After graduating, Funk secured employment as an assistant professor with the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law (German: Institut für Staats- und Verwaltungsrecht); he excelled to the point that he could submit his habilitation thesis after only six years, in 1974.
He also joined the academic commission (Wissenschaftskommission) of the Austrian Ministry of Defense and contributed to the Austria Convention (Österreich-Konvent), an inquiry into constitutional reform initiated by the first Schüssel government.
[1][2] From 1999 to 2007, Funk was the deputy chairman of the Austrian Human Rights Council (Menschenrechtsbeirat), a government-sponsored watchdog committee.
He is tapped for interviews by news outlets ranging from broadsheets to tabloids and from the national public broadcaster to entertainment and lifestyle magazines.
Funk has been asked to provide analysis on Internet surveillance,[11] the appointment of Gerhart Holzinger to the Austrian Constitutional Court,[12] the legality of civilian video recording of police officers,[13] the interrelation between economic insecurity and police violence,[14] the Constitutional Court's annulment of the 2016 Austrian presidential election,[15] social security reform,[16] and smoking bans,[17] among many other topics.
Together with Ludwig Adamovich, Gerhart Holzinger, and Stefan Leo Frank, Funk is the author of Österreichisches Staatsrecht, a four-volume general introduction to Austrian constitutional law.