[Biography, english version]

Javier Jiménez is a Professor of Procedural Law at the University of Valencia (Spain). Further to completing undergraduate studies at University of Valencia, in 1998 he obtained his PhD and was subsequently awarded the Outstanding Doctorate Award in 2000. Javier has been granted a number of scholarships, including from the Austrian Ministry of Education to study at the University of Vienna (Austria) and has enjoyed other research visits to the Universities of Milan (Italy) and Mainz (Germany).

He is the author of the book El recurso de casación para la unificación de doctrina en el proceso laboral (1999) [Appeal for unification of doctrine in the labor process (1999)] and has participated in some fifteen other publications from which the we highlight the following: Hacia una justicia internacional (2000) [Towards International Justice (2000)]; Tutela de los consumidores y usuarios en la Ley de Enjuiciamiento Civil [Protection of consumers and users in the Code of Civil Procedure] – published in 2002 and 2003; Diversidad Cultural: Conflicto y Derecho (2006) [Cultural Diversity: Conflict and Law (2006)]; Secuestro de menores en el ámbito familiar (2008) [Abduction of minors in the family (2008)]; El espacio europeo de libertad, seguridad y justicia (2009) [The European area of freedom, security and justice (2009)]; Estado de Derecho y derechos fundamentales en la lucha contra el terrorismo (2011) [Rule of law and fundamental rights in the fight against terrorism (2011)]; El sistema jurisdiccional de la Unión Europea (2013) [The judicial system of the European Union (2013)]; Competencia, reconocimiento y ejecución de resoluciones extranjeras en la Unión Europea (2016) [Jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of  judgments in other Member States (2016)]. In addition, he has published twenty articles in International and Spanish legal journals on topics related to the labor, civil and criminal proceedings. Javier has also delivered multiple conferences and participated in panel discussions on the International Criminal Tribunal, laws protecting consumers, international judicial protection of human rights and law on criminal proceedings against minors, amongst others. Javier has also contributed to ten interdisciplinary research projects funded by the Ministry of Education and Science, the Department of Culture, Education and Science of the Government of Valencia, and the European Union, addressing various issues ranging from Protection of Industrial Design, ADRs (Alternative Dispute Resolutions) and more recently, Judicial Cooperation and the Principle of Mutual Recognition within the framework of the European Union. In addition, he has supervised doctoral theses, research projects and master dissertations besides sitting at the selection board of examiners to the Judicial System related competitions.

In his teaching practice, further to teaching the subjects of his field of specialization, both at undergraduate and graduate level, he has also taught masters courses on “Derecho, Empresa y Justicia”  ["Law, Justice and Company"], “Estudios Internacionales y de la UE” ["International and EU Studies "], “Derecho y violencia de género” ["Law and gender-based violence"] and “Abogacía” ["Advocacy"]. Since 2012, he is developing an innovative education project in collaboration with ICAV (Law Society of Valencia) together with various judges, consisting on learning through the case study methodology and developing simulated court proceedings (moot court). These methodologies have already been implemented in the “Professional Practice I” course of the Masters in Advocacy. It is also important to highlight his teaching of law research methodology in a number of doctoral courses along with his participation in the programs of the Nau Gran and Unisocietat. In 2016, Javier was awarded the Teaching Excellence Prize awarded by University-Business Foundation ADEIT and the Department of Education of the Government of Valencia (Spain).

Javier has been a member of the University of Valencia Senate, as well as a number of Academic Commissions and also has held a number of academic positions, such as Secretary and subsequently Head of the Administrative and Procedural Law Department. Since 2000, he is an elected member of the Law School Board.

Author of 22 scientific articles, 40 chapters of book and 5 monographs. Investigation centred in the study of the penal process and the human rights, and in the analysis of the justice from the implementation of technicians of management and his consideration like public service. We stand out the following publications: on the penal process, “'Proceso penal y nuevas tendencias del derecho penal: el uso político-criminal del proceso y su preponderante configuración para la aplicación de la norma penal secundaria” (RGDP, 2018), “El nuevo régimen de la incomunicación cautelar en el proceso penal español” (Indret, 2017), “La 'litigiosidad' penal española: ¿es fiable la estadística judicial?” (ReCRIM, 2017), “Generalización de la segunda instancia penal y dotación de tribunales: una prospectiva cuantitativa y valoración al respecto de las reformas del Código Penal y la LECrim” (Diario La Ley, 2016) and the monograph La responsabilidad civil en el proceso penal(La Ley, 2004). On quality of the justice: “Derechos fundamentales, recursos de amparo e incidentes de nulidad como indicadores de la calidad de la justicia en España: un estudio cuantitativo” (Diario La Ley, 2019), “La LO 7/2015: el Juez legal predeterminado, la gestión de los tribunales y su incidencia sobre el acceso a la justicia. ¿La implantación encubierta de los Tribunales Provinciales de Instancia?” (Diario La Ley, 2015). In the field of the civil justice La legitimación en el proceso civil: los titulares del derecho de acción, fundamentos y reglas (Aranzadi, 2014).[Biography, english version]

Virginia Pardo Iranzo is a Professor of Procedural Law at the University of Valencia. She began her career after obtaining a research scholarship which were awarded by the Ministry of Education and Science.

He has carried out research stays at Universities in Germany (Freiburg), Italy (Florence and Genoa), USA (New York), UK (London) and Ireland (Dublin) and teaching stays at Universities in France (Toulouse), Poland (Warsaw) and Bolivia (Santa Cruz de la Sierra). He has lectured both in Spain and abroad (USA, Panama, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Costa Rica, Cuba, Colombia, Bangladesh, etc.).

Her research work covers civil and criminal proceedings and ADR (Mediation, Arbitration and Restorative Justice). She is the author of nine monographs (Ejecución de sentencias de obligaciones de hacer y de no hacer, 2001, La tutela ejecutiva en el procedimiento civil, 3 editions -2004, 2007 and 2011-, La prueba documental en el proceso penal, 2008, La ejecución del laudo arbitral, 2010, Claroscuros de la prueba pericial científica. Los análisis químicos de las sustancias estupefacientes, 2012, La ejecución del acuerdo de mediación, 2014, La supresión del exequatur. Libre circulación de resoluciones en la UE, 2020, Aspectos fundamentales de la Mediación Civil y Mercantil, 2021). The other monoghaph, (Los proceso de ejecución, 2019) was writtenin collaboration with one else author. She has also written many articles and book chapters (making in total more than a hundred publications, among others, Mediación Policial & Community Policing, Revista de Derecho Procesal, iustel, 2023). On European procedural law it is worth mentioning the Direction of the monograph El sistema jurisdiccional de la Unión Europea, 2013.

She has been a member of seven research projects granted by the University of Valencia, the Conselleria de Empresa, Universitat i Ciència, Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia and the European Commission. She has been Principal Investigator of two of them.

As far as the management work is concerned it should be noted that she was been Head of Section in the Vice-Rectorate of participation and territorial projection from January 2015 to May 2018. She was also a member of the Board of the Faculty of Law and of the teaching staff of the Universitat de València. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Revista Brasileira de Direito Processual and of the Revista Iuris Tantum, Revista Boliviana de Derecho.

Finally, regarding the transmission of knowledge and activities outside the University it is worth mentioning that she is President of the Arbitration College at the Consumer Arbitration Board of the Valencian Community since 2012, Member of the Working Group on Interpretation of the Network of Official Forensic Laboratories of Spain (RLFOE) since February 2013, President of the Spanish Chapter of the Pan-American Institute of Procedural Law since 2022.