Our name partner, Fabio J. Guzmán Ariza, was recently elected as a member of the Dominican Academy of Letters ("Academia Dominicana de la Lengua") for his life history as an intellectual and his concern for the Spanish language.

Founded in Santo Domingo in 1927, the "Academia Dominicana de la Lengua", variously translated as the Dominican Academy of Language, the Dominican Academy of Letters, or glossed as the Dominican Academy of the Spanish Language, is the Dominican counterpart to the Royal Spanish Academy, founded in Madrid in 1713, and as such, is the pre-eminent learned body on matters pertaining to the Spanish language in the Dominican Republic

Mr. Guzmán has written extensively on legal language and has recently reviewed, at the request of the Dominican Congress, the texts of the pending new Constitution and Criminal Code.