Scrutiny of modern political emblems and reflection on their genealogy and their conjunctural, epochal, disciplinary and ideological dependence.
Studying the ethical projections of Kantian thought within the framework of the relationship with non-human animals, environmental issues, the digital revolution, and pacifism.
Article 24 of the Spanish Consitution is the article most frequently invoked in constitutional appeals, which contains the most important list of fundamental rights of a procedural nature in our legal system, and a study that updates its complex content in the light of case law is essential.
Enforceability and institutionalisation. Duty-bearers. Rights-holders. Optional Protocol. Judicial and quasi-judicial means. Determination of adequate and effective means of enforceability.
Study of the current situation of women's rights from a gender perspective: formal and material equality in the exercise of rights; integration of equality with difference; analysis of the co-responsibility model; debates around gender identity.
Approaching the problems of cosmopolitan society and the European political and cultural project, with an emphasis on the phenomena of globalization, fundamentalism, post-truth, and models of political and economic renewal.
The aim is to continue previous research into all those factors that can globally affect the guarantee of human rights within an inclusive society.
The main challenge of law is the defence of the human being against the uncontrolled power of technology in various fields: ecology vs. anthropocene; finance vs. speculation and tax fraud; bio-law vs. transhumanism; the right to privacy and non-manipulation vs. GAF (Google, Amazon and Facebook)
UN concept to displace the concept of national security, which affects quality of life and not weapons potential, and GDP, which focuses on increasing computable operations. Its sustainability depends on subordinating finance to the real economy and this to human capabilities.
Effectiveness of social rights. Content and obligations. International, national and local implementation. Indicators of effectiveness and measurements. Regression of social rights. Non-discrimination. ESCR and gender.
During the 20th century, communitarian personalism, a philosophical horizon and a movement for action, has made a valuable contribution to the development of this tradition of humanism and to the process of building European political unity in recognition of diversity and respect for human rights.
Analysis of the major challenges facing IR: failed states, new wars, asymmetrical wars, serious and systematic violations of human rights, refugee crises; and the positive concept of peace, which is not merely the absence of war, but includes justice and respect for human rights.
This line of research will focus primarily on contemporary challenges to the liberal democratic model, analysing essential values such as justice, freedom, human rights and addressing issues such as political participation, contemporary theories of justice.
Research is carried out on the instruments of legislative quality as a mechanism to improve legal certainty and thus enhance democratic quality, especially in the field of private law.
