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[Biography, english version]

Alberto Alonso Rimo is full professor of criminal law at the School of Law of the University of Valencia (Spain). He holds a degree in law (prize for distinction), 1993, and a Phd in law (prize for outstanding doctoral dissertation), 2000, from the University of Valencia (Spain).

He is author and editor of several books and he has published a large number of papers (see in detail below)

He has been visiting researcher in several foreign Universities and research Centres as the Max-Planck-Institut für Strafrecht (Germany), Harvard University (USA), Università di Modena (Italy), Columbia University (USA), New York University (USA) and Oxford University (UK).

His research activity has been carried out in the framework of 15 competitive and funded research projects, some of them international. Since 2015 he leads a research group at the University of Valencia on criminal law and security. Other of his research areas are: inchoate and pre-inchoate offences, the role of the victim in the criminal justice system, means rea and criminal law, terrorism offences and fundamental rights, criminalization of social protest, restorative justice, sexual offences, criminal security measures, crimes against road safety, public disorders.

He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Criminal Law I (General Part) and Criminal Law II (Special Part), and he has also taught Victimology, Penitentiary Law, Criminal Policy and Constitution and Criminal Law.

Director of numerous postgraduate courses at the University of Valencia and several doctoral theses, he has participated in multiple university teaching innovation projects, two of them as director.

He has worked as a deputy judge in Spain.

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Javier Guardiola García (Doctor of Law and Bachelor of Criminology) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Criminal Law and a researcher at the University Institute for Research in Criminology and Criminal Sciences.

For further information, www.uv.es/Javier.Guardiola/cv.wiki

Professor of Procedural Law at the Faculty of Law and member of the University Institute for Research in Criminology and Criminal Sciences, he holds a PhD from the University of Valencia.

Her research work is focused on lines of research about criminal justice, new technologies and human rights; prevention and criminal prosecution measures; public policies for access to justice; judicial statistics and more recently in collective legal actions. He has three six-year research periods recognized and has directed and participated in different competitive research projects. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters, as well as five monographs.

On the teaching side, she has taught subjects in various undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at different universities, has been responsible for educational innovation projects and initiatives and has participated in the Legal Clinic for Social Justice of the Faculty of Law. He has six five-year teaching periods recognized.

He is currently coordinator of the doctoral program in Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice.

He has held different academic positions, including secretary and vice-dean of the Faculty of Law, president of the Statutes Commission of the University of Valencia

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Caty Vidales Rodríguez. Law degree from the University of Valencia (1990) and PhD in Law from Jaume I University (1996). Professor of Criminal Law since 2019, with uninterrupted teaching activity since the 1993/94 academic year. She has taught most of the subjects within the area of ​​Criminal Law, and also has extensive experience in Doctoral courses (Criminal Law and the Constitution, Constitutional Rights and Duties, Business and the Criminal Justice System, and the Criminal Justice System) and Master's programs (Master's Degree in the Criminal Justice System, Master's Degree in Psychosocial Rehabilitation in Community Mental Health, Master's Degree in Traffic and Road Safety and Interventions, Master's Degree in Practical Taxation, Master's Degree in Criminal Guarantees and Socioeconomic Crimes, and Master's Degree in the Prevention and Repression of Money Laundering).

Regarding research, it is worth noting the authorship of several monographs, book chapters, and articles published in scientific journals, which have focused primarily, though not exclusively, on four lines of inquiry that have remained consistent over time. The first is dedicated to socioeconomic crime and the legal and penal treatment that should be given to illicitly obtained assets. The second centers on the principle of legality and the requirements that derive from its establishment. The third develops aspects related to organized crime. And, finally, the fourth revolves around topics related to Criminology and Security. Most of these works are the result of the more than twenty Research Projects in which she has participated, some as principal investigator, and of the numerous research stays she has undertaken at foreign research centers, which, in turn, explains the international scope of her publications (United States, Italy, Poland, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Costa Rica). Regarding knowledge transfer, she has been collaborating since 1993 with the Center for the Administration of Justice (CAJ) at Florida International University (Miami, USA), where she is a member of the International Advisory Committee. She also serves on the Scientific Committee of several periodicals and participated in drafting the preliminary draft of the Guatemalan Penal Code.

Finally, she has held several individual positions (Director of the Postgraduate Degree in Security and Police Sciences, Vice Dean, Director of the Department of Public Law) and has been a regular member of various committees (Faculty Board, representative of the Department of Public Law on the Research and Doctoral Committee, Member of the University Senate, and Member of the Governing Council).