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).
He is the author of "Fervor de Borges" where the Anglo-Spanish intellectual poet is praised as the most important author since Cervantes. Dr. Eduardo García de Enterría is a co-founder of the 'The Friends of Jorge Luis Borges Worldwide Society', of which he was the first Vicepresident and of 'The international Foundation Can Mossenya - Friends of J L Borges'; Dr. Eduardo García de Enterría Law Firm took care of all the legal paperwork and registration of both NGO.
He is the author of around 30 books, including Curso de Derecho Administrativo ('Manual of Administrative Law'), two volumes, written with Tomás Ramón Fernández, which has been a key work to teach many generations of Law students in Spain.
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