Fernando de Trazegnies

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Fernando de Trazegnies
5th Marquis de Torrebermeja and
7th Count of Las Lagunas
Ambassador of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to Peru
In office
1995–1998
Personal details
Born
Ferdinand Carlos Léopold de Trazegnies Granda

(1935-09-03) 3 September 1935 (age 88)
Lima, Peru
EducationPontifical Catholic University of Peru, Sorbonne University

Ferdinand Carlos Léopold de Trazegnies Granda,

legal scholar, diplomat, historian, writer and professor. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru
between 1998 and 2000.

Biography

Trazegnies was born in

genealogist, born in Brussels and attaché of the legation in Lima.[1] He was baptised in Miraflores on October 13 of the same year.[1]

Trazegnies is of

Huayna Cápac.[2]

He was educated at the

Jesuit Inmaculada School and the School of Law of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where he obtained his BA in 1960. From 1964 to 1965 while pursuing a doctorate degree, he studied philosophy of law at the Sorbonne University, where he was a disciple of Michel Villey
. Upon his return to Peru, he was named associate professor and taught philosophy of law and general theory of law at the Catholic University and since 1965 he practiced as an attorney with the Olaechea law firm. In 1979, he obtained a doctor's degree from the Catholic University.

In 1971, he was a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, where he researched on philosophy of law. Upon his return in 1973, he founded his own law firm De Trazegnies & Trelles and reincorporated to the Catholic University. In 1976, he was elected Dean of the School of Law, a post he occupied for eleven years until 1987. In this year, de Trazegnies published his main work on torts ("La responsabilidad extracontractual") and a year later he was named principal professor.

From 1973 to 1984, de Trazegnies was a member of the Civil Code Reform Commission. He was also legal adviser to the Minister of Energy and Mines in 1973 and the Minister of Justice in 1984 and a member of the Ucchuracay Commission chaired by Mario Vargas Llosa in 1983 and the Arbitration Act Drafting Commission in 1988.

In 1995, the Peruvian Government appointed him Special Envoy Ambassador to the United Kingdom, France and Belgium to explain the Peruvian position in the Cenepa War against Ecuador. The next year, he was appointed Representative to the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague and two years later President Fujimori designated him chair of a committee to negotiate the peace with Ecuador and Minister of Foreign Affairs. In this capacity, de Trazegnies negotiated the Brasilia Presidential Act which put an end to the conflict in 1998.

Associated himself with the Spanish firm Uría Menéndez, he founded De Trazegnies & Uría in 1998 and founded his own law firm in 2000. In domestic and international arbitration, he has acted as chairman of several tribunals and legal expert and arbitrator in ICC and ICSID cases.

A member of the

Ambassador of the Order to Peru from 1995 to 1998.[3][4]
He was also Vice President, President and Chancellor of the Peruvian Association of the Order in different times between 1985 and 2013.

De Trazegnies is a numerary member of the Peruvian Academy of Language and the Peruvian Academy of Jurisprudence and a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of History and the National Academy of History of Argentina.

Works

  • 1988 – La responsabilidad extracontractual (Torts, 2 Volumes)
  • 1992 – La familia en el derecho peruano (Family in Peruvian Law)
  • 1992 – La Idea del Derecho en el Perú Republicano del Siglo XIX (The Idea of Law in the 19th Century Republican Peru)
  • 1992 – Imágenes rotas (Broken Images)
  • 1993 – Posmodernidad y derecho (Posmodernism and Law)
  • 1995 – En el país de las colinas de arena (In the Land of Sand Hills)
  • 1999 – Para leer el Código Civil (How to Read the Civil Code, 2 Volumes)
  • 2001 – La historia de Gillion de Trazegnies y de Dama Marie, su mujer (novela belga del S. XV) (The Story of Gillion de Trazegnies and Dame Marie, his wife)

References

  1. ^ a b c "Los Vásquez de Velasco". Revista histórica: órgano del instituto histórico del Perú. Vol. XVI (I-II ed.). Instituto histórico del Perú. p. 38.
  2. ^ Elward, Ronald (16 May 2010). "Reconocimiento de raíces indígenas: antes pecado, hoy un orgullo". El Comercio. Archived from the original on 17 August 2010.
  3. ISBN 9789968966405
    .
  4. ISBN 9789870553472.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
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