Markus Steppan
Markus Steppan is a legal historian with a wide range of interests. His research focuses on the development of private law, in particular family law and the development of criminal law. Both areas of research deliberately create links to current issues such as extramarital relationships and sexual criminal law. In the "Agricultural Law" project, he answered the question: "Why is a cow not allowed in the forest?" He is also a long-standing advisor and expert in questions of inter-university cooperation.(NAWI Graz and BioTechMed Graz).
For ten years, until 2021, he organized and moderated the Politik Café Graz with guests from politics, television, business and law.
Selected publications
- Steppan, Markus, Gewerbeordnung 1859 - zwischen Ausbildung, Erziehung und Ausbeutung von Kindern, in: Arno Heimgartner, Josef Scheipl (eds.): Geschichte und Entwicklung der Sozialen Arbeit in Österreich, Vienna 2022, 227-249.
- Steppan, Markus, Alternative methods for communicating law - from pictorial manuscripts to pictograms and comics, in: Eszter Cs Herger, Borut Holcman, Markus Steppan (eds.): Festschrift Gernot Kocher zum 80. Geburtstag - Für den Interpreten der Bildsprache, Graz 2022, 358-377.
- Steppan, Markus and Susanne J. Pekler, Schuld, Sühne, Resozialisierung - Spannungsfeld zwischen TäterIn, Opfer und Gesellschaft, in: Sascha Ferz (ed.): Beyond Borders Konflikte diesseits und jenseits von Rechten und Pflichten, Vienna 2019, 163-174.
- Steppan, Markus; Herger, Eszter; Kissich, Susanne (eds.), Common Roots and Elements of Austrian and Hungarian Family Law, Graz 2018.
Further publications in the research portal of the University of Graz
Selected projects
► Common elements of Austrian and Hungarian family law. Family law from the time of the Dual Monarchy.
► The development of agrarian law in Austria
