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Prof. Andrés Gascón Cuenca, Ph.D., (extraordinary Ph.D. award from the University of Valencia in 2018), is the vice-dean of Research and Quality Assurance of the Faculty of Law, a researcher at the Institute of Human Rights, the co-director of the Legal Clinic for Social Justice of the Faculty of Law, and a professor at the Department of Philosophy of Law and Politics, all of them structures of the University of Valencia.

His main research areas are the philosophy of law that looks into the theory of recognition, the protection of human rights in the context of social minorities (especially with regard to hate speech, racism, xenophobia, and racial profiling), access to justice and legal clinical education.

He has publications in which he has analyzed the reception of international standards against hate speech in the Spanish legal system, negationism, theories of justice and its development in legal clinical, among others.

He is an elected member of the board of directors of the Global Alliance for Justice in Education (GAJE), secretary of the. review Cuadernos Electrónicos de Filosofía del Derecho and member of the editorial board of Anuario de Filosofía del Derecho.

He has a positive evaluación of a: 1 six-year research period (sexennium); 1 five-year teaching performance evaluation period (quinquennium).