Fitxa persona

Clara Viana Ballester, Doctor of Law and Graduate in Criminology from the University of Valencia (awarded special honors in both Law and Criminology), is a Professor of Criminal Law at this University. She has been recognized with four five-year periods for teaching merits, two excellent advanced Docentia levels, and a six-year period for research. Her doctoral thesis is published in the Monograph Collection of the Congress of Deputies, under the title “Immunities and Inviolabilities: legal nature and dogmatic conception. Special reference to parliamentary inviolability” (2011).

He belongs to Research Group GIUV2017-382 on “Current trends in criminal law and criminology: Prevention and criminal guarantees.” He has conducted research stays at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (Freiburg) and Paris II-Panthéon-Assas. Her lines of research include the personal causes of exemption from criminal responsibility (personal-functional guarantees), authorship and content on the Internet, the legal consequences of crime, and criminal enforcement, specifically the measure of probation. She has been a member of various research projects funded by national, regional, and university public institutions. During 2018-2019, she was the principal investigator of an R&D&I project awarded by the Valencian Regional Government for emerging groups entitled “Probation: political-criminal foundations and practical application.” Currently, since 2021, she is co-PI of a State Research Plan project entitled “The erosion of the principle of legality in the contemporary criminal justice system: diagnosis and proposed solutions” (R&D&I PID2021-123441NB-I00, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ and “ERDF A way to build Europe”).

Since her beginnings as a lecturer at the University of Alicante, where she was an Assistant Professor (LOU) for five years, she has been deeply committed to teaching and educational innovation, participating as a member and in the management and coordination of various innovation projects and networks, both at the University of Alicante and the University of Valencia (she has been the coordinator of seven projects and a member of eight others). She is currently the coordinator of the Educational Innovation Group, registered in the Register of Teaching Innovation Groups at the University of Valencia, called “Penal en Vena” (ref. GCID23_2589092, PevUV) and co-coordinator of the consolidated innovation project “Multimedia materials for teaching and learning criminal law.”

She has taught in the Bachelor's Degree programs in Law and Criminology, as well as in the double Bachelor's Degree programs in Law-Business Administration and Law-Criminology. She has also taught in the Master's Degree program in Business Law (Commercial, Labor, and Tax Consulting) and in the Master's Degree program in Criminal Guarantees and Socioeconomic Crimes. She has also supervised numerous Master's Theses (TFM) in the Master's Degree in Criminology and Security and in the Master's Degree in Criminal Guarantees and Socioeconomic Crimes.

Her experience in university management in a statutory position dates back to 2012, when she was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Faculty of Law and, since 2016, Secretary of the Center. She is secretary of the Academic Degree Committees (CAT) for Law, Criminology, and Political Science and Public Administration, secretary of the Faculty of Law Board, and a member of the Quality Committee, the Internship Committee, and the Faculty of Law's Temporary Teaching Staff Selection Committee 2, among other collegiate bodies. In recent years, she has participated as a member in multiple Selection Committees for contracted doctoral faculty (CDr.) and permanent faculty (PPL). She is also an elected member of the Center Board and the Faculty Senate of the University of Valencia.