José Castán Tobeñas [SEP] occupation
José Castán Tobeñas
José Castán Tobeñas (1889–1969) was a Spanish jurist and judge.
After studies in Zaragoza and a much-lauded doctoral thesis submitted in Madrid, he taught civil law at Zaragoza, Madrid, Murcia, Barcelona and Valencia. He was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1933, and dismissed in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War.
In 1939, the Franco government appointed Tobeñas to a chair in Zaragoza and, in 1940, again to the Supreme Court, which he reorganised and presided over from
- Belisario Gache Pirán
- José Nicoláu Sabater
Great Cross 1949.
- José Joaquín Casas
- Jorge Beristain
- Maximino José de Morces Correia
- Cristóbal Losada y Puga
- José Pizzardo
- Antonio de la Torre y del Cerro
- Carlos Blanco Soler
- Esteban Terradas Illa
- Julio de Urquijo e Ibarra
- José Caeiro da Mata
- António Faria Carneiro Pacheco
- Nicolás Franco Bahamonde
- Eugenio Cuello Calón
Great Cross 1950.
- José Castán Tobeñas
- José María