Venue
University of Vienna, Main Building
© Knopfdrücker
The Opening Ceremony and Plenary Panel I will take place in the main building of the University of Vienna.
The address is:
University of Vienna, Main Building
Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna
The University of Vienna is situated in the historical heart of Vienna and offers both magnificent premises and excellent public transport connections.
Tram: 1, 71, D | Schottentor
Underground: U2 | Schottentor
Bus: 1A
How to get here: University of Vienna | Google Maps
The Grosser Festsaal (Main Ceremonial Hall)
The Grosser Festsaal (Main Ceremonial Hall) is the heart of the Main Building of the University of Vienna, designed by Heinrich Ferstel in Italian Renaissance style and inaugurated in 1884. It serves as venue for festive occasions, including graduation ceremonies for all faculties. Its rostrum is flanked by the statues of Duke Rudolf IV, the University’s founder in 1365, and Maria Theresia, an important reformer and supporter of the University. The ceiling of the Main Ceremonial Hall shows reproductions of Gustav Klimt’s famous faculty paintings, representing Medicine, Philosophy and Jurisprudence, paintings that perished in the last days of World War II.
University of Vienna, Juridicum
University of Vienna, Juridicum
The ILA 2026 will take place at the Juridicum Building, Faculty of Law, University of Vienna.
The faculty of Law - University of Vienna
Schottenbastei 10-16, 1010 Vienna
The Juridicum (Law School Building) was opened in 1984 and houses the Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna. It was designed by Ernst Hiesmayr in the 1970s as a modernist steel, glass and concrete building, centred around library space on most floors flanked by the Faculty’s departments and with lecture halls underground. Its main lecture hall (U10) is open to 350 persons and the Juridicum’s top floor provides an ideal venue for workshops or for publishers and other conference exhibitors.
References in the conference programme to U10–18 denote the lecture halls located in the basement of the Juridicum (i.e. below the ground floor). References to Sem 31–43 denote the seminar rooms on the third and fourth floors, respectively.
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University of Vienna
Juridicum
Imperial Palace (Hofburg)
Side Event Venues
University of Vienna, Arcaded Courtyard
University of Vienna, Arcaded Courtyard
The Arkadenhof (Arcaded Courtyard) of the Main Building of the University of Vienna is surrounded by walkways with numerous busts and monuments devoted to prominent members of the university from all faculties, including jurists such as Josef von Sonnenfels, Franz Anton von Zeiller, Heinrich Lammasch, and Hans Kelsen. In its centre, a 1910 monument of Castalia, the guardian of the fountain of knowledge in Delphi, overlooks the area. She is accompanied by the 2009 art project entitled “The Muse has had it” contrasting the male hegemony in scientific practice with an oversized female shadow silhouette in the courtyard.
© Georg Herder
Imperial Palace (Hofburg)
The Hofburg (Imperial Palace) is located in the historical complex of the former imperial residence, which stands at the heart of downtown Vienna near the Ringstrasse and St. Stephen’s Cathedral. Built as part of the city’s medieval fortifications, it served as the Habsburg residence until 1918. Today it is owned by the Republic of Austria and houses several prominent political and cultural institutions as well as international organizations, such as the OSCE and the PCA. The Hofburg was the venue of the opening meeting of the 34th ILA Conference on 5 August 1926.