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

He is a Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Valladolid
University of Valladolid
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 (1957) and the Complutense University of Madrid
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 (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
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 (1977), the University of Bologne (1992), the University of Zaragoza
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 (1983), the University of Mendoza (Argentina
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 – 1986), the University of Tucuman (Argentina, 1986), the University of Nuevo León (Mexico
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, 1987), the University of Benito Juárez de Durango (Mexico, 1987), the University of Valladolid (1992), the University of Carlos III
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
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 (Madrid
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, 1993), Cantabria University (1995), Universidad Externado de Colombia
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 (1995), Oviedo, Santiago de Compostela
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 (1996), the University of Málaga
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 (1999), the University of Buenos Aires
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 (2000) and the University of Córdoba
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 (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
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 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.

Books

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.

Among other works such as:
  • Revolución Francesa y Administración contemporánea
  • Legislación delegada, potestad reglamentaria y control judicial
  • Las formas comunitarias de propiedad forestal y su posible proyección futura
  • La administración española
  • La lengua de los derechos
  • La lucha contra las inmunidades del Poder en el Derecho administrativo
  • La batalla por las medidas cautelares
  • Código de las Leyes Administrativas
  • La responsabilidad patrimonial del Estado legislador en el Derecho español
  • Democracia, jueces y control de la Administración
  • La Constitución como norma y el Tribunal Constitucional
  • Los principios de la nueva Ley de Expropiación Forzosa
  • La responsabilidad patrimonial del Estado legislador en el Derecho español
  • Legislación delegada, potestad reglamentaria y control judicial
  • Código de la Unión Europea
  • Las transformaciones de la justicia administrativa
  • Hamlet en Nueva York: Autores, Obras, Paises. Escritos Literarios (La Esfera de los Libros, Madrid 2008)
  • de Montañas y Hombres (Colección Austral -Nueva-, Madrid 2001)
  • Fervor de Borges (Ed. Trotta, Madrid 1999)

Awards

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

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