Fitxa persona

Mónica Martínez López-Sáez is an Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law. She holds a PhD (cum laude) in Constitutional and European Law. She holds an LLB (High-performance group, top of her class) and an LLM in European Union and International Studies (UVEG) in addition to an M.A. in Institutional Translation (Legal and Economic Translation) by the University of Alicante. She has conducted her predoctoral research (as a Ministry research fellow-graduate teaching assistant) at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science, the European University Institute and Golden Gate University School of Law. In 2016 she was a Blue Book Trainee at the European Commission (DG-HOME) and was awarded the VIII Cañada Blanch Foundation Prize. She currently conducts research in the field of EU data protection, with her primary focus being on digital rights and privacy law. However, her research interests cover the field of Spanish and EU Constitutional Law and she is especially interested in fundamental rights, human rights protection systems and vulnerable persons. As a García Pelayo postdoctoral researcher at the Spanish Center for Political and Constitutional Studies, she has expanded her lines of research to the field of transparency and good governance, as well as digital transformation and public law. She has obtained the International Legal English Certificate -with merit- and the CPE (Cambridge University).