Alfredo Enrique Morles Hernández

Alfredo Enrique Morles Hernández (Valera, Trujillo State, April 24, 1927 - Caracas, May 26, 2021) was a prominent Venezuelan jurist specialist in Commercial Law, Capital Markets and Banking Law. He authored various important texts on commercial law commonly used in Venezuelan universities.

Biography

He was born in Valera, Trujillo State on April 24, 1927. He attended elementary school in the Escuque Municipality, specifically the Escuela Federal Eduardo Blanco and in Mérida with the Jesuits at the Colegio San José. He attended high school with the Salesians in Valera at Colegio Santo Tomás de Aquino, in San Felipe at Liceo Lisandro Alvarado and in Caracas at Liceo Andrés Bello. He obtained a doctoral degree in Political and Social Sciences at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in 1951 and a master's degree in Comparative Law at the Southern Methodist University, in Dallas, Texas; in 1959. In 1959 and 1960, he took additional courses in Economics at the Institut des Sciences Politiques of the University of Paris.

Since 1972, he has been a Professor of Commercial Law at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, where he was Dean of the School of Law from 1975 to 1980. During this time, Alfredo founded the Center for Legal Research in 1976. During the peak of his academic career, he wrote the four-volume "Curso de Derecho Mercantil", which is used in various Venezuelan university law programs. His work was so influential that it led to a series of tribute books ("Libro Homenaje al Profesor Alfredo Morles Hernández") being released in his honor. He also worked as a postgraduate professor at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, where he was professor-founder of the chair "Régimen Legal del Mercado de Capitales" (Legal Regime of the Capital Market). In 1971 he was visiting professor at the University of Miami, Florida, U.S.A.

During his career as a practicing attorney, he held various roles. He was a member of the Caracas Bar Association and a former Judge (2000) of the Political-Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (Venezuela). In 1989 Alfredo Morles Hernández was elected Member of the Academy of Political and Social Sciences, where he held the Chair #33 and the Presidency for the period 2005 - 2007.

Alfredo was a member and Chairman of the Commission for the Reform of the Commercial Code. He co-authored the Draft Bill of the General Law of Securities, which was presented to the Congress of the Republic by the Minister of Justice on behalf of the National Executive (1984). He also co-authored the Preliminary Draft of the General Law of Mercantile Corporations (submitted to the Minister of Justice in 1988) and the Preliminary Draft of the Decree Law of the Public Registry and Notary Public of November 13, 2001.

He was Minister Counselor of the Venezuelan Embassy in Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1972) and member of the Venezuelan Delegation to the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (1974).

He was Chairman of the Caracas Stock Exchange from 1980 to 1987, and Permanent Counselor from 1987 until his death in 2021.

Distinctions

• Order Luis Sanojo, First Class, Faculty of Juridical and Political Sciences of the Universidad Central de Venezuela (1999).

• Andres Bello Order, Tie class (1978).

• Medal of the Bar Association of the Federal District (1977).

• Medal of the Bar Association of the Federal District (1977).

• Commercial Law Seminars. Tribute to Dr. Alfredo Morles Hernández organized by Salaverría, Ramos, Romero and associated lawyers with the cooperation of Universidad Monteávila (Caracas) and the Academy of Political and Social Sciences. Held in Puerto La Cruz on May 11 and 12, 2007.

• III "Dr. Cristóbal Mendoza" Conference. Event organized by the Center for Legal Studies by the Faculty of Legal, Political and Social Sciences of the Universidad Valle del Momboy, Valera, Trujillo State, Venezuela, in honor of Dr. Alfredo Morles Hernández. June 2005.

• XI Jornadas Centenarias del Colegio de Abogados de Carabobo. Event in homage to Dr. Alfredo Morles Hernández, held in the city of Valencia on October 14 to 16, 2004.

• Professor Emeritus of the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (2012).

• Doctor Honoris Causa in Law conferred by the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (April, 2017).

Work

Books

• Derecho de Seguros. Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas 2013, isbn 978-980-244-734-3
• La Banca en el Marco de la Transición de los Sistemas Económicos en Venezuela. Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas 2011, isbn 978-980-244-689-6
• Garantías Mercantiles. Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas (primera edición 2007, segunda edición 2010)

• Breves Estudios de Derecho Mercantil (2008). Sociedades, Contratos, Títulos Valores, Derecho Concursal, Derecho Marítimo. Academia de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales. Serie de Estudios N79. Caracas.

• Cuestiones de Derecho Societario (2006). Academia de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales. Caracas.

• Curso de Derecho Mercantil. Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. Caracas.
  • Tomo I: Introducción. La empresa. El empresario (8a.edición, 2006).
  • Tomo II: Las sociedades mercantiles (8a.edición, 2006).
  • Tomo III: Los títulos valores (6a.edición, 2007).
  • Tomo IV: Los contratos mercantiles. Derecho concursal (3a.edición, 2006).

• Derecho de Grupos de Sociedades (2005). Academia de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales. Caracas. Con Irene de Valera

• Centenario del Código de Comercio venezolano de (1904 -2004). Libro homenaje de la Academia de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales. Caracas. Con Irene de Valera

• Compendio de Derecho Mercantil I (2004). Academia de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. Caracas.

• Oferta Pública de Adquisición (2001). Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. Caracas.

• Mercados de Instrumentos Financieros e Intermediación (2000). Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. Caracas.

• Régimen Legal del Mercado de Capitales (1999, 2ª. edición, varias reimpresiones). Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. Caracas.

• El Takeover del Banco de Venezuela (1996). Tomo III de El Caso Banco de Venezuela. Editorial Jurídica Venezolana.

• El Caso del Banco de Venezuela (1996). Tomo IV: La Adquisición de Acciones Propias y Supuestos Similares. Autor y compilador. Editorial Jurídica Venezolana.

• El Régimen Legal de Las Crisis Bancarias (1994). Academia de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales. Caracas.

• La Bolsa, los corredores y los contratos bursátiles (1988). Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. Caracas.

Other publications

• El retiro de Venezuela de la Comunidad Andina de Naciones y sus efectos en la legislación mercantil. Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Políticas de la UCV, No. 127, Caracas 2007.

• La crisis de la empresa mercantil (2004). Book in tribute to the Code of Commerce of 1904. Academy of Political and Social Sciences. Caracas.

• La pérdida total del capital social (2004). Book in tribute to the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. Andrés Bello Catholic University. Caracas.

• La disolución de las sociedades mercantiles (2004). Book in tribute to Prof. Gustavo Planchart Manrique. Andrés Bello Catholic University. Caracas.

• Los extremos de la polivalencia funcional de la sociedad anónima en el derecho venezolano: de la sociedad cotizada a la sociedad de capital insuficiente (1999). Book in tribute to Professor Fernando Sánchez Calero, Volume III, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.

• He wrote " Las garantías a primer requerimiento" in the book "garantías a primera demanda" by Francisco Javier Sánchez Calero, Manuel Francisco Clavero Arévalo, Eduardo García de Enterría Carande, Luis Díez-Picazo, Luis María Díez-Picazo Ponce de León, and José Luis Segimón Escobedo. 1996, ISBN 84-470-0814-2, pp. 165-182.

• La transmisión de la propiedad y de los riesgos en los contratos bursátiles (1995) published in "Liber Amicorum", Homage to José Muci Abraham; Editorial Jurídica Venezolana. Study previously presented in 1991 in Jornadas in homage to José Muci Abraham; Instituto de Estudios Jurídicos "Ángel Francisco Brice" del Colegio de Abogados del Estado Zulia.

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