Carl Baudenbacher

Carl Baudenbacher (b. September 1, 1947 in Basel) is a Swiss jurist. He has served as the President of the European Free Trade Association Court since 2003 and is a Professor of Law at the University of St.Gallen HSG since 1987.

Career

Carl Baudenbacher attended Law School of the University of Bern. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Bern in 1978 and his habilitation from the University of Zürich in 1982. Baudenbacher was a Visiting Law Professor at several German Universities and a Full Professor at the University of Kaiserslautern. Since 1987 he holds the Chair of Private, Commercial and Economic law at the University of St. Gallen HSG, Switzerland. Since 1990 he is Managing Director of the Institute of European and International Business Law at the University of St. Gallen. Carl Baudenbacher founded the postgraduate program Executive Master of European and International Business Law M.B.L. HSG in 1995 which takes place in Europe, the U.S. and Asia. He is Chairman of the St.Gallen International Competition Law Forum ICF, the St. Gallen International Energy Forum IEF and the St. Gallen International Dispute Settlement Conference. From 1993-2002 Baudenbacher was Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law for International and European Law.

From 1990-1994 Baudenbacher was the Expert Advisor to the Government of the Principality of Liechtenstein in matters concerning the negotiations on the establishment of a European Economic Area (EEA). From 1994-1995 he served as a member of the Supreme Court of the Principality of Liechtenstein. In 1995 Carl Baudenbacher was appointed Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA Court) upon a proposal of the Principality of Liechtenstein. The EFTA Court hears cases originating from the EFTA States which are Contracting Parties to the EEA Agreement. These are currently Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. Since 1999 Prof. Dr. Carl Baudenbacher chairs together with the former Vice-Chancellor of the Republic of Austria, Dr. Erhard Busek, the Vienna Globalization Symposium.

Carl Baudenbacher is a frequent speaker at international conferences on Competition Law, EC/EEA Law and the role of international courts. He is also invited on a regular basis to speak on these topics in European, U.S.-American, Asian law schools.

Published works

35 books and over 150 articles on European and International law, law of obligations, labour law, law of unfair competition, antitrust law, company law, intellectual property law, comparative law and the law of international courts.

Most significant Publications:
*Lauterkeitsrecht, Kommentar zum Bundesgesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb (UWG), Helbing & Lichtenhahn: Basel/Genf/München; WIV Wirtschaftswis-senschaftlicher Verlag: St.Gallen/Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-7190-1880-6.
*EFTA Court, Legal Framework and Case Law, 3rd Edition, Luxembourg 2008.
*Facets of an EEA Constitutional Order, in: Colneric, Ninon ; Edward, David; Puisso-chet, Jean-Pierre ; Ruiz-Jarabo, Damaso (Hrsg.), Une communauté de droit, Festschrift für Gil Carlos Rodriguez Iglesias, Berlin : Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2003, 343 et seqq.
*Judicialization of European Competition Policy, in: International Antitrust Law & Policy, 2002 Corporate Law Institute, Fordham University School of Law, 353 et seqq..
*Immaterialgüterrecht und Handelspolitik, ZSR N.F. Bd. 120, 2001, I. HB, 207 et seqq.
*The EFTA Court: An Actor in the European Judicial Dialogue, 28 Fordham Interna-tional Law Journal, 353–391 (2005).
*State liability as European ius commune: The Case of the European Economic Area, in: Fedke, Jörg and Sir Markesinis, Basil (eds.), Patterns of Regionalism and Federalism: Lessons for the UK, The Clifford Chance Lectures, Vol. VIII, Oxford and Portland Oregon 2006, 191–199.
*The Implementation of Decisions of the ECJ and of the EFTA Court in Member States' Domestic Legal Orders, Symposium Article, Symposium Globalization and the Judiciary, 40 Tex. Int'l L.J. 383 et seqq.
*The CFI’s Gencor Judgment – Some Remarks on its Global Implications, in: Carl Baudenbacher, Claus Gulmann, Koen Lenaerts, Emmanuel Coulon, Eric Bar-bier de la Serre, eds., Liber Amicorum en l’honneur de Bo Vesterdorf, Bruxelles 2007, 543 et seqq.
*he EFTA Court, the ECJ, and the Latter’s Advocates General – a Tale of Judicial Dialogue, in: Continuity and Change in EU Law. Essays in Honour of Sir Francis Jacobs, edited by Anthony Arnull, Piet Eckhout and Takis Tridimas, Oxford 2008, 90 et seqq.

Awards

*2003: Cross of Honour for Science and Art First Class of the Republic of Austria
*2003: Carl H. Fulda award for excellence in international law, Texas International Law Journal
*2004: Kleinstaatenpreis of the Herbert-Batliner-Europainstitut
*2008: Gold Medal for Meritorious Service to the Province of Vienna

External links

* [http://www.eftacourt.int EFTA Court]
* [http://www.mbl.unisg.ch Executive Master of European and International Business Law]
* [http://www.eur.unisg.ch Chair of Private, Commercial and Economic law at the University of St. Gallen HSG]
* [http://www.elr.lu European Law Reporter]