Agustín Ruiz Robledo
Agustín Ruiz Robledo is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Granada, where he earned his PhD with a thesis on the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, awarded the Extraordinary Doctoral Prize. He has taught constitutional law for more than three decades, combining academic work with legal and advisory responsibilities, including service as a supplementary magistrate in the Provincial High Court of Granada (1988–1991), consultant to the United Nations in Chile (1989), and Director of the Advisory Council of the Presidency of the Andalusian Parliament (1996–2004). His research interests include federalism, comparative constitutional law, fundamental rights, and the limits of governmental power. He has conducted research stays at around ten universities abroad, among them Montreal, London, Florence, and Bayreuth, and has held visiting professorships at University College Dublin (2011–2012, 2018), Jindal Global Law School in India (2022), and Queen’s University in Canada (2025). Professor Ruiz Robledo has published more than 200 works in Spain and internationally. His books include 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 frequently speaks at national and international conferences, including the Constituent Assemblies of Bolivia and Nepal, and delivered the inaugural lecture at the XIX Congress of the Spanish Association of Constitutionalists (2022). He also contributes regularly to the press, an activity that has earned him several journalism awards and the Medal of the Social Council of the University of Córdoba.
