Fitxa persona

Emiliano Borja is full university professor of Criminal Law at the Universitat de València. He developed projects and research in the field of the General Part of the Criminal Law (ius puniendi, legality and guilt principles, theory of the action, perpetration and termination, the conceptions of the crime in Comparative Law or the liability), Special Part of the Criminal Law (offence against the person, patrimonial empowerment offence, offence against privacy, racial discrimination offence, offence against public health, among many others), International Criminal Law (related to the creation of International Criminal Law), Globalisation and Cultural Diversity, Criminal Policy and Legal Anthropology.

He has carried out pre-doctoral scientific stays in the Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht in Freiburg (Germany) in 1988 and 1989; and post-doctoral stays in 1991, 1992, 1993 and 1996, and others from 2010 to 2015. He has also developed his research in the Institut für die gesamten Strafrechtswissenchaften der Universität München in 1996, 1997 and 1999, when this institution was directed by the Professor Claus Roxin.  He has developed research projects in Latin America in the Central University of Ecuador in 1999 and in Rafael Landívar University in Guatemala in 2001, among others. He has also visited the el Institut für Europäisches Straf- und Strafprozessrecht der Univesität Tübingen in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, when it was managed by the Professor Joachim Vogel.

He was International Consultant in strengthening programmes of the justice systems in Paraguay (2001) with the European Union; in El Salvador (2001) with USAID and Bolivia (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007) with AECID.

He was the director of the doctoral programme of the Department of Criminal Law of the Universitat de València (1996-2010).

He was the director of the research project “Cultural Diversity: Conflict and Law”, about the basis of Indigenous Law, developed in nine countries in Latin America. He is a full-fledged member of the Group of Criminal Policy Studies and of the International Association of Criminal Law.

Some of his most highlighted books are “ “Violencia y criminalidad racista en Europa Occidental” (1999), “Tendencias contemporáneas en la teoría jurídica del delito (2000), “Introducción a los fundamentos del Derecho Penal indígena (2000)”, “Las circunstancias atenuantes en el ordenamiento jurídico español” (2002), “Ensayos de Derecho Penal y Política Criminal” (2002), “Problemas político-criminales actuales de las sociedades occidentales” (2003),  “¿Existe el  Derecho penal indígena” (2005), “Diversidad Cultural: Conflicto y Derecho” (2006), “Curso de Política Criminal” (2011), “Acerca de lo universal y de lo particular del Derecho Penal” (2012) and “La aplicación de las circunstancias del delito” (2015).

Since the academic year 2009-2010 he participates in the Master’s degree in Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice (Universitat de Valencia) teaching the sub-modules  “Globalizacción de la justicia penal” (Globalisation of Criminal Justice). And since the academic year 2010-2011 he teaches the module “Interculturalidad y Derecho Penal” (Interculturality and and Criminal Law) in the Specialised Master’s Degree in Criminal Law (University of Seville).