Francisco Rubio Llorente (25 February 1930 – 23 January 2016) was a Spanish judge and law professor. He was President of the
Spanish Council of State
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between 2004 and 2012, his predecessor and successor was
José Manuel Romay Beccaría
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. He was judge on the
Constitutional Court of Spain between 1980 and 1992, of which he spend the last three years as Vice President.
Rubio Llorente was born in
Berlanga, Badajoz, where a square has been named after him. He was a law professor at the
Central University of Venezuela
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between 1959 and 1967. He then returned to Spain to take up a similar position at the
Complutense University of Madrid
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, which he kept until his retirement.
[
From 1977 to 1979 he was secretary general in the ]Congress of Deputies
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. In 1979 he became the first director of the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales
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Its mission is to analyze the internation ...
.
Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
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asked him to look into the options of constitutional reform. In March 2005 Rubio Llorente became head of the study commission tasked with this.[
He died on 23 January 2016 in Madrid.][
]
References
1930 births
2016 deaths
Complutense University of Madrid
Central University of Venezuela faculty
People from Campiña Sur (Badajoz)
20th-century Spanish judges
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