Francisco Rubio Llorente (25 February 1930 – 23 January 2016) was a Spanish judge and law professor. He was President of the

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between 2004 and 2012, his predecessor and successor was

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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

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between 1959 and 1967. He then returned to Spain to take up a similar position at the

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, which he kept until his retirement. From 1977 to 1979 he was secretary general in the

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. In 1979 he became the first director of the

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. Spanish Prime Minister

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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.

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1930 births 2016 deaths Complutense University of Madrid Central University of Venezuela faculty People from Campiña Sur (Badajoz) 20th-century Spanish judges {{Spain-law-bio-stub