Eduardo Torres-Dulce

Eduardo Torres-Dulce Lifante (born 14 May 1950), is a Spanish prosecutor, professor of Criminal Law and a film critic. He was, from December 2011 to December 2014, State Attorney General. He has now returned to his position as Prosecutor at the Constitutional Court. Law degree from the Complutense University of Madrid, his career as a prosecutor has been developed in Seville, Guadalajara and Madrid. In 1996 he was promoted to the category of Fiscal de Sala and has been, since then, among other charges, Prosecutor of the Supreme Court of Spain, Chief of the Criminal Section, Member of the Fiscal Council and Prosecutor of the Prosecution before the Constitutional Court of Spain. He is the son of Eduardo Torres-Dulce y Ruíz, who was a magistrate of the Supreme Court. His uncle, Antonio Torres-Dulce y Ruíz, was president of the Public Order Court during the dictatorship.

As a professor, he has taught, among others, at the CEU Luis Vives, at the Institute of Business and Criminal Procedural Practice at the School of Legal Practice of ICADE, at the Practicum Course in the Bachelor's Degree at the Faculty of Law of the Autonomous University of Madrid, in the Faculty of Insurance Sciences of the Pontifical University of Salamanca and the Center for Legal Studies.

As a prosecutor of the Constitutional Court, specializing in labor issues, was splashed by a scandal when he served as chairman of the Appeals Committee of the Spanish Football Federation. The controversy broke out when, in a controversial decision, lifted the suspension of a match - imposed in the first instance by the Competition Committee - the player Hugo Sanchez of Real Madrid. His past as a Madridista since he was thirteen years old and the harsh criticism received forced him to submit his irrevocable resignation on 26 February 1988.As author of specialized publications in Law, he has participated, among others, in the elaboration of the Penal Code commented, in the Organic Law of the Constitutional Court, in a selection of the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court's Autos, in a few Comments to the Statute of the Autonomy of Madrid, etc.