
Biography
Juan Miguel Matheus is the current resident Bowden Fellow at Texas Law and professor of Political and Constitutional Theory at Universidad Monteávila (Caracas, Venezuela). He obtained his Ph.D. in Constitutional Law from the University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain) and has been a visiting professor at several universities across Ibero-America. He is also an Affiliate at the Constitutional Law Center of Stanford University. In 2015, he was elected as a Deputy to the National Assembly of Venezuela, where he served as President of the Committee for the Defense of the Constitution and the Committee for the Reform of the Judiciary.
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