Luis Sánchez Agesta, doctor in Law and professor of Constitutional Law, was born in Granada, the city in which he studied a law degree, gaining an extraordinary graduation prize. With a doctorate from Madrid, he was already a university lecturer in Granada at the age of twenty.

After the civil war, and having spent a time in prison, in 1942 he obtained the chair of Political Law at the University of Oviedo, later moving to that of Granada, where he would be appointed rector in 1951.

Ten years later, in 1961, he moved to Madrid as professor of Political Law. In June 1968 he was designated chairman of the promotion committee of the Autonomous University of Madrid and in 1972 he became its rector. He has also been a councillor on the Madrid city council, and belonged to the privy council of the Count of Barcelona.

The author of numerous political and legal works, in 1974 Sánchez Agesta was appointed as chairman of the National Council of Education.

After having been a procurator of the "Cortes" (Spanish parliament) and elected Counsellor of State, in 1977, the year in which he obtained the chair of Constitutional Law, he was appointed as Senator of the new parliament by HM the King.

He is also a member of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation, that of Political and Moral Sciences and the Academy of Law of Buenos Aires.

A visiting lecturer at the universities of New York and of Belgrano, Buenos Aires, he retired in 1984, after a long teaching career.

His research activities centred on Constitutional and Political Law, with a long list of publications, among which the following may be mentioned: "Teoría de la constitución", "Curso de Derecho Constitucional", "La ciencia política en España", "Historia de la monarchy en España", "Doctrinas constitucionales en Europa", "Derecho Constitucional comparado", "Principios de teoría política", "Historia del constitucionalismo español", "El pensamiento político del Depotismo Ilustrado", "España al encuentro de Europa", "Historia de la monarquía española", and some two hundred other works, published in academic journals.

He is a doctor "honoris causa" of the universities of Mendoza, Argentina; Bordeaux, France and Granada, and a "Distinguished Teacher" of the Autonomous National University of Mexico.

Sánchez Agesta established a school of constitutionalists in Spain, even when the Spanish Constitution did not exist, while promoting the School of Sociology of Granada and training sociologists in the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the Pontifical University of Salamanca and the Leo XIII Social Institute.