The magistrate specialised in gender-based violence, Lucía Avilés, will give a lecture on women’s rights and gender-based violence on Friday 31 March at the Faculty of Law.

On 31 March, the closing ceremony of the Master’s Degree will take place at 11:00 a.m., in Lecture Room 3P08 (Víctor Fairén Guillén Assembly Hall), third floor of the Departmental Building of the Faculty of Law.

The closing event will feature a presentation by Judge Lucía Avilés, with whom we will be able to discuss the paradigm of gender-based violence.

Lucía Avilés is a magistrate at the 2nd Criminal Court of Mataró (Barcelona), and is a founding member of the Association of Women Judges of Spain, a corporation that works to advance human rights and equal justice between people of different genders.

Avilés is an expert in gender-based violence and has given training in criminal matters, gender-based violence, sexual violence and prosecution with a gender perspective in the European Parliament, in the Government Delegation against Gender-Based Violence, in the Ministry of Equality, in the General Council of the Judiciary, in bar associations, law enforcement authorities, and in various national and international universities.

Admission to the conference is free of charge for the entire university community up to full capacity of the hall.