Víctor Fairén Guillén was born in Zaragoza in 1921. Procedural lawyer.

He holds a Law Degree from the University of Zaragoza and a PhD in Law. He was Professor of Procedural Law at the Universities of Santiago, Valencia and Autónoma de Madrid, of which he was Professor Emeritus since 1992.

He was appointed as Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universitat de València, was a founding member of the Aragonese Law Studies Council, honorary counselor of the Fernando el Católico Institution, academic of the Royal Jurisprudence and Legislation,
and correspondent of the one of History, as well as member of number of the Spanish Insitute of Procedural Right and permanent vowel of the General Commission of Codification.

He was a researcher and professor at universities in Mexico and Bogotá, vice president of the Ibero-American Institute of Procedural Law, and an honorary member of the Procedural Law Institutes of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico and Guatemala.

Featured articles:

    The Alera Foral
    International Pyrenean faceries
    Notes on the Aragonese fiscal technique in the 15th and 16th centuries
    The Aragonese right from the decree of New Plant to the Civil Code
    Considerations on the Aragonese process of Manifestation of Persons in relation to the Habeas C. British
    The medieval Aragonese processes and the rights of Man

Featured books:

    The Water Tribunal of Valencia and its process
    European processes from Finland to Greece: (1900-1975)
    The jury: Practical, doctrinal and political issues of the Spanish laws of 1995
    Essay on complex processes: complexity in litigation
    Current problems of procedural law: Defense, unification, complexity
    Studies in Civil, Criminal and Constitutional Procedural Law (3 volumes)
    Commentary on the Organic Law of the Judiciary of July 1, 1985
    General Doctrine of Procedural Law
    The Law of Prosecution