Luis Jimenez De Asúa

LUIS JIMENEZ DE ASUA

(1889-1970)

"We left a constitution and this constitution is

direct popular soul. He does not want the Commission to the composed

that the Spanish people, who went out to win the Republic,

have to go out and win their content. Therefore, it is a

Democratic constitution, liberal, a large social content,

Constitution that we offer a conservative ... Our

draft Constitution is a work conservative

conservative of the Republic "

Luis Jimenez speech presenting the project Asúa

Constitution. August 27, 1931.

THE VOICE OF THE PENALTY FOR EXCELENCIALuis Asúa Jimenez is the largest Spanish-speaking criminal of all time. Internationally renowned criminal lawyer, is considered the patriarch of the Latin American penology.

Luis Jimenez was born in Madrid Asúa June 19, 1889 and died in Buenos Aires on November 16, 1970. Ago in the capital of Spain all their studies, ending them with a doctorate in law at the Central University in 1913 with his thesis The system of penalties determined "a posteriori" in science and in life. Click studying in Germany, by Franz von List, and in Switzerland and Zürcher Gautier. In 1918 obtained, in contrast, Professor of Criminal Law at the Faculty for Central University of Madrid. It is bordered Chafarinas Islands during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, for his protest against the abuses suffered by Unamuno. Then resigned his professorship in protest against the intrusion of the dictatorship at the university. Vice President of the Ateneo de Madrid. In 1931, he joined the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE). It socialist deputy in the constituent elections of 1931 and chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Spanish Constitution of 1931. Director of Criminal Research Institute, participates in drafting the Criminal Code of 1932. His brilliant defense and subsequent acquittal of Francisco Largo Caballero, accused of inciting the Revolution of Asturias, which encourages life-threatening.

Vice President of the Courts (1936). During the war provoked by the military rebellion of General Franco's ambassador to Poland and Checolosvaquia and representative to the League of Nations. In 1939 he went into exile in Paris, coming to Argentina in September of that year to give lectures at the Faculty of Law at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. The following year he was appointed extraordinary professor of the University and director of the River Plate Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology. Later he became director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Faculty of Law. He writes the newspaper's exile Spain Free. In 1943 military coup because of resignation from their posts and chair, which does not return until mid-1945. In December 1946, after the arrival of Juan Domingo Peron to power, returns to resign their positions and professorship. Between 1955 and 1958 holds the professorship at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in Santa Fe hired by the University of Buenos Aires. In February 1962, assumes the duties of president in exile, from Buenos Aires. They appointed prime minister Claudio Sanchez Albornoz Republican, former rector of the University of Madrid.

In 1966, "the night of the long sticks" as a result of the dictatorship of General Juan Carlos Ongania definitely takes him away from the classroom, founding the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the Association of Lawyers of Buenos Aires and the Journal of Law Criminal Law and Criminology, which he directed until his death.

Among the numerous works Asúa Jimenez highlight: The criminal law of the future (1916), Necessity (1922), Freedom to love and right to die (1929), the service of the new generation (1930), The Theory Legal Crime (1931), criminal Psychoanalysis (1940), the criminal (1941-1949, 8 vols.), The Constitution of the Spanish democracy (1942), Law and Crime (1945), The Constitution of democracy Spanish and the regional problem (1946), the indeterminate sentence (1948), Criminal Law Treaty (1949-1963, 7 vols.), his seminal work, issues of criminal law (1953), The Spanish legal thought and its influence on Europe (1958), Lombroso (1960) and Chronicle of Crime (1970). As the eminent jurist said: "For my thoughts have always been socialist."

Francisco Arias Solis

Cadiz Garzón.

Democrats with Judge Baltasar Garzon

Association for democratic justice and a dignified judiciary.

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