Bernhard Schima

Mr. Schima is an Austrian and a member of the Legal Service of the European Commission.  He studied law at the University of Vienna, received an LL.M. from Harvard, and served as a lawyer in the constitutional office of the Austrian Federal Chancellery and then for eight years in the chambers of one of the judges of the European Court of Justice.  In 2003, he joined the Legal Service of the Commission, where he has been involved with the internal market and agriculture. While at Yale, he studied the constitutional issues related to the EU – in particular, EU law pertaining to Fundamental Rights.