Current Academic Position: | Full Professor. |
Academic Institution: | Carlos III University of Madrid. Faculty of Social and Legal Sciences |
Address: | Calle Madrid, 126. 28903 Getafe. Madrid. Spain. Giner de los Ríos Building. Office 5.0.51. |
Professional Phone: | 91 624 98 35 |
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He is Full Professor of Philosophy of Law at the Carlos III University of Madrid. He has been Associate Professor in this discipline since 1997 and was accredited as a full professor in 2015. He obtained a PhD in Law from the Carlos III University of Madrid (1994, CEPC Nicolás Pérez Serrano Award and Uc3m Special Award), a Diploma in European Studies (1986) and a Bachelor's Degree in Law (1985) from the University of Deusto. He has held the post of scientific director of the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati; the Chair in Spanish Social Sciences in Mexico on Human Rights (MEC-FLACSO) and has been a visiting scholar on several occasions at the University of Oxford and the Université du Québec à Montréal as well as a visiting researcher at the universities of Torino, Bourdeaux I and the aforementioned Institute of Oñati.
He is currently the Director of the Research Group on Law and Justice (GIDYJ), Coordinator of the Culture of Lawfulness Programme, Director of Eunomia. Journal on the Culture of Lawfulness, Convenor of the Interest Group on Emerging Rights (ICON·S), he directs the Spanish Research Network (MCUI) Culture of Lawfulness and Fight against Corruption (3) and is Manager of the Law area at the State Research Agency (AEI).
- Culture of Lawfulness
- Identity and law
- Human rights
- Political and constitutional theory
- Legal theory, legal methodology and legal sociology
(last 5 years)
- ‘Plurinational Federalism in Spain: Alain-G. Gagnon's contribution to debate - Le Fédéderalisme Plurinational en Espagne: La Contribution d'Alain- G. Gagnon au Débat’. Guy Laforest, Geneviève Nootens and Félix Mathieu (coords.), Plurinational Societies in all their dimensions. International Perspectives on the work of Alain-G. Gagnon - Les sociétes plurinationales dans tous leurs États. Perspectives internationales sur l'œuvre d'Alain-G. Gagnon, Québec : Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 2025 (forthcoming).
- Juan Carlos Bayón and José Mª Sauca (eds.) La reforma constitucional: problemas filosóficos y jurídicos, Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch, 2025.
- ‘Análisis conceptual de los presupuestos normativos de la estabilidad y el cambio constitucional’ in J.C. Bayón and J.M. Sauca (eds.) La reforma constitucional: problemas filosóficos y jurídicos, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2025, pp. 137-183.
- ‘De la metodología jurídica a la sociología jurídica. Reflexiones sobre la senda intelectual de Manuel Calvo’. Mª José González Ordovás and David Vila Viñas (coords.), Debates actuales en la filosofía del Derecho y en la sociología jurídica. Libro homenaje al Prof. Manuel Calvo García, Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch, 2025, pp. 189-206.
- ‘Aproximaciones a una cultura del lenguaje jurídico claro y (des)encuentros con la cultura de la legalidad’. Germán Arenas and Isabel Wences (coords.), Cómo puede alguien cumplir una ley que nadie entiende. Estudios interdisciplinarios sobre lenguaje claro y cultura de la legalidad, Madrid: Marcial Pons, 2024, pp. 23-36.
- ‘Constitutional Liquidity between Rigidity and Flexibility: Constitutional Liquidity Clauses’. Problema. Anuario de Filosofía y Teoría del Derecho (UNAM), no. 18, January-December 2024, pp. 43-74 and pp. 11-42.
- ‘En torno a la universidad española actual. Reflexiones críticas sobre su estructura y funciones’. Elías Díaz and Francisco J. Laporta (eds.), Leer a Manuel Atienza, Madrid: CEPC, 2023, pp. 509-533.
- ‘Prologue’ to Alain-G. Gagnon, Choque de legitimidades, Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch, 2023, pp. 15-21.
- ‘Deliberation, Deference and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The Gelman vs Uruguay case’. in Araucaria. Revista Iberoamericana de Filosofía, Política, Humanidades y Relaciones Internacionales, year 23, no. 46. First four-month period of 2021. pp. 529-551.
- & Timothy Endicott (eds.), ‘What aspects of justice should not be the law's concern?’, Jurisprudence, 11:3, 2020.
- ‘Presentation’. Eunomía. Revista en Cultura de la Legalidad, 27 (2024): 7-9; 26 (2024): 7-10; 25 (2024): 7-11; 24 (2023): 7-14; 23 (2023): 8-13; 22 (2022): 8-12; 21 (2021): 7-11; 20 (2021): 7-15; 19 (2020): 6-9; 18 (2020): 6-8
- Program on Culture of Lawfulness (4 Trust-cm). Regional Ministry of Education and Innovation. Community of Madrid (2025-28).
- Emerging Political Rights (EMPOWER). State Research Programme. State Research Agency. (2024-2028).
- Framework Contracts with the Council of Europe - Conseil de l'Europe, entitled Economic Crime and Cooperation Projects (2021-2026).
- Spanish Research Network (MCUI) Culture of Lawfulness and Fight against Corruption [I, II y III] (Mineco-AEI) (Mineco-AEI) (Successively: 2015-2025).
- Ecoprudencia: Revisión de los fundamentos antropocéntricos de la teoría jurídica. Programa de Proyectos de Transición Ecológica y Transición Digital 2021. State Research Agency (2022-2025).
- Contracts on E-Learning Course on Good Governance and Anti-Corruption with the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) (2018-2025).
- Member of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL) of the International Sociological Association (ISA).
- Member of the Law and Society Association (LSA).
- Member of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).
- Member of the International Society for Public Law (ICON·S).
- Member of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL) of the International Sociological Association (ISA).
- Executive Committee Member of i-latina. Philosophy of Law for the Latin World.
- Chercheur Associé à la Chaire de Recherche du Canada en Études Québécoises et Canadiennes (CREQC) at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM).
- Member of the Spanish Association of Law and Literature.
- Member of the Spanish Society of Legal and Political Philosophy.
- International member of the UNESCO Chair in Human Rights (UNAM).
- Fellow and Mentor at the International Institute of the Sociology of Law in Oñati.
- Editorial Committee Member of the International Journal of Transparency and Integrity. Transparency International (ISSN 2530-1144).
- Scientific Committee Member of the Diversitas Collection at Peter Lang. International Academic Publishers (Brussels).
- Editorial Committee Member of the Iberoamerican Journal of Human Rights at the Universidad Iberoamericana. (ISSN: 1870-1647).
- Editorial Committee Member of the journal Isonomía. Journal of Theory and Philosophy of Law at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).
- Editorial Committee Member of the journal Andamios. Journal of Social Research at the University of the City of Mexico (Mexico).
- Member of the Academic Unit: The Law of Technological Change at UC3M.
- Member of the Inter-University Institute for Cultural Communication of the UNED, UC3M, and the International Menéndez Pelayo University.
- Member of the Institute of Politics and Governance (IPOLGOB) at UC3M