Felipe Sánchez-Román y Gallifa (12 March 1893 – 21 January 1956) was a prominent Spanish jurist who taught at the Central University of Madrid from 1916 to 1936.

In 1934 he founded the tiny but influential center-left Partido Nacional Republicano (PNR), and fought to avoid a republican government dominated by extreme left revolutionaries.

[2] He attended the Instituto Cardenal Cisneros(es) in Madrid for his secondary education, and obtained his bachillerato on 24 April 1909 with a grade of "outstanding".

[3] On 1 March 1914 he was accepted as a legal officer by the General Directorate of Registries and as a notary by the Spanish Ministry of Grace and Justice.

[2] Between 1918 and 1939 Sánchez Román practiced as a lawyer as a member of the Colleges of Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla, Valencia, Valladolid, Burgos and San Sebastián.

[4] On 22 April 1919 Sánchez-Román was appointed secretary of the Law School of the Central University in place of Ismael Calvo Madroño(es), who had died.

Sánchez-Román resigned his chair at the Madrid Faculty of Law by a letter of 27 May 1929 to the Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts.

[1] He was defense lawyer for the National Revolutionary Committee, which included Francisco Largo Caballero, a leader of the Socialist Unión General de Trabajadores who was arrested after the failed Jaca uprising in December 1930.

[4] In September 1931 he was discussed as a potential candidate for President of the Republic, but he resigned from the government's legal advisory committee due to dissatisfaction with the political evolution of the republican regime and objections to the appointment of Jaime Carner as Minister of Finance.

[4] In the summer of 1934 some of the left-leaning Radicals in parliament moved over to join Manuel Azaña, while others became independents led by Joaquín Chapaprieta.

In July 1934 Sánchez-Román organized the Partido Nacional Republicano (PNR), which took a position somewhat to the right of the Union Republicana of Diego Martínez Barrio.

[11] On the fourth anniversary of the founding of the Republic, 14 April 1935, Sanchez Roman published an article in Indalecio Prieto's newspaper El Liberal calling for unity of the left.

[11] He had insisted that the program must include "the express prohibition, even in propaganda, of revolutionary tactics and the need to suppress the militarized youth groups", a position that Azana would not promote.

[20] When he arrived at the Presidential Palace he was told that groups of workers demanding arms had appeared outside the ministry of the interior.

[23] His family moved to France in August 1936, but Sánchez-Román remained in Madrid at least until December 1936 when the first major offensive by the rebel troops had been repelled.

[5][a] After the republican defeat in the Spanish Civil War Sánchez-Román moved from France to New York City, where he was offered a chair at Columbia University.

He was consultant lawyer to the Presidency of the Republic from 1940 to 1946 and was involved in legal aspects of expropriation and compensation for oil industry properties.

He held office until March 1941, when he resigned so he could devote himself to teaching comparative law in the National School of Jurisprudence of the UNAM, which he joined in 1940.