Professor Dr Rafael Bellido Penadés

Topic 1. Constitutional principles and rights in the proceedings

Objectives:
- Knowing the content and extent of some constitutional principles and/or rights in one or some proceeding types
- Basic bibliographical review of the topic
- Analysis of the cases and existing case-law
- Reflecting on the field of study and the problems arisen

Topic 2. The judicial protection of basic rights in the recurso de casación civil (appeal to the highest instance)

Objectives:
- Knowing the extension of the scope of this appeal concerning the basic rights which are eligible for protection
- Basic bibliographical review of the topic
- Analysis of the cases and existing case-law
- Reflecting on the field of study and the problems arisen

Topic 3. The protection of fundamental rights and the new admission procedure of the action for enforcement of rights

Objectives:
- Analysing the new admission procedure of the action for enforcement of rights
- Comparing it with the system established in other foreign jurisdiction
- Analysis of the cases and existing case-law
- Reflecting on the existing practise

Topic 4. Criminal proceedings and fundamental rights

Professor Dr Ricardo Juan Sánchez

Topic 1. Access to justice

Objectives:
- Analysing the concept and foundations of the right to access to justice
- Determining the minimum content of the right to access to justice with the international standard of human rights
- Analysing the right to access to justice as an instrument of other rights
- Analysing and comparing policies on access to justice in the European Union
- Analysing restriction policies on the right to access to justice in Spain
- Analysing the private enforcement and public enforcement phenomena as essential manifestations of promoting justice

Topic 2. Criminal proceedings and restriction on fundamental rights

Objectives:
- Analysing the basis of the fundamental rights restriction in the framework of criminal proceedings
- Determining the limits of the fundamental rights restrictions according to the international standards on human rights
- Determining the consequences of the undue restrictions on fundamental rights in criminal proceedings
- Determining and analysing the new ways of fundamental rights restriction in the proceedings through the use of new technologies
- Analysing the proposals to reform the Spanish criminal proceedings and its impact on fundamental rights
- Analysing the applicable principles to the procedural adoption of safety measures

Professor Dr Elena Martínez García

Topic 1. Law and Gender-based violence: Keys to social transformation

Objectives:
- Knowing the universality of gender conflict, its roots and its meaning in our constitutional context
- Knowing the complexity and cross-cutting nature of this type of violence and its ways of prevention and eradication in the context of the Organic Law 1/2004, of 29 December.
- Knowing the problems that its prevention and eradication offer in the European and International context

Topic 2. Restorative Justice: The transformation of the nineteenth-century procedural model

Objectives:
- Analysing the Restorative Justice formulas as an exercise of freedom
- Knowing the limits and risks of imbalances in social structures and the extent of mass litigation phenomenon
- Analysing the Restorative Justice in the context of the different proceeding types in
Spain

Topic 3. Guardianship of supra-individual interests in the 20th century

Objectives:
- Knowing the concepts of social interest vs. individual interest and making a constitutional and ideological delimitation
- Analysing the globalisation phenomenon as a mass phenomenon and the consequent transformation of the instruments protecting the collective and general interests
- To reconcile the concepts of Restorative Justice and supra-individual interests