The Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and the Legislation and the Pro Royal Academy Case-law and Legislation awarded the prestigious San Raimundo of Peñafort Prize, in its VIII Edition, to professor José Miguel Embid and the grant holder of research Paula del Val, of the Manuel Broseta Commercial Law Pont Department of Universitat de València.
The awarded work is titled “Corporative social responsibility and capital companies rights: between legislative regulation and soft law”.
The award will be given in a public event which will be celebrated in Madrid, and the Academy will edit the work. The expression “corporative social responsibility” includes a number of internships voluntarily performed by the enterprises (about all, the greatest listed companies in stock), external, commonly, to profitable aim which characterise them due to their action on the market. These internships distinguish themselves because they favour the sustainability, they promote a demanding compliance in the existing legislation or to promote some actions on venture philanthropy, among other aims.
Nowadays, the corporative social responsibility constitutes a relevant phenomenon which has an impact on several branches of the legal system and, specially, in the right of companies law. The work attempts to outline its characters, its possible integration in social interest of enterprises, the controversial training of customs binding for those who practice it and, in the end, its articulation in the organizational and functional framework of companies law. There is reference, in regard to this, to issues of so much interest as the socially responsible investment or gender equality in the government of the enterprises, among many other questions, which gives the study a significant grown.
Paula of the Val Talens is a scholar research student of the Ministry of Economy and Finance. She is developing her scientific activity in the Manuel Broseta Pont Department of Mercantile Law of Universitat de València in the framework of the DER2013-44438-P “Typological renovation in the contemporary company law” project. She graduated in Law at Universitat de València; then she studied a Master’s degree in Law, Business and Justice, and she achieved an Extraordinary Award. Nowadays, she is writing her doctoral thesis under the leadership of José Miguel Embid in the framework of the programme in Law, Political Science and Criminology. She is focusing her researcher activity in the corporate governance of companies law, that is an activity which had the presentation of conferences in various congresses as result, as well as the publication of a number of relevant works in collective books and prestigious journals, as the “Revista de Derecho Mercantil” (Commercial Law Journal), “Cuadernos de Derecho y Comercio” (Commercial Law Notebook) or the “Revista de Derecho Bancario y Bursátil” (Banking and Securities Law Journal).
