Péter Techet is a lawyer and historian. He studied law in Budapest and Munich, journalism in Vaduz and Southeast European history in Regensburg. He holds doctorates in both law and history. In his law dissertation, he examined Carl Schmitt. In his historical dissertation, he examined the narratives of the “nationality conflicts” in the Austro-Hungarian Littoral region during the late Habsburg monarchy, showing that the ethno-nationally coded narratives in Trieste, Istria and Fiume/Rijeka actually masked social, political or personal conflicts. For this work, he won the German Fritz and Helga Exner Foundation Prize and the Italian Carolus L. Cergoly Prize. He is currently writing his habilitation thesis in Austrian legal history at the University of Zurich, in which he places the “Reine Rechtslehre” and the constitutional jurisdiction of the First Republic in a historical context. He was a research associate at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg, the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, a lecturer in Swiss legal history at the University of Zurich, and a visiting fellow at the Austrian Historical Institute in Rome, the Remarque Institute at New York University, the University of Genoa and the University of Lucerne. He is currently working as a research associate at the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM) in Vienna, where his responsibilities include a project on “European Dis/Orders” developed jointly with the University for Continuing Education Krems.