The president of the Senate, Ander Gil, has delivered this Thursday to the professor specialized in International and European Law Araceli Sleeves The award of the XXVII Pelay Award for jurists of recognized prestige.
The Vice President Emerite of the Constitutional Court Roca has highlighted sleeves that is a fervent defender of fundamental rights, and has highlighted “everything he has done to assist this humanity humanity, especially in humanitarian law.”
Roca has reviewed the curriculum of sleeves and has highlighted that its activity in European law has been recognized on several occasions internationally.
The magistrate has pointed out the relevance of that European right, given that it greatly affects Spanish law, reports Europa Press.
For its part, Ander Gil has indicated that Araceli Mangas is a great jurist who has combined teaching and research with the commitment to advisory of crucial topics in recent years.
And she has grabbed the blog of the jurist as a great source of knowledge that she has recommended.
“She is a great believer of the European project,” she said.
In the speech of sleeves, after thanking the prize, it has highlighted that receiving the award is not so much an act of justice and great generosity of the jury.
And she has mentioned that since of the 27 awarded so far only three are women, “among all” will be done “the path of equality for the other half of the walkers.”
“Today I feel especially honored to be able to receive this award with great award-winning personalities, I will quote among the many award-winners, precisely, the two women jurists, María Emilia homes and Encarna Roca, respectively president and Vice President Emerites of the Constitutional Court, who received
This award in 2006 and 2018, and I also keep in mind the last great jurist awarded at 2020, Tomás de la Quadra-Salcedo, “said the award-winning during his speech.
In addition, he added that he has a debt contracted with his extraordinary professors from the University of Salamanca, among which was Francisco Tomás and brave: “They were a mirror in which to dream my illusion for law.”
In this sense, it has remembered that its interest and specialization in international legal practice has led it to express its technical opinion on several opinions on the insertion of Spain in the western system of defense and security and in international humanitarian law.
On the other hand, Araceli Mangas has lamented that although the major issues of European and international debate are on the streets of the planet and in foreign media, they are not “in a society as self-essential as the Spanish”.
“Our political parties are reluctant to foreign policy (…), it is a paradox that in the homeland of the right of people and its founder, Francisco de Vitoria, its politicians prefer the internal confrontation to cohesive internal policies that facilitate and multiply
The international projection of Spain “, has indicated.
The President of the Constitutional Court, Pedro González-Trevijano, the president of the Supreme and the General Council of Judicial Power (CGPJ), Carlos Lesmes, the President of the Court, Enriqueta Chicano, the President of the PP, Pablo Married, the President of the PPUL
, the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, and the president of the Pelayo Group, Francisco Lara, among others.
