Eduardo Garcia de Enterria y Martinez-Carande

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

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

He is a numbered Academic at the Royal Spanish Academy [Real Academia Española de la Lengua]. He has been awarded Doctor honoris causa by the Universities of Paris .- Soborna (1977), Bologne (1992), Zaragoza (1983), Mendoza (Argentina – 1986), Tucuman (Argentina, 1986), Nuevo León (Mexico, 1987), Benito Juárez de Durango (Mexico, 1987), Valladolid (1992), Carlos III (Madrid, 1993), Cantabria University (1995), Universidad Externado de Colombia (1995), Oviedo, Santiago de Compostela (1996), Málaga (1999), Buenos Aires (2000) and 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 Juez European Court of Human Rights (1978-1986).

He was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for the (1984).

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

He was awarded the Alexis de Tocqueville Prize by the European Public Administration Institute (Maastricht, 1999).

In 2005 he was awarded the Cristóbal Gabarrón Foundation Award for Lifetime Achievement.