Professor Dr Emiliano Borja Jiménez

Topic 1. Globalisation and criminal conception

Objectives:
- Analysing the thinking behind economic globalisation processes
- Analysing current criminal thinking inspired by the ideology of globalisation
- Comparing different criminal conceptions in their national spaces and in a globalising context

Topic 2. Criminal aspects of the International Criminal Court

Objectives:
- Knowing the legal regulation, structure and functioning of the International Criminal Court
- To extract the most relevant principles and legal-criminal elements from the Rome Statute
- Stating criticism in the building of the international criminal justice system
- Establishing the position of the International Criminal Court and its real influence on national spaces and the international framework

Topic 3. Human rights and cultural diversity in relation to indigenous communities

Objectives:
- Analysing some aspects of the domestic law of indigenous communities of Latin America
- Comparing the punitive measures used in official systems and those used in the native peoples systems

- Defining the scope of the principle of respect for human rights in relation to the principle of respect for cultural diversity

Professor Dr Vicenta Cervelló Doneris

Topic 1. Position of women in Criminal Law

Objectives:
Knowing the situations of women inequality in Criminal Law
- Analysing the most important legislative situations of inequality
- Analysing the most recent case-law on equality and gender in the field of criminal law
- Reflect on equality and discrimination in women prisoners

Topic 2. Criminal protection against gender-based violence

Objectives:
- Knowing the different conceptual differences of family and male violence
- Comparing the different legislative periods of the gender-based violence
- Analysing the different typical elements in case-law

Topic 3. Human rights and deprivation of liberty

Objectives:
- Knowing the human rights situation of imprisoned persons
- Analysing the legal regulation of human rights in prison regulations
- Analysing the violation and mechanisms for the protection of constitutional rights in prisons, detention centres and alien internment centres

Professor Dr Asunción Colás Turégano

Topic 1. Gender-based violence

Objectives:
- Systematic analysis of criminal and extrapenal law
- Study of cases and jurisprudence
- Analysis of policies to prevent gender-based violence
- Comparative study with foreign laws

Topic 2. Rights of minors

Objectives:
- Systematic analysis of criminal law regulation and protection of minors
- Study of cases and jurisprudence
- Study of mechanisms for preventing juvenile delinquency
- Comparative study with foreign laws

Topic 3. Environmental protection

Objectives:
- Systematic analysis of criminal law and administrative regulation in environmental protection
- Study of cases and jurisprudence
- Comparative study with foreign laws

Professors Drs Tomás S. Vives Antón/ Juan C. Carbonell Mateu/ Elena G. Górriz Royo

Topic 1. The protection of rights in the field of criminal law

Objectives:
- Knowing the protection mechanisms
- Comparing the existing legal protection mechanisms in other States
- Analysis of the applicable cases and case-law
- To identify and reflect on possible applicable practices

Topic 2. The principle of legality in criminal proceedings and presumption of innocence

Objectives:
- Knowing the existing issues to give effect to the principle of legality in criminal matters
- Analysing the presumption of innocence as a criterion for application of the criminal legislation
- Reflecting on the presumption of innocence as a rule of judgement and its procedural problems
- Studying the problems to which the presumption of innocence is addressed as a rule of processing
- Knowing the applicable case-law

Topic 3. The principle of proportionality in a broad and narrow sense: in particular, the offending postulate

Objectives:
- Knowing the fields in which this principle can provide protection of fundamental rights
- Analysis of the violations of the offending postulate and of the guarantee function of the legal asset
- Reflecting on the current expansive criminal politics and the extension of the protectable legal assets catalogue

Topic 4. The “ne bis in idem” principle

Objectives:
- Knowing the problems to which this principle is addressed in relation to the newly created “ex novo” crime
- Analysing the issues raised regarding the material perspective of the principle
- Reflect on the problems and improvement proposals related to the procedural aspect
- Analysis of the applicable cases and case-law

Topic 5. The principle of guilt

Objectives:
- Knowing its current fundaments
- Reflecting on relations with the presumption of innocence in various fields
- Analysis of the applicable cases and case-law

Topic 6. The “new dualism” in Criminal Law: the rise of security and the crisis of the principle of guilt.

Objectives:
- Analysing new political and criminal management in which the idea of security is systematically used
- Studying the crisis of the principle of guilt as a limit to the punitive power of the State, and its relation with dignity as basis of the rule of law
- Analysing the “new” way of understanding the relationship between sentences and security measures
- Questioning the constitutionality of the accumulation of legal consequences
Questioning the constitutionality of post-imprisonment measures: freedom under surveillance, safe custody and compliance
- Analysing the case-law regarding the European Court of Human Rights and the IACHR