BHAK / BHAS Innsbruck
Law and legal practice within business education. Students learn to recognise legal questions, structure cases and explain the reasoning behind decisions.
HAK/HAS Innsbruck teaching team →|
ALEXANDER SWANCAR
TEACHING.
LAW · HISTORY & POLITICS · ETHICS
I teach at the Bundeshandelsakademie und Bundeshandelsschule Innsbruck and SOB Tirol – School for Social Care Professions. Law, history and political education, and ethics connect subject knowledge with reasoned action.
TEACHING AS PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE.
Since the 2026/27 school year, I teach at the Bundeshandelsakademie und Bundeshandelsschule Innsbruck, with the Austrian school designation Professor. At SOB Tirol, I teach in education for social care professions. These settings connect business and legal practice with social, ethical and professional responsibility.
SOB Tirol
Law, ethics, history and political education for social care professions. The focus is on rights, responsibility, judgment and application to practical professional situations.
The SOB Tirol team →WHAT I TEACH.
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LAW
Understanding legal systems and fundamental rights. Constitutional principles, public and private law, criminal law foundations. Employment law, social law, patient rights, health law. Practical legal reasoning and application to real situations.
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HISTORY & POLITICS
Contextualizing and understanding historical developments. Democratic systems and political institutions. Europe, political participation, source analysis. Multiple perspectives and developing historical and political judgment.
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ETHICS
Reflecting on human dignity and responsibility. Analyzing moral conflicts. Freedom, justice, technology and society. Developing reasoned decisions in complex situations.
LAW IN PRACTICE.
Legal knowledge becomes valuable when learners understand how law shapes real decisions. I bring practical experience from my legal work into the classroom and translate legal complexity into understandable structures. This is not academic legal instruction, but the development of legal competence for people who must apply law in their professional work.
TEACHING FOR SOCIAL & HEALTH PROFESSIONS.
In training people who work in care, support and healthcare, there is a particular focus on patient rights, legal frameworks for care and support, mental health rights, medical devices and health regulation, and questions of representation and professional responsibility. It is about legal competence for people working close to patients, clients and vulnerable persons.
UNDERSTAND. EXAMINE. REASON. APPLY.
Real cases and situations
Discussion and perspective shifts
Source work and text analysis
Simulations and case studies
Structured argumentation
Application to real contexts
Less reproduction, more judgment. Teaching should not only convey knowledge, but develop the ability to understand complex relationships, critically examine positions, and act with sound reasoning.
WHY I TEACH.
Teaching creates direct responsibility for how people understand institutions, society, rights and their own capacity to act. Those who teach law, history and ethics bear responsibility for developing judgment. This is not peripheral. It is central to a functioning society.