Francisco Laporta (Madrid, 1945) is professor emeritus of Philosophy of Law and patron of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza. He has held the positions of director of the Institute of Human Rights (1985-1986) and professor (1983-1995) at the Complutense University of Madrid, and vice-rector (1982-1983) and professor (1995-2017) at the Autonomous University of Madrid. He has also been director of the Center for Constitutional Studies (1987-1993) and State Counselor (1987-1993). He was a member of the World Executive Committee of the International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy between 2010 and 2015, and organizer of the World Congress on Philosophy of Law held in Washington in 2015. In 2008 he was awarded the National Prize for Research in Legal and Social Sciences “Pascual Madoz”. Author of works such as El imperio de la ley (2007), his latest publications include “La ley y la libertad”, in Claves de razón práctica, n.º 262, January/February 2019; “Auschwitz y la justicia”, in Antonio Gómez Ramos and Cristina Sánchez Muñoz (eds.) Confrontando el mal. Ensayos sobre memoria, violencia y democracia (Plaza y Valdés, ed. Madrid. 2017) and “El pacifismo jurídico y la teoría del derecho internacional”, in Teoría Política, nuova serie, Annali VI., 2016.