Patricia Llopis Nadal is Associate Professor (Lecturer) of Procedural Law at University of Valencia. She completed her Law Degree (2012), her LLM in International and European Union Studies (2014) and her PhD in Law (2017) -all of them with honors, at University of Valencia and was awarded the Academic Excellence Scholarship by the Valencian Government.

Since joining the Law School, she has taught Civil Procedural Law and Criminal Procedural Law at the Degree and double Degrees in Law -being, since 2018, professor of the AR group, whose teaching is entirely in English. Furthermore, she teaches at the LLM in Criminology and Security, the LLM in Law and Gender-based Violence and the LLM in International and European Studies. She is part of the Innovative Teaching Group “Moot Court at the UV”, coaching teams in moot competitions and sharing her experience in educational innovation workshops; besides, she has been an active member of other innovative teaching projects awarded by different Spanish universities. She was coordinator of the first and the second edition of the Summer School for Young Researchers organized by the Law School and is part of the Inter-University Network for the research and teaching of Procedural Law in English.

Her research has been focused on supranational courts, copyrights legal protection, the protection of rights in the digital realm and judicial cooperation in criminal matters. She was awarded with the XVII Manuel Broseta’s Prize for her research on legal protection of Fundamental Rights in Europe and her research on copyrights protection against infringements on the Internet was awarded with V Antonio Delgado’s Prize. As a result of her work as researcher, she has published two books as well as book chapters and papers in specialized reviews and she has actively participated in national and international conferences. She has obtained grants to complete her research at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg (four times) and at Paris-Sorbonne University. Furthermore, she has taken part in six research projects -five national-funded and one regional-funded, on class actions and efficiency, legal safeguards in criminal proceedings and rights legal protection in the digital environment.

After being elected in November 2015 as representative of Researchers in Training, she joined the University Senate, the Governing Council and the Statutes Committee until the end of 2017. In addition, she has taken part in the Law School’s Temporary Hiring Board for the academic year 2023-2024. She is currently a member of the Academic Coordination Committee of the LLM in International and European Studies -being in charge of its secretariat between April 2020 and December 2023. Finally, since May 2024, she has been part of the Law School’s Management Team, where she is Vice-Dean of Postgraduate Studies and Lifelong Learning.