page_title: Eduardo López Bustamante
section_title: Legal career
hierarchical_section_title: Eduardo López Bustamante / Legal career
caption_attribution_description: Español: Acuerdo de duelo del Colegio de Abogados del Estado Zulia, Venezuela, con motivo de la muerte del Dr. Eduardo López Bustamante.
context_page_description: Eduardo López Bustamante was a Venezuelan journalist, lawyer and poet. He was a leading intellectual of the Zulia State, Venezuela, and a figure within Venezuelan jurisprudence.
context_section_description: Eduardo López Bustamante earned his Political Science degree at the University of Los Andes, on October 14, 1924. Author Gastón Montiel Villasmil writes that, "from then on he developed a true passion for the essential foundation of law."
  López Bustamante was a popular lawyer within Zulia state, particularly among workers of the oil sector. Venezuelan writer Ciro Nava explains in his book Centuria cultural del Zulia: "When the oil industry started in Venezuela, as a result of oil exploitation, Eduardo López Bustamante sided with them and became a leading advocate of the workers' rights". "In this respect", writes Nava, "the performance of Eduardo López Bustamante is always deeply remembered and appreciated by the people of Zulia." Venezuelan writer Gastón Montiel Villasmil adds that López Bustamante "wrote several works of interesting legal content related to the subject, being best known the one entitled Responsibility for accidents occurring at work.
  López Bustamante conducted an investigation of eleven chapters about the lease of works under Venezuelan law, which is still often reviewed by Venezuelan publications dealing with jurisprudence. The 1963 edition of Zulia State University Journal of Law refers to this work: "This superb work on law entitled The lease of works, product of the fertile estrous that was Eduardo López Bustamante throughout his life...outstanding intellectual figure..."
caption: Statement and giref agreement of the Zulia State Bar Association, upon the death of López Bustamante
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