Hubert Treiber is Professor Emeritus of Administrative Sciences at the Leibniz University of Hannover. He has published widely on Max Weber and worked on Friedrich Nietzsche and Paul Rée. He has also published in the field of public administration, the implementation of law and the history of science. In 1986/87 he was Jean-Monnet-Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence), and in 1991 he received a scholarship from the Beinecke Rare Manuscript
Library/Yale University Library. In April 2000, he was awarded the national academic prize for 'Law and Society', endowed by the Christa-Hoffmann-Riem Foundation, from the Deutsche Vereinigung für Rechtssoziologie (lawyers' association). This prize promotes 'the valuable application of social science research
in legal contexts'. In 2018, his book Max Webers Rechtssoziologie - eine Einladung zur Lektüre was honoured by the Börsenverein des deutchen Buchhandels and the F. Thyssen-Stiftung.