Dirección
Dr. Jordi Ferrer Beltrán
Comissió Mixta
Dr. José Mª Pérez Collados
He has published several essays on political history as: "Los discursos políticos del México originariol Discourses of Original Mexico" México D.F., 1998. He has also cultivated lirerature, such as poetry: "Lo que no te conté de mis viajes Zaragoza, 1998, and the novel, "El Tren de Cristal, Renacimiento", Sevilla, 2011.
He directs the legal culture magazine Ius Fugit, and is the director of the publishing house Nuevos Rumbos (http://www.edicionesnuevosrumbos.com). He is director of Editorial Policy in the Network of Reading Universities (http://www.universidadeslectoras.org), which brings together more than 50 Spanish, Italian, Russian and Portuguese universities, as well as various countries in the Americas. He directs the Novela collection of Campus of the Renacimiento publishing house.
Miguel A. Cabellos
I have carried out research stays, among other centers, in the Max Planck Institute of International Law and Comparative Public Law of Heidelberg (Germany) and the University of Siena (Italy), and taught classes and lectures in various universities in France, Italy, Mexico or Peru, among others. My field of research focuses mainly on the study of the current problems that arise from the institutional and competence in the composite States as well as, more specifically, the analysis of the evolution of the autonomous state in Spain.
In particular, in recent times I have been working on lines such as the relationship between the organization of the Judicial Power and the State model, or the impact of the composite structure of the State on the regulation of citizens' rights, areas around which I have published and been part of research projects continuously until today.
Salvador Martí Puig
His area of specialization is comparative politics, and has investigated democratization processes in Latin America, collective action, social movements, and parties and party systems. To get some of your publications you can see the web page
He works as a consultant on issues of governance and development. He is a member of several editorial boards of social science journals and associations of Political Science and Latin American Studies
Investigadors
Dr. Alejandro Chehtman
Miguel Fernández Núñez
Miguel Fernández Núñez is currently, he is a PhD Student in Law at the University of Girona and at the University of Genoa. He pursued the Master on Legal Argumentation at the University of Alicante and a Double Degree in Law and Political Sciences at the Autonomous University of Madrid. He is the author of different articles, published on journals such as Jueces para la democracia and Doxa. His essays mainly adress theories of rights, judicial reasoning, theory of law and theory of argumentation.
Dr. Edgar Aguilera García
PHD cum laude in Legal Philosophy from the Institute for Legal Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. LLM cum laude in Evidentiary Legal Reasoning from the Universities of Girona and Geneva. Certified in Transnational Legal Studies from the Center for Transnational Legal Studies (London). Full-time Research-Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico. Visiting Professor at the University of Girona. Teaches Philosophy of Law at the Faculty of Law of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Level 1 member of the National System of Researchers, National Research and Technology Council of Mexico. His main research interests are legal epistemology, legal evidentiary reasoning, and analytic philosophy of law. Some of his publications include the books Inteligencia artificial aplicada al derecho (UNAM, 2007), and Jusnaturalismo procedimental, debido proceso penal y epistemología jurídica (Tirant Lo Blanch, 2017). Author of the presentation and of one of the chapters in Larry Laudan’s book El estándar de prueba y las garantías en el proceso penal (Hammurabi, 2012), and co-translator to the Spanish language, along with Professor Carmen Vázquez, of the book Truth, Error, and the Criminal Law: An Essay in Legal Epistemology (Cambridge, 2006), also by Larry Laudan.
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Dr. Carlo Vittorio Giabardo
He is currently a full-time "tenure-track" professor of the Academic Department of Law of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and, since 2020, professor of the Master's Degree in Procedural Law at the same university. He is a Member of the International Association of Procedural Law (IAPL). Researcher at the Chair of Legal Culture (Càtedra de Cultura Jurídica) of the Universitat de Girona (Catalonia-Spain) where has been a "Juan de la Cierva" Postdoctoral Researcher, affiliated at the Philosophy of Law group (2019 - 2021) and Postdoctoral Researcher (2021 - 2022) with a scholarship from the same University. He also has taught the courses "Law & Economics" (in English) and " Mediación y Resolución de Conflictos Sociales" (2020-2022) also at the Universitat de Girona. He is a Doctor of Law from the Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy) with a thesis in civil procedural law. He has been a Visiting PhD Scholar in Switzerland, France and the UK.
His academic interests span civil procedural law and alternative means of dispute resolution; comparative law; economic analysis of law and process; environmental law and climate change law in their procedural aspects.
In 2022 he published his first monograph, entitled “Effettività della tutela giurisdizionale e misure coercitive nel processo civile. Un'indagine di diritto comparato", in the editorial series "Biblioteca di Diritto Processuale Civile", Giappichelli.
Sr. Henry Mauricio Reyes Garcés
Henry Mauricio Reyes Garcés studies a PhD in Law, Economics and Business in the University of Girona and is a Fellow of the Generalitat de Catalunya. He has a LLM in Legal Protection of Rights with an emphasis on Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory of the Universidad Externado de Colombia. He has specializations in Civil Liability and Compensable Damage of the same university and in University Teaching from the Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia. Lawyer with Cum Laude degree from the Universidad Industrial de Santander. He is currently researching in the philosophy line of Private Law of the Chair in Legal Culture (Càtedra de Cultura Jurídica) of the University of Girona.
Sidney Ernestina Marcos Escobar
Graduated in Law at the Faculty of Law, of the Universidad Veracruzana (Mexico); Specialist in Constitutional Law from the University of Salamanca (Spain); Professor of Laws, with honors, specializing in Constitutional Law in the Universidad Veracruzana. (Mexico)
She has been an academic at public and private universities in Mexico, teaching courses on Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law and Protection. Teacher certified by the Technical Secretariat of the Coordination Council for the Implementation of the Criminal Justice System (SETEC-Mexico). Researcher of the National System of Researchers CONACYT-Mexico, Level I.
Member of the Research Group of Philosophy of Law, of the University of Girona, with a line of research in Probative Reasoning.
Víctor García Izaguirre
PhD in law at the Universidad Austral de Chile and at the Università degli di Genova. Master in Legal Argumentation at the Universitat d'Alacant, Master in the State of Global Law and Constitutional Democracy from the Università degli studi di Genova and Master in Fonamental Rights from the Carlos III University of Madrid. Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Scholarship – Training at the University of Girona. The six main lines of research on him are the theory of norms, the theory of legal reasoning and the analytical theory of law. Among his six publications, the following stand out: Excepciones implícitas e interpretación. Una reconstrucción analítica (Palestra) and Conflictos entre normas y derrotabilidad: una propuesta de análisis (Colex). He He also has published articles on: Diritto & Questioni Pubbliche, Revista Discusiones, Revista Chilena de Derecho, Ius et Praxis, Revista Problema. Anuario de Filosofía y Teoría del Derecho, Cuadernos Electrónicos de Filosofía del Derecho, Doxa, Cuadernos de Filosofía del Derecho, Revista Telemática de Filosofía del Derecho, among others.
RENZO CAVANI
Assistant professor and full-time lecturer in the area of "Justice System and Conflict Resolution" at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Doctoral candidate in the Programme “ Doctorat en Dret, Economia i Empresa de la Universitat de Girona” (UdG). Master in Law from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil), with a scholarship from the CNPq. Researcher at the Chair of Legal Culture of the UdG and regular member of the Research Group PRODEJUS-PUCP. Lawyer from the University of Lima. Member of the IAPL, IIDP, IBDP and ABDPro. He was a member of the Commission for the Revision of the Peruvian Code of Civil Procedure set up by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of his country. Lecturer, legal consultant and arbitrator. CEO and co-founding partner of Evidence Lab.
Marianela Delgado
Marianela Delgado is a doctoral student in Law, Economics and Business from the University of Girona and a Scholarship holder from the Generalitat of Catalonia. She has a Master's degree in Evidential Reasoning from the University of Girona and the Università di Genova. She was a member of the Federal Judicial Branch of Mexico, where she originally comes from, for several years, the last, as part of the work team of one of the ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation. She currently researches topics related to gender, evidentiary reasoning, gender violence crimes and hate crimes.
Albert Ruda González
Albert Ruda González is an associate professor of civil law at the Universitat de Girona. He has a European Doctorate in Law with extraordinary awards, a Bachelor's degree in Eastern Asian Studies and a Graduation in Humanities; He has published some 175 papers on Civil Responsibility Law and Contracts, Digital Law and Comparative Law. He is Coordinator (Chair) of the Spanish Hub of the European Law Institute and Degà of the Faculty of Law of the UdG (2016-2024).
Dr. Diego Papayannis
Dr. Matías Parmiggiani
Between 2014 and 2015 he worked as a postdoctoral researcher of the CONICET in the Chair of Legal Culture of the University of Girona, where he was also a professor of graduate and postgraduate studies. He currently serves as Assistant Researcher of the CONICET in the Center for Legal and Social Studies of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the National University of Córdoba, as well as Professor of Ethics and Philosophy at the Universidad Siglo 21 (Córdoba, Argentina). He is the author of numerous articles on ethics and legal philosophy in national and international journals
Dra. Anna Mª Pla i Boix
Dra. Carolina Fernández Blanco
Since April 2013 she is a researcher at the Philosophy of Law Department of the University of Girona and since March 2014 a full-time researcher at the same University where she is finishing her doctoral thesis entitled "A legal contribution to the debate on institutions and development . Approach from problems shared by the countries of Latin America. "
In September 2013 she published the book Derecho y Desarrollo (Ediciones del Puerto, Buenos Aires), of which she is the author and in 2015, together with Jordi Ferrer and Carles Cruz, published the book Seguridad Jurídica en Iberoamérica (Marcial Pons, Madrid 2015). In this volume the work "Project of Legal Security Indicators" was published in co-authorship with Jordi Ferrer. It also has numerous publications in chapters of books and journals that are oriented to various topics related to human rights, law and development and problems of the criminal process.
A capabilities approach to access to justice. Unfulfilled promises and promising strategies in Europe and in the US, in Teoria Politica, 2016
What laws are experienced as, in Revus. A Journal for Constitutional Theory and Philosophy of Law, 2016 (forthcoming); - On some possible uses of folk concepts and intuitions in legal theory.
What people do and think about going to law, in Analisi e Diritto, 2016
Dr. Sebastián Figueroa Rubio
Dr. Daniel González Lagier
Dra. Carmen Vázquez Rojas
She has participated in diverse projects of investigation like “Causality and imputación of responsibility” and “Science and judicial process: proof and attribution of responsibility” both funded by the Ministry of Science and Spanish Innovation; in the project CONSOLIDER “Perspectival Thoughts and Facts” funded by the Secretary of State of Investigation, Development and Innovation of Spain; and has been member of “Groups of Investigation Consolidated” recognised by the Agency of Management of University Helps and of Investigation (AGAUR, by his acronyms in Catalan) of the Generalitat of Catalonia.
Between her publications stands out De la prueba científica a la prueba pericial” (Marcial Pons, 2015); “Estándares de prueba y prueba científica” (Marcial Pons, 2013); “Debatiendo con Taruffo” (Marcial Pons, 2016); “La prueba informática. Algunas consideraciones desde la teoría racional de la prueba” (Ara Editores, 2009); en revistas “La prueba pericial en la experiencia estadounidense. El caso Daubert” (Jueces para la democracia, 2016); “El perito de confianza de los jueces” (Analisi i Diritto, 2016); “La admisibilidad de las pruebas periciales y la racionalidad de las decisiones judiciales” (DOXA, 2015) between others. Besides she has translated diverse works between which stand out “Truth, error and penal process” of Larry Laudan and “Pragmatc perspectives” of Susan Haack.
It has realised stays of investigation in the Institute of Philosophical Investigations (UNAM, Mexico); in the University of Miami (Miami, EUA); in the Institute Vienna Circle (University of Vienna, Austria); and in the Northwestern University (Chicago, EUA).
Dr. Manuel José Vial Dumas
His consolidated lines of research cover family and political structures in the Christian Mediterranean (Italy, Greece, France and Spain) and Hispanic America, and his emerging lines of research cover the legal and economic problems of post-modernity from the perspective of comparative history and the role of judges in the context of continental law, again from a diachronic perspective.
Dr. Pere Simón Castellano
Advocat en exercici ICAB núm. 39341 i consultant specialitzat in protection of dades i DPO extern (privat and public sector, in this last case with Global Legal Data partner).
Lawyer in practice ICAB no. 39341 and specialized consultant in data protection and external DPO (private and public sector, in the latter case as a Global Legal Data partner).
He collaborates with different universities, colleges and professional associations as a teacher in undergraduate studies (UdG and UOC) and postgraduate studies (University of Murcia, Barcelona Bar Association - ICAB, Mondragon Unibertsitatea, International University of Catalonia - UIC, Spanish Professional Association of Privacy - APEP). Teacher in specialization courses (journalism and law, training and certification of DPO in the ICAB, among others).
His main line of research has been digital law, being the author of several monographs dedicated to this subject, such as the work entitled The Constitutional Regime of the Right to Digital Oblivion, published by the Tirant lo Blanch publishing house, which won the Spanish Agency award of Data Protection of the year 2011, awarded to the best unpublished research work; as well as the book entitled The recognition of the right to digital oblivion in Spain and the EU: Effects after the STJUE of May 13, 2014, Ed. Bosch (Wolters Kluwer), who won the prize of the Basque Data Protection Agency as the best legal research work in the field of data protection during 2015.
In addition to monographs, he is also the author of multiple chapters of books and scientific articles published in national and international journals. He has researched in other areas or lines such as the technological modernization of the administration of justice; judicial federalism in comparative perspective; the principle of procedural publicity and economic criminal law.
Guest speaker at congresses, conferences and seminars organized by national and international universities, as well as other institutions or bodies (ICAB, Korea Communications Commission, Center for Political and Constitutional Studies, BIC Araba - Center for Business and Innovation of Álava, Joint Research Center of the European Commission in Ispra, among others).
Dra. Tünde Mikes Jani
Esteban Pereira Fredes
Dr. Alexander Vargas Tinco
Dr. Jorge Baquerizo Minuche
Máster en Argumentación Jurídica (Universidad de Alicante, 2011).
Máster en Estado de Derecho Global y Democracia Constitucional (Università degli Studi di Genova, 2014).
Doctorando en el àrea de filosofia del dret (Universitat de Girona, 2015-2019).
Líneas de investigación: teoría de las normas de competencia
Dr. Diego Dei Vecchi
He is currently a researcher at the Chair of Legal Culture of the University of Girona, Spain. Lawyer by the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. In the same university he obtained the Master's degrees in Law and Argumentation and he si also Doctor in Law and Social Sciences. PhD in Philosophy of Law from the Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy. Since 2015 he is a full-time professor at the National Autonomous Institute of Mexico. His publications include La decisión de encarcelar preventivamente y otros peligros procesales (Buenos Aires, 2017) and various articles in specialized journals of philosophy of law and criminal procedure law.
Sra. Margarita Rosa Martínez Pérez
Currently, he is a PhD student in Law from the University of Girona and a scholarship holder within the framework of the agreement between the Externado de Colombia University and the University of Girona.
Dr. Matija Žgur
Mr. Luís G. Alfaro Valverde
Dr. Vitor de Paula Ramos
Emma Calderon Arias
Dra. Lorena Ramírez Ludeña
Lorena Ramírez Ludeña, has a degree and a doctorate in law from Pompeu Fabra University, where she has worked as a teacher and researcher since 2004. She has carried out research stays for a total of 37 months in centers of recognized prestige such as the Universities of Oxford or Yale, having been awarded a scholarship by the latter in the framework of the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund. It has numerous publications in prestigious journals and publishers such as Isonomía, Doxa, Analisi e Diritto, Marcial Pons, Springer or Synthese. He has taught more than 1,000 hours of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in multiple courses of different universities, in Spanish, Catalan and English. She has been responsible for the incoming students of the Faculty of Law in the 2013-2014 academic year and is an academic tutor for undergraduate students since 2013. Finally, she has developed the teaching innovation tool TrivialIus, financed with two innovation projects, and that has been the subject of publications and presentations.
Scientific council
Paolo Comanducci
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Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Genoa, he is Vice-President of the IVR (Internationale Vereinigung für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie) and member of the International Advisory Board of Tampere Club (Finland). He has been a visiting professor and has taught courses at various Universities in Europe, Latin America and the United States, having given lectures and presented papers at numerous International Congresses. He is co-director of the magazines "Materiali per una storia della cultura giuridica", "Analisi e Diritto" and "Ragion pratica" and a member of the Advisory Boards of other important scientific publications. His main works include: Settecento conservatore: Lampredi e il diritto naturale (1981), Contrattualismo, utilitarismo, garanzie (1984), Assaggi di metaética (1992) and Assaggi di metaética due (1998)
Dr. Antonio Manuel Hespanha
Dr.Brian Leiter
Brian Leiter joined the faculty in the academic year 2008-09, simultaneously founding the Law School’s Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values. Prior to that, he taught for thirteen years at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was (at the time) the youngest chairholder in the history of the law school. He has also been a Visiting Professor of Law at Yale University, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and the University of Paris X-Nanterre, and a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Oxford University and University College London.
His teaching and research interests are in moral, political, and legal philosophy, in both the Anglophone and Continental European traditions, and the law of evidence. His books include Objectivity in Law and Morals (Cambridge, 2001) (editor), Nietzsche on Morality (Routledge, 2002; 2nd ed., 2015), Naturalizing Jurisprudence (Oxford, 2007), Why Tolerate Religion? (Princeton, 2013), and Moral Psychology with Nietzsche (Oxford, 2018). He is presently working on realism as a theme in political and legal theory, on meta-ethical and metaphysical questions in general jurisprudence, and on philosophical issues about free speech, in both the liberal and Marxian traditions. His work has been translated into Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese, Russian, Portugese, Hebrew, Polish, Slovak, and Greek.
Leiter has delivered lectures at universities around the world, including the Paolo Bozzi Prize Address at the University of Turin, the Fresco Lectures in Jurisprudence at the University of Genoa, the Julius Stone Address in Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney, and the “Headliner” address at the annual Legal Theory Symposium at the National University of Singapore. He was editor of the journal Legal Theory from 2000 to 2008, and is the founding editor of the Routledge Philosophersbook series and of Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law (with Leslie Green). He also serves on the editorial boards of Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Journal of Moral Philosophy, The Philosopher’s Annual, Theoria (Sweden), Anilisi e Diritto (Italy), Problema: Anuario de Filosofia y Teoría (Mexico), Indian Journal of Legal Theory, and Revista de Teoría Jurídica (Argentina), among others.
Dr. Carlos Bernal Pulido
Eugenio Bulygin
Dra. Beatriz Quintero de Prieto
Dr. Bartolomé Clavero Salvador
Stefano Rodotà
Héctor Fix-Zamudio
John Gardner
Dra. Cristina De Maglie
Michele Taruffo
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Member of Scientific Council of the Chair on Legal Culture of the University of Girona. He has been a Professor at the Università degli Studi di Pavia and a visiting professor at Cornell University (1994 - 1996), University of Pennsylvania (1997) and Hastings College of the Law at the University of California. He has been lecturer in various academic events in Europe, Latin America and China. He is a member of distinguished associations in procedural law and comparative law, among others, the American Law Institute, the Bielefelder Kreis and the Board of Advisors of the new Evidence and Forensic Science Institute (Beijing). Among his many publications: Studi sulla rilevanza della prova (Padua, 1970), La motivazione della sentenza civile (1975), Il civile process "adversary" nell'esperienza americana (1979), Il vertice ambiguo. Studi sulla Cassazione civile (1991), The proof of the facts (2002), Sui confini. Scritti sulla giustizia civile (2002), The Test, (2008) and Process and decision (2012).
Professor of the Master's Degree in Evidential Reasoning, a fundamental training program of the Chair of Legal Culture, he felt very closely linked to Girona. A prove of that is that professor Taruffo gave his private library, 15,000 volumes that ceded to the Library of the University of Girona.
In May 2022, the Chair of Legal Culture organized the 1st Michele Taruffo Girona Evidence Week with the purpose of making it a tri-annual congress in honor of his memory and academic legacy.
We share with you the official reception ceremony of the Michele Taruffo Fund in the Graduate Room of the Faculty of Law of the University of Girona, held on May 25, 2022.
Riccardo Guastini
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Riccardo Guastini is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Genoa and Director of the Tarello Institute for the Philosophy of Law in the Jurisprudence Department of the same university. He is co-director of the magazines “Analisi e diritto”, “Ragion pratica” and “Materiali per la storia della cultura giuridica”. His field of research unfolds, among other topics, in the analysis of normative language, fundamental legal concepts, the structure of legal systems and legal argumentation and interpretation techniques. Among his most recent works are: Le fonti del diritto. Fondamenti teorici (2010), Interpretare e argomentare (2011), Distinguendo ancora (2013) and Discustendo (2017).
The Chair of Legal Culture awarded him ex aquo together with Dr. Paolo Comanducci, the III International Prize in Legal Culture for his brilliant academic career. We share the video of the award ceremony:
Dr. Alejandro Guzmán Brito
Lawyer, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
Doctor of Law, University of Navarra, Spain
Member of the Chilean Academy of History and Corresponding Member of the Royal Spanish Academy of History and Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislatio