Manuel Rodríguez Ramos (born January 1, 1908, date of death unknown) was a Puerto Rican writer and law professor.
Early life and education
He born on January 1, 1908, in
Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
Río Piedras is a populous district of San Juan, and former town and municipality of Puerto Rico, which was merged with the municipality of San Juan in 1951. The district today is composed of various '' barrios'' (these are the primary legal divi ...
. His father died when he was barely a year old. In 1930 he became the third president of
Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity. In 1931 he and y Manuel García Cabrera with the help of the UPR Law School Dean Rafael Martínez Álvarez founded the UPR Law Review.
Also as a student he was the director of ''Athenea'' the UPR graduating class Yearbook in 1930 and in 1932.
[ He obtained his Juris Doctor from the University of Puerto Rico College of Law and later obtained his Master of Law from Tulane University Law School.]
Career
From 1932 to 1938 he worked as a private lawyer. Afterward he began working as part of the corp of lawyer of the Puerto Rico Secretary of Justice. From 1941 till 1943 he was Sub-secretary of Justice of Puerto Rico and in 1944 he was interim Secretary of Justice of Puerto Rico.[
In the late 1940 he was appointed Dean of the University of Puerto Rico school of law, at that time it was called the College of Law.
]Legal clinic
A legal clinic (also law clinic or law school clinic) is a legal aid or law school program providing services to various clients and often hands-on-legal experience to law school students. Clinics are usually directed by clinical professors. L ...
was founded.[ Also during his tenure as Dean the nocturnal session began. He obtained form the University Administration, whose Chancellor was Jaime Benitez, the construction of a building for the School of Law, it was designed by ]Henry Klumb
Heinrich Klumb (1905 in Cologne, Germany – 1984 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) was a German architect who worked in Puerto Rico during the mid 20th Century.
Education and early life
Klumb was born in Cologne, Germany, in 1905. An honors graduat ...
.[ After retiring as Dean he continued teaching at the school and was one of two professors at the school to have the title of ''Decano Emérito''.][
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Selected writings
*Breve historia de los Códigos Puertorriqueños
*Casos para el estudio de los derechos reales
*Andanzas y recuerdos de un abogado
*Casos y notas de derecho tributario puertorriqueño
*Visión de conjunto del derecho de América Latina
*Interaction of civil law and Anglo-American law in the legal method in Puerto Rico
*Nuestro Código penal vigente y el anteproyecto de reforma de 1926
*In rem actions in Puerto Rico
*En torno de la facultad impositiva de los municipios en Puerto Rico
*A glimpse at Latin American law
*"Equity" in the civil law:a comparative essay
See also
* List of Puerto Ricans
References
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Puerto Rican academics
People from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
Deans of law schools in the United States
Tulane University Law School alumni
University of Puerto Rico alumni
Tulane University Law School faculty
1908 births
Year of death missing