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 five 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 9 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).

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).

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Marisol Lila, Ph.D., is full Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Valencia, and is member of the Vio-strategy research group (Advanced research strategies on family and gender violence). She has a long research experience in the field of intimate partner violence against women, and has published a large body of literature in national and international journals. She has directed and participated in numerous research projects. Since 2006 she is the director of a Batterer Intervention Program in the University of Valencia (Programa Contexto: a research, training, intervention and prevention program by working with the perpetrator). She is Associate Editor of the journal Psychosocial Intervention.

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Virginia Pardo Iranzo is a Professor of Procedural Law at the University of Valencia. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law (1995) and a PhD in Law (2000) from the same University, where she is a Professor of undergraduate and postgraduate studies. She had a collaboration scholarship (1994) and a research scholarship (FPU, 1996-1999) which were awarded by the Ministry of Education and Science.

He was a visiting researcher at the Universities of Fribourg, Florence, Genoa, New York, London and Dublin and a visiting professor at the Universities of Toulouse (France), Warsaw (Poland) and Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia).

As far as her research work is concerned, she is the author of six monographs: Ejecución de sentencias por obligaciones de hacer y de no hacer in 2001 (‘The Execution of Sentences for Affirmative and Negative Covenants’), La tutela ejecutiva en el procedimiento civil, (‘Legal Protection on the Civil Procedure’) published in three editions in 2004, 2007 and 2011, La prueba documental en el proceso penal in 2008 (‘Documentary Evidence in Criminal Cases’), La ejecución del laudo arbitral (‘Execution of Arbitration Awards’) in 2010, Claroscuros de la prueba pericial científica. Los análisis químicos de las sustancias estupefacientes in 2012 (‘Grey Areas in Scientific Expert Evidence. Chemical Analysis of Narcotic Substances’) and La ejecución del acuerdo de mediación in 2014 (‘Mediation Agreement Execution’). The other monograph, Los procesos de ejecución (‘Execution Processes’) was written in collaboration with Parada Mendía in 2019. She has also written many articles and book chapters, which make a total of almost a hundred publications. Regarding European procedural law, she published the monograph El sistema jurisdiccional de la Unión Europea (‘The Jurisdictional System of the European Union’) in 2013, as well as various articles and chapters of different books on European Union law.

He has been a member of seven research projects. Five of them deal with European procedural issues and they have been supported by the University of Valencia, the Valencian Regional Ministry of Business, University and Science, the Ministry of Education and Science and the European Commission. She has been the main researcher of two of these projects.

As far as the management work is concerned, it should be noted that that she was the head of department (Vicerectorate for Territorial Participation and Protection) from January 2015 to May 2018. She was also a member of the Board of the Faculty of Law and of the teaching staff of the University of Valencia. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Revista Brasileira de Direito Processual (Brazilian Legal Journal on Procedural Law) and of the Revista Iuris Tantum (Bolivian Law Journal).

Finally, regarding knowledge transfer and activities other than the University, it should be noted that she has been an international arbitrator since December 2012, as well as President of the Arbitration Association of the Consumer Arbitration Board of the Valencian Community since 2012 and member of the Spanish Working Group on Interpretation of the Network of Official Forensic Laboratories (RLFOE) since February 2013.

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