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Rosario SERRA CRISTÓBAL is Full-Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Valencia (Spain) and has a Ph. D. in Law (University of Valencia, 1997).

She is member of the Human Rights Institute of the same University, and member of the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL) and of the Spanish Association of Constitutional Law (ACE).

In 2018 she was awarded the prize of academic excellence by the Social Council of the University of Valencia.

Former Associate Dean of the Faculty of Law (2018-2024)

From 1994 she has been member of several R&D projects with public financial support (and she was Project Leader of two of them) on European Union, Relations between regions and the European Union, the Principle of Equality, Regional Parliaments, Latin-American constitutionalism, Women and politics, Intersectional Discrimination, Social Rights within the economic crisis, and Trafficking. Today Rosario Serra is Co-Principal Investigator of the R&D Project on Inclusive Justice.

She is author of several books,

- El Comité Económico y Social de las Comunidades Europeas (Mc Graw-Hill, 1996) (The Economic and Social Committee of the European Communities).

- La guerra de las Cortes: una revisión de la jurisprudencia del Tribunal Supremo a través del recurso de amparo (Tecnos, 1999), (The war of the Courts: a review of the Supreme Court’s case-law through the writ of amparo)

- La libertad ideológica del juez (Tirant lo Blanch, 2004), (Judge's ideological freedom)

- Trata sexual de mujeres. De la represión del delito a la protección de la víctima (Ministerio de Justicia, 2007) (Sexual trafficking of women. From law enforcement to protection of the victim)

- Prostitución y Trata. Marco Jurídico y Régimen de derechos (Coord.) (Tirant lo Blanch, 2007) (Prostitution and Trafficking. Legal Framework and System of Rights)

- La Selección de los Jueces en Estados Unidos (Thomson-Civitas, 2011) (The appointment of Judges in USA)

- Multidiscriminación en los ordenamientos jurídicos español y europeo (Coord.) (Tirant lo Blanch, 2012) (Multidiscrimination in Spain and Europe)

- (Co-autor) Rights and Freedoms in the Spanish Constitution, Valencia, Tirant lo Blanch, 2015.

- La seguridad como amenaza (Tirant lo Blanch 2020) (Security as a treaht)

She is author of articles in journals/periodicals and participations in books on Constitutional Law on fundamental rights, participation, civil society, judicial power, citizen’s representation in parliaments, trafficking and terrorism/data protection, national security, fake news.

Her resumé includes stays as visiting researcher at: University of Minnesota (EEUU), Université de Montpellier (Francia), Université Libre de Bruxelles (Bélgica), Université Catholique de Louvain-la Neuve (Bélgica), Universita “La Sapienza” (Roma), Instituto Internacional de Derechos Humanos de Estrasburgo (Francia), la Académie internacional de Droit Constitutionnel (Túnez), Cardozzo School of Law (NYC-EEUU)

Her last participations in international Conferences or Congresses were in:

- “Have we the right to know we are being spied?”, XII Congress of the Spanish Association of Constitutional Law, 3-4 April 2014, Salamanca, Spain.

- “The impact of Counter-terrorism Security Measures on Fundamental Rights”, IX World Congress of Constitutional Law, Oslo 2014.

- "Privacy and counter-terrorism in the digital era", Milan 2016.

- "Las relaciones entre el Derecho Anglosajón y el Derecho Latinoamericano”,Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 2016.

- "Surveillance on data and electronic communications in the counter-terrorism fight in Spain", Paris 2016.

- “Trafficking as a form of violence against women”, Equality, Gender and Violence, University Castilla-La Mancha, 2017, Spain.

- “Surveillance of cross border passing”, in Journey on International protection on individuals and data, Castellón, Spain.

- "Processing personal data on Eu cross-border movements to fight terrorism", 10th World Congress of Constitutional Law, University, Seúl, Korea. June, 2018

- "Respuestas del pasado a la amenaza del terrorismo vs. nuevos planteamientos", International Congress “Espacios globales y seguridad: Estrategas de respuesta española”, University of Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 2018.

- "El control de los mensajes terroristas en internet”, IX International Seminar on Security and Defense. University of Jaén. October, 2020.

Professor of Philosophy of Law. Teacher at the Department of Philosophy of Law and Politics and researcher at the Institute of Human Rights. Graduate and Doctor in Law from the Universitat de València Estudi General. She has been director of the University Institute of Human Rights at the University of Valencia (2005-2010) and Secretary General of the University (2010-2018).

Ph degree in Law (1986), six five-year teaching periods and six six-year research periods.

Her research deals with topics specific to the philosophy of law and human rights. Among them: interpretation and argumentation in human rights, social rights, equality and anti-discrimination law, immigration, law and gender perspective, access to justice, theory of law and legal argumentation.

In the research field, her doctoral thesis received the national prize for social and political theses from the Centre for Constitutional Studies in 1987. Her research deals with topics specific to the philosophy of law and human rights. Among them: interpretation and argumentation in human rights, social rights, equality and anti-discrimination law, immigration, law and gender perspective, access to justice, theory of law and legal argumentation. She is the author of articles in specialized journals, book chapters and monographs in the aforementioned thematic areas. She is the director of seven doctoral theses. She has been a member of numerous research projects, most notably: Consolider-Ingenio-2010: "The Age of Human Rights" (HURI-AGE) led by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and including 12 human rights research groups. Principal researcher of two projects on human rights, integration and global justice within the framework of the Prometeo programme for groups of excellence of the Generalitat Valenciana, she has also carried out her research within the framework of national R+D+I programmes since 1993 without interruption.

He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Valencia in subjects related to the area of knowledge: theory of law, philosophy of law, legal sociology, legal argumentation and human rights since 1984. As well as teaching in the third cycle in masters and doctoral programmes in different Spanish and Latin American universities. Currently, he has a Master's Degree in Law, Business and Justice, a Master's Degree in Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice and a Master's Degree in Law and Gender Violence.

Doctoral Advisor of 11 Ph Thesis

Teaching innovation projects: Educational innovation in the double degree Administration and management of companies and law (2004-2008), Design of materials for interdisciplinary learning of the sources of law (2007-2011), Human rights and cooperative learning in the acquisition of generic competences (2012-2015), Promotion of the mainstreaming of human rights in the UV law degree (2022-2023)

She has directed the Journal Anuario de Filosofía del Derecho (2006-2015), Cuadernos Electrónicos de Filosofía del Derecho and is coordinator of the publication Teoría y Derecho. Revista de Pensamiento Jurídico, since 2007. She is a member of many editorial committees, participates in the evaluation of research projects of different agencies and has been a member of academic juries in the legal field.

Institutional responsibilities. Secretary of the Department of Philosophy of Law (1993-1998). Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law (1998-2001). Director of the Human Rights Institute (2005-2010). Secretary General of the University of Valencia (2010-2018).