Winfried Brugger

Brugger studied law, philosophy and sociology at the Universities in Munich and Tuebingen.

Max Webers Beitrag zur Analyse und Begruendung der Menschenrechte (1980), he then studied at the University of California in Berkeley, obtaining the degree of LL.M.

Winfried Brugger was also a Fellow at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at Erfurt University in Germany, associate director of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA), and President of the German Section of the International Association for Social and Legal Philosophy (IRV).

Many of his publications focus on human rights in general and free speech issues (hate speech) in particular, judicial review, theories of interpretation, liberalism and communitarianism, constitutional law in times of emergency, and theories of good decisionmaking.

In Germany, he reviewed new decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court and was co-editor of the Newsletter of the German-American Lawyers Association.