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| birth_name = Felipe Enrique Osterling Parodi
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'''Felipe Enrique Osterling Parodi''' (14 May 1932 – 30 August 2014)<ref>{{cite news|title=Falleció líder pepecista Felipe Osterling a los 82 años|url=http://elcomercio.pe/politica/partidos/fallecio-fundador-pepecista-felipe-osterling-82-anos-noticia-1753567|access-date=31 August 2014|publisher=El Comercio|date=30 August 2014}}</ref> was a Peruvian lawyer, writer and politician. He was a member and leader of the [[Christian People's Party (Peru)|Christian People's Party]], and served in senior positions in the Peruvian government.
 
==Early life and education ==
==Biography==
He was the son of Luis Felipe Osterling Parodi Irvine and Regina Garcia. He was the uncle of the prominent Peruvian lawyer Alfredo Enrique Martín Parodi Plaza, and pharmacist and businessman Luis Miguel Parodi Plaza. He attended the school of the Sacred Hearts Recoleta. He studied law at the [[Pontifical Catholic University of Peru]], from which he graduated in 1967. He did postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Law of the [[University of Michigan]] and the [[New York University]].
 
== Career ==
Since 1957 he was professor of [[Pontifical Catholic University of Peru]], where he taught courses on Private International Law, Contracts and Civil Law Practice. Since 1964, he was head teacher, and dictated the course of Obligations Law, which also was in charge at the University of Lima (1986–1989). In 1966 he attended as a visiting professor at the Universities of [[University of Notre Dame|Notre Dame]], [[Harvard University|Harvard]], [[Georgetown University|Georgetown]], [[University of Columbia|Columbia]] and [[New York University|New York]].
 
He was Dean of the [[Pontifical Catholic University of Peru]] for the period 1969–1972.
 
== Political career ==
In July 1980 he was appointed [[Ministry of Justice ofand Human Rights (Peru)|Minister of Justice and Worship]]<ref>{{cite book |title=Christian Democracy in Latin America: Electoral Competition and Regime Conflicts |last=Mainwaring |first=Scott |page=349 |year=2003 |publisher=[[Stanford University Press]] |isbn=9780804745987 }}</ref> by [[Fernando Belaúnde Terry|Fernando Belaunde Terry]], as such a ministry had to refound disappeared in the Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces remained in office until August 1981.
 
In the [[1985 Peruvian general election|1985 general election]], he was elected Senator representing the Christian People's Party for the period 1985 to 1990. Inside the Senate, he was member of the Permanent Commission of the Congress and the Committees on National Defense and Justice and Internal Order.
 
In the [[1990 Peruvian general election|1990 general election]], he was reelected as Senator representing his party insideunder the [[Democratic Front (Peru)|FREDEMO]] coalition of [[Mario Vargas Llosa]] for the period 1990 to 1995. A year later he was elected [[President of the Congress of Peru|President of the Senate]] for the legislature 1991 – 1992.<ref>{{cite book |title=Conservative Parties, the Right, and Democracy in Latin America |last=Middlebrook |first=Kevin J. |page=[https://archive.org/details/conservativepart0000unse/page/266 266] |year=2000 |publisher=[[Johns Hopkins University Press]] |isbn=9780801863868 |url=https://archive.org/details/conservativepart0000unse/page/266 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.congreso.gob.pe/participacion/museo/congreso/presidentes/Felipe_osterling|title=Felipe Osterling Parodi}}</ref>
 
With the coup of 1992, Osterling was unable to perform his duties and was even beaten by the police that restricted entry to the Congress because he was inunder "house arrest".<ref>{{cite news |title=Diez años después la democracia peruana goza de buena salud |url=http://www.editoraperu.com.pe/edc/02/04/05/inf.htm |work=[[El Peruano]] |access-date=20 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010140052/http://www.editoraperu.com.pe/edc/02/04/05/inf.htm |archive-date=10 October 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Fujimori's Peru: Deception in the Public Sphere |last=Conaghan |first=Catherine M. |page=27 |year=2005 |publisher=[[University of Pittsburgh Press]] |isbn=9780822959434 }}</ref> After these incidents, he returned to his law firm, and was Dean of the School of Lawyers of [[Lima]] in 1995.
 
In May 1993 it was incorporated as a full member of the Peruvian Academy of Law, of which he was President (2006–2008). It is also relevant academic of the National Academy of Law and Social Sciences of Buenos Aires (Argentina).
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