Antonio Hernández-Gil Álvarez-Cienfuegos
Antonio Hernández-Gil Álvarez-Cienfuegos (1953–2020) was a Spanish lawyer, legal scholar and university professor. He was the Dean of Madrid Bar Association. Biography. Born in Burgos in 1953. He obtained a Law Degree from the Complutense University of Madrid, with the Extraordinary Prize of Degree and Extraordinary Doctorate Award. In 1975 he began teaching at the Complutense University of Madrid and in 1978 he was Adjunct Professor of Civil Law at the National University of Distance Education (UNED). In 1983 he obtained the Chair of Civil Law at the University of Santiago de Compostela  and in 1986, the Chair of Civil Law at UNED, where he continued to teach until 2020. In 1974 he joined the Madrid Bar Association as a lawyer, dedicating himself to Civil and Commercial Law, especially in judicial procedures and arbitrations, both national and international, and from 1981 to 2005 he was part of the Governing Board of the Illustrious Bar Association of Madrid. In 2007 he was elected Dean of the Madrid Bar Association. He has also been First Vice President of the General Council of Spanish Lawyers and is a Member of Honor of the Illustrious and National  Bar Association of Mexico. In 2010 he was elected Member of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation, taking office in 2013. In 2011 he was appointed Doctor Honoris Causa by the Pontifical University of Comillas. He was the president of the board of directors of the Nueva Mutua Sanitaria company. He died in 2020 due to a sepsis. The Antonio Hernández-Gil Young Lawyers Award was created in his honor.