Events

Institutions of the Democratic Rule of Law

Vicente Guilarte, Consuelo Madrigal, Manuel Aragón and Andrés Betancor

On 20 June at 7 p.m., the Rafael del Pino Foundation organised a dialogue entitled "Institutions of the Democratic Rule of Law" with the participation of Vicente Guilarte, Consuelo Madrigal, Manuel Aragón and Andrés Betancor. On the occasion of the publication of the work entitled "Instituciones del Estado Democrático de Derecho, Conversaciones. Contribution to the civic culture of democratic institutionality", coordinated by Andrés Betancor.

Vicente Guilarte Gutiérrez. President of the CGPJ, deputising for him, from 20 July 2023. Doctor of Law. Practising lawyer since 1979. Professor of Civil Law. He has been counsel to the Spanish Association of Property and Mercantile Registrars and legal advisor to the University of Valladolid and is a member of the Royal Academy of Legislation and Jurisprudence of Valladolid.

Consuelo Madrigal Martínez-PeredaSpanish jurist. From January 2015 to November 2016, she served as Spain's Attorney General, the first woman to hold the position in the institution. A graduate in Law from the Complutense University in 1978, Madrigal entered the prosecutor's career in 1980 and has been assigned to the Prosecutor's Offices of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Palencia and Madrid, as well as to the Court of Auditors. In the Attorney General's Office, she was a prosecutor in the General Technical Secretariat during the mandate of Carlos Granados. Until 2008, she was Prosecutor of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court and in February 2008 she was appointed to the post of Prosecutor General of the Spanish Supreme Court.
Appointed Coordinating Prosecutor for Minors by Attorney General Cándido Conde-Pumpido and reappointed in 2013 by Eduardo Torres-Dulce.
Following the resignation of Eduardo Torres-Dulce as Attorney General of the State in December 2014, the Government proposed Madrigal to fill his position. Since April 2018, she has been a Full Member of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation, occupying the vacancy of the 41st medal of the corporation.

Manuel Aragón is Professor of Constitutional Law and Emeritus Magistrate of the Spanish Constitutional Court. He was director of the Centro de Estudios Constitucionales and member of the Consejo de Estado. He has been President of the Economic and Social Council of the Community of Madrid. Disciple of the former Vice-President of the Constitutional Court and former President of the Council of State, Francisco Rubio Llorente. He was Dean of the Faculty of Law at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He was actively involved in the academic training of His Royal Highness the Prince of Asturias, for whom he was tutor when Don Felipe studied law at the Autonomous University. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation. He is also a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters of Cordoba. Honorary doctorate from the Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco (Mexico). He has been ordinary lecturer in Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Florence (Italy) and visiting lecturer at various European and American universities. He is an extraordinary professor at the Universidad Externado de Colombia and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. In Spain, since 1979, he has been Professor of Constitutional Law at the universities of Zaragoza, Basque Country, Valladolid, Complutense de Madrid and Autónoma de Madrid. He retired as a professor from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where he currently continues to carry out his university duties as an "emeritus" professor. He is the author of a dozen books and more than two hundred scientific articles on Constitutional Law. 

Andrés BetancorProfessor of Administrative Law at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (since 2003), author of books, chapters and articles (more than 120 works) in his field of specialisation (public law, control of power, administrative organisation, economic and environmental regulation). He is a regular contributor to the media, in particular to the newspaper El Mundo, as well as to Expansión (more than 200 articles). He currently directs the programme "Institutions of the Democratic Rule of Law" at the Rafaél del Pino Foundation. 

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