Javier Conde (Burgos 1908 - Bonn 1974), disciple and translator of Hermann Heller and Carl Schmitt, professor of political law, Director of the Institute for Political Studies and Ambassador of Spain, has been one of the great European jurists of the 20th century. A substantial part of his political legal work has managed to conceptually frame the Second Republic, the Civil War and the first decade of the Franco Dictatorship, using the categories of his German teachers. Javier Conde, who came from the left, like other contemporary intellectuals (the jurists of 27), became, especially from 1942, the captain of the Spanish School of Political Law (1935-1969), an intellectual group called to shaping the nation as a state and feeding the emergency situations that Spain had been going through since 1931.