01 December 2014
Bilbao Campus
The Professor and Chair of Civil Law at the University of Deusto has recently been named a corresponding member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation. This distinction authorises him to take part in the activities of one of the key institutions in the field of Law.
He was appointed in a plenary meeting of the Royal Academy held on 28 October 2014. Prof. Lledó will deliver a lecture on an issue he is engaged with when he officially enters the Royal Academy in January.
Founded in 1730, the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation's purposes include research, the practice of Law and its auxiliary sciences and contributions for the reform and advancement of Spanish legislation. In this sense, Francisco Lledó has taken on the challenge of fostering innovation, boosting collaboration with foreign organisations to enrich knowledge, stimulating feedback between institutions, making the Academy known, prompting debate that involves all social strata and encouraging reflection on current issues as well as making legal language more accessible to all.
Lledó stated that his appointment “gave him great personal satisfaction” and stated that it is "valuable support to his career and the learning institution he represents, the University of Deusto".
Brief biography
Founding partner of Iure Licet Abogados, Francisco Lledó Yagüe, PhD in Law, is the Chair of Civil Law at the University of Deusto and former dean of the Law Faculty.
A member of the National Experts Commission formed by the Congress of Deputies to draft the Assisted Human Reproduction Act in 1985, he has also served as arbitrator in the Court of Arbitration and has been legal counsel to several parliamentary groups in the Congress of Deputies.
Director of the University of Deusto Property and Environmental Registrars Institute, he has led Menéndez Pelayo summer programmes in the Escorial, etc. and was Dean of the Law Faculty from 1991 to 1997. He is president of Revista Derecho Empresa y Sociedad, published by Dykinson Publishers in Madrid.
A member of the Dykinson Editorial Board (a legal publisher) in Madrid, he is also an advisory board member for the Revista de Derecho Concursal y Paraconcursal, led by Juana Pulgar Ezquerra, since 2004.
He has supervised 14 doctoral dissertations and has formed part of many examining boards at universities.
As an author, his work is outstanding. He has published over thirty monographs, co-authored books and legal studies.
He has also delivered over a hundred speeches, mainly on Private Law, and has given papers at many Spanish and international congresses.
