Allan R. Brewer-Carias has been Professor at the Central University of Venezuela since 1963. He also has been Sim n Bol var Professor at the Law Faculty of Cambridge University (1985 1986), where he was a Fellow of Trinity College; at the University of Paris II (1990); and at Columbia University, where he has been Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Professor of Law (2002 2004 and 2006 2007). He is a titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, where he served as Vice President (1982 2010) and of the Venezuelan National Academy of Political and Social Sciences, where he served as P...