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
- 14.04.2022 Reconciling the role of tribunal secretaries in international arbitration
- 08.08.2021 Business Travel During The Pandemic – Austria Update
- 09.07.2021 Dispute Resolution 2021
- 27.06.2021 Austria: Preliminary Questions Referred To ECJ – Compensation For Immaterial Damages Under Art. 82 GDPR
- 21.05.2021 Austria: Caught Between Conflicting Forum Selection Clauses: Takeaways From A Recent Austrian Supreme Court Ruling
- 20.05.2021 Austria: The 2021 IBA Toolkit And The Future Of A Transnational Approach To The Arbitrability Of Insolvency Proceedings
- 20.05.2021 Austria: Developments In Austrian Case Law: Data Privacy Breaches And The GDPR
- 20.05.2021 Austria: The Revised IBA Rules On The Taking Of Evidence Challenges And Opportunities Associated With The Rise Of New Technologies
- 28.04.2021 Austria: Questioning Witness Testimony Reliability – Guidance Aimed at Preserving and Ensuring The Accuracy of Witness Evidence
- 29.03.2021 Worldwide: U.S. Senators Responding To CJEU Schrems II – Revisiting The Need For Privacy Reform
- 09.03.2021 Austria: Vienna Higher Court confirming damages claim against Facebook
- 22.02.2021 Austria: The 2021 ICC Rules – An Overview
- 26.01.2021 Austria: The ICCA Report No. 8 – Cross-Institutional Task Force Releasing Report On Gender Diversity In Arbitration Appointments And Proceedings
- 22.01.2021 Austria: The Austrian Supreme Court, Due Process And COVID-19: Conducting Virtual Arbitration Hearings Over Party Objections
- 19.01.2021 Austria: Citius, Altius, Fortius – LexCon Austria 2020
- 18.01.2021 Austria: The Future Of Arbitration Following The End Of The Brexit Transition Period
- 14.12.2020 Austria: Online Courts – Covid-19, Austria And The Recent Changes In The Practice Of Using Video-Conferencing Technology
- 08.12.2020 Canada: Canada Arbitration Week 2020: Key Takeaways From A Webinar With Arbitration Place, ICDR And ICDR Canada
- 01.12.2020 Austria: Virtual Currency Regulation In 2020: Shedding Light On Austria's Blockchain Landscape
- 26.11.2020 Austria: Austria's Draft Communication Platform Act – A Summary
- 30.09.2020 Reflections on ISDS and its reform ahead of the 39th session of UNCITRAL Working Group III
- 28.09.2020 Thoughts on the Legitimacy, Sustainability and Future of ISDS in Times of Crisis
- 04.08.2020 Austria: Arbitration in times of Covid-19: an Austrian perspective
- 16.07.2020 Austria: Schrems vs. Facebook: An Update
- 03.04.2020 EU Directives, Legislative Amendments and Changes to the Rules for Registering Ultimate Beneficial Owners in Austria
- 10.03.2020 Austria: Developments in Arbitration – where we are and what is to come
- 10.03.2020 Austria, EU privacy and the ongoing Schrems v Facebook case
- 01.01.2020 Fairness and Impartiality
- 24.12.2019 Iranian inheritance law and Austrian public policy