Eduardo García de Enterría y Martínez-Carande

Eduardo García de Enterría y Martinez-Carande, born 1923 in Ramales (Cantabria, Spain), is a lawyer and member of the Spanish Council of State (1947).

He is a Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Valladolid (1957) and the Complutense University of Madrid (1962).

García de Enterría is a member of the Royal Spanish Academy ("Real Academia Española de la Lengua"). He has been awarded Doctor "honoris causa" by the University of Paris (1977), the University of Bologne (1992), the University of Zaragoza (1983), the University of Mendoza (Argentina – 1986), the University of Tucuman (Argentina, 1986), the University of Nuevo León (Mexico, 1987), the University of Benito Juárez de Durango (Mexico, 1987), the University of Valladolid (1992), the University of Carlos III (Madrid, 1993), Cantabria University (1995), Universidad Externado de Colombia (1995), Oviedo, Santiago de Compostela (1996), the University of Málaga (1999), the University of Buenos Aires (2000) and the University of Córdoba (Argentina, 2001).

He was founder of the "Spanish Administrative Law Review" and its director since 1974. He is a member of the editing committees of the "Rivista di Díritto Europeo dell'Economia", "Yearbook of European Law", "Nomos-Praxis des europäischen Rechts", "Revue Trimestrielle del Droits de l'Homme", "European Review of Public Law", "Annuaire International de Justice Constitutionnelle", "Estado e Direito" and the "Revista Española de Derecho Constitucional".

He was a Judge at the European Court of Human Rights from 1978 to 1986.

He is a member of the Academic Council of the European Law Research Center and of Harvard University Law School (1991).

Awards

* Prince of Asturias Award, (1984).
* Alexis de Tocqueville Prize by the European Public Administration Institute (Maastricht, 1999).
* Cristóbal Gabarrón Foundation Award for Lifetime Achievement, (2005).

External links

* [http://www.fcginternationalawards.org Cristóbal Gabarrón Foundation Award]
* [http://www.direitodoestado.com.br/depoimentosmagistrais/20/ Testimony on video by Eduardo García de Enterria]