Alberto Alonso Rimo is full professor of criminal law at the School of Law of the University of Valencia (Spain). He holds a degree in law (prize for distinction) and a Phd in law (prize for outstanding doctoral dissertation) from the University of Valencia (Spain).

He is author and editor of several books and he has published a large number of papers (see in detail below). The results of his research have been presented through seminars and lectures at numerous national and international universities and research centres (including, amongst others, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, General Council of the Spanish judicial authority, Max Planck Institut de Freiburg, Örebro University, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Istanbul University, Universidad de Medellín, Universidad de La Habana, Costa Rican Judiciary, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Universidad de Oriente, Koç University Law School, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú).

He has been visiting researcher in several foreign Universities and research Centres as Harvard University (USA), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität (Freiburg, Germany), Università di Modena (Italy), Max-Planck-Institut für Strafrecht (Germany), Columbia University (USA), New York University (USA) and Oxford University (UK).

His research activity has been carried out in the framework of 15 competitive and funded research projects, some of them international. Since 2015 he leads a research group at the University of Valencia on criminal law and security. Other of his research areas are: inchoate and pre-inchoate offences, the role of the victim in the criminal justice system, means rea and criminal law, terrorism offences and fundamental rights, criminalization of social protest, restorative justice, sexual offences, criminal security measures, crimes against road safety, public disorders.

He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Criminal Law I (General Part) and Criminal Law II (Special Part), and he has also taught Victimology, Penitentiary Law, Criminal Policy and Constitution and Criminal Law.

Director of numerous postgraduate courses at the University of Valencia and several doctoral theses, he has participated in multiple university teaching innovation projects, two of them as director.

He has worked as a deputy judge in Spain.

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Jorge Correcher Mira, Full Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Valencia, researcher at the University Institute for Research in Criminology and Criminal Sciences, at the University of Valencia. In addition, he works as a Collaborating Professor of Criminal Law at the Open University of Catalonia.

Member of the research group of the University of Valencia "Current trends in Criminal Law and Criminology: Prevention and criminal guarantees" (GIUV2017-382), currently directed by Prof. Dr. Lucía Martínez Garay (previously by Prof. Dr. Juan Carlos Carbonell Mateu). Within the framework of this group, which focuses its activity on the study and critical analysis of modern penal reforms based on the foundations and limits established by the preventive and guaranteeing function of Criminal Law, it has participated in the research and work teams of four projects financed at the state level (PID2021-123441NB-I00; DER 2017-86336-R; DER 2013-48284-R; DER 2010-18825), as well as another project granted by the Valencian Government (GV/2017/154). Likewise, also within this research group, he has coordinated as principal researcher a research project entitled "Penal system and social exclusion: an obstacle for persons deprived of freedom", (GV/2021/047), financed by the Valencian Government. In the framework of the latter, he has led two conferences and coordinated a collective book with the results of the project, Penal system and exclusion: a comprehensive look at the conflict of inequality, edited by Tirant lo Blanch (2023). Externally to this research group, he has participated as a member of the research team in a state project on the effectiveness of the criminal justice system, focused from a criminal procedural perspective (RTI2018-095424-B-I00), a projectfocused on the multidisciplinary study of terrorism, executed at the UMA (PPIT.UMA.B1.2018/13), and as a member of the work team in a state multidisciplinary project on the social perception of corruption, executed at the University of Murcia (CSO-2016-78258-R).  

Among his publications, the publication of the book Principio de legalidad: ley formal vs law in action, Tirant lo Blanch, 2018, the result of his doctoral thesis, directed by professors Juan Carlos Carbonell Mateu and Antoni Llabrés Fuster, can be highlighted. Regarding other lines of research, his work on the process of overcriminalization of the right to free expression of ideas in the Spanish penal system can be mentioned. On this issue, Dr. Jorge Correcher has published on hate speech, the glorification of terrorism, as well as the current regulation of "crimes of opinion". On this topic, it is worth highlighting his monograph The crime of promoting terrorism and humiliating the victims: from the printing press to the social networks, Aranzadi, 2023.

In total, his research activity includes three monographs (one co-authored), as well as 16 articles in scientific journals and 16 chapters in books published by prestigious legal publishers (SPI). It has a research semester for the period 2014-2019, granted by ANECA.

In terms of management and leadership, in addition to having been the IP of the mentioned project, he has been the coordinator for three years of a teaching innovation project subsidized by the Vice-Chancellor of Formative Programs of the University of Valencia. In addition, he has extensive experience in academic management tasks, being able to highlight, in the first place, his position as coordinator of the double degree in Law and Criminologyof the Faculty of Law during the period 2018-2024. Currently, from the 2023-2024 academic year, he is combining the positions of director of the Master's in Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice and secretary of the Department of Criminal Law, both at the University of Valencia. Finally, it can be mentioned that, since the 2017-2018 academic year, he coordinates the Penitentiary Clinic within the Legal Clinic for Social Justice of the Faculty of Law.

Finally, in matters of transfer, it participates in different contracts executed within the framework of art. 83 LOU (now art. 60 LOSU), in his position as coordinator of the Legal Clinic for Social Justice of the University of Valencia. In this area, he has also been the main researcher of two contracts signed with the Observatorio Ciudadano contra la Corrupción. Likewise, in 2022, he signed a minor contract, with the aim of producing a technical report for the Housing Ministry of the Generalitat Valenciana. The assignment consisted of the preparation of a study on the concept of real estate harassment, based on the answers offered by the Criminal Code for such practices, and, based on an assessment of its suitability, to propose an alternative regime of administrative sanction, within the competences of the Housing Ministry.   

Javier Guardiola García (Doctor of Law and Bachelor of Criminology) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Criminal Law and a researcher at the University Institute for Research in Criminology and Criminal Sciences.

For further information, www.uv.es/Javier.Guardiola/cv.wiki

Lucía Martínez Garay holds degrees in Law (1997) and in Criminology (2006) from the University of Valencia, and a PhD in Law from the same University (2004) with Extraordinary Award. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón (2004-06), was assistant Lecturer at the University of Alicante (2006-07) and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Criminal Law at the University of Valencia (2007-25). Since 2025, she is Professor of Criminal Law at this same University. 

She has been awarded 5 five-year teaching periods (quinquenios) and 3 six-year research periods (sexenios).

She teaches or has taught in several degrees (Degree in Law, Degree in Criminology, Double Degrees in ADE-Law and Law-Criminology), as well as in several Masters of the Universitat de València (Master in Business Law: Commercial, Labour and Tax Consultancy; Master in Criminology and Security; Master in Criminal Guarantees and Socioeconomic Crimes). She has also taught in several of the University of Valencia's own degrees and in the Master's Degree in Criminal Law at the Autonomous University of Madrid.

She has done several pre- and post-doctoral research stays at the Universities of Freiburg (Germany, 1998-99), Columbia (New York, 2002), at the Max-Planck Institut für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht in Freiburg (Germany, 2001, 2013, 2015), and at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2024).

Since 2018 she is the Director of the research group ‘Current Trends in Criminal Law and Criminology: Prevention and Criminal Guarantees’. She has been PI for two years of a national R&D project and is co-directing another one, and has been a member of numerous projects funded in both national and regional competitive tenders

She wrote her doctoral thesis on criminal imputability and culpability, a subject on which she has continued to work since then, publishing two books (Consumo de drogas y responsabilidad penal: el consumo de drogas como causa de exención o de atenuación de la responsabilidad penal en derecho comparado, Editorial Jurídica Continental, 2005, and La imputabilidad penal: concepto, fundamento, naturaleza jurídica y elementos, Tirant lo Blanch, 2005), various articles and book chapters (such as the Memento Experto Penal in its successive editions), and with participations and conferences in seminars and congresses. She has formed part of the commission of the Criminal Policy Study Group which has drawn up an alternative proposal for the regulation of the legal consequences applicable to persons who commit crimes while suffering from a mental disorder or intellectual disability (2023).

She has also studied the crimes of belonging to criminal and terrorist organisations and their compatibility with fundamental rights, co-authoring with Javier Mira Benavent a monograph on the limitations that the proceedings in Spain for offences related to ETA terrorism have had on the fundamental right to assembly and demonstration (Audiencia Nacional y prohibición penal de reuniones y manifestaciones, Tirant lo Blanch, 2011), as well as several articles related to the subject.

More recently, her research has focused on violence risk assessments, both purely algorithmical / actuarial and also structured clinical judgement, as well as the progressive introduction of artificial intelligence in this field and in criminal justice, analysing both their advantages and the risks they entail for various criminal guarantees. The results of this line of research have been, in addition to the publication of several articles and book chapters, the collaboration with international organisations such as GREVIO (Council of Europe Group to combat violence against women and domestic violence, 2019) or Amnesty International (2021, 2022), as well as the coordination of the report Three predictive policing approaches in Spain: Viogén, RisCanvi and VeriPol: Assessment from a human rights perspective (2024).

She is also currently working on the positive obligations of the States to use the criminal law to protect human rights, and the transformations they entail for penal guarantees and for the traditional role of the principle of proportionality.

A list of her publications can be found in her Dialnet, ORCID, Google Scholar or Academia profiles.

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Caty Vidales Rodríguez. Law degree from the University of Valencia (1990) and PhD in Law from Jaume I University (1996). Professor of Criminal Law since 2019, with uninterrupted teaching activity since the 1993/94 academic year. She has taught most of the subjects within the area of ​​Criminal Law, and also has extensive experience in Doctoral courses (Criminal Law and the Constitution, Constitutional Rights and Duties, Business and the Criminal Justice System, and the Criminal Justice System) and Master's programs (Master's Degree in the Criminal Justice System, Master's Degree in Psychosocial Rehabilitation in Community Mental Health, Master's Degree in Traffic and Road Safety and Interventions, Master's Degree in Practical Taxation, Master's Degree in Criminal Guarantees and Socioeconomic Crimes, and Master's Degree in the Prevention and Repression of Money Laundering).

Regarding research, it is worth noting the authorship of several monographs, book chapters, and articles published in scientific journals, which have focused primarily, though not exclusively, on four lines of inquiry that have remained consistent over time. The first is dedicated to socioeconomic crime and the legal and penal treatment that should be given to illicitly obtained assets. The second centers on the principle of legality and the requirements that derive from its establishment. The third develops aspects related to organized crime. And, finally, the fourth revolves around topics related to Criminology and Security. Most of these works are the result of the more than twenty Research Projects in which she has participated, some as principal investigator, and of the numerous research stays she has undertaken at foreign research centers, which, in turn, explains the international scope of her publications (United States, Italy, Poland, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Costa Rica). Regarding knowledge transfer, she has been collaborating since 1993 with the Center for the Administration of Justice (CAJ) at Florida International University (Miami, USA), where she is a member of the International Advisory Committee. She also serves on the Scientific Committee of several periodicals and participated in drafting the preliminary draft of the Guatemalan Penal Code.

Finally, she has held several individual positions (Director of the Postgraduate Degree in Security and Police Sciences, Vice Dean, Director of the Department of Public Law) and has been a regular member of various committees (Faculty Board, representative of the Department of Public Law on the Research and Doctoral Committee, Member of the University Senate, and Member of the Governing Council).