Background
JIMÉNEZ DE ASÚA, Luis was born on June 19, 1889 in Madrid, Spain.
JIMÉNEZ DE ASÚA, Luis was born on June 19, 1889 in Madrid, Spain.
Educated law school, University Central de Madrid. Further studies in Paris, Geneva, and Berlin. Dr. honoris causa, University de San Marcos (Lima), University de Arequipa (Peru).
Professor, diplomat; Assistant professor., University Central de Madrid, 1914, professor, of penal law, 1918. Professor., Escuela de Criminología, Real Academy, de Jurisprudencia, Institute de Estudios Penales (director, 1932). Visiting professor., University Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, 1925, University do Brasil, 1927.
Deputy, constituent assembly of Spanish Republic, 1931. President, parliamentary commission to draft constitution of Republic, 1931-1932. National deputy, 1933-1936.
President, assembly of deputies which elected pres, of Republic, 1936. President, national legal advisory commission. Minister to Czechoslovakia, 1936-1939.
Permanent delegate, League of Nations, 1938-1939. Professor., University Nacional de La Plata (Argentina), and director of its Insts. de Altos Estudios Jurídicos y de Criminología, until 1946. President, meeting of Spanish Republican assembly in Mexico, 1945.
Member, Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague. Member: Ateneo Pi y Margall (president), Association Internationale de Droit Pénal (vice-president), Real Academy, de Jurisprudencia, Society Española de Antropología, Etnografía y Pre-historia, Society Psicoanalitica Argentina de Criminología. Member Society Argentina de Criminología, Society de Medicina Legal (Buenos Aires).
Member Society Científica Argentina.