BRIEF “CURRICULUM VITAE” OF JOAQUIN VARELA SUANZES-CARPEGNA

 

 

Joaquín Varela Suanzes-Carpegna was born in Lugo (Galicia, Spain) in 1954. He graduated in Law from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1976 and continued his doctorate studies at Barcelona University. Since 1978 he has had ties with the University of Oviedo where he received his doctorate in 1981, with a thesis directed by Ignacio de Otto, published two years later by the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales [Centre of Political and Constitutional Studies] (CEPC) with the title La teoría del Estado en los orígenes del constitucionalismo hispánico (Las Cortes de Cádiz)[The Theory of State in the origins of Hispanic constitutionalism (The Cortes de Cádiz)]. In 1982 this paper received the Nicolás Pérez Serrano Prize awarded by the afore-mentioned CEPC, and was republished in 2011.

Since 1990 he has been a Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Oviedo. He furthered his studies in the London School of Economics and Political Science, in the University of Paris–Sorbonne-1 and in the European University Institute of Florence.  He has been a guest lecturer at many universities and institutions in Europe (Spain, Portugal, France and Italy) and Ibero-America (Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Uruguay), as well as at the headquarters of the Academie International de Droit Constitutionnel, in Tunisia. He is also a Researcher at the Instituto Feijoo de Estudios del Siglo XVIII (Feijoo University Institute for 18th Century Studies).

From 2008 to 2017 he founded and directs the “Martínez Marina” Seminar of Constitutional History (http://www.seminariomartinezmarina.com), created by the University of Oviedo, formed by twenty four members who are researchers in different scientific fields from ten Spanish Universities. Since 2000, this Seminar, sponsored by the CEPC, has been editing the electronic journal "Historia Constitucional" (http://www.historiaconstitucional.com), with more than one thousand two hundred visits each day and which, since 2006, has been promoting the virtual library “Francisco Martínez Marina” (http://www.bibliotecadehistoriaconstitucional.com). Furthermore, with the collaboration of the Publications Service of the University of Oviedo and the CEPC, in 2012 it sponsored the digital journal “In Itinere” (http://www.unioviedo.es/constitucional/seminario/editorial/). He also co-directs "Fundamentos. Cuadernos monográficos de Teoría del Estado, Derecho Público e Historia Constitucional”, co-edited by the Parliament of Asturias and the University of Oviedo and which is published in paper format and online http://www.unioviedo.es/constitucional/fundamentos/Portada.html

 

He is a member of the scientific committee of the journals “Cuaderni Fiorentini per la Storia del Pensiero Giuridico Moderno”, the “Giornale di Storia Costituzionale”, the “Revista de Estudios Políticos”, the “Revista Española de Derecho Constitucional”,  the “Cuadernos  de Estudios del Siglo XVIII”,  the “Cuadernos Dieciochistas”, and of  the “Ariadna Histórica”. He belong to the  International Society for Eighteenth-Century of Studies (ISEC), as well as being member on the editorial board of the CEPC, where he directs the collection “Clásicos Políticos”. He has formed part of the governing board of the collection "Clásicos Asturianos del Pensamiento político” (1992-2003), edited by the Parliament of Asturias.

As a researcher, he has specialised in Spanish, British and French constitutional history and has published around  two hundred  twenty five works on the subject, some translated into English, French, Italian and Portuguese, and which include eleven individual books and more than a dozen critical editions of Spanish and European authors and regulatory texts. Among his latest publications we can highlight, as editor, Historia e Historiografía Constitucionales (Trotta, Madrid 2015), Siete Maestros del Derecho Político Español (CEPC, Madrid, 2015) and Los Dogmas de la Constitución, de J. J. Park (Tecnos, Madrid 2015).  As autor, his latest books are Liberalismos, Constituciones y otros Escritos (In  Itinere, 2017), Política y Constitución en España. 1808-1978 (CEPC, Madrid, 2nd edition, 2014), La monarquía doceañista (1810-1837). Avatares, encomios y denuestos de una extraña forma de gobierno (Marcial Pons, 2013). Histoire constitutionnel comparée et espagnole. Six études(http://www.unioviedo.es/constitucional/seminario/editorial/crbst_8.html )  (2013), Constituciones y Leyes Fundamentales, (Iustel, Madrid, 2012), Volume 1 of the five-volume collection (2012 to 2015), “Leyes Políticas Españolas. 1808-1978”, of which he has directed; “La Constitución de 1876” (Iustel, Madrid, 2009), Asturianos en la política española. Pensamiento y acción (KRK, Oviedo, 2006), El Conde de Toreno. Biografía de un liberal (1786-1843) (Marcial Pons, Madrid, 2005) and Sistema de gobierno y partidos políticos: de Locke a Park (CEPC, Madrid, 2002, Italian translation in Giuffre, Milán, 2007).

During 2018 will publish Historia Constitucional de España. Normas, Instituciones, Doctrinas. (Marcial Pons, Madrid).

Spain’s National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity (CNEAI) positively evaluated the six-year periods requested, corresponding to the years 1979-2014.

 

            

                             Oviedo (Spain), 1 September 2017