Peter Häberle

Peter Häberle (born 13 May 1934 in Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg) is a German legal scholar, specialising in constitutional law.

Biography

Häberle's the son of Hugo Häberle, a medical doctor, and Ursula Häberle (née Riebensahm).

Häberle studied law in Tübingen, Bonn, Freiburg im Breisgau and Montpellier. In 1961 he received his juris doctor under supervision of Konrad Hesse at the faculty of law, University of Freiburg. His thesis, titled "Die Wesensgehaltgarantie des Art. 19 Abs. 2 Grundgesetz", became both influential and controversial.^{[citation needed]}

In 1970 Häberle attained his habilitation in Freiburg im Breisgau with a work on "Öffentliches Interesse als juristisches Problem" (i.e., Public interest as a legal problem). After deputizing as professor in Tübingen he became a professor of law in Marburg himself. Later he moved to the Universities of Augsburg and Bayreuth. He briefly served as visitant professor at the University of St. Gallen (1982-1999).

Häberle's works have been translated into 18 languages. He was honored by an international Festschrift for his 70th birthday.

Much like his academic teacher Konrad Hesse, Häberle stands in the tradition of the Rudolf Smend school of thought. He has publicly acknowledged this fact in a lot of his works.^{[citation needed]}

In 1994 Peter Häberle received the honorary doctorate of the faculty of law of the Aristoteles-University Thessaloniki, in 2000, 2003 and 2007 from the respective faculties in Granada, the Catholic University of Lima and the University of Lisbon.^{[citation needed]} In 2005 the University of Brasilia awarded him with an honorary doctorate.^{[citation needed]} Further honors have been amongst other: the "Great officer of the Republic of Italia"-order, the medals of honor of the Constitutional courts in Rome and Lima, the German and the Bavarian cross of merit.^{[citation needed]}

Peter Häberle supervised the dissertation of Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg. Guttenberg's dissertation was later shown to contain copies of texts from the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, a speech by his predecessor as defense minister, and many other sources, including his supervisor, Häberle himself. The dissertation was awarded a "summa cum laude". However, the PhD degree was revoked in February 2011 for extensive violations of regulations concerning the citation of sources. First, Häberle defended the thesis of Guttenberg, whom he considered "one of his best students", against accusations of plagiarism, calling them "absurd". However, he later said that his first spontaneous reaction had been "too rash" and that he hadn't been aware of the extent of the flaws in Guttenberg's dissertation. Häberle said that these flaws were "severe" and "not acceptable".

Selected Publications

• Grundrechte im Leistungsstaat, (English: Fundamental rights in a state of benefits) in: Veröffentlichungen der Vereinigung Deutscher Staatsrechtslehrer (VVDStRL) vol. 30 (1972), pp. 43
• Die offene Gesellschaft der Verfassungsinterpreten, in: Juristenzeitung (JZ) 1975, pp. 297.
• Klassikertexte im Verfassungsleben, 1981
• "Die Wesensgehaltsgarantie des Art. 19 Abs. 2 Grundgesetz – Zugleich ein Beitrag zum institutionellen Verständnis der Grundrechte und zur Lehre des Gesetzesvorbehalts" 3rd ed., Heidelberg 1983
• Die Gemeinwohlproblematik in rechtswissenschaftlicher Sicht, in: South African Yearbook of International Law, Volume 9, 1983, pp. 53 – 77
• Current problems of German Federalism in: University of Rome II, Department of Public Law, Yearbook (1990 - 1991), p. 79 – 119
• Constitutional developments in Eastern Europe in: Law and State, Institute for Scientific Cooperation, Tübingen (ed.), Vol. 46 (1992), S. 64 - 90
• "Rechtsvergleichung im Kraftfeld des Verfassungsstaates - Methoden und Inhalte, Kleinstaaten und Entwicklungsländer", 1992
• "Europäische Rechtskultur", 1994
• "Wahrheitsprobleme im Verfassungsstaat", 1995
• "Verfassungslehre als Kulturwissenschaft", Duncker und Humblot, 2nd edition, largely extended, (1998), 1188 pages; it was partially translated into Spanish ("Teoría de la Constitutión como ciencia de la cultura", 2000), Italian ("Per una dottrina della costituzione come scienza della cultura", 2001) and Japanese (in: Kobe Law Journal, Vol. 50, No. 4, March 2001)
• "Verfassung als öffentlicher Prozeß", Duncker und Humblot, SöR vol. 353, 3rd ed. Berlin 1998
• "Gibt es eine europäische Öffentlichkeit?", 2000
• "L'Etat Constitutionnel", Paris, 2004
• "Nueve Ensayos Constitucionales y una Lección Jubilar", Lima, 2004; und Mexiko, UNAM, 2004, available through UNAM, [1]
• "Europäische Verfassungslehre", Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2005, 3rd, revised and extended edition
• "Das Menschenbild im Verfassungsstaat" , Berlin, Duncker und Humblot, 2005, 3rd extended edition
• "El federalismo y el regionalismo como forma estructural del Estado", Mexiko, UNAM, 2006, translated by J. Brage Camazano and available at [2]

Further reading

• Martin Morlok: Peter Häberle zum 70. Geburtstag, in: Archiv des öffentlichen Rechts, volume 129 (2004), pp. 327 ff.
• Alexander Blankenagel/Ingolf Pernice/Helmuth Schulze-Fielitz: Verfassung im Diskurs der Welt, Liber Amicorum für Peter Häberle zum siebzigsten Geburtstag, Tübingen 2004
• Francisco Balaguer Callejón (editor): Derecho Constitucional y Cultura, Estudios en Homenaje a Peter Häberle (int. Festschrift), Madrid 2004
• Joaquín Brage Camazano, "Nota liminar", P. Häberle, NUEVE ENSAYOS CONSTITUCIONALES Y UNA LECCIÓN JUBILAR[3]

External links

• Peter Häberle in the German National Library catalogue (German)
• Forschungsstelle für Europäisches Verfassungsrecht