Peter Häberle

Peter Häberle, one of the »leading constitutional law scholars in the world« (EL PAÍS), studied law in Tübingen, Bonn, Montpellier, and Freiburg. In 1961 he received his PhD and habilitated in 1969. Häberle then served as law professor at Marburg, Augsburg, and Bayreuth. Since 1982 he has been unfolding his comparative constitutional-cultural-science approach. For nearly 20 years he has been a regular guest professor for jurisprudence at St. Gallen. His corpus of work encompasses 48 books, over 350 articles and translations into 15 languages. Häberle is honorary professor at the universities of Tessaloniki, Granada, Lima, Brasilia, Lisbon, Tiflis, and Buenos Aires. He has been awarded numerous national and international prizes.