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Trayectoria académica (1994/2018). Francisco GONZÁLEZ CASTILLA is Professor in Commercial Law at the University of Valencia. His research work has focused on commercial contract law (especially in financial markets), commercial distribution networks and company law, having published two monographs -of which he was sole author- and more than fifty articles in journals and collective works. Between 1993 and 1994 he studied Private Law at the Ludwig-Maximilien Universität (München), with a scholarship from theDeutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD). He has also been on research trips and taught postgraduate courses in the Max-Planck Institute, and in the Universities of Habana (Cuba), Santa Cruz (Bolivia), and Cuenca (Ecuador). In addition, he has participated in numerous R+D projects (two of them as main researcher) in fields of law related to companies, cooperatives, banking contracts, distribution networks, etc. Between 2014-2016 he leads the MEC (Ministry of Economy) research project «Legal regime of the food distribution chain as a determining factor of food quality and sustainability of the primary sector» as the main researcher. In the field of Financial markets law, he has worked on sources of law related to banking contracts, consumer credit and a wide range of specific contracts (leasing, consumer credit, guarantees, safe deposit boxes, etc.). In relation to distribution networks, his main research has focused on problems resulting from contractual articulation of the network: the application of the principle of relativity of contracts in relations between distribution network members; contractual articulation of the secondary network; or the contractual responsibility of the head of the network as regards indemnity payments for clientele or damages due by concessionaries to their agents. In the Company law sphere, he has focused on company's rights in a wider sense (transfer of rights in Dematerialised and Immobilised Securities, uncertificated securities and exercising shareholder rights, issues related to General Meetings, etc.). Between May 2012-June 2017 he combined his academic activity with his role as President of the new valencian Commission for Protection of Competition, institution responsible for preserving the competitive operation of the Valencian regional markets through the exercise of the functions of resolution, arbitration and promotion of antitrust Law.

Trayectoria académica (1994/2018). Francisco GONZÁLEZ CASTILLA is Professor in Commercial Law at the University of Valencia. His research work has focused on commercial contract law (especially in financial markets), commercial distribution networks and company law, having published two monographs -of which he was sole author- and more than fifty articles in journals and collective works. Between 1993 and 1994 he studied Private Law at the Ludwig-Maximilien Universität (München), with a scholarship from theDeutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD). He has also been on research trips and taught postgraduate courses in the Max-Planck Institute, and in the Universities of Habana (Cuba), Santa Cruz (Bolivia), and Cuenca (Ecuador). In addition, he has participated in numerous R+D projects (two of them as main researcher) in fields of law related to companies, cooperatives, banking contracts, distribution networks, etc. Between 2014-2016 he leads the MEC (Ministry of Economy) research project «Legal regime of the food distribution chain as a determining factor of food quality and sustainability of the primary sector» as the main researcher. In the field of Financial markets law, he has worked on sources of law related to banking contracts, consumer credit and a wide range of specific contracts (leasing, consumer credit, guarantees, safe deposit boxes, etc.). In relation to distribution networks, his main research has focused on problems resulting from contractual articulation of the network: the application of the principle of relativity of contracts in relations between distribution network members; contractual articulation of the secondary network; or the contractual responsibility of the head of the network as regards indemnity payments for clientele or damages due by concessionaries to their agents. In the Company law sphere, he has focused on company's rights in a wider sense (transfer of rights in Dematerialised and Immobilised Securities, uncertificated securities and exercising shareholder rights, issues related to General Meetings, etc.). Between May 2012-June 2017 he combined his academic activity with his role as President of the new valencian Commission for Protection of Competition, institution responsible for preserving the competitive operation of the Valencian regional markets through the exercise of the functions of resolution, arbitration and promotion of antitrust Law.