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Ana Marrades Puig is Professor of constitutional law. Between 1993 and 2010 she was an associate professor, combining her teaching and research activity with the professional practice of law, in the field of gender violence. She is currently president of the Feminist Network of Constitutional Law.

Her research activity has focused especially on issues of fundamental rights, and gender studies, being attached to the Institut Universitari d’Estudis de les Dones. Among her publications are the monograph “Lights and shadows of the right to motherhood” and she is co-author of “Gender violence in the population of immigrant women” and “Challenges for the Constitutional State of the 21st century: rights, ethics and care policies”. She has also participated in collective works such as “Women parliamentarians in the constituent legislature” and in several research projects among which it is worth highlighting the “Study on the impact of the Equality Law on electoral processes” and in the work resulting from the project “The political participation of women”. Her publications include "The new social rights: the right to care as the foundation of the constitutional pact" (2016), “Surrogacy within the framework of the Spanish Constitution: a question of rights” (2017), "Discrimination due to pregnancy and maternity" (2018), "Trafficking in persons for the purposes of sexual and reproductive exploitation. Proposals for legislation and measures against a dramatic reality" (2019), "The ethics of care, equality and diversity: values fora Constitution of the 21st century" (2019). He has recently published in Constitutional Theory and Reality: The right to care (2025).

He has carried out research stays at different universities in Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States (Università di Pisa, University of Virginia, University of Kent and University of London); and has collaborated as a teacher at the University of Pisa and participated as a speaker in seminars at the University of Bologna, the University of London and the University of Kent, where she is an associate researcher.

In the university teaching field, he has participated in several educational innovation projects, among them he has coordinated the University Network for teaching innovation with a gender perspective. She is also a professor of the Master's Degree in Gender and Equality Policies at the University of Valencia, as well as the subjects of "Gender Relations, Politics, Citizenship and Society". Her latest research focuses on new rights from a gender perspective for constitutional change and especially on the right to care from a gender perspective.