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          Political scientist Kommers elected to Humboldt board

          
            
              
                
                Published: May 09, 2006
              

              
                Author: Michael O. Garvey
              

              







          

          
          
          

          
        
        
        
          

Donald P. Kommers, Joseph andElizabethRobbie Professor of Political Science and concurrent professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected to the board of directors of the Alexander von Humboldt Association ofAmerica.

The foundation supports research and scholarship inGermany.Its U.S. branch, whose members are Humboldt Association research fellows, prize winners, and other awardees, sponsors conferences and other events to promote and sustain professional relationships between American and German scientists and scholars.

Thirteen members of the Notre Dame faculty have received Humboldt awards.

A member ofthe Notre Dame faculty since 1963, Kommers teaches courses on American and comparative constitutional law and has written numerous books, articles and reviews on these subjects as well as on German politics.

From 1980 to 1982, Kommers served as an advisor to the Commission on the Holocaust.A past recipient of a Humboldt fellowship on the law faculty ofCologneUniversity, he also has been a resident scholar inGermanysFederal Constitutional Court.He holds an honorary doctor of laws degree fromHeidelbergUniversityand is only the third American to be so honored since 1949.

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