Manuel Jiménez de Parga y Cabrera (9 April 1929 – 7 May 2014) was a Spanish lawyer, politician and diplomat. He was president of the

Constitutional Court of Spain The Constitutional Court () is the supreme interpreter of the Spanish Constitution, with the power to determine the constitutionality of acts and statutes made by any public body, central, regional, or local in Spain. It is defined in Part I ...

between 2001 and 2004. He was professor in charge of the department of political law at the University of Madrid (1956) and professor in opposition of the Faculty of Law of the

University of Barcelona The University of Barcelona (official name in ; UB), formerly also known as Central University of Barcelona (), is a public research university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was established in 1450. With 76,000 students, ...

(1957–1977). He was Dean of the Faculty of Law (1976) and Rector of the University of Barcelona (1976–1977). Jiménez de Parga was Minister of Labour (1977–78) and Ambassador-Permanent Representative of Spain to the ILO (Geneva, 1978–1981) and president of the Inter-American Conference of Labour (1980). He was born in

Granada Granada ( ; ) is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada (Spain), Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence ...

, Spain. de Parga died in

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

, Spain, aged 85.Mariano Rajoy sends condolences on death of Manuel Jiménez de Parga (Prime Minister's Office of Spain)
/ref>

References

1929 births 2014 deaths Spanish politicians 20th-century Spanish lawyers People from Granada 21st-century Spanish lawyers {{spain-law-bio-stub