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Degree and Doctor of Law (Universitat de València)

Degree of Political and Administration Sciences (UNED)

Lletrat de les Corts Valencianes -Autonomous Parliament of Valencian Autonomous Community- (des de 2018)

General Secretary of Consell Jurídic Consultiu de la Comunitat Valenciana -Legal Advisory Council of Valencian Public Administration- (2013-2018)

Luis Jimena Quesada (Massamagrell Valencia, 1968) is Full Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Valencia and awarded Doctor Honoris Causa by the National University of La Plata (Argentina). He has been officially recognised 5 five-year periods (of teaching), 5 six-year periods (of research) and 9 three-year periods (of service)

In addition, in the academic field, Luis Jimena was the First European Doctor of Law (PhD in Law) in the University of Valencia. He is the current Secretary General (since January 2016 till December 2019) of the International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg, France) founded by the Nobel Peace Prize René Cassin, where he has also been Professor and Director of Studies since 1993. In Spain, he has been Member and President (2014 and 2015) of the Spanish Committee (Law Section) of Independent Experts for the Assessment of the University Activity Research (ANECA – The National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation of Spain, concerning the Spanish Higher Education System). Author of more than three-hundred publications in the field of Constitutional Law and European Human Rights Law, among them 17 books*.

Concerning his legal experience, he has been Member and President of the European Committee of Social Rights of the Council of Europe (2009-2014) as well as Substitute Judge at the High Court of Justice (Supreme Court of the Valencia Region –Administrative Chamber) since judicial year 1997/1998 till judicial year 2017/2018, where I has been the “Judge Rapporteur” of hundreds of judgments (see, e.g., the database CENDOJ of the Spanish General Council of the Judiciary -Consejo General del Poder Judicial-). Furthermore, he is currently “Ad Hoc” Judge at the European Court of Human Rights as well as independent person (alternate) representing the Council of Europe before the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) (2015-2020).

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Mar Sánchez Montell holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law and Criminology and a Master’s Degree in Constitutional Law from the Universitat de València (UV), where she received the Extraordinary Award in all her degrees. Additionally, the Generalitat Valenciana recognized her with the Academic Excellence Distinction 2021-2022.

During this period, she was the recipient of a collaboration grant from the Ministerio de Educación y Formación Profesional (2022) and a research collaboration grant from the Servei d’Informació i Dinamització of the UV (2023), both within the Departament de Dret Constitucional, Ciència Política i de l’Administració at the same university.

She is currently a pre-doctoral researcher affiliated with the Institut de Drets Humans (IDHUV). Her research and teaching activities are funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades through the FPU 2022 fellowship. She has worked on various research lines related to the new Latin American constitutionalism and participatory budgeting. At present, she is developing her doctoral dissertation on constitutional interpretation.

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Rosario SERRA CRISTÓBAL is Full-Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Valencia (Spain) and has a Ph. D. in Law (University of Valencia, 1997).

She is member of the Human Rights Institute of the same University, and member of the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL) and of the Spanish Association of Constitutional Law (ACE).

In 2018 she was awarded the prize of academic excellence by the Social Council of the University of Valencia.

Former Associate Dean of the Faculty of Law (2018-2024)

From 1994 she has been member of several R&D projects with public financial support (and she was Project Leader of two of them) on European Union, Relations between regions and the European Union, the Principle of Equality, Regional Parliaments, Latin-American constitutionalism, Women and politics, Intersectional Discrimination, Social Rights within the economic crisis, and Trafficking. Today Rosario Serra is Co-Principal Investigator of the R&D Project on Inclusive Justice.

She is author of several books,

- El Comité Económico y Social de las Comunidades Europeas (Mc Graw-Hill, 1996) (The Economic and Social Committee of the European Communities).

- La guerra de las Cortes: una revisión de la jurisprudencia del Tribunal Supremo a través del recurso de amparo (Tecnos, 1999), (The war of the Courts: a review of the Supreme Court’s case-law through the writ of amparo)

- La libertad ideológica del juez (Tirant lo Blanch, 2004), (Judge's ideological freedom)

- Trata sexual de mujeres. De la represión del delito a la protección de la víctima (Ministerio de Justicia, 2007) (Sexual trafficking of women. From law enforcement to protection of the victim)

- Prostitución y Trata. Marco Jurídico y Régimen de derechos (Coord.) (Tirant lo Blanch, 2007) (Prostitution and Trafficking. Legal Framework and System of Rights)

- La Selección de los Jueces en Estados Unidos (Thomson-Civitas, 2011) (The appointment of Judges in USA)

- Multidiscriminación en los ordenamientos jurídicos español y europeo (Coord.) (Tirant lo Blanch, 2012) (Multidiscrimination in Spain and Europe)

- (Co-autor) Rights and Freedoms in the Spanish Constitution, Valencia, Tirant lo Blanch, 2015.

- La seguridad como amenaza (Tirant lo Blanch 2020) (Security as a treaht)

She is author of articles in journals/periodicals and participations in books on Constitutional Law on fundamental rights, participation, civil society, judicial power, citizen’s representation in parliaments, trafficking and terrorism/data protection, national security, fake news.

Her resumé includes stays as visiting researcher at: University of Minnesota (EEUU), Université de Montpellier (Francia), Université Libre de Bruxelles (Bélgica), Université Catholique de Louvain-la Neuve (Bélgica), Universita “La Sapienza” (Roma), Instituto Internacional de Derechos Humanos de Estrasburgo (Francia), la Académie internacional de Droit Constitutionnel (Túnez), Cardozzo School of Law (NYC-EEUU)

Her last participations in international Conferences or Congresses were in:

- “Have we the right to know we are being spied?”, XII Congress of the Spanish Association of Constitutional Law, 3-4 April 2014, Salamanca, Spain.

- “The impact of Counter-terrorism Security Measures on Fundamental Rights”, IX World Congress of Constitutional Law, Oslo 2014.

- "Privacy and counter-terrorism in the digital era", Milan 2016.

- "Las relaciones entre el Derecho Anglosajón y el Derecho Latinoamericano”,Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 2016.

- "Surveillance on data and electronic communications in the counter-terrorism fight in Spain", Paris 2016.

- “Trafficking as a form of violence against women”, Equality, Gender and Violence, University Castilla-La Mancha, 2017, Spain.

- “Surveillance of cross border passing”, in Journey on International protection on individuals and data, Castellón, Spain.

- "Processing personal data on Eu cross-border movements to fight terrorism", 10th World Congress of Constitutional Law, University, Seúl, Korea. June, 2018

- "Respuestas del pasado a la amenaza del terrorismo vs. nuevos planteamientos", International Congress “Espacios globales y seguridad: Estrategas de respuesta española”, University of Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 2018.

- "El control de los mensajes terroristas en internet”, IX International Seminar on Security and Defense. University of Jaén. October, 2020.

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