[Biography, english version]

[Biography, english version]

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Ruth M. Mestre i Mestre, professor of philosophy of law and member of the Institut de drets humans of the University of Valencia, is a specialist in Feminist Theory of Law and forms part of the European Network of Experts in the field of Gender Equality.

She coordinated with S. Jonhsdotter the report FGM in Europe: An analysis of Court Cases, at the request of the European Commission (published by the European Commission-Directorate General-Justice (2016).

In addition, she has been lead researcher of the Project Democracy and political participation of women. A Critical comparison of new analysis and strategies, funded by the Ministry of Equality. She has also been main researcher  in the Spanish state of the DAPHNE project - EURONET, funded by the Daphne programme of the EU, to draw up plans of action against FGM.

Doctor in law by the Universitat de Valencia, she holds a master's degree in legal sociology from the International Institute of Juridical sociology of Oñati and a master's degree in theory of law by the Académie Européenne de Théorie du Droit, Brussels. He has been Marie Curie Fellow at the Centre for research in ethnic relations University of Warwick (UK). He has participated in numerous research projects in the Spanish state and in two Daphne projects (EU) on Mutilation/cutting Female Genitals in Europe.

Among his publications include the articles written together with Sara Johnsdotter, Court cases, cultural expertise and FGM in Europe, Studies in Law, Politics and Society, Vol 78, 2019, Special Issue Cultural Expertise and socio-legal studies (Austin Sarat, ed.) and FGM in Europe. Public discourse vs. empirical evidence, International Journal of Law, crime and Justice, 51, 2017. His books include La Caixa de Pandora. Introduction to feminist legal theory, PUV, 2006, and the coordination of two collective books: Women, rights and citizenship, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia 2009 and, together with Yanira Zúñiga, Democracy and Women's political participation. Visions from Europe and Latin America, Tirant lo Blanch, 2013; Democracy and political participation of women. Critical study comparison of new analysis and strategies, Instituto de la Mujer, 2014, http://www.inmujer.gob.es/areasTematicas/estudios/estudioslinea2014/Home.htm; or  articles in edited books as 'The faces of prostitution in the Spanish state: between migration laws and the criminal code, in R. Osborne: sex workers. Rights, migration and traffic in the S. XXI, Ed. Bellaterra, 2004.

In the field of post-graduate teaching she is currently a professor at the Master in Human Rights, Democracy and Jusiticia International of the Facultat de dret of the Universitat de Valencia, the Master of Agents of Equality of the Universitat de Valencia and the Masters of the Equality of women and men of the University of the Basque Country. She has lectured also, by way of example, in the European Master of Human Rights (Venice, Italy), in the Phd in human Rights and Globalisation at the University Pablo de Olavide (Seville), or in the Course of specialization in human rights from the Andean University of Ecuador.

She has been Director of the Legal Clinic for Social Justice of the University of Valencia and vice-president of the European Network of Clinical Legal Education (ENCLE). She is currently Delegate of the Revice-rector in the field of diversity at the Universitat de Valencia

Full professor of Philosophy of Law and Politics. She is a professor at the Department of Philosophy of Law and Politics and a researcher at the Human Rights Institute (UV).

She is  Vice-Principal of  Lifelong Learning, Educational transformation and Employability. University of Valencia

She has been president of the Council for the Elimination of Racial or Ethnic Discrimination (2018 to 2020 Ministry of Equality), currently the president of the Forum for the Social Integration of Immigrants (Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration).

She has been Vice Dean of International Relations at the Faculty of Law (2010-2018), the director of the Department of Philosophy of Law and Politics (Facultat de Dret, 2019-2022) and is a member of the Faculty Board. As well as part of the Senate and the Statutes Commission (UV).

She has recognized five five-year teaching periods, four six-year research periods and one transfer six-year period.

She has participated in more than twenty teaching innovation projects and coordinates the Teaching Innovation in Human Rights (UV) project.

Her research addresses issues related to legal-political philosophy and human rights from the perspective of Spanish and comparative law on issues, among others, such as multicultural societies, immigration policies, citizenship, equality, the promotional role of Law, fundamental legal concepts, ODS and CSR. She is the author of various books and multiple articles in specialized national and foreign scientific journals. Among her works we can mention the monographs erechos y Culturas. Los retos de la diversidad en el espacio público y privado(autora, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2018); and Problems and proposals regarding the Common European Asylum System. The example of Greece (co-author, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2017). She has directed 8 doctoral theses.

She has participated in more than thirty international, national and regional research projects. She directs the I + D + i project PID2019-105018RB-100 "Racism and Discrimination: Human Rights under threat" of the Ministry of Science and Innovation. She has been part of the research team of the projects Consolider-Ingenio The time of rights (HURI-AGE), Ministry of Science and Innovation (CSD2008-00007) and Prometheus for groups of excellence (2010 and 2014) of the Generalitat Valenciana.

She belongs to the Comité Aviseur National et International du Center d’Études Ethniques des Universités Montréalaises (Canada). She was a member of the Technical Committee of the II National Human Rights Plan and was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Secretary of State for Immigration and Emigration (Ministry of Labor and Immigration). She collaborates as an evaluator in agencies such as ANEP, AGAE, AGAUR, DEVA and in the international program InterTalentum MSCA-COFUND.

She is director of the Anuario de Filosofía del Derecho (the oldest journal of this discipline in Spain) since 2018.

She has carried out research stays in centers of recognized international prestige in Paris, Milan, Brussels, Geneva, London, San Diego, Bucharest, Toulouse, Moscow and Montréal.