wolfgang wieshaider (Universität Wien, Austria) e-mail: wolfgang.wieshaider@univie.ac.at
	Wolfgang Wieshaider is a lawyer and has been working as an assistant at the Institute for Law and Religion at Vienna University's Law Faculty since 1998. He researches and teaches in law on both culture and religion, not only in Vienna, but also at the Charles University in Prague. He earned his doctorate in 1997 with a thesis on administrative procedure. Later he focussed on cultural and religious law, and studied in Paris. He has published on national and international issues covering the freedom of religion, the freedom of speech and art, the protection of historical and cultural monuments, the construction and protection of religious sites, the relationship of State and religious communities in Central Europe, and on Islam in Austria.
His bibliography encompasses so far two books, several contributions to books, four of which he edited himself, about 20 scholarly articles and a number of review articles and several specialist translations from and into different languages.