Francisco Rubio Llorente
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Rubio Llorente was born in Berlanga, Badajoz, where a square has been named after him. He was a law professor at the Central University of Venezuela between 1959 and 1967. He then returned to Spain to take up a similar position at the Complutense University of Madrid, which he kept until his retirement.
From 1977 to 1979 he was secretary general in the Congress of Deputies. In 1979 he became the first director of the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales.
Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero asked him to look into the options of constitutional reform. In March 2005 Rubio Llorente became head of the study commission tasked with this.
He died on 23 January 2016 in Madrid. Provided by Wikipedia