Elisa Pérez Vera

At the proposal of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) in the Congress of Deputies, she was appointed magistrate of the Constitutional Court in 2001, with a mandate that ended on 7 November 2010, but was extended until 2012 due to the absence of an agreement between the People's Party and the PSOE in the Congress of Deputies for the renewal of the four corresponding magistrates.

She was the initial rapporteur of the ruling on the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia, composing five drafts favorable to the Statute that did not obtain the support of the plenary. Finally, in April 2010, after the first draft was rejected, she was replaced by President María Emilia Casas, with the presentation put in the charge of magistrate Javier Delgado Barrio [es].

After a hiatus motivated by health issues, she chaired the Advisory Council of Andalusia [es] from 1994 to 2001.

In 1982, she was elected rector of the UNED, becoming the first woman to attain this post at a Spanish public university. In 1987 she was appointed General Secretary of the Council of Universities [es], a position she held until 1991.

From 1975 to 1979 she was an associate professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid, and a professor of the University of Santiago de Compostela for a few months. In 1979 she went on to hold the chair of Private International Law at the National University of Distance Education.

A specialist in international law, she was a member of the Spanish delegation in the United Nations special committee for the definition of aggression in Geneva. She participated as a speaker, adviser, and expert on various committees from 1971 to 1976 at the International Conference in The Hague.

She studied law at the University of Granada, graduating in 1961 and earning her doctorate in 1965. Since 1961 she has taught at the same university as an assistant professor, and since 1967 as an adjunct professor.

Elisa Pérez Vera (born 1 June 1940) is a Spanish jurist, a professor of Private International Law at the National University of Distance Education (UNED) and magistrate of the Constitutional Court of Spain from 2001 to 2012. In 1982 she was appointed Rector of the UNED, becoming the first woman rector at a Spanish public university. The UNED has instituted the Elisa Pérez Vera Award to recognize research work on gender or feminism.