Eduardo García de Enterría y Martínez-Carande (27 April 1923 – 16 September 2013[1]) was a Spanish jurist and a major contributor to the research and teaching of Public Law in Spain.
[2] Born in Ramales de la Victoria, province of Santander (current Cantabria), he studied law at the Universities of Barcelona and Madrid, where he obtained his Doctoral Degree, cum laude.
In 1947, he became a lawyer for the Spanish Council of State, later obtaining the chair of Administrative Law at the University of Valladolid (1957).
[3] He was the first Spanish judge on the European Court of Human Rights in Strassbourg, where he served from April, 1978 to February, 1986.
He also held the position of Doctor Honoris Causa at over a dozen universities in Spain and Latin-America, as well as at the Sorbonne.