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Trayectoria académica y profesional. Francisco GONZÁLEZ CASTILLA is University Professor in the 'Manuel Broseta Pont' Department of Commercial Law at the University of Valencia, of which he has been Director for the last 6 years. He has been President of the Competition Commission of the Valencian Community (2012-2017), Director of the Official Master's Degree in International and European Union Studies at the University of Valencia (2012-2016) and Coordinator of the Double Degree in Business Administration and Law (2010-2012), among other academic responsibilities. Graduated in Law from the University of Valencia (1991), between 1993 and 1994 he studied Private Law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Munich, Germany) with a scholarship from the Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD). He has also carried out research stays and taught postgraduate courses at the Max-Planck Institute in Hamburg, the School of Law at Trinity College and the UCD Sutherland School of Law in Dublin and at the Universities of Havana (Cuba), Santa Cruz (Bolivia), and Cuenca (Ecuador). In recent years, his professional activity as a researcher has focused on competition law, commercial contract law (especially in the financial market) and the legal regime of digital platforms and distribution networks. In addition to his individual publications and the coordination of collective works (more than one hundred works, including three books and co-editor of ten collective books), he has given numerous lectures at conferences and congresses and carried out various activities for the transfer of research results with companies and private entities. This work has been carried out in the context of 23 R&D projects in the fields of company law, cooperatives, banking contracts, distribution networks, etc. Among them, he has been PI on two research projects: 'Customer protection and the principle of economic efficiency in the new regulation of the Spanish financial system' (2003-2006), and 'Legal regime of the food distribution chain as a determining factor of food quality and sustainability of the primary sector' (2014-2015). He is currently part of the consolidated research group on business networks at the University of Valencia, which has obtained funding in public calls uninterruptedly over the last 15 years (including two editions of the Prometeo programme for groups of excellence of the Generalitat Valenciana). In addition to his work as a lecturer at the University of Valencia since 1994, he has taught courses and master's degrees at other Spanish and foreign universities. He has been Coordinator of Law studies at Florida Universitaria, a centre attached to the University of Valencia. In the field of university management, he has been Director of the Commercial Law Department, member of the CAT of ADE-GEDE, of the Board of the Faculty of Law since 1993, member of the Doctoral Commission of the Faculty of Law and member of the Board of Bibliographic Information of the Library of Social Sciences 'Gregori Maians', among other activities. Between 2012 and 2017 he combined his academic activity with that of President of the Commission for the Defence of Competition of the Valencian Community, the institution responsible for preserving the competitive functioning of the Valencian regional markets through the exercise of the functions of resolution, arbitration and promotion (art. 1 Decree 50/2012, of 23 March, of the Consell). His university activity has been recognized by academic authorities with four six-year research periods, one six-year transfer period and six five-year teaching periods..

Trayectoria académica. Francisco GONZÁLEZ CASTILLA is University Professor in the 'Manuel Broseta Pont' Department of Commercial Law at the University of Valencia, of which he has been Director for the last 6 years. He has been President of the Competition Commission of the Valencian Community (2012-2017), Director of the Official Master's Degree in International and European Union Studies at the University of Valencia (2012-2016) and Coordinator of the Double Degree in Business Administration and Law (2010-2012), among other academic responsibilities. Graduated in Law from the University of Valencia (1991), between 1993 and 1994 he studied Private Law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Munich, Germany) with a scholarship from the Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD). He has also carried out research stays and taught postgraduate courses at the Max-Planck Institute in Hamburg, the School of Law at Trinity College and the UCD Sutherland School of Law in Dublin and at the Universities of Havana (Cuba), Santa Cruz (Bolivia), and Cuenca (Ecuador). In recent years, his professional activity as a researcher has focused on competition law, commercial contract law (especially in the financial market) and the legal regime of digital platforms and distribution networks. In addition to his individual publications and the coordination of collective works (more than one hundred works, including three books and co-editor of ten collective books), he has given numerous lectures at conferences and congresses and carried out various activities for the transfer of research results with companies and private entities. This work has been carried out in the context of 23 R&D projects in the fields of company law, cooperatives, banking contracts, distribution networks, etc. Among them, he has been PI on two research projects: 'Customer protection and the principle of economic efficiency in the new regulation of the Spanish financial system' (2003-2006), and 'Legal regime of the food distribution chain as a determining factor of food quality and sustainability of the primary sector' (2014-2015). He is currently part of the consolidated research group on business networks at the University of Valencia, which has obtained funding in public calls uninterruptedly over the last 15 years (including two editions of the Prometeo programme for groups of excellence of the Generalitat Valenciana). In addition to his work as a lecturer at the University of Valencia since 1994, he has taught courses and master's degrees at other Spanish and foreign universities. He has been Coordinator of Law studies at Florida Universitaria, a centre attached to the University of Valencia. In the field of university management, he has been Director of the Commercial Law Department, member of the CAT of ADE-GEDE, of the Board of the Faculty of Law since 1993, member of the Doctoral Commission of the Faculty of Law and member of the Board of Bibliographic Information of the Library of Social Sciences 'Gregori Maians', among other activities. Between 2012 and 2017 he combined his academic activity with that of President of the Commission for the Defence of Competition of the Valencian Community, the institution responsible for preserving the competitive functioning of the Valencian regional markets through the exercise of the functions of resolution, arbitration and promotion (art. 1 Decree 50/2012, of 23 March, of the Consell). His university activity has been recognized by academic authorities with four six-year research periods, one six-year transfer period and six five-year teaching periods..

Trayectoria académica y profesional. Francisco GONZÁLEZ CASTILLA is University Professor in the 'Manuel Broseta Pont' Department of Commercial Law at the University of Valencia, of which he has been Director for the last 6 years. He has been President of the Competition Commission of the Valencian Community (2012-2017), Director of the Official Master's Degree in International and European Union Studies at the University of Valencia (2012-2016) and Coordinator of the Double Degree in Business Administration and Law (2010-2012), among other academic responsibilities. Graduated in Law from the University of Valencia (1991), between 1993 and 1994 he studied Private Law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Munich, Germany) with a scholarship from the Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD). He has also carried out research stays and taught postgraduate courses at the Max-Planck Institute in Hamburg, the School of Law at Trinity College and the UCD Sutherland School of Law in Dublin and at the Universities of Havana (Cuba), Santa Cruz (Bolivia), and Cuenca (Ecuador). In recent years, his professional activity as a researcher has focused on competition law, commercial contract law (especially in the financial market) and the legal regime of digital platforms and distribution networks. In addition to his individual publications and the coordination of collective works (more than one hundred works, including three books and co-editor of ten collective books), he has given numerous lectures at conferences and congresses and carried out various activities for the transfer of research results with companies and private entities. This work has been carried out in the context of 23 R&D projects in the fields of company law, cooperatives, banking contracts, distribution networks, etc. Among them, he has been PI on two research projects: 'Customer protection and the principle of economic efficiency in the new regulation of the Spanish financial system' (2003-2006), and 'Legal regime of the food distribution chain as a determining factor of food quality and sustainability of the primary sector' (2014-2015). He is currently part of the consolidated research group on business networks at the University of Valencia, which has obtained funding in public calls uninterruptedly over the last 15 years (including two editions of the Prometeo programme for groups of excellence of the Generalitat Valenciana). In addition to his work as a lecturer at the University of Valencia since 1994, he has taught courses and master's degrees at other Spanish and foreign universities. He has been Coordinator of Law studies at Florida Universitaria, a centre attached to the University of Valencia. In the field of university management, he has been Director of the Commercial Law Department, member of the CAT of ADE-GEDE, of the Board of the Faculty of Law since 1993, member of the Doctoral Commission of the Faculty of Law and member of the Board of Bibliographic Information of the Library of Social Sciences 'Gregori Maians', among other activities. Between 2012 and 2017 he combined his academic activity with that of President of the Commission for the Defence of Competition of the Valencian Community, the institution responsible for preserving the competitive functioning of the Valencian regional markets through the exercise of the functions of resolution, arbitration and promotion (art. 1 Decree 50/2012, of 23 March, of the Consell). His university activity has been recognized by academic authorities with four six-year research periods, one six-year transfer period and six five-year teaching periods..