Agustín Ruiz Robledo

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Agustín Ruiz Robledo is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Granada, where he obtained his doctorate for his thesis on the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, which received the Extraordinary Prize for Doctoral Theses in the Law Faculty. He has also taken courses in Business Studies and has a Diploma in Business Planning from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He has widened his studies and research in several centres outside Spain (the Universities of Montreal, London, Florence, and Bayreuth, amongst others). He was Visiting Academic Professor at University College Dublin in 2011-2012 and at Jindal Global University (India) in 2022. He has combined his teaching work with other legal activities; he was a supplementary Magistrate in the Provincial High Court of Granada (1988-1991), a Consultant to UNO (Chile, December 1989), and has been Director of the Analysis Advisory Council of the Presidency of the Andalusian Parliament (1996-2004). He has published more than 200 works on his speciality in Spain, Chile, Colombia, Italy, Ireland, Germany, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Among the most important of his books being El Estado autonómico, El ordenamiento jurídico andaluz, El derecho fundamental a la legalidad punitiva, Constitutional Law of Spain, Subnational Constitutional Law in Spain and La mirada de Argos: Pequeño tratado constitucional de política española. He has participated in many national and international conferences, speaking on his special topics, especially in the Constituent Assemblies of Bolivia and Nepal. In 2022 he gave the inaugural speech of the XIX Congreso de la Asociación Española de Constitucionalistas. In addition, he is a regular contributor to the radio and national newspapers.