Luzius Wildhaber
Lucius Wildhaber (born Peter Lucius Wildhaber, born January 18, 1937 in Basel ) is a Swiss lawyer. He was, from 1998 to January 2007 President of the European Court of Human Rights.
Biography
As the son of the director of the Swiss Museum of Ethnology Robert Wildhaber, and Gertrude Mathilda Peter Lucius Wildhaber was born in Basel. He has the civil rights of whales city. He studied law in Basel, Paris, Heidelberg, London and Yale. He is a member of the fraternity Zofingia. In 1961 he received his doctorate in Basel Dr. jur. At Yale Law School, he was awarded the 1965 LL.M. ( Master of Laws ), and in 1968 the J.S.D. ( Doctor of Juridical Science). From 1968 to 1977 he worked at the University of Freiburg since 1971 as a professor. 1969 Wildhaber was Associate Professor, 1977-1998 Professor of International, Constitutional and Administrative Law and Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Basel.
His career began as a judge judges of the Supreme Court of Liechtenstein ( 1975-1988, used by Prince Franz Josef II ); 1989 to 1994 he was judge of the Administrative Tribunal of the Inter-American Development Bank. In 1991 he was then appointed to the European Court of Human Rights. When it was converted into a court meeting throughout 1998, Wildhaber became its first president.
In July 2000, he briefly played an important political role, when he was commissioned by the EU with the selection of a three-member committee of wise men, who should assess the human rights situation in Austria. In response to the participation of the FPÖ in government in February 2000, the rest of the EU had frozen their relations with Austria; the opinion of the Council should defuse this crisis.
His successor as President of the European Court of Human Rights was the Frenchman Jean -Paul Costa ( 2007), as a judge of the Swiss Giorgio Malinverni (2006).
Awards
- 2000 Star of Romania
- 2003 Lithuanian Order of Merit
- 2006 Grand Gold Medal with Ribbon for Services to the Republic of Austria
- 2007 Commander of the Order of Orange- Nassau
- 2009 Anna Goeldi Human Rights Award of the Anna Goeldi Foundation