Carl Baudenbacher

Carl Baudenbacher is a Swiss jurist. He has served as a Judge of the EFTA Court since 1995 and as President since 2003. He was a Full Professor at the University of St. Gallen from 1987 to 2013 and a Permanent Visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law from 1993-2003.

Carl Baudenbacher attended the School of Law and Economics of the University of Berne. He received his doctorate (Ph.D.) from the University of Berne in 1978 and his habilitation from the University of Zurich in 1982. Baudenbacher was an Acting Law Professor at several prestigious German Universities and an Associate Professor at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. He held the Chair of Private, Commercial and Economic law at the University of St Gallen HSG, Switzerland from 1987 to 2013. He was also the Managing Director of the Institute of European and International Business Law at the University of St Gallen HSG from 1991 to 2013. From 1993 to 2002 Baudenbacher was a Permanent Visiting Professor at the University of Texas School of Law for International and European Law. Carl Baudenbacher founded the global postgraduate program Executive Master of European and International Business Law E.M.B.L.-HSG in 1995. E.M.B.L.-HSG is a program for lawyers and non-lawyers based on the concept of a flying classroom and of a global faculty. It takes place in Europe, the U.S., Japan and China. He is the founder and Chairman of the St Gallen International Competition Law Forum ICF and the Director of the Competence Center for European and International Law at the University of St Gallen HSG. Professor Baudenbacher is also a Co-Chairman of the Grigory Tunkin Readings at Moscow State ("Lomonosov") University. Since 1998, he has furthermore been the Chairman of the Board of Editors of the European Law Reporter (ELR), Luxembourg (www.elr.lu).

From 1999 to 2007, Professor Baudenbacher co-chaired the Vienna Globalization Symposium with the former Vice-Chancellor of the Republic of Austria, Dr Erhard Busek. He was also a Visiting Professor at the University of Geneva (1989-1990) and at the University of Iceland (2009-2011).

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