Carl Baudenbacher

Baudenbacher ( born September 1, 1947 in Basel, home justified in Murten ) is a Swiss lawyer. From 1987 to 2013 he was a full professor at the University of St. Gallen; He has been President of the EFTA Court in Luxembourg since 2003.

Life

Baudenbacher studied from 1967 to 1971 Law at the University of Bern, where he also received his doctorate in 1978. In 1983 he completed his habilitation at the University of Zurich. After professorships and visiting professorships in Germany, he became in 1987 Professor of Private Law at the University of Kaiserslautern. Since 1987 he holds the chair for residential, commercial and business law at the University of St. Gallen, since 1990 director of the Institute for European and International Business Law. In 1995 he founded a postgraduate course at the University of St. Gallen in European and International Business Law " Executive MBL- HSG", which is carried out in Europe, the USA, Japan and China. From 1993 to 2004 he was Visiting Professor of International and European Law at the School of Law at the University of Texas at Austin.

From 1990 to 1994 Baudenbacher was Advisor to the Government of the Principality of Liechtenstein in matters of European law. 1994/95 he was a member of the Princely Supreme Court. In 1995 he was elected on the proposal of the Principality of Liechtenstein to the judge at the Court of Justice of the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA), which he chaired in 2003. The EFTA Court has jurisdiction to decide cases that have their origin in the EFTA pillar of the European Economic Area ( EEA). The EFTA pillar belong to Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.

From 1999 to 2007 Baudenbacher initiated together with the former Austrian Vice Chancellor Erhard Busek, the Vienna Symposium globalization. He is Chairman of the St. Gallen International Competition Law Forum ICF, the St. Gallen International Energy Forum (IEF together with Dirk Buschle ) and the St. Gallen International Dispute Settlement Conference IDSC. Baudenbacher particularly in the areas of antitrust, EU occurs as a speaker at international conferences / EEA law, international courts and arbitration. He lectures in European, U.S. and Asian universities.

Publications

Baudenbacher has more than 40 books and over 150 articles written on European and international law, contract law, employment law, unfair competition law, antitrust law, corporate law, intellectual property law, comparative law, arbitration and international dishes.

Major publications:

  • Switzerland as a Spearhead of Competition Law in Europe? , European Law Reporter No. 4/2011, 114 et seq
  • The EFTA Court in Action - Five Lectures, Stuttgart: German Law Publishers 2010, ISBN 978-3-941389-04-5.
  • Evaluation of the Competition Act: Institutional Setting Vertical agreements - sanctioning of individuals - Civil litigation, reporting structure of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, No. 44 /3, Bern: State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO 2009.
  • Dispute Resolution, Stuttgart 2009.
  • Proceedings before the European Courts in competition and State aid cases, in: Hirsch / Monday / Säcker, Competition Law: European Community Practice and Procedure, Thomson / Sweet & Maxwell, 2008 ( with Dirk Buschle ) 2535-2753.
  • EFTA Court, Legal Framework and Case Law, 3rd Edition, Luxembourg 2008.
  • The EFTA Court, the ECJ, and the Latter 's Advocates General - a Tale of Judicial Dialogue, in: Continuity and Change in EU Law. Seq Essays in Honour of Sir Francis Jacobs, edited by Anthony Arnull, Piet Eckhout and Takis Tridimas, Oxford 2008, 90 et
  • . The CFI 's Gencor Judgment - Some Remarks on its Global Implications, in: Carl Baudenbacher, Gulmann, Koen Lenaerts, Emmanuel Coulon, Eric Barbier de la Serre, eds, Liber Amicorum en l' honneur de Bo Vesterdorf, Bruxelles 2007, 543 et seq
  • 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 on Globalization and the Judiciary, 40 Tex. Seq Int'l L.J 2005. 383 et
  • The EFTA Court: An Actor in the European Judicial Dialogue, 28 Fordham International Law Journal, 353-391 ( 2005).
  • Facets of an EEA Constitutional Order, in: Colneric, Ninon; Edward, David; Puissochet, Jean -Pierre; Seq Berliner Science Publishers, 2003, 343 et Ruiz -Jarabo, Damaso (ed.), Une communauté de droit, Festschrift for Gil Carlos Rodriguez Iglesias, Berlin
  • Seq International Antitrust Law & Policy, 2002 Corporate Law Institute, Fordham University School of Law, 353 et: Judicialization of European Competition Policy, in
  • Intellectual property and trade policy, ZSR NF Vol 120, 2001, I. HB, et seq 207
  • Competition Law, Commentary on the Federal Law against Unfair Competition ( UWG), Helbing & Lichtenhahn: Basel / Geneva / Munich; WIV Economic Research Publisher: St.Gallen / Berlin 2001.

Awards

  • 2003 Honorary Cross for Science and Art, First Class of the Republic of Austria
  • 2003 Carl H. Fulda Award from the Texas International Law Journal
  • 2004 Small States price of the Herbert Batliner Europe Institute in Salzburg
  • 2007 Golden Medal of the City of Vienna
  • 2012 Dr. rer. pol. H.C. Leuphana University
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