Baudenbacher biography
•
Expert resume of Prof. Dr. iur. Dr. rer. pol. h.c. Carl Baudenbacher
Senior Partner Baudenbacher Law, Zurich; Door Tenant, Monckton Chambers, London; Visiting Professor, London School of Economics; President of the EFTA Court 2003-2017
President of the EFTA Court from 2003 to 2017, Judge of the EFTA Court since 1995, Director of the Center of European and International lag at the University of St. Gallen.
Dr. iur. University of Berne summa cum laude 1978.
Habilitation University of Zurich 1983.
Acting Professor for Private lag, Commercial lag, Labour lag, Economic lag and Mining Law at several German Universities, i.a. Free University of Berlin and Tübingen University 1984-1986.
Professor for Private law, Commercial Law, Labour Law and Economic lag at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern 1986-1987.
Chair of Private, Commercial and Economic Law at the University of St. Gallen HSG 1987-2013.
Founder and Chairman of the University of St. Gallen Executive Master of Europ
•
Born: 1947
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Carl Baudenbacher is a full professor of civil, commecial and business law and the managing director of the Institute of European and International Business Law at the University of St. Gallen HSG.
He is the president of the EFTA Court. Baudenbacher received his doctoral degree from the University of Bern in 1978 and his habilitation from the University of Zürich in 1982. He was an acting professor of law at several German Universities and a full professor at the University of Kaiserslautern. Since 1987 he holds the Chair of private, commercial and economic law at the University of St Gallen HSG. Since 1990, he has also been managing director of the Institute of European and International Business Law at the University of St. Gallen HSG. Baudenbacher co-founded the global postgraduate program Executive Master of European and International Business Law E.M.B.L.-HSG in 1995 which takes place in Europe, the
•
Short Bio
After several guest professorships in Germany, Baudenbacher became full professor of private, commercial and business law at the University of St. Gallen in 1987 as successor to Federal Councillor Arnold Koller. In 1995 he founded the global HSG postgraduate programme European and International Executive Master of Business Law, which takes place on three continents and which he still directs today. Also in 1995, at the suggestion of Liechtenstein, he was appointed judge at the EFTA Court, which he has presided over since 2003. From 1993 to 2005, Baudenbacher was Permanent Visiting Professor at the University of Texas School of Law. In 2012, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in economics from Leuphana University of Lüneburg. In 2014, Baudenbacher was a member of the independent investigative commission set up by the Austrian federal government to transparently clarify the events surrounding Hypo Group Alpe Adria ("Griss Commission"). In January 2016, the "Ba