HERBERT SCHAMBECK

Date of Birth: 12 July 1934 Place: Baden near Vienna (Austria) Nomination: 19 January 1994 Field: Public Law, Political Science and Philosophy of Law Title: Professor Emeritus

Institute Address:
Institute for Constitutional Law and Political Sciences, University of Linz, Juridicum, A-4040 Linz-Auhof (Austria)

Most important awards, prizes and academies Magistral Grand Cross with Ribbon of the Sovereign Maltese Order of Knighthood (1st class). Respective Grand Crosses (1st class) of the Papal Order of St. Gregorius, of the Distinguished Order for Merits of Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Sovereign Maltese Order of Knighthood, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Hungary, of the Greek Order of the Phoenix, of the St. Agatha Order of San Marino, of the Bernardo O'Higgins Order of Chile, the Crown Order of Belgium and Thailand, of the Jordanian Order of the Star, of the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, Commander with Star of the Distinguished Order for Merits of Poland, the Bavarian Distinguished Service Order and decorations of all Austrian states. Member of the Association of German State Lawyers, the Catholic Academy of Vienna, the Accademia Galileiana Patavina di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in Padua, Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas in Madrid, the Rheinisch-Westfälischen Academy of Sciences in Düsseldorf, the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences in the Vatican City. Honorary Member of the Czech Learned Society in Prague. Honorary President of the Austrian Law Commission in Vienna. Dr. of Law h.c. of the Catholic University of Chile in Santiago de Chile, Republic of Chile, of the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C., USA, of the Charles-University in Prague, the Czech Republic, and the University of Wroclaw, Republic of Poland, of the University of Piteşti, Republic of Romania; Dr. of Philosophy h.c. of the International Academy of Philosophy of the Principality of Liechtenstein; Dr. of Theology h.c. of the Papal Theological Faculty of Wroclaw; Dr. h.c. of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia. Theodor Cardinal Innitzer Award, Leopold Kunschak Award and Science Award of the City of Baden near Vienna.
Summary of scientific research 1958 Graduation to Dr. iur. at the University of Vienna and clerkship at courts. 1959 to 1964 Assistant of Univ. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Adolf Merkl at the Institute of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Vienna; 1964 Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna; 1965 Counsellor in the Department of Science at the Austrian Chamber of Commerce; 1966 Associate Professor of Political Science and Austrian Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Innsbruck; 1967 (spring term) Visiting Professor at the Department of Government and International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, Fall term 1967. Appointment to Full Professor of Public Law, Political Sciences and Legal Philosophy at the University of Linz until Oct. 2002. Guest lectures in Germany, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Hungary, South Africa, Brazil, Chile, USA, India, Thailand, United Kingdom, Poland, Russia, Latvia and Japan. From 1969 until 1997 Member of the Federal Council of the Republic of Austria (i.e. the Senate of the Austrian Parliament), from 1975 until 1997 Chairman of the Austrian People's Party (i.e. Christian Democrats) and continuously serving as President or Vice-President of the Federal Council; 1969-97 Member of the Delegation of the Holy See to the General Conference of the IAEA; Gentiluomo di Sua Santità; 1993-2009 Consultor of the Pontifical Council for the Family; Honorary Member of the Italian Society of Catholic Jurists;.
Main publications As author (among others): The Concept of "Natur der Sache", Vienna 1964; Church - State - Society, Vienna 1967; Basic Rights and Social Order - Thoughts on the European Social Charter, Berlin 1969; On Changing Concepts of Rule of Law, Berlin 1970; The Referendum, Tübingen 1971; Political Responsibility, Karlsruhe 1971; The Parliamentary System in Austria, Rome 1982; Judicial Office and Ethics, Berlin 1982; Ethics and State, Berlin 1986; Democracy and Federalism as a European Challenge, Prague 1992; Church, State and Democracy, Berlin 1992; State, Public and Public Opinion, Berlin 1992; European Integration and Austrian Federalism, Vienna 1993; Law, Faith and State, Vienna 1994; Recent Developments of Democracy and the Rule of Law, Vienna 1994; The System of Austrian Government, Opladen 1995; Government and Checks in Austria, Berlin 1997; On Politics and Law, Vienna 1997; Tendencies of the European Integration, Wiesbaden 2000; The State and his Order, Wien 2002; Policy in Theory and Practice, Vienna 2004; La dignité de l'homme dans l'enseignement de l'Eglise catholique, Strasbourg 2010. As editor (among others): Church and State, Berlin 1976; In Remembrance of Pius XII, Berlin 1977; The Austrian Constitution and its Development, Berlin 1980; Austrian Parliamentarism - Development and System, Berlin 1986; Federalism and Parliamentarism in Austria, Vienna 1992; Parliamentarism and Public Law in Austria, Berlin 1993; Federal State and Federal Council in Austria, Vienna 1997. More than 700 publications in the fields of public law, philosophy of law, political science and Catholic social theory. Some of these also appeared in different languages.