of Insolvency Proceedings
- Austria: Developments In Austrian Case Law: Data Privacy Breaches And The GDPR
- Austria: The Revised IBA Rules On The Taking Of Evidence Challenges And Opportunities Associated With The Rise Of New Technologies
- Austria: Questioning Witness Testimony Reliability – Guidance Aimed at Preserving and Ensuring The Accuracy of Witness Evidence
- Worldwide: U.S. Senators Responding To CJEU Schrems II – Revisiting The Need For Privacy Reform
- Austria: Vienna Higher Court confirming damages claim against Facebook
- Austria: The 2021 ICC Rules – An Overview
- Austria: The ICCA Report No. 8 – Cross-Institutional Task Force Releasing Report On Gender Diversity In Arbitration Appointments And Proceedings
- Austria: The Austrian Supreme Court, Due Process And COVID-19: Conducting Virtual Arbitration Hearings Over Party Objections
- Austria: Citius, Altius, Fortius – LexCon Austria 2020
- Austria: The Future Of Arbitration Following The End Of The Brexit Transition Period
- Austria: Online Courts – Covid-19, Austria And The Recent Changes In The Practice Of Using Video-Conferencing Technology
- Canada: Canada Arbitration Week 2020: Key Takeaways From A Webinar With Arbitration Place, ICDR And ICDR Canada
- Austria: Virtual Currency Regulation In 2020: Shedding Light On Austria's Blockchain Landscape
- Austria: Austria's Draft Communication Platform Act – A Summary
- Reflections on ISDS and its reform ahead of the 39th session of UNCITRAL Working Group III
- Thoughts on the Legitimacy, Sustainability and Future of ISDS in Times of Crisis
- Austria: Arbitration in times of Covid-19: an Austrian perspective
- Austria: Schrems vs. Facebook: An Update
- EU Directives, Legislative Amendments and Changes to the Rules for Registering Ultimate Beneficial Owners in Austria
- Austria: Developments in Arbitration – where we are and what is to come
- Austria, EU privacy and the ongoing Schrems v Facebook case
- Fairness and Impartiality
- Iranian inheritance law and Austrian public policy
