Castells Arteche, José Manuel

José Manuel Castells Arteche (Bilbao, 1943 - Donostia-San Sebastian, 2024).

D. in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid (Extraordinary Prize), was Professor of Administrative Law at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU and Professor at the Faculty of Law of the same university.

He was President of the Foundation for the Study of the Historical and Autonomous Law of Vasconia, member of the Statutory Arbitration Commission appointed by the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa; member of the Electoral Board of the Historical Territory of Gipuzkoa; and President of the Law Section and Deputy to the Presidency of Eusko Ikaskuntza.

He published 17 books and 119 publications of all kinds; participated in 38 national and international congresses; and supervised 6 doctoral theses.

He was director of the Revista Vasca de Administración Pública; director of the Colección de Monografías Jurídicas de la Fundación para el Estudio del Derecho Histórico y Autonómico de Vasconia (Collection of Legal Monographs of the Foundation for the Study of the Historical and Autonomous Law of Vasconia). He was also a member of the editorial board of several journals, as well as of the Administrative Law section of the MC Graw Hill publishing house.

Among the positions held, he was a member of the Arbitration Commission; general secretary of the UPV/EHU; dean of the Faculty of Law of Donostia-San Sebastián; deputy of the first democratic Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa and director of Local Administration of the General Council of the Basque Country; promoter of the Basque Institute of Public Administration; informant on the constitutional reform of the Senate, on public security in the Congress of Deputies, and in the Special Commission of Self-Government of the Basque Parliament.

He was a full member of Jakiunde since 2012.