Manuel Ramírez

Manuel Ramírez

Born in the city of Ceuta and studies at the University of Granada study of Law and Social Sciences. Under the guidance of his teacher Professor Francisco Murillo, was at that doctor promptly University with a thesis that is of rather pioneer in the field: Lobbyists in the second Spanish Republic, work, defended in December 1964, fails to be published five years later for political reasons. Since then, he has become an expert in that historical epoch appreciated and so is recognized by Spanish and foreign authors. As a college professor and having early obtained the chair of Political Law, complete their training at Columbia University (New York), under the direction of Professor Juan Linz, at the Universities of Stanford and Yale, and at the Institute for Policy Studies Paris. Arriving at your current University of Zaragoza, plays the positions of assistant dean, vice chancellor, and for eleven years, the Dean of the Faculty of Law. Currently he is director of the prestigious Foundation for Political and Constitutional Studies "Lucas Mallada" and collaborates with the Center for Constitutional Studies and the Sociological Research. It was for five years president of the Spanish Association of Political Science and Constitutional Law and has been awarded, among other honors, the Grand Crosses of the Order of Alfonso X the Wise and St. Raymond of Penafort. He is the author of three and about twenty articles on the Second Republic books. In his research career, then deals with the analysis of Franco and, as today, the current democratic regime. In the latter, stands, above all, his close Spain. Reflections on twenty five years of democracy (2003), published in this Editorial.