Criminal Law Module Exam

The Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law module exam will be held in person.

Please direct any inquiries regarding exam scheduling directly to Ms. Manuela Kaufmann at the SSC at ssc.rechtswissenschaften(at)univie.ac.at.
(Please note: Once an exam date has been assigned, rescheduling is only possible in exceptional cases.)

To withdraw from an exam, please do so exclusively via u:account and include the examiner’s name in your request to

• kathrin.kirschner(at)univie.ac.at (Hagen Nordmeyer, Ingeborg Zerbes)
• judith.palla(at)univie.ac.at (Susanne Reindl-Krauskopf, Farsam Salimi)
• theresa.ries(at)univie.ac.at (Peter Lewisch, Michael Rohregger, Alexander Tipold)

PLEASE NOTE: The information below is provided for general guidance only. The specific format of the exam is at the discretion of the individual examiner.

Structure: The oral exam in criminal law is a public exam lasting approximately 20 minutes, depending on how the exam conversation unfolds. The MP covers the entire field of criminal law (AT I, AT II, BT, procedural law). It is therefore possible that even a single unanswered or incorrectly answered question on any of these subtopics could result in a failing grade. The questions may involve both short case scenarios and knowledge-based questions.

Permitted aids: Text of the law (the index is not part of the text of the law)

Examiners for individual exams: Candidates are examined according to an examiner assignment announced in advance. All habilitated faculty members and certain honorary professors are designated as examiners.

Panel-based oral exams: The procedure is the same as for individual oral exams. The panel consists of three examiners, one of whom serves as chair. Questions are asked by all three examiners, who then reach a joint assessment.

The scope of the material can be found on your examiner’s page.

In response to an increase in inquiries, we would like to clarify that (as has been the case up to now) underlining and highlighting in the text of the law are permitted and—as a concession to students—references to sections within a law and to other laws are also permitted.