The field of the Austrian gambling monopoly is not only gaining increasing economic significance year after year; its specific legal structure — with constitutional, administrative, criminal, and civil law dimensions that cut across traditional classifications of legal disciplines — makes Austrian gambling law a highly fruitful subject for academic legal analysis.

Added to this are the profound changes heralded by Austria’s accession to the European Union, which are now also beginning to affect this traditionally monopolised sector. These developments are examined in detail in the present study.