Contemporary history of European and Ibero-American integration processes
Dr. GUILLERMO Á. PÉREZ SÁNCHEZ
He is PhD in Contemporary History -with Extraordinary Prize- by the University of Valladolid, University Professor of Contemporary History, in the Department of Modern, Contemporary, American and Journalism History of the University of Valladolid and former Director of its University Institute of European Studies.
He has researched on the Europeanist ideal, the current history of the countries of the East and the former Soviet Union and also on North-South relations in today's world in different European centers, as a result of which he has published several books. La Europa báltica. De repúblicas soviéticas a la integración en la Unión Europea, 1991-2004 (2010), Luchadores por la libertad. La revolución húngara de 1956 (2016); related to the above he has worked on communism and human rights and recently published (as director and co-author): Los Derechos Humanos, sesenta años después, 1948-2008 (2009), La Unión Soviética ante el espejo de las Comunidades Europeas (2017) and El colapso del comunismo (2017).
He has been “Salvador de Madariaga Fellow” at the European University Institute in Florence, where he has worked on issues related to European integration and published several works, as director and co-author: España y Portugal, veinticinco años en la Unión Europea, 1986-2011 (2012), La Unión Europea al cumplirse los 70 años de la Declaración Schuman, 1950-2020 (2020), The EU in the 21st Century (2020), The European Union and its Political Leaders (2022).
Also as editor and co-author he has recently published: La Gran Guerra (1914-1918): visiones desde Europa y América (2015, Causas y consecuencias de la Gran Guerra (1914-1918) y su influencia en el mundo actual, cien años después (2015), La integración europea e iberoamericana (2018) y La integración europea e iberoamericana II (2021).
He has also published in collective books and specialized journals.
He has carried out research and teaching stays in different European and Ibero-American universities, in the latter as part of a project on integration processes in Ibero-America and their relationship with the European integration process. He has five six-year research periods and six five-year teaching periods. He has so far directed twelve doctoral theses.
Dr. RICARDO MARTÍN DE LA GUARDIA
He is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Valladolid and Jean Monnet Professor of History of European Integration awarded by the European Commission. He has taught at several European and American universities.
In his line of research on the history of international relations he is the author, co-author or coordinator of some thirty books and several dozen articles and book chapters; for example, among the books are La Unión Soviética: de la perestroika a la desintegración (Madrid, 1995), La Europa báltica. De repúblicas soviéticas a la integración en la Unión Europea (1994-2004) (Madrid, 2010), Chechenia, el infierno balcánico (Valencia, 2012), 1989, el año que cambió el mundo (Madrid, 2012), El europeísmo, un reto permanente para España (Madrid, 2015) and Konrad Adenauer. Artífice de una nueva Alemania, impulsor de una Europa unida (Madrid, 2015), Conflictos postoviéticos. De la secesión de Transnistria a la desmembración de Ucrania (Madrid, 2017), and La Unión Soviética ante el espejo de las Comunidades Europeas. De la Europa sovietizada a la “casa común” europea (1957-1988) (Valladolid, 2017); Konrad Adenauer: artífice de una nueva Alemania, impulsor de una Europa unida (Madrid, Gota a Gota, 2015), La caída del Muro de Berlín (Madrid, la Esfera de los libros 2019), translated to portuguese, The EU in the 21st Century. Challenges and Opportunities for the Europen Integration Process (Bern, Springer, 2021).
He is on the editorial board of numerous scientific journals and has worked on various national and international research projects.
Current issues in the institutional system and sources of the EU
Francisco Javier Matia Portilla is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Valladolid Law School.
His research work has focused mainly on the examination of the regime of fundamental rights in Spanish constitutional law, in the European Union and in the Council of Europe, in the European integration process and its implications in national systems and in electoral and parliamentary law.
He is the author of three monographs (El derecho fundamental a la inviolabilidad del domicilio, Parlamentos nacionales y Derecho comunitario derivado y Los Tratados internacionales y el principio democrático), director of more than a dozen collective volumes and has published numerous works in specialized journals and collective works. At the editorial level, he has directed the Revista General de Derecho Constitucional until May 2016 and has been coordinator of the Section “Noticias de Libros” de la Revista Española de Derecho Constitucional. He has been responsible for, among others, the projects Pluralidad de ciudadanías y participación democrática (national, ref. DER2008-00185), Integración social y ciudadana de los inmigrantes en Castilla y León (regional, ref. VA005A10-1), Crisis de la representación y reforma de los partidos políticos (estatal, ref. DER2013-40585-P), España ante Europa: retos nacionales en materia de derechos humanos (estatal, ref. DER2016-75993-P) and Los límites de la autonomía de las Universidades Públicas (estatal, ref. ID2020-113929GB-I00).
He has been recognized so far five six-year research periods (last one, 2016-2021).
He has been an evaluator for ANEP, ANECA, the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the MadridmásD Foundation and, more recently, scientific collaborator of the State Research Agency between January 2017 and June 2020. He currently collaborates with various evaluation agencies (AEI, ANECA, CNEAI, DEVA, AQU, etc.) and Universities. In these tasks he has been and is an evaluator of Projects, Research Groups, Degrees, Mobility Programs, etc. He also evaluates originals for some public and private publishers (Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, Marcial Pons, etc.) and for relevant scientific publications related to Constitutional Law.
He has taught undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate courses. Part of the teaching in masters and specialization courses has been given in other Universities and national and international Centers. He has also taught in numerous courses and seminars at the Millán Santos Permanent University and the Inter-University Program of Castilla y León, as well as at the School of Legal Practice of Valladolid. He has been recognized for six teaching periods and two excellent ratings in the Docentia Program of the University of Valladolid (2007-2010 and 2011-2014).
From April 2002 to September 30, 2007, he served as a temporary secondment lawyer at the Spanish Constitutional Court. He has been recognized for a six-year period of knowledge transfer (2018).
Freedoms of movement
Dr. DÁMASO JAVIER VICENTE BLANCO
Professor of Private International Law at the University of Valladolid. Extraordinary Doctorate Award 2003.
He has been Vice-Dean of Academic Planning and the European Higher Education Area and International Relations at the Faculty of Law of the University of Valladolid (from 2004 to 2010) and Director of the Legal Services and Evaluation Area of the University of Valladolid (from June 2010 to July 2012).
He is currently Director of the Department of Commercial Law, Labor Law and Private International Law.
Member of the Recognized Research Group in New Technologies Law and Computer Crime and member of the Institute of European Studies of the University of Valladolid.
He has three six-year research fellowships.
He has carried out research stays at the Université des Sciencies Sociales Toulouse 1 (France), at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Peru) and at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina).
He has been visiting professor and lecturer at several European and Latin American universities. He is director of the PhD in Social Sciences at the University of Mindelo (Cape Verde) and of the Chair of European Intangible Cultural Heritage at the University of Valladolid.
He works in multiple fields of Private International Law and, among other subjects, in the relationship between Law and Anthropology. Since the beginning of his work, he examines the genesis of legal norms in his different fields of study, as well as the social constructions that law produces.
EU english terminology
Dr. ÁLVARO MARÍN GARCÍA
Assistant Professor at the Department of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Granada, he holds a BA and MA in Translation and Interpreting from the same university and a PhD in Translation Studies from Kent State University (USA), where he was awarded the Extraordinary Prize.Before joining the University of Granada, he developed his teaching and research career at Kent State University, the University of Essex (UK) and the University of Valladolid (Spain).
He is a member of the scientific council of the Iberian Association of Translation and Interpreting Studies and a member of its board of directors. He is also a member of the editorial board of the journal specialized in translation and linguistic mediation Sendebar and a member of international research associations such as the TREC Network (Translation Research, Empiricism and Cognition). He has published extensively on cognitive processes in language mediation, translation epistemology and knowledge management. He has participated in research projects such as “Online training for the language industries” funded by the European Commission, or “Analysis and representation of terminological variation in the humanitarian field (VARITERMHUM)”, funded by the Ministry of Transformation and Economy of the Andalusian Regional Government (Consejería de transformación y economía de la Junta de Andalucía).
He has been a member of the working team in five projects/groups of teaching innovation and coordinated another one: “Inter-Pro: gestión profesional de la información para la sociedad intercultural y multilingüe”.
Research Methodology and Project Management
Dr. JAVIER GARCÍA MEDINA.
Professor of Philosophy of Law. Dean of the School of Law (2020-present). Member of the recognized research group “Family Law and Human Rights”. Director of the Human Rights Observatory of the University of Valladolid. Director of the Legal Clinic of the University of Valladolid. Member of the Gregorio Peces-Barba Human Rights Institute of the Carlos III University of Madrid. Member of the MAPFRE Observatory of Sustainable Finance. Educational Innovation Award, Social Council of the University of Valladolid 2014. President of the Ethics Committee of the Social Services of the Junta de Castilla y León. Representative of the Social and Legal Sciences Area in VIRTUVA (Center for Online Teaching, Training and Teaching Innovation of the University of Valladolid). Result of the Teaching Activity Evaluation (DOCENTIA Program): EXCELLENT. Member of the Technical Committee for the elaboration of the base document for the drafting of the II National Plan of Human Rights (Ministry of the Presidency). Secretary of the Spanish Society of Legal and Political Philosophy.
The Europe of rights and the protection of the Union's values
Dr. FRANCISCO JAVIER MATIA PORTILLA
Francisco Javier Matia Portilla is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Valladolid Law School.
His research work has focused mainly on the examination of the regime of fundamental rights in Spanish constitutional law, in the European Union and in the Council of Europe, in the European integration process and its implications in national systems and in electoral and parliamentary law.
He is the author of three monographs (El derecho fundamental a la inviolabilidad del domicilio, Parlamentos nacionales y Derecho comunitario derivado y Los Tratados internacionales y el principio democrático), director of more than a dozen collective volumes and has published numerous works in specialized journals and collective works. At the editorial level, he has directed the Revista General de Derecho Constitucional until May 2016 and has been coordinator of the Section “Noticias de Libros” de la Revista Española de Derecho Constitucional. He has been responsible for, among others, the projects Pluralidad de ciudadanías y participación democrática (national, ref. DER2008-00185), Integración social y ciudadana de los inmigrantes en Castilla y León (regional, ref. VA005A10-1), Crisis de la representación y reforma de los partidos políticos (estatal, ref. DER2013-40585-P), España ante Europa: retos nacionales en materia de derechos humanos (estatal, ref. DER2016-75993-P) and Los límites de la autonomía de las Universidades Públicas (estatal, ref. ID2020-113929GB-I00).
He has been recognized so far five six-year research periods (last one, 2016-2021).
He has been an evaluator for ANEP, ANECA, the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the MadridmásD Foundation and, more recently, scientific collaborator of the State Research Agency between January 2017 and June 2020. He currently collaborates with various evaluation agencies (AEI, ANECA, CNEAI, DEVA, AQU, etc.) and Universities. In these tasks he has been and is an evaluator of Projects, Research Groups, Degrees, Mobility Programs, etc. He also evaluates originals for some public and private publishers (Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, Marcial Pons, etc.) and for relevant scientific publications related to Constitutional Law.
He has taught undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate courses. Part of the teaching in masters and specialization courses has been given in other Universities and national and international Centers. He has also taught in numerous courses and seminars at the Millán Santos Permanent University and the Inter-University Program of Castilla y León, as well as at the School of Legal Practice of Valladolid. He has been recognized for six teaching periods and two excellent ratings in the Docentia Program of the University of Valladolid (2007-2010 and 2011-2014).
From April 2002 to September 30, 2007, he served as a temporary secondment lawyer at the Spanish Constitutional Court. He has been recognized for a six-year period of knowledge transfer (2018).
All this information can be found in much more detail on its website: http://www.javiermatia.com/
Staff in the service of the European Union and collaboration of national administrations
Dr. Francisco Fonseca Morillo
Professor of International Public and European Law at the University of Valladolid and Professor in the Master in European Studies at the University San Pablo-CEU, as well as in the Master of Advanced Studies in the European Union of the Doctoral School of the University of Valladolid.
He is Director of the Institute of European Studies of the University of Valladolid.
He has a long experience in the European institutions where he became Director General, developing his professional activity in two main areas: the institutional dimension and governance of the European Union, and policies related to the European area of freedom, security and justice.
He has also been Director of the Permanent Representation of the European Commission in Spain.
Research interests: theory and practice of international negotiation. European Constitutional and Institutional Law. Judicial cooperation and migration policies.
My motto: In contraria ducet.
Economic and monetary integration and the internal market
Dra. HELENA VILLAREJO GALENDE
Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Valladolid.
Currently, she is the General Secretary of the University of Valladolid and member of the Court for the Defense of Competition of Castilla y León.
Member of the GIR on Bankruptcy Law and Competition and Distribution Law, of the Institute of European Studies (University of Valladolid) and of the Institute of Place Management (Manchester Metropolitan University).
She has published: 4 books as sole author, 3 books as editor/director, 2 normative compilations, 27 book chapters, 25 articles in indexed journals and several non-indexed publications.
indexed publications. In possession of 5 five-year teaching periods, 3 six-year research periods and 1 six-year transfer period.
Areas of research: Economic administrative law, urban planning, public procurement, transparency, administrative simplification, compliance, community law (internal market, services policy, community freedoms).
Dr. ALFONSO MORAL DE BLAS
He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Valladolid where he has also developed his teaching and research work since 1996. Since then he has taught at the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies in Valladolid until 2003 and at the Faculty of Social, Legal and Communication Sciences in Segovia from then until the present, completing 5 five-year teaching periods.
He has participated in more than twenty research programs or projects as principal investigator or collaborator.
He is part of the team of technicians of the Economic and Social Council of Castilla y León that prepares the annual report of the Economic Situation since 2008.
His research is focused on issues related to labor economics, which is the subject of his doctoral thesis. Subsequently the subject matter has diversified towards topics related to regional labor markets or the economic analysis of law. As a result of this activity he has presented more than forty communications in national and international congresses and has been author or co-author of more than twenty articles in national and international journals (many of them in journals of impact), as well as several book chapters, which allows him to be in possession of a sexennium of living research.
Fiscal policy and monetary policy
Dra. BELÉN MIRANDA ESCOLAR
Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Valladolid and Coordinator of External Practices in the Master of Advanced Studies in the European Union, attached to the Doctoral School of this University.
She has directed and participated in more than thirty research projects and is author and co-author of numerous books and articles.
She has led and participated in different teams that have carried out evaluations of programs co-financed by the European Structural and Investment Funds.
Between November 2008 and June 2015 she has been the representative of Spain in the Expert Committee on Evaluation of Rural Development Programmes, under the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development, European Commission in Brussels, appointed by the European Commission at the proposal of the Member State.
Since February 2009 and until June 2015 she has also been a member of the Subcommittee on Evaluation of Rural Development Programmes in Spain of the Directorate-General for Programmes and Coordination of the then Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs.
She has been a member of the Executive Council of the International Association of Applied Economics (Asepelt) between 2018 and 2022, to which she belongs.
Currently, she is a member of the Advisory Council of Statistics of Castilla y León, of the Board of Directors of the Castilian-Leonese Association of Regional Science, and of the Standing Committee of the Institute of European Studies of the University of Valladolid.
Her research interests are mainly focused on the Evaluation of Public Programs and Policies, Agricultural Policy and Rural Development, and Regional Policy.
Dr. JUAN CARLOS GAMAZO CHILLÓN
He is currently Professor of Political Economy and Public Finance at the Faculty of Law of Valladolid.
Degree and PhD in Law from the University of Valladolid, Master in Economics from George Mason University (Virginia, USA), and other undergraduate and graduate studies in economics at the University of Valladolid and the University Carlos III of Madrid.
Member of the board of directors of the Castilian-Leonese Association of Regional Science, the Association of Health Economics, the Institute of European Studies of the University of Valladolid, the University Institute of Law and Economics of the University Carlos III of Madrid, etc.
Visiting Scholar for more than two years at the Center for Study of Public Choice (Virginia, USA) and another two years at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
More than 30 years of teaching and research activity and 10 years holding positions of responsibility in the Ministry of Economy and Employment of the Junta de Castilla y León and in the Economic and Social Council of Castilla y León.
Main lines of research are economic analysis of law, collective choice, European Union finance, health economics, collaborative economy, etc.
Common agricultural policy and environmental policy
Dr. ANGEL DE LOS RIOS RODICIO
Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Valladolid, member of the Institute of European Studies of the University of Valladolid.
He has published several works on the CAP, analyzing its evolution since the entry of Spain into the then European Economic Community.
Dr. IÑIGO SANZ RUBIALES
Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Valladolid. Member of the Instituto de Estudios Europeos, and of several research groups. Specialist in sanctioning law and environmental law. Member of the Spanish Observatory of Environmental Policies, of the Advisory Board of the Aranzadi Journal of Environmental Law and of the Scientific-Advisory Board of the Journal Actualidad Jurídica Ambiental.
Regional policy
Dra. ISABEL VEGA MOCOROA
University Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Valladolid, Department of Applied Economics with Teaching at the Faculty of Law.
Degree and Doctorate in Law from the University of Valladolid, Final and Extraordinary Doctorate Award. Degree in Economics from the University of Valladolid. Certificate in European Studies from the University of Grenoble (CUREI) and Postgraduate Studies in European Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
He has been Senior Administrator at the Directorate General for Taxation and Customs Union of the European Commission in Brussels (1999-2002) and Visiting Professor at the University Lille I- USTL France (1998-2001). He has more than 80 international, national and regional publications including books, book chapters, articles, reports, forewords, papers and conference papers. He is a member of the Institute of European Studies of the University of Valladolid, of the AIELF (Association Internationale des Economistes de Langue Française) and of the GIR “Haciendas Públicas Territoriales” of the University of Valladolid. He has six five-year teaching periods, 4 six-year research periods and 1 six-year transfer period.
Main lines of research: Fiscal harmonization in the EU, Public Finances in the EU: Own Resources System, Financial Perspectives and EU budget and Economic, Social and Territorial Cohesion Policy.
Link to CV in English https://der.uva.es/files/VegaMocoroaIsabel-CV26jul.pdf
Dra. GRACIELA LÓPEZ DE LA FUENTE
She is Associate Professor of Labor and Social Security Law at the University of Valladolid. She teaches in the Degree in Law and in the Degree in Labor Relations and Human Resources at the Faculty of Social, Legal and Communication Sciences of Segovia. She has also taught in other degrees, such as the Master's Degree in European Integration and the Master's Degree in Professional and Institutional Translation at the University of Valladolid.
D. in European Integration from the University of Valladolid, winner of the Extraordinary Doctorate Award, she has carried out most of her pre and postdoctoral training in foreign universities: University of Pau, University Lumière Lyon II, University of Strasbourg, Université Libre de Bruxelles, University of Ferrara and Université de Versailles.
She is a Researcher at the Institute of European Studies of the University of Valladolid and honorary collaborator at the Institute of Public Law of the University Rey Juan Carlos of Madrid.
She participates in several European, national and regional research projects on different subjects related to the fundamental rights of workers.
She is a regular guest speaker at various national and international congresses, conferences and seminars. She also collaborates as a reviewer in two legal science journals and has written several works that have been published in journals with relative impact index, in book chapters of collective works and in two monographs as sole author.
Dr. JESÚS GARCÍA ARAQUE
PhD in Geography, Master in Economic Development, professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Valladolid. Member of the Recognized Research Group CITERIOR City and Territory and of the University Institute of Urbanism.
His main lines of research are vulnerability and social exclusion, marginal spaces and social policies, studied both at local and regional level.
Social and employment policy and legal protection of family and assimilated relationships
Dra. CRISTINA GUILARTE MARTÍN-CALERO
A graduate in Law from the University of Valladolid, she obtained her Doctorate Degree in 1995 from the same University, where she has developed her entire academic career, first as a Full Professor and, today, as a University Professor.
She has held positions of maximum responsibility in her University, as Director of the Undergraduate Area and as Vice-Rector of Quality and Educational Innovation.
She is currently Director of the Department of Civil Law, Manager of the Law Panel at the State Research Agency and member of different national and foreign academic organizations related to her lines of research.
She is a Visiting Professor at the Jean Moulin University (France) and at the University of Laval (Canada), principal investigator in several research projects awarded in competitive calls and author of numerous scientific contributions.
She is a trustee of the Law and Disability Foundation.
Her area of expertise is civil law and, in particular, personal and family law.
Noemí Serrano Argüello has a degree and PhD in Law from the University of Valladolid. Since 1995 she has worked as a university professor at the University of Valladolid, where she is a Professor of Labor and Social Security Law at the Faculty of Law.
The external action of the European Union: relations with third states and international organisations
Dr. ENRIQUE J. MARTÍNEZ PÉREZ
He is Professor of International Public Law at the University of Valladolid.
Vice-Dean of Teaching Innovation, Quality and Digital Transformation of the Faculty of Law of the University of Valladolid.
Member of the Consolidated Research Group AGUDEMA (Water, Law and Environment) and of the GIR “Family Law and Human Rights”.
Deputy Director of the Human Rights Observatory and the Legal Clinic of the UVA.
He participates in the MARSAFENET- NETwork of experts on the legal aspects of
MARitimeSAFEty and security). COST ACTION IS1105 and HURI-AGE- TIME OF RIGHTS.
Visiting Professor at several foreign universities (Lisbon, Rome, UNAM of Mexico, etc.). Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University.
Participation in funded research projects obtained through competitive processes has been: an international project COST Action IS1105, three Jean Monnet Projects funded by the European Union; seven R+D+I Projects at state level; ten R+D+I Projects at regional level (five times as Principal Investigator). He has participated in eight research contracts (three as main researcher). He has also participated in ten teaching innovation projects (three of them as main researcher).
Five five-year teaching periods recognized, and three six-year research periods.
His main lines of research (with hundreds of publications) are: international environmental law, international protection of human rights and European territorial cooperation.
Competition policy and consumer policy
Dr. BENJAMÍN PEÑAS MOYANO
He is Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Valladolid. He is currently the Director of the International Strategy Area of the University of Valladolid. He is a member of the following institutes, observatories and chairs: the Institute of European Studies, the Human Rights Observatory of the University of Valladolid, the Chair of Trade Unionism and Social Dialogue. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Journal “Economia, Azienda ed Svilippo”, of the Dipartimento di Scienze dell¨Economia dell'Università del Salento (Italy). He has 6 five-year teaching periods and 2 six-year research periods.
Research interests: Corporate Law, Competition and Unfair Competition Law, Consumer Protection Law.
Dra. CARMEN HERRERO SUÁREZ
Professor of Commercial Law at the Law School of the University of Valladolid. LL.M in Trade Regulation, with specialization in Antitrust and Industrial Property, New York University (Fulbright Scholar).
Secretary of the Revista de Derecho de la Competencia y la Distribución since its foundation, in charge of the European and International Antitrust Law section. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Academic Network of Competition Law. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the European consumer protection association Ius Omnibus.
Her research activity has mainly focused on the field of Antitrust and Industrial Property Law, with special attention to the comparative study between American and European jurisdictions. She has been Principal Investigator of several national and European research projects. She is currently PI of the project “La consolidación de la revolución digital y sus desafíos: adaptación de las estrategias competitivas de los operadores económicos y de las normas ordenadoras de los mercados” of the Ministry of Science and Innovation. PID2022- 139741OB-C21.try of Justice in several meetings on private enforcement of competition law.
Policies on freedom, security and justice I: border control, asylum and immigration
Dr. Francisco Fonseca Morillo
francisco.fonseca@uva.es
Professor of International Public and European Law at the University of Valladolid and Professor in the Master in European Studies at the University San Pablo-CEU, as well as in the Master of Advanced Studies in the European Union of the Doctoral School of the University of Valladolid.
He is Director of the Institute of European Studies of the University of Valladolid.
He has a long experience in the European institutions where he became Director General, developing his professional activity in two main areas: the institutional dimension and governance of the European Union, and policies related to the European area of freedom, security and justice.
He has also been Director of the Permanent Representation of the European Commission in Spain.
Research interests: theory and practice of international negotiation. European Constitutional and Institutional Law. Judicial cooperation and migration policies.
My motto: In contraria ducet.
Policies on freedom, security and justice II: judicial cooperation and the judicial protection of fundamental rights
D. CORAL ARANGÜENA FANEGO
She is Professor of Procedural Law at the University of Valladolid, Permanent Member of the General Codification Commission (Fifth Section, Procedural Law) and Full Member of the Royal Academy of Legislation and Jurisprudence of Valladolid. Director of the Consolidated Research Unit of Castilla y León (UIC120) and of the Recognized Research Group of the University of Valladolid on Procedural Guarantees and European Union.
Director of the Journal of the Asociación de Profesores de Derecho Procesal de las Universidades españolas and member of the editorial board of six other Spanish and foreign legal journals.
She has directed several European and National Plan R+D+i research projects in the field of Procedural Law obtained in competitive processes; she is currently co-director of the following project Proceso Penal y Unión Europea. Análisis y Propuestas
In the following link you can find her main bibliographic references.
Dra. MONTSERRAT de HOYOS SANCHO
She is Professor of Procedural Law at the University of Valladolid. She has been Director of its Institute of European Studies -Center of Excellence “Jean Monnet”- between 2013 and 2017. She combined her dedication to the University with the performance of duties as Alternate Magistrate in the Provincial Court of Zamora -Civil and Criminal Chamber-, years 2010 to 2017. She has coordinated for years the Official Master and PhD Program in “European Integration”. She has been co-director of the Journal of European Studies.
To date, she has been awarded four six-year research periods and one six-year period of knowledge transfer.
She has carried out numerous research stays in foreign institutions of international prestige: Max-Planck-Institut of Criminal Law in Freiburg, Harvard Law School, University of Bologna, University of Freiburg, University of Berlin, University of Göttingen, University of Vienna, University of Lisbon, as well as in the Court of Justice of Luxembourg, among others.
She is a member of several research groups and of the most important international associations of specialists in the study of European and comparative procedural law. He has participated in several European research projects obtained in competitive processes; notably: AGIS project on guarantees for defendants in the European Union and Action GRANT on European Civil Procedural Law. In addition, since 2007, she has been and is Principal Investigator of several projects of the National Plan I+D+i of the Ministries of Science and Innovation, and Economy and Competitiveness. She is currently co-directing the project entitled: “Criminal Procedure and the European Union. Analysis and proposals”.
She is the author of several publications on Criminal Procedure and Spanish, European and International Civil Procedure, among other subjects that also cover the General Part of Procedural Law.
In the following link you can find an updated list of the main bibliographic references of her authorship: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/autor?codigo=274108
Dra. BEGOÑA VIDAL FERNÁNDEZ
She is a Professor of Procedural Law at the University of Valladolid. She is currently the Academic Secretary of the Institute of European Studies of the University of Valladolid of which she is a member, and the Coordinator of the Master of Advanced Studies in the European Union, attached to the Doctoral School of the University of Valladolid.
She is a member of the following institutes, associations and groups: the Human Rights Observatory of the University of Valladolid, the University Institute of Latin America and Portugal and the Chair Brazil-University of Valladolid, the ReDPE (Spanish Network of European Criminal Law), the Association of Professors of Procedural Law of Spanish Universities, the GIR “Garantías procesales y Unión Europea” of the Uva, and the UIC (Consolidated Research Unit) No. 120 recognized by the Junta de Castilla y León.
She holds 6 five-year teaching periods and 4 six-year research periods.
She has participated and participates in more than 20 research projects. He is currently part of the research team of the projects “El Derecho Procesal civil y penal desde la perspectiva de la Unión Europea: la consolidación del Espacio de Libertad, Seguridad y Justicia (Ref. PID2021-124027NB-I00)”, funded by MCIN / AEI / 10.13039/501100011033 / FEDER, EU; and project Proceso Penal y Unión Europea. Análisis y Propuestas https://www.aei.gob.es/ayudas-concedidas/ayudas-destacadas/proyecto-idi-2020-proceso-penal-union-europea-analisis
In the following link you can find its main bibliographical references: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/autor?codigo=191993
Lines of research: judicial cooperation, civil and criminal, in the European Union. And jurisdictional protection of Fundamental Rights at national, supra-state and international level.