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Viola Pondorfer // Associate

Porträtfoto von Viola Pondorfer (halbes Gesicht)
Education
Since 2022 Postgraduate Master's degree at the University of Vienna (Tourism and Law)
2018 - 2019 Diploma course offered by the Academic Forum for Foreign Policy and the University League for the United Nations (Global Advancement Programme for Politics and Economics)
2017 - 2019 Basic training in the civil service (passed with distinction)
Since 2016 Doctoral studies at the University of Vienna
2010 - 2015 Graduate degree in law from the University of Vienna
2009 Peer mediator training (Federal Ministry of Education and Women's Affairs), recipient of the "Young Women in Public Affairs Award 2009" (ZONTA)
2004 - 2009 Higher education institution for tourism
1990 Born in Villach (Carinthia)
Work experience
Since 2026 Associate at Schmelz lawfirm
2025 Court practice at the Vienna Higher Regional Court
Since 2024 Management consultant (GISA-number 36509638)
Since 2023 Managing Partner of L & T Pondorfer GmbH
2023 - 2024 Associate at attorney Georg Royer
2020 - 2022 Tourism Advisor in the Cabinet of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Regions and Tourism
2016 - 2020 Legal officer in extrajudicial dispute resolution at the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Regions and Tourism
2015 Creditors' representative at the Alpine Creditors' Association Europe
Since 2014 Lecturer for various university courses at the University of Vienna (corporate law and tourism and travel law)
2014 - 2016 Research assistant at the University of Vienna, Institute for Business Law, Chair of Private and Business Law
2014 - 2015 Legal assistant at Schubert lawfirm
2012 - 2015 Volunteer at the Caritas Vienna Women's Residential Centre
2008 - 2012 Employed at the WIFI Economic Development Institute Vienna
2008 Volunteer at the Vienna Food Bank
2005 - 2007 Various activities in the field of tourism and catering
Publications
2026 Pondorfer (ed.), Commentary on Package Travel Law (PRG, GewO 1994, PRV), Linde Verlag (new edition in preparation)
2024

Pondorfer, Commentary on Sections 8 and 31 VerG (Dispute Resolution and Penal Provisions), in: Weilinger/Schopper (eds.), Commentary on the Associations Act, MANZ Verlag (new edition)

2020

Mayer-Ertl/Rupp/Pondorfer (eds.), Commentary on Package Travel Law (PRG, GewO 1994, PRV), Linde Verlag

2020

Pondorfer, Energy Future for Austria and the EU: Renewable Energies, short article, GAP Journal 2018/2019

2019 Pondorfer/Schumi, Insolvency in travel law – legal consequences, claims for compensation, protection options, in: Handbook of Insurance Law – Successful Enforcement of Insurance Law Claims, WEKA-Verlag Austria
2019

Pondorfer/Schumi, Travel Insurance Law, in: Handbook of Insurance Law – Successful Enforcement of Insurance Law Claims, WEKA Publishing House Austria

2019 Pondorfer, Commentary on Sections 8 and 31 VerG (Dispute Resolution and Penal Provisions), in: Weilinger/Schopper (eds.), Commentary on the Associations Act, MANZ Verlag
2018

Pondorfer/Schumi, Insurance and Arbitration, in: Handbook of Insurance Law – Successful Enforcement of Insurance Law Claims, WEKA-Verlag Austria

2018 Pondorfer, Contribution to package travel law, 5th Tourism Mobility Day, Graz
2017 - 2018

Mayer-Ertl/Pondorfer/Rupp, Practical publications on the Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Directive (EU) 2015/2302, Federal Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism/Austrian Federal Economic Chamber

Special fields

Corporate law
General civil law
Litigation
Tourism and travel law

Languages
Alpine at heart, Carinthian in tone
English
French
German
Kayaks from above

Kayaks

Mountaineer on mountain face

Climbing

Splashes of colour from above

Creativity