The professor of Constitutional Law of the Universitat de València Carlos Flores Juberías has been named doctor “honoris causa” by the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius (UKIM) of Skopje, the largest, oldest, and most prestigious academic institution of the Republic of Macedonia. The investiture ceremony will take place in Skopje the 22 December.
The naming, aproved by the Senate of the University, was promoted by Gordana Siljanovska (full university professor of Constitutional Law), and Dimitar Mircev (emerit full university professor of Political Science), and was supported by the Faculty of Law Iustinianus Primus, and had the required authorisation of the Interuniversity Cooperation, Teaching Staff, and Research Committees.
Founded in 1946 and baptised with the name of the “apostles of the Slaves”, creators of the alphabet used by most of the languages of the region, the UKIM counts nowadays with more than 50 000 students, in 23 faculties and ten research institutes. Among its graduated are three out of the four presidents and four of the six prime ministers the country had since its independence; and among the distinguished with this naming through the last years are the Portuguese former president Mario Soares (1999), the archduke Otto von Habsburg (2000), the former president of the European Commission and former first Italian minister Romano Prodi (2003), the professor Zubin Mehta (2007) or the actual first Turkish minister Ahmet Davutoglu (2011).
Carlos Flores Juberías graduated and doctor in Law by the Universitat de València, –with Extraordinary Award in both cases–, as well as graduated in Political Sciences by the UNED. Since 1995, he is a tenured university professor of Constitutional Law –and since 2013 he is accredited as full university professor–, at the Universitat de València, and he has been a Fullbright intern and visiting professor at the University of California, San Diego.
His publications are focused on the compared study of the electoral processes and the configuration of the party system in the new democracies of Eastern Europe, as well as on its constitutionalisation of the new democratic institutions, with the collective works “Las nuevas instituciones políticas de la Europa Oriental” (Madrid, 1997), “Derechos y libertades en las nuevas democracias de la Europa del Este” (Pamplona, 1999), “Actas del I Encuentro Español de Estudios sobre la Europa Oriental” (Valencia, 1999), “La transformación de las políticas sociales en la Europa del Este” (Madrid, 2001), “Estudios sobre la Europa Oriental” (Valencia, 2002), “Rusia, en vísperas de su futuro” (con A. Colomer, Valencia, 2002), among others.
Flores is consul of Macedonia at the Valencian Community, since the year 2008.
His naming as doctor “honoris causa” by theUniversity of Ss. Cyril and Methodius of Skopje is the second distinction of this kind he receives, after the awarded by the Universidad Mayor, Real y Pontificia of San Francisco Xavier de Sucre (Bolivia) in September 2011.
Last update: 4 de december de 2015 07:00.
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