Prof. Andrés Gascón Cuenca, Ph.D., (extraordinary doctorate award from the University of Valencia in 2018), is a researcher at the Institute of Human Rights, the Co-director of the Legal Clinic for Social Justice of the Faculty of Law, and a professor at the Department of Philosophy of Law and Politics, all of them structures of the University of Valencia.

His main research areas are the philosophy of law that looks into the theory of recognition, the protection of human rights in the context of social minorities (especially with regard to hate speech, racism, xenophobia, and racial profiling), access to justice and legal clinical education.

He has publications in which he has analyzed the reception of international standards against hate speech in the Spanish legal system, negationism, theories of justice and its development in legal clinical, among others.

He is an elected member of the board of directors of the Global Alliance for Justice in Education (GAJE), secretary of the. review Cuadernos Electrónicos de Filosofía del Derecho and member of the editorial board of Anuario de Filosofía del Derecho.

[Biography, english version]

[Biography, english version]

José Antonio García Sáez is professor for Philosophy of Law and Politics Department of the University of Valencia. He is also a member of the Human Rights Institute and the Legal Clinic for Social Justice at the same university. He is member of the Steering Comitee of the review Anuario de Filosofia del Derecho. He is the main researcher of the European Project EDUCAP (Multiplying Educational Capacities to Combat Sexual Violence Against Children).

He completed his doctoral thesis under the direction of Professor Cristina García Pascual (2009-2014) with an FPU grant from the Ministry of Education. He received the Luis Díez del Corral 2014 Prize for Doctoral Theses in History of Ideas and Political Forms, Political Policy Theory and Political Philosophy granted by the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies.

He has been a full-time professor at the Autonomous University of Coahuila, Mexico, where he coordinated the Center for Strategic Litigation and several legal clinics in Human Rights Clinics (2015-2016). He has also been a professor in the Philosophy of Law Area of ​​the Autonomous University of Madrid (2017-2018).

His main research fields are the philosophy of international law, the history of international relations, the problems for protecting of human rights in a globalized world, and legal education.

His publications can be found at:

• academia.edu
• Dialnet
• Google Scholar