User:Morseo/Manuel B. García Álvarez

''' Manuel B.García Álvarez is a spanish jurist and university professor. He was the first Ombudsman (Procurador del Común) of Castile an Leon between 1995-2005.

Education university of Oviedo 1960-65 Degree in law having been appointed assistant professor at the University college of LeonUniversity_of_Leon. College of Europe in Bruges 1967-68 Advanced European Studies Doctor in law University of Oviedo 1971. Scholarship programme of cultural cooperation. Visiting research associate Harvard University September 74 February 76 In 1980 received the same scholarship, but he had to renounce having been appointed professor assistant at the University college of Leon. 1988 granted chair of constitutional law at the University of Leon. In 1985 Álvarez took part in the signing of an agreement between the Voronezh State University and Leon, what allowed him to develop an important task of research in the Russian Federation. Among others he worked as foreign expert both in the constitutional commission and in the constitutional assemble created in the summer 1993 by President Boris Yeltsin. He was the only foreign expert In 1995 Alvarez was appointed by the Cortes of Castilla y León Procurador del Común (Ombudsman) of that Autonomous region-where he remained until his retirement in the year 2012 Since 1976 until his retirement he was member of the Board of Editors of the east European Quarterly of the University of Colorado. Garcia Alvarez has had the honour of having been invited by the Council of Europe to take part in several seminaries representing the said Council in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Yekaterinburg debating the possibility of creating the Ombudsman in several region of Russia. Besides his scientific Works he is the author of several bilingual books dedicated to the russian students of spanish