On the last 13 March, the former student of the Master Degree’s in Law, Business and Justice (1st edition) defended her P.h.D thesis: The electronic legal notification: guarantees of the right to defective judicial protection and challenges to the administration of justice in Spain.

The thesis conducted by Dr. Lorenzo Cotino Hueso, Professor of Constitutional Law at the Universitat de València, aims to study the practice of electronic judicial notifications from three facets: the constitutional dimension of the same and its effects on effective judicial protection; the procedural facet in relation to the requirements and effects on the development of the process; and the administrative perspective, which involves analysing the challenges and requirements of the implementation of electronic media in this field. All this, with the aim of diagnosing problems, finding solutions and detecting opportunities in the generalization of electronic notification in Spain.

The Tribunal that evaluated the doctoral thesis was composed of: Dr. Arianna Vedaschi, professor of Constitutional and Comparative Law at the Università Bocconi (Milan, Italy); Dr. Arianna Vedaschi, professor of Constitutional and Comparative Law at the University of Bocconi (Milan, Italy);. Dr. Joaquín Delgado Martín, Magistrate and Director General of Relations with the Administration of Justice (Ministry of Justice, Madrid) as Member; and Dr. Isaac Martín Delgado, Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, who acted as Secretary.

All of them highlighted the quality and exhaustiveness of the thesis and its magnificent doctrinal and jurisprudential study. In particular, they expressed the particular difficulty of the transversality of the work and its interdisciplinary analysis of a figure in constant evolution, which constitutes an essential element of the modernization of Spanish justice. Consequently, the members of the Tribunal unanimously awarded the thesis the distinction of Outstanding Cum Laude and International Mention.

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