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Jorge Correcher Mira, Full Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Valencia, researcher at the University Institute for Research in Criminology and Criminal Sciences, at the University of Valencia. In addition, he works as a Collaborating Professor of Criminal Law at the Open University of Catalonia.

Member of the research group of the University of Valencia "Current trends in Criminal Law and Criminology: Prevention and criminal guarantees" (GIUV2017-382), currently directed by Prof. Dr. Lucía Martínez Garay (previously by Prof. Dr. Juan Carlos Carbonell Mateu). Within the framework of this group, which focuses its activity on the study and critical analysis of modern penal reforms based on the foundations and limits established by the preventive and guaranteeing function of Criminal Law, it has participated in the research and work teams of four projects financed at the state level (PID2021-123441NB-I00; DER 2017-86336-R; DER 2013-48284-R; DER 2010-18825), as well as another project granted by the Valencian Government (GV/2017/154). Likewise, also within this research group, he has coordinated as principal researcher a research project entitled "Penal system and social exclusion: an obstacle for persons deprived of freedom", (GV/2021/047), financed by the Valencian Government. In the framework of the latter, he has led two conferences and coordinated a collective book with the results of the project, Penal system and exclusion: a comprehensive look at the conflict of inequality, edited by Tirant lo Blanch (2023). Externally to this research group, he has participated as a member of the research team in a state project on the effectiveness of the criminal justice system, focused from a criminal procedural perspective (RTI2018-095424-B-I00), a projectfocused on the multidisciplinary study of terrorism, executed at the UMA (PPIT.UMA.B1.2018/13), and as a member of the work team in a state multidisciplinary project on the social perception of corruption, executed at the University of Murcia (CSO-2016-78258-R).  

Among his publications, the publication of the book Principio de legalidad: ley formal vs law in action, Tirant lo Blanch, 2018, the result of his doctoral thesis, directed by professors Juan Carlos Carbonell Mateu and Antoni Llabrés Fuster, can be highlighted. Regarding other lines of research, his work on the process of overcriminalization of the right to free expression of ideas in the Spanish penal system can be mentioned. On this issue, Dr. Jorge Correcher has published on hate speech, the glorification of terrorism, as well as the current regulation of "crimes of opinion". On this topic, it is worth highlighting his monograph The crime of promoting terrorism and humiliating the victims: from the printing press to the social networks, Aranzadi, 2023.

In total, his research activity includes three monographs (one co-authored), as well as 16 articles in scientific journals and 16 chapters in books published by prestigious legal publishers (SPI). It has a research semester for the period 2014-2019, granted by ANECA.

In terms of management and leadership, in addition to having been the IP of the mentioned project, he has been the coordinator for three years of a teaching innovation project subsidized by the Vice-Chancellor of Formative Programs of the University of Valencia. In addition, he has extensive experience in academic management tasks, being able to highlight, in the first place, his position as coordinator of the double degree in Law and Criminologyof the Faculty of Law during the period 2018-2024. Currently, from the 2023-2024 academic year, he is combining the positions of director of the Master's in Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice and secretary of the Department of Criminal Law, both at the University of Valencia. Finally, it can be mentioned that, since the 2017-2018 academic year, he coordinates the Penitentiary Clinic within the Legal Clinic for Social Justice of the Faculty of Law.

Finally, in matters of transfer, it participates in different contracts executed within the framework of art. 83 LOU (now art. 60 LOSU), in his position as coordinator of the Legal Clinic for Social Justice of the University of Valencia. In this area, he has also been the main researcher of two contracts signed with the Observatorio Ciudadano contra la Corrupción. Likewise, in 2022, he signed a minor contract, with the aim of producing a technical report for the Housing Ministry of the Generalitat Valenciana. The assignment consisted of the preparation of a study on the concept of real estate harassment, based on the answers offered by the Criminal Code for such practices, and, based on an assessment of its suitability, to propose an alternative regime of administrative sanction, within the competences of the Housing Ministry.