María Palancar
María Palancar Moreno
Labour law and social security vocation
Madrid, 1910-1970
A graduate and Doctor in Law from the University of Madrid, she was head of the Women's Section of the Madrid Placement Office after passing a competitive examination. She married Professor Eugenio Pérez Botija, a fellow student and an effective collaborator.
Both started working in the field of Administrative Law, but her first articles already justify this interest in labor issues that would later become Labor Law. An example is the extraordinary prize Naturaleza especial de la legislación obrera, which she shared with Eugenio Pérez Botija and José Luis Santaló Rodríguez de Viguri.
She founded, with her husband, the Revista del Trabajo and participated with a series of national and foreign publications within a juridical-public orientation where the relationship between Administrative Law and the new Labor Law was consolidated. They received numerous recognitions for their professional work.
It is worth mentioning the article "La mujer y el trabajo", published in 1947 in the Revista de Política Social where he criticized the forced leave of absence of working women upon marriage, according to the requirements of Franco's legislation. His concern for occupational medicine is evident in Los Médicos del trabajo (notas al decreto de 21 de agosto y reglamento de 22 de diciembre de 1956), Madrid, 1956, and El nuevo Reglamento de los servicios médicos de empresa, Madrid, 1958. Other works related to positive law are La Legislación laboral española en sus quince últimos años, Bologna, 1953; or Reglamentación de los consejos de empresa en España, Bologna, 1953.
Unfortunately, and despite the innovative work and career of this pioneering jurist, it has not been possible to find a photograph of her.
Maria Jesús Espuny Tomás
Professor Emeritus, History of Law and Institutions
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
References:
- Monereo Pérez, José Luis; Peláez, Manuel J.; Serrano Falcón, Carolina (2016). María Palancar Moreno (1910-1970). Política social y Seguridad Social. Revista de Derecho de la Seguridad Social. Laborum, 9, 295-29.
Suggested citation:
Espuny Tomás, María Jesús (2022). María Palancar Moreno. Pioneering Female Jurists: Remembrance and Memory [Electronic resource], Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, November 2022. In: https://ddd.uab.cat/record/268739
This web Pioneering Female Jurists: Remembrance and Memory was created as part of the teaching innovation and quality improvement project of the UAB 2021 (GI515402). Main researcher: María Jesús García Morales
