FUNDACIÓN VÍCTIMAS DEL TERRORISMO 96 - ENGLISH

58 PROFESSOR MANUEL BROSETA FOUNDATION ASSOCIATIONS AND FOUNDATIONS O n 2 July, the Professor Manuel Broseta Foundation held the formal presentation of its 29th University Legal Studies Award at the Valencia Bar Association. The award re- cognises law students’ academic excellen- ce and research quality each year. The ceremony was presided over by Luis María Cazorla Prieto, President of Spain’s Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Le- gislation; the President of the Professor Manuel Broseta Foundation, Vicente Garrido Mayol; and José Soriano Poves, Dean of the Valencia Bar Association and President of the Royal Valencian Aca- demy of Jurisprudence and Legislation. In this 29th edition, the award went to Inés Cortell Cerdá, recognising an outs- tanding academic record with 29 ho- nours distinctions during her law degree and the quality of her monograph, “Re- medies for Failure to Perform Ancillary Obligations in Companies”. One of the ceremony’s highlights was Luis María Cazorla’s moving personal testimony about his childhood and you- th in Novelda (Alicante). The President of Spain’s Royal Academy of Jurispru- dence and Legislation recalled his fami- ly origins, noting that his parents were farmers, and defended education as the great instrument of personal and collec- tive transformation. The Professor Manuel Broseta Foundation presents THE 29TH UNIVERSITY LEGAL STUDIES AWARD TO INÉS CORTELL CERDÁ Luis María Cazorla championed education, effort and meritocracy as drivers of social progress at the ceremony held at the Valencia Bar Association