Robert Walter (lawyer)

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Robert Walter (born January 30, 1931 in Vienna ; † December 25, 2010 there ) was an Austrian lawyer .

Life

After graduating from high school in Wiener Neustadt in 1949 , Walter studied law and political science at the University of Vienna and was awarded a Dr. iur. and in 1955 Dr. rer. pole. PhD. In 1957 Walter was appointed judge and in 1960 he completed his habilitation under Adolf Julius Merkl at the University of Vienna for constitutional law . In 1962 he followed a call from the University of Graz to an associate professor for constitutional law and became a professor there in 1965. In 1966 he followed a call to the University of World Trade in Vienna (later: Vienna University of Economics and Business ) and moved back to the University of Vienna in 1975, where he worked as a full professor of constitutional and administrative law until his retirement in 1999. Together with Heinz Mayer , who completed his habilitation with him, he wrote textbooks on federal constitutional law, administrative procedural law and special administrative law, each of which was subject to several editions.

In 1971, Robert Walter and Kurt Ringhofer initiated the establishment of the Hans Kelsen Institute , a federal foundation that was supposed to continue the work of Hans Kelsen , became his managing director alongside Ringhofer and developed considerable research and publication activities on both pure legal theory and Hans Kelsen self.

Awards

Works (selection)

  • Robert Walter: Constitution and Jurisdiction . Manz, Vienna 1960
  • Robert Walter: The structure of the legal system . 1st edition, Leykam, Graz 1964; 2nd edition, Manz, Vienna 1974
  • Robert Walter: Austrian Federal Constitutional Law. System . Manz, Vienna 1972
  • Robert Walter, Heinz Mayer: Outline of the Austrian Federal Constitutional Law . 1st edition Manz, Vienna 1976; last 10th edition (with Gabriele Kucsko-Stadlmayer ), Manz, Vienna 2007
  • Robert Walter, Heinz Mayer: Outline of the Austrian administrative procedural law . 1st edition, Manz, Vienna 1978; last 8th edition, Manz, Vienna 2003
  • Robert Walter, Heinz Mayer: Outline of the special administrative law . 1st edition. Manz, Vienna 1981; last 2nd edition, Manz, Vienna 1987
  • Robert Walter: The emergence of the Federal Constitutional Law 1920 in the Constituent National Assembly (= series of publications of the Hans Kelsen Institute 9). Manz, Vienna 1984
  • Robert Walter: Hans Kelsen - A life in the service of science (= publication series of the Hans Kelsen Institute 10). Manz, Vienna 1985
  • Robert Walter: Legal Theory and Epistemology versus Pure Legal Doctrine? (= Series of publications by the Hans Kelsen Institute 15). Manz, Vienna 1990
  • Robert Walter, Rudolf Thienel: Parliament and Federal Constitution (= legal series 18). Verlag der Österr. State printing office, Vienna 1990
  • Robert Walter, reflections on a new codification of the federal constitution . 2 Bde. Verlag der Österr. State printing office, Vienna 1994
  • Robert Walter, Rudolf Thienel: The Austrian administrative procedural laws . 12th edition. Manz, Vienna 1996; last 16th edition, 2004
  • Robert Walter: Hans Kelsen as constitutional judge (= publication series of the Hans Kelsen Institute 27). Manz, Vienna 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “This country could need more like him” - obituary . In: Salzburger Nachrichten . January 3, 2011, Domestic Policy ( Article Archive ).
  2. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Walter, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 2010
Place of death Vienna