[Biography, english version]

Professor of Civil Law at the University of Valencia.

She has been awarded several prizes: Prize for legal studies of the Real Academia Valenciana de Jurisprudencia y Legislación (2020), for the monograph entitled “Sistemas privados de información crediticia. Nueva regulación entre la protección de datos y el crédito responsable”, Tirant Lo Blanch, 2021. Savis en Dret Award (2012), granted by the Universitat de València and the Generalitat Valenciana, as coordinator and co-author of the work "El régimen económico matrimonial de la Comunidad Valenciana", Tecnos, 2010. Award for Teaching Excellence, from the Social Council of the University of Valencia and the Department of Education, Research, Culture and Sport of the Generalitat Valenciana (2016).

She is author of the books: ¿Una habitación propia? Arrendamiento y propiedad en la ley por el derecho a la vivienda  (Marcial Pons, Madrid, 2024). Sistemas privados de información crediticia. Nueva regulación entre la protección de datos y el crédito responsable (Tirant Lo Blanch, Valencia, 2021). Problemas de valoración y precio en las viviendas de protección oficial (Tirant Lo Blanch, Valencia, 2014), La tercería de dominio ante el embargo de bienes gananciales (Tirant Lo Blanch, Valencia, 2009), La revisión judicial de las cláusulas penales (Tirant Lo Blanch, Valencia, 1995) and El nuevo régimen jurídico de las aguas (Tirant Lo Blanch, Valencia, 1993). He has also written more than 100 articles and contributions to collective books in prestigious journals and publishing houses on subjects related to civil law (credit information systems, real estate credit, housing, insurance contracts, data protection, matrimonial property law, valencian civil law, leases, agrarian law, property, inheritance, mediation, etc.). His main lines of research include those related to the economic regime of marriage, housing, credit guarantees, data protection, Valencian civil law and agricultural law.

Throughout her career as a researcher, she has taken part in numerous R&D projects funded by the Ministry of Education and the Generalitat Valenciana on property law, banking contracts, legal persons, Valencian and European private law, insurance contracts and corporate social responsibility. Currently, she is Director of the UV Registered Research Group "Wellfare, Insurance and Pensions" (WIP) -GIUV2017-399-. She participates in the Editorial Board and as an external evaluator of several legal journals.

She has been a post-doctoral researcher at the following universities: King's College (London); University of London. Institute of Advanced Legal Studies; Università degli Studi di Firenze; Università "La Sapienza" (Rome); Universidad Autónoma de Santiago de Chile.

Since the beginning of her activity she has been actively involved in educational innovation tasks, directing teaching innovation projects continuously since the 2012-2013 academic year. She is currently Director of the UV's Registered Consolidated Teaching Innovation Group GCID23_2577597 (Legal manuals and teaching materials 3.0).

She has also collaborated as coordinator and author in numerous teaching publications, organising and directing educational innovation conferences, and in coordination and management positions in the European Higher Education Area.

He has taught training courses for the specialization of judges and magistrates, civil administration officials, insurance mediators and lawyers. Consultant for the UOC (Open University of Catalonia) and guest lecturer in the doctoral program of the Autonomous University of Chile.

In the field of management, she has been Vice-Dean for Quality, Training, Culture and Social Projection of the Faculty of Law of the University of Valencia, from March 2018 to the present, and an elected member of the Board of the Faculty of Law, representing the Permanent Teaching Staff, since 2014. Previously, she was Secretary of the Master's Degree in Law Practice UVEG-ICAV, member of the CCA of the Master's Degree in Mediation, Arbitration and Conflict Management in Private Law and Secretary of the Department of Civil Law, among other positions.

She was a member, as a jurist of recognised prestige, of the Advisory Commission on Valencian Civil Law of the Generalitat Valenciana (DOGV Núm. 8397, de 4/10/2018).

Non-practicing Lawyer of the Illustrious Bar Association of Valencia since March 14, 2011. Arbitrator of the Consumer Arbitration Board of the Generalitat Valenciana.

Orcid: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0002-6976-7053

[Biography, english version]

Dr Clara PORTELA specialises in International Relations and teaches Political Science at the Law School of the University of Valencia, having previously served as a professor at Singapore Management University and as a research fellow with the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) in Paris. Her research focuses on multilateral sanctions, arms control and EU foreign policy. She holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence and an MA from the Free University of Berlin. She is the recipient of the THESEUS Award for Promising Research on European Integration, and her article with M. Onderco on 'External Drivers of Differentiated Co-operation' in EU foreign policy was shortlisted for the 2024 Bernard Brodie Prize. Clara Portela was the inaugural Konrad Adenauer Visiting Scholar at Carleton University's Centre for European Studies in Ottawa, Canada. Previously, she was a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, SciencesPo Grenoble, SciencesPo Lyon, SciencesPo Paris, Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo and the University of Innsbruck. She has consulted for the European Commission, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain, the Office of the Prime Minister of Finland, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan, and has advised the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and the European Parliament as well as civil society organisations like Transparency International, Democracy Reporting, Civil Forum for Asset Recovery and Small Arms Survey. She has contributed to the training of diplomatic staff and international civil servants in the executive programmes offered by the Graduate Institute in Geneva, the School of Transnational Governance in Florence, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Gustavo Guerrero Diplomatic Institute of El Salvador and the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam.  

Recent publications include: 

Portela, C./ Onderco, M. / Vignoli, V., Does CFSP co-ordination foster convergence? Voting behavior on nuclear weapons at the UN General Assembly?, Contemporary Security Policy, 46(4), (2025), 1171-1196, https://doi.org/10.1080/13523260.2025.2551632

Portela, C./ J.S. Mora-Sanguinetti, Aid Sanctions and Hybrid Regimes, Journal of Development Studies, 61(10), (2025) 1555-1578, https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2025.2481878

Palestini, S./ C. Portela, The Global South and the contestation of unilateral sanctions against Russia, Cooperation and Conflict, online first. https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/DVHBMS3ZFWEMVTGEIDP6/full

Holesch, A./ C. Portela, Money talks? The effectiveness of sanctions in the Rule of Law conflict in the European Union, Journal of Common Market Studies (2025) 63(4), 1178-1196. http://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13693

Portela, C., The war over Ukraine and the transformation of EU governance, European Papers, 8(3), (2023), 1125-30, https://www.europeanpapers.eu/en/system/files/pdf_version/EP_EF_2023_I_035_Clara_Portela_00706.pdf

Portela, C./ J.S. Mora-Sanguinetti, Sanctions effectiveness, development and regime type, World Development 172, (2023), https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0305-750X(23)00188-2

Portela, C., Logiques des sanctions de l’Union européenne contre la Russie au sujet de l’Ukraine. Études Internationales, 54(2) (2023), 287–310.

Borzyskowski, I./ C. Portela, Global Governance from Below. Regional sanctions as drivers of UN sanctions, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 67(10) (2023), 1930-58, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00220027231153565

Portela, C./ A. Charron, The evolution of databases in the age of targeted sanctions, International Studies Review, 25(1), (2023), https://academic.oup.com/isr/article-abstract/25/1/viac061/6987069?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Onderco, M./ C. Portela, External drivers of EU differentiated cooperation: How change in the nuclear nonproliferation regime affects member states alignment, Contemporary Security Policy, 44(1) (2023), 150-75. [shortlisted for 2024 Bernard Brodie Prize], https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13523260.2022.2146336?tab=permissions&scroll=top

Portela, C., Are EU GSP withdrawals and CFSP sanctions becoming alike?, European Foreign Affairs Review, 28 (2023), 35-52, https://kluwerlawonline.com/journalarticle/European+Foreign+Affairs+Review/28.Special%20%20[pre-publication]/EERR2023013

Charron, A./ C. Portela (eds.) Multilateral Sanctions Revisited, Montreal: McGill Queens University Press, 2022.

Portela, C./ JL. Romanet Perroux, UN Sanctions and Mediation in Libya: Synergy or obstruction?, Global Governance 28(2) (2022), 228-250. https://brill.com/view/journals/gg/28/2/article-p228_5.xml

Portela, C./ T. Van Laer, The design and impact of individual sanctions: Evidence from elites in Côte d’Ivoire and Zimbabwe, Politics and Governance, 10(1) (2022), 26–35. https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/4745

Portela, C., EU-Sanktionen gegen Russland: Ein Überblick über Evaluierungspraxis, Osteuropa 71 (10-12) (2022), 103-113.

Portela, C./ P. Pospieszna/ J. Skrzypczyńska/ D. Walentek, Consensus against all odds: Explaining the persistence of EU sanctions on Russia, Journal of European Integration, 43(6) (2021), 683-99. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07036337.2020.1803854