Milton Leónidas Ray Guevara is a Dominican lawyer, judge and expert constitutionalist. He is the first and current Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic. He was elected senator for the 1998-2002 legislative quadrennium by the Dominican Revolutionary Party; but he left the senatorial office when he was appointed Minister of Labour on 16 August 2000 and held that position until 16 August 2004.
Early life and family
Milton Ray Guevara was born on 5 May 1948, in Samaná to Mr. César Leónidas Ray, of African American descent, and Mrs. Ferolina Guevara.
He was professor of mastery in the Iberoamerican University, 2002-2011; professor of the Department of Juridical Sciences, Pontificia Catholic University Mother and Master, 1970-2012; director of the Mastery of Business Right and Economic Legislation, Pontifical Catholic University Mother and Master, 1993-1996; director of the Department of Juridical Sciences of the Pontificia Catholic University Mother and Master, 1988-1997; dean of students with rank of the Vice-chancellor of the Pontificia Catholic University Mother and Master, 1971-1972; it is the current professor of the Department of Juridical Sciences, Pontificia Catholic University Mother and Master, From 1970.
Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court
Milton Ray Guevara assumed the presidency of the Constitutional Court on 28 December 2011, swore by the president Leonel Fernández. His designation has not been very seen by a part of the Dominican citizenship that accuses it to be parcializado and follow guidelines of Fernández. Although it exists the rumour that in the country lives a species of "constitutional dictatorship", Guevara has been defended by big part of the civil society. On 28 March 2012, the president of the Senate Reinaldo Wall Pérez accused to Guevara to remit to the varied Senate resources of inconstitucionalidad without before review them and ensure that the same are admissible.
Works and publications
Doctrina Jurídica Dominicana: Un Aporte Personal
Institucionalidad y Justicia, Vol. I
Institucionalidad y Justicia, Vol. II
Institucionalidad y Justicia, Vol. III
Separata de Doctrina: Ambiente Conceptual para una Legislación de Grupos Financieros Bancarios
Por un Samaná Mejor, Para un País Mejor
La Expropiación por Causa de Utilidad Pública en República Dominicana
La Guerra del Yom Kippur, Cese del Fuego, Superpotencias y Naciones Unidas
Reconocimiento Excelencia Docente, Asistencia y Evaluación Estudiantil, Universidad Iberoamericana, UNIBE, 25 de junio de 2010
Orden Labor Omnia Vincit, por la Asociación Iberoamericana de Derecho del Trabajo y de la Seguridad Social, noviembre de 2004
Order of the Merit of Duarte, Sánchez and Mella, Big Degree Cross plate of silver, 2004
Recognition by his support in the coordination and integration of the labour politics between the countries of the region. Council of Ministers of Work of Centroamérica and Dominican Republic, August 2004
President of Honour of the First National and International Congress of Right of the Work and of the Social Security, San Pedro of Macorís, R.D. 29 June 2001
