Resumen

ALLAN R. BREWER-CARÍAS

Lawyer degree (1962) and Juris Doctor (1964) from the Central University of Venezuela (Universidad Central de Venezuela), both titles with summa cum laude mentions.

Emeritus Professor at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, where he began to teach in 1963, being during his academic carrier, Head of the Administrative Law Chair, Head of the Public Law Department and Director of the Public Law Institute (Instituto de Derecho Público (1978-1998).

He has been Visiting Scholar (1972-1974) and Professor (as Simon Bolivar Professor 1985-1986) in the LLM Program at the Faculty of Law of Cambridge University UK; Associate Professor (Troisième Cicle) at the Université de Paris II (Panthéon Assas) (1989-1990); Professor in the LLM Program at the University of El Rosario, Bogotá and University Externado de Colombia, Bogotá, (2000-2006); and Visiting Scholar (2002-2004) and Adjunct Professor of Law (2006-2008) at the Columbia Law School, Columbia University in the City of New York, where he currently resides. He has been lecturer and participated in Courses and Seminars in many Universities in Europe and in the Americas.

He has been Member of the Board of Directos of the Inter American Institute of Human Rights, Costa Rica; is member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, The Hague, having been its Vice President (1982-2010); is Member of the Academia de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales of Venezuela, having been its President (1997-1999); and is Corresponding Foreign Member or Honorary Member of the following Academies: Academia Nacional de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales de Córdoba, Argentina (1992); Academia Colombiana de Jurisprudencia, Bogotá, Colombia (1996); Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas, Miembro Correspondiente, Madrid (1978); Real Academia Valenciana de Jurisprudencia y Legislación, Valencia, Spain, (2000); Real Academia de Jurisprudencia y Legislación, Madrid (2008); Academia Chilena de Ciencias Políticas, Sociales y Morales, Santiago de Chile, (2011); Academia Peruana de Derecho, Lima (2011); and Real Academia Iberoamericana de Artes y Ciencias de España, Cádiz, Spain (2015).

Since 1980 he has been Director of the Public Law Journal (Revista de Derecho Público) of Venezuela, and has an extensive written work published of more than 200 books and more than 1.000 articles published in many European, Latin American and North American Law Journals and Collective Works on matters of public law, constitutional law, public administration and constitutional history.

In 1981 he was awarded the National Science Price (Premio Nacional de Ciencias (1981) of Venezuela, given to his work and activities in the fields of Law and Social Sciences.

All his works and achievements can be tracked at his web site, at: www.allanbrewrercarias.com

In Venezuela he was Legal Deputy Counselor at the Ministry of Justice (1963-1964), Legal Counselor at the Supreme Electoral Council (1965-1968), President of the Public Administration Commission of the Presidency of the Republic (1969-1972), Senator elected (independent) for the Federal District (1982-1986), Minister of State for Decentralization (1993-1994), and Elected member (independent) of the National Constituent Assembly (1999).