The Directors and Vice-Directors of the Doctoral Studies Programme are important persons of contact regarding study affairs. They are in charge of the approval of the topic of the doctoral thesis and the approval of the doctoral thesis agreement.

• Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Franz Stefan Meissel
• ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Elisabeth Holzleithner (Deputy)
• Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Helmut Ofner, LLM (Deputy)
• ao. Univ.-Prof. MMag. Dr. Michaela Windischgrätz (Deputy)

The doctoral advisory board is appointed in order to give advice to the administrative body responsible for study matters, to students and supervisors. The official steps towards the institution of the advisory boards are put down in the statutes §15 (7) governing university studies. The doctoral advisory board is of particular importance concerning students' presentations at the faculty. Its members are in charge of one or more fields of doctoral research or a larger part of a specific field of doctoral research within one curriculum.

• Members of the Doctoral Advisory Board for the Doctoral Programme in Law:
  
  Univ.-Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Benke
  Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Mazal
  Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian Kopetzki
  
  
• Members of the Doctoral Advisory Board for the PhD Programme Interdisciplinary Legal Studies:
  
  Univ.-Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Benke
  Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Mazal
  Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian Kopetzki
  Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Ursula Kriebaum
  Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alexander Somek