page_title: Felipe Sánchez Román y Gallifa
section_title: Early career (1915–31)
hierarchical_section_title: Felipe Sánchez Román y Gallifa / Early career (1915–31)
caption_attribution_description: Español: Gregorio Marañón en la revista Caras y Caretas 09/03/1929, n. 1588, página 80. "E1 ilustre sabio español doctor Gregorio Marañón, que vendrá próximaniente a Buenos Aires, de regreso de su viaje a Rusia, donde va a dar conferencias sobre endocrinología."
context_page_description: Felipe Sánchez-Román y Gallifa was a prominent Spanish jurist who taught at the Central University of Madrid from 1916 to 1936. He supported overthrow of the monarchist dictatorship of the 1920s, and was Deputy for Madrid in the Constituent Cortes of 1931. He was much respected for his balanced views by the political leaders of the Second Spanish Republic. In 1934 he founded the tiny but influential center-left Partido Nacional Republicano, and fought to avoid a republican government dominated by extreme left revolutionaries. After this happened in 1936 and the Spanish Civil War broke out he moved to France in 1937. In 1939 he went into exile in Mexico, where he taught at the UNAM Faculty of Law.
context_section_description: On 1 December 1916 he was appointed to the Chair of Civil Law of the Faculty of Law in the Central University of Madrid, which had been made vacant by the death of his father.
  His rival was Demófilo de Buen.
  He was Professor of Spanish Common and Civil Law at the Faculty of Law of the Central University of Madrid from 30 December 1916 to 22 July 1929.
  On 7 July 1917 Sánchez-Román married Ángeles Correa Ruiz in Madrid.
  They had five children: Felipe (1918), María Ángeles (1919), Ana María (1920), Alfredo (1922) and María Soledad (1925).
  Between 1918 and 1939 Sánchez Román practiced as a lawyer as a member of the Colleges of Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla, Valencia, Valladolid, Burgos and San Sebastián.
  He was professor at the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation of Madrid from 1928 to 1930.
  On 22 April 1919 Sánchez-Román was appointed secretary of the Law School of the Central University in place of Ismael Calvo Madroño, who had died.
  Sánchez-Román resigned his chair at the Madrid Faculty of Law by a letter of 27 May 1929 to the Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts.
  He gave as his reason the "most serious public accusations" that had been made by the Head of Government, which made it impossible to continue to teach.
  The King accepted his resignation through Royal Decree of 22 July 1929, and ordered him to also resign his title as University Professor.
  On appeal the Supreme Court found that he had been wrongly dismissed, and as of 5 February 1930 he was reinstated.
  Sánchez-Román was involved in the Pact of San Sebastián of 17 August 1930, the first serious effort to unite the anti-monarchist forces.
  He was invited to join by Gregorio Marañón.
  At this meeting representatives from almost all the republican groups formed a "revolutionary committee" headed by Niceto Alcalá-Zamora.
  This committee eventually became the first provisional government of the Second Spanish Republic.
  He was one of the signatories of the manifesto of 15 December 1930, although he declined an invitation to be part of the future government.
  He travelled to Burgos to head the republican movement in that city.
  He was defense lawyer for the National Revolutionary Committee, which included Francisco Largo Caballero, a leader of the Socialist Unión General de Trabajadores who was arrested after the failed Jaca uprising in December 1930.
  Sánchez-Román was so much involved in the planned uprising that it was surprising he was not arrested himself.
  In his defense of the leaders of the revolt he display unusual passion, in contrast to his usual cool urbanity.
caption: Gregorio Marañón invited Sánchez-Román to join the revolutionary committee.
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