Andrés Gascón Cuenca holds a PhD in Law, awarded with the Extraordinary Doctoral Prize by the University of Valencia in 2018. He is a researcher at the Institute of Human Rights and co-director of the Legal Clinic for Social Justice at the Faculty of Law. He is also a professor in the Department of Philosophy of Law and Politics at the University of Valencia. 

He has been associated with the university since 2011, initially as a pre-doctoral researcher (2011–13), then as a senior research technician (2014–17), subsequently as a postdoctoral researcher (2017–19), then as an assistant professor (2019–23), and finally as an associate professor since 2023.

His main areas of research are the philosophy of law, particularly the theory of recognition; the protection of human rights in relation to social minorities, with a focus on hate speech, racism, xenophobia and ethnic profiling; access to justice; and legal-clinical education.

He has published works analysing the reception of international standards on hate speech in the Spanish legal system, denialism, theories of justice and their development in the legal-clinical environment, and jurisprudential criticism in the guarantee of minority rights, to name a few. An updated list of these publications can be found on Dialnet or Google Scholar.

He has conducted research stays at the universities of Mainz (Germany), Deusto, Carlos III in Madrid and Brescia (Italy), and has been invited as a visiting researcher by the University of Turin (Italy).

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

He has a positive evaluation of:

• two six-year period of research (sexennium) and
• one period of teaching merit evaluation (quinquenium)