Solemn Academic Event of the Investiture of professor Dr. Santiago Muñoz Machado as Doctor "Honoris Causa" by the University of Valencia.
Santiago Muñoz Machado (Pozoblanco, Córdoba, 1949) is professor of Administrative Law in the Complutense University of Madrid, has been elected to occupy the seat "r" in the Royal Spanish Academy as well as “académico de número” (full member) of Spanish Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. Furthermore, he is a member of the National Academy of Law and Social Sciences of Buenos Aires and of the International Academy of Comparative Law.
After working for the Spanish Presidency for some years, as member of the Cuerpo de Técnicos de la Administración Civil del Estado (Board of Technicians of the Civil Administration of the Spanish State), he obtained through public examination positions, first as associate professor of the Complutense University, and then as assistant professor and full university professor of the Faculties of Law of the University of Valencia and the University of Alcalá de Henares. He has also taught in diverse universities, European and American. He is member of editorial boards of diverse Spanish and foreign journals and is director of the “Revista General de Derecho Administrativo”, electronic version, and of “El Cronista del Estado Social y Democrático de Derecho”.
His legal work is composed of more than forty books and hundreds of articles. His more influential research studies include those that refer to the third sector and social activity of the State, those concerning Autonomous Communities Law and the articles devoted to economic regulation law. And his great book of synthesis, projected in five volumes of which he has presently published four (with a grand total of five thousand pages), entitled "Tratado de Derecho Administrativo y Derecho Público General", is the work of reference on these matters, both in Spain as in other countries.
Aside from his purely legal writings, he has written fiction books ("Riofrío", 2010, with a wide spread), historical researches ("El problema de la vertebración del Estado en España", 2006), biographical studies of historical character ("Sepúlveda, cronista del Emperador", 2012) and essays on current issues ("Informe sobre España: repensar el Estado o destruirlo", which has seen three editions between November and December 2012).
Teaching staff with academic dress.
Please confirm your attendance before 28 February.
Date 7 march 2013 at 12:00 to 14:00. Thursday.
Place
“Paraninfo” (main hall) of the University of Valencia. Historical building "La Nau".
Office of the principal of the University of Valencia.
Contact rectorat@uv.es
