Robert Alexy
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Robert Alexy (born 9 September 1945 in Oldenburg, Germany) is a jurist and a legal philosopher.
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Robert Alexy | |
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Born | (1945-09-09) 9 September 1945 (age 78) |
Nationality | German |
Alma mater | University of Göttingen |
Awards | Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2010) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Law |
Institutions | University of Kiel |
Doctoral advisor | Ralf Dreier |
Doctoral students | Mattias Kumm |
Alexy studied law and philosophy at the University of Göttingen. He received his J.D. in 1976 with the dissertation A Theory of Legal Argumentation, and he achieved his Habilitation in 1984 with a Theory of Constitutional Rights.
He is a professor at the University of Kiel[1] and in 2002 he was appointed to the Academy of Sciences and Humanities at the University of Göttingen.[2] In 2010 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.[3]
Since 2008 the Universities of Alicante, Buenos Aires, Tucumán, Antwerp, National University of San Marcos in Lima, Prague, Coimbra, Porto Alegre, Belo Horizonte, Chapecó, Rio de Janeiro and Bogotá awarded him the honorary doctorate degree.[4]