foto Vicente Alberto Alonso Rimo
VICENTE ALBERTO ALONSO RIMO
PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
Knowledge area: CRIMINAL LAW
Department: Criminal Law
(9638) 28142
Biography

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) and a Phd in law (prize for outstanding doctoral dissertation) 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). The results of his research have been presented through seminars and lectures at numerous national and international universities and research centres (including, amongst others, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, General Council of the Spanish judicial authority, Max Planck Institut de Freiburg, Örebro University, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Istanbul University, Universidad de Medellín, Universidad de La Habana, Costa Rican Judiciary, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Universidad de Oriente, Koç University Law School, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú).

He has been visiting researcher in several foreign Universities and research Centres as Harvard University (USA), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität (Freiburg, Germany), Università di Modena (Italy), Max-Planck-Institut für Strafrecht (Germany), 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.

Subjects taught and teaching methods
Tutorials
01/09/2025 - 27/01/2026
JUEVES de 12:30 a 13:30
01/09/2025 - 27/01/2026
JUEVES de 15:30 a 17:30 4B02 DESPATX 4B02 DESPATX FACULTAT DE DRET
28/01/2026 - 31/07/2026
LUNES de 11:30 a 14:30 4B02 DESPATX 4B02 DESPATX FACULTAT DE DRET
Observations
Participate in the e-tutoring programme of the Universitat de València
Journal Publications
Other publications
Participations in Conferences
Projects