Alberto Alonso Rimo is full professor of criminal law at the School of Law of the University of Valencia (Spain). He holds a degree in law (prize for distinction) and a Phd in law (prize for outstanding doctoral dissertation) from the University of Valencia (Spain).

He is author and editor of several books and he has published a large number of papers (see in detail below). The results of his research have been presented through seminars and lectures at numerous national and international universities and research centres (including, amongst others, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, General Council of the Spanish judicial authority, Max Planck Institut de Freiburg, Örebro University, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Istanbul University, Universidad de Medellín, Universidad de La Habana, Costa Rican Judiciary, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Universidad de Oriente, Koç University Law School, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú).

He has been visiting researcher in several foreign Universities and research Centres as Harvard University (USA), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität (Freiburg, Germany), Università di Modena (Italy), Max-Planck-Institut für Strafrecht (Germany), Columbia University (USA), New York University (USA) and Oxford University (UK).

His research activity has been carried out in the framework of 15 competitive and funded research projects, some of them international. Since 2015 he leads a research group at the University of Valencia on criminal law and security. Other of his research areas are: inchoate and pre-inchoate offences, the role of the victim in the criminal justice system, means rea and criminal law, terrorism offences and fundamental rights, criminalization of social protest, restorative justice, sexual offences, criminal security measures, crimes against road safety, public disorders.

He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Criminal Law I (General Part) and Criminal Law II (Special Part), and he has also taught Victimology, Penitentiary Law, Criminal Policy and Constitution and Criminal Law.

Director of numerous postgraduate courses at the University of Valencia and several doctoral theses, he has participated in multiple university teaching innovation projects, two of them as director.

He has worked as a deputy judge in Spain.

ALICIA ARMENGOT VILAPLANA is Professor of Procedural Law at the University of Valencia. She has a Doctor of Law from this University since 2001, with an extraordinary award.

It has been recognized for 5 five-year teaching periods and 3 six-year research periods. 

He has participated in Teaching Innovation Projects since 2009 and has coordinated the stable teaching innovation group “Moot Court of the University of Valencia” since 2014.

She is the author of three monographs: The civil judicial protection of intellectual property (2002); The accused in the criminal process (2013); Towards the reconstruction of collective action (2020). He has written multiple legal articles and has participated in collective works: The criminal process in the doctrine of the Constitutional Court (1981-2004), Aranzadi, 2005. The Extraordinary Appeal for Procedural Infraction, La Ley, 2013. The Civil Cassation Appeal, La Ley, 2014. Comments on the Intellectual Property Law, Tirant Lo Blanch, 2017. Access to justice and guarantee of rights in times of crisis, Tirant Lo Blanch, 2018.

She has been a researcher in numerous Research and Development (R&D) Projects, both national and regional, and related to both civil and criminal proceedings. He is currently the IP of a Ministry Project related to the Instruments of Civil Justice against the phenomenon of mass litigation.

The lines of research that he has developed have focused on the study of instruments of civil judicial protection of intellectual property rights; in precautionary protection; in the study of the status of the accused in criminal proceedings; the organization of the appeal system before the high courts; and the procedural challenges in situations of massive litigation.

During his research career he has carried out research staysat prestigious universities such as the Université Lyon-3 Jean Moulin (Lyon, France), the Università degli Studi di Bologna (Bologna, Italy), the Institüt für Deutsches und Ausländisches Zivilprozessrecht (Freiburg im. Br., Germany) and the “Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne” in Paris.

He has participated as a teacher in international training programs such as the Master's Degree in “Criminal Law and Criminal Procedural Law” at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in La Paz (Bolivia) and in the Doctorate in Criminal Law and Constitutional Law taught at the Postgraduate and International Relations Unit of the same University.

She has held the position of Vice-Dean of Academic Organization of the Faculty of Law of the University of Valencia from March 2009 to March 2012. She has been coordinator of the double degree program in Business Administration and Law. She is currently the Director of the Master's Degree in Law and Procurement.

Graduate in Law from the University of Valencia (2008). Extraordinary Bachelor's Award. Degree in Political Science and Administration from the University of Valencia (2008). Extraordinary Bachelor's Award. Special mention to the academic performance of the Generalitat Valenciana (2007/2008 academic year). XIII Manuel Broseta Pont University Legal Studies Prize, convened by the Professor Manuel Broseta Foundation, with the sponsorship of the Royal Valencian Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation (2009). Doctor of Law from the University of Valencia (2025). Excellent cum laude unanimously. Specialization Diploma in Valencian Civil Law by the University of Valencia (2025).

Practicing lawyer, specialized in Property Law, between 2008 and 2025.

Author of the monograph The compulsory donation and its legal regime,Editorial Reus, 2025.

Author of several book chapters in renowned publishing houses, among which stand out: "The de facto repeal of art. 1056 of the Spanish Civil Code. Criticism of the jurisprudential and registry interpretation relative to the partition of the inheritance made by the testator", in Los retos del Derecho de Sucesiones en Europa, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2026, pp. 385-406; "The management of the profit society", in GPS Familia, Tirant lo Blanch, 2026, pp. 515-545; "Acceptance of donations by minors. Between the autonomy of the minor and the duty of the parents to protect their superior interest", in The personal and patrimonial situation of the minor before the law today, Colex, Madrid, 2025, pp. 572-611; "Comments on articles 435 to 449", in Comments on the Bolivian Civil Code. Book three: Of the obligations. Part one: Of the obligations in general,Tirant lo Blanch, 2025, pp. 655-735; "Atypical claims for payment of compensation for domestic work under article 1438 CC", in Entre persona y familia, Reus, 2024, pp. 665-683; and "The protection of the interests of the minor donor", in Age as a factor of vulnerability: present and future challenges in the field of private law, Aranzadi, 2023, pp. 431-446.

Author of several research articles in legal journals of recognized prestige and impact, among which stand out: "The mandatory donation in Spanish jurisprudence", in Actualidad Jurídica Iberoamericana, 22, 2025, pp. 416-461; "The form of atypical free contracts: the border between exigible obligations and duties of conscience", in Revista Boliviana de Derecho, 39, 2025, pp. 168-199; "The revocation of donations for the imputation of crimes to the donor. An interpretative proposal of article 648.2.º CC", in Revista de Derecho Patrimonial, 65, 2024; "The translational effectiveness of the donation in the Civil Code in the light of the historical and legislative antecedents", in Civil Law Yearbook, 2024, pp. 1181-1284; "Quantificación y pago de la compensación por trabajo domestico del article 1438 CC in the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court", in Revista Boliviana de Derecho, 37, 2024, pp. 132-159; "Notes on the utility of donation-partition and bilateral partition in Common Civil Law", in Actualidad Jurídica Iberoamericana, 20 extra, 2024, pp. 288-319; and "Free distributions of property in the framework of marital separations", in Actualidad Jurídica Iberoamericana, 17 extra, 2023, pp. 1546-1573.

He has taught (in Valencian and Spanish)in numerous subjects of Civil Law in various degrees at the University of Valencia: Degree in Law, Degree in Criminology, Degree in Labor Relations and Human Resources, Degree in Tourism, Double Degree in Law and Political Science and Public Administration, Double Degree in Law and Economics, Master's Degree in Advocacy, Master's Degree in Advocacy and Procuring, Master's Degree in Business Law (Commercial Labor and Tax Advisory) and Master's Degree in Mediation, Arbitration and Conflict Management in Private Law.

He is currently a PhD Assistant Professor in the Civil Law Department of the University of Valencia.

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Associate professor in Procedural Law Department. Degree in Law and in Business Administration (University of Valencia, 2009),  Executive Master in Business Law (Centro de Estudios Garrigues, 2012), Master's Degree in Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice (University of Valencia, 2014) and PhD in Law (University of Valencia, 2018).

Her current research focuses on procedural mechanisms for the protection of human rights, both judicial and extrajudicial, an area in which the study on the protection of environmental rights through the criminal justice system should be highlighted. She has also worked on other aspects related to procedural rights and guarantees, such as the right to defence, the right to appeal or the admissibility of witness evidence, among others. She has been visiting researcher in the following centres: Universidad Central de Chile, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg), Centre for Environmental and Global Justice (Northumbria University), Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (University of Oslo), International Association Human Rights Institute (London).

Member of the MEDARB research group at the University of Valencia and Head of the Criminal Procedural Law Section of the Ibero-American Law Institute. She has participated in several research projects, including Prometeo GVA 2018/111 "Claves de la justicia civil y penal en la sociedad del miedo", Prometeo GVA 2014/081 "ADR y Justicia: ¿'Glocalización o glocalización?" and "Claves para una justicia digital y algorítmica con perspectiva de género" (PID2021-123170OB-I00) of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

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ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Law degree from the University of Valencia in 1982.

Doctorate courses in the Department of Criminal Law: 1988/89 and 1989/90.

Certificate of Research Proficiency obtained on May 17, 1991.

QUALIFICATIONS

Qualifications as a Lawyer Specializing in Juvenile Criminal Law and as a Lawyer Specializing in Gender Violence.

Master's Degree in Civil, Commercial, Community, and Criminal Mediation..

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Practicing lawyer from January 1983 to the present. Mainly criminal law matters.

CORPORATE ACTIVITY RELATED TO LAW

Second Deputy of the Valencia Bar Association, elected on October 26, 2012, until February 2017, with responsibilities in lawyer training and on the Committee for Relations with the Administration of Justice.

Member of the academic coordination committee for the UV-ICAV Master's Degree in Law from February 2013 to February 2017.

Councillor for the Valencian Council of Bar Associations of the Valencian Community from February 2013 to February 2017, with responsibilities in the training of lawyers in the Valencian Community.

Member of the subcommittee on money laundering prevention of the General Council of Spanish Lawyers, 2016-2017.

Coordinator of the Icav 2018 expert degree in socio-economic criminal law (in progress).

UNIVERSITY TEACHING ACTIVITY

Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Law at the University of Valencia.

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She is currently Professor of Civil Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Valencia and Collaborating Professor of Civil Law at the Open University of Catalonia. Graduate and doctor at the University of Valencia with the thesis The faculty of building on developable land defended on October 30, 2002.

His lines of research focus on personal law, especially childhood and the elderly, and family and property, in which subjects he has published numerous articles and made various collaborations for teaching manuals, collective books, magazines and publishers of recognized prestige. It has obtained recognition by ANECA for a six-year period of current research.

In the field of management, she has been Vice-Dean of Social Policy and Participation since 2024 and President of the Equality Commission and the Sustainability Commission of the Faculty of Law of the University of Valencia, and a member of the Faculty of the University of Valencia since 2025.

He has taught undergraduate courses at three universities (Universidad Cardenal Herrera CEU and UOC). At the University of Valencia he has taught undergraduate teaching in different degrees and in different subjects; also in postgraduate studies, both in Spain in the Master of Law (Practice in Family and Inheritance Law), the University Master of Constitutional Law (Constitutional typologies of property rights and the social function of property) or the University Expert Diploma in Children's and Adolescents' Rights: Contexts of application and approach to Rights, of which she was also co-director together with Professor Jorge Cardona Llorens; as well as internationally in the Master of Constitutional Law at the Autonomous University of Honduras (Constitutional typologies of property law and social functionof the property).

He has participated in numerous teaching innovation projects and is currently co-PI of the Consolidated Group, previously a project, together with Professor Dolores Mas Badía, called Legal and Teaching Materials 3.0. Its results are available in free access at:   https://www.uv.es/uvdocencia-juridica/ca/uvdocencia-juridica.html

He has participated in several research projects (R&D) financed by the Ministry, the Generalitat Valencia, or private institutions with principal researchers from different Spanish universities. He is part of two research groups at the University of Valencia: Law, rights and older people (DyPM- GIUV2023-578) and Well-being, Insurance and Pensions (WIP- GIUV2017-399). She participates as an external evaluator of doctrinal articles for Spanish and foreign legal journals. He has carried out various research stays in international reference centers in legal matters such as La Sapienza (Rome) or Panthéon-Assas (Paris II).

In the field of knowledge transfer, it has collaborated with HelpAge in the preparation of different Reports on: The right to care for the elderly or The very personal rights and privacy of the elderly, which are available openly at: https://www.helpage.es/informes-sobre-edadismo/; He also collaborated in the development of the State Service for Care of the Elderly (https://www.helpage.es/seam/). Likewise, he participated in the preparation of the Study on the processes of deinstitutionalization and transition towards personalized and community support models for population groups in vulnerable situations (childhood and adolescence, older people, people with disabilities and homeless people) prepared on behalf of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Agenda2030 in Spain. Available openly at: https://estudiodesinstitucionalizacion.gob.es/

Awarded in the I Edition of the CERMI Awards. Institutional Category 3: Impact of the UN Convention on Persons with Disabilities in 2019.

She has had experience in the professional field, working as a practicing lawyer, in the family specialty (2004-2015); or as Manager of the CEPS Foundation (2002-2013). She has held public representation tasks at the political level as a deputy in the IX legislature of the Valencian Cortes (2015-2019) during which she held the position of parliamentary spokesperson attached to the Trustee.

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Isabel Reig Fabado is a professor of Private International Law at the “Adolfo Miaja de la Muela” Department of International Law of the University of Valencia. She has worked in different lines of research such as international trade law, international labor law and worker protection, family law and the protection of minors, in particular, international child abduction, the gender perspective and educational innovation. Always with special attention to the protection of fundamental rights, especially in relation to procedural guarantees related to migrants, minors and workers.

Recently, he has participated in two research projects related to aspects of digitalization in the EU and AI. She has participated in more than twenty research projects and has been the main researcher in three, two of them on immigration matters and a Jean Monnet action, and she has directed the publication of a collective book on the fundamental rights of foreigners in Spain.

He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in private international law, international trade and immigration matters. He has carried out research stays at the Instituteof Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) in London and the Max Planck in Hamburg and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia (UVA), and has carried out research stays at the Sorbonne in Paris and at New York University (NYU). He has carried out different university management tasks, has directed a doctoral thesis on the legal problems of Google in the EU and, currently, has three six-year research years and five five-year years.

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Dr. Adrián Todolí Signes is a Professor of Labour and Social Security Law at the University of Valencia. He holds degrees in both Economics and Law.

He has published more than 157 research items, including peer-reviewed journal articles, books, and book chapters. Specifically, his academic output includes: a) 68 articles in indexed journals; b) 69 book chapters; c) editor of 8 collective volumes; and d) 7 single-author monographs. Among these publications, 8 articles have been published in English in leading international journals. Additionally, he has presented his research in a total of 70 scientific conferences, including papers, presentations, and invited lectures. Most of these conferences have been international, held in prestigious institutions such as the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the University of Cambridge, among many others.

He has also been invited on more than 100 occasions to deliver lectures and talks in institutions, trade unions, employers’ organisations, labour inspectorates, etc. Notably, he has been invited to speak at events organised by the ILO (in 2018 and 2022), the European Commission, and UNIGLOBAL (at its 2022 international conference). He was invited by the European Commission (DG Employment) as a national expert to participate in a conference on working conditions and youth employment, and later in another on Artificial Intelligence during the legislative process of the AI Regulation (2023). In the same year, he was appointed by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) as an expert for its opinion on the twin digital and green transitions. He was also appointed by the ILO as an expert for the drafting of an international convention on decent platform work.

He has authored four monographs on wages, including topics such as wage revision, bonuses, wage supplements, and remuneration in the public sector. Additionally, he has published other major works, including Work in the Era of the Collaborative Economy (2017), Labour Regulation and Economic Policy: How Labour Rights Improve the Economy (2022), and Productive and Extractive Algorithms (2023).

He has been awarded the Best Young Lawyer Prize by the Spanish Labour Law Forum (FORELAB), and the Best Labour Law Research Award by the Spanish Association of Labour and Social Security Law (AEDTSS) twice — in 2015 and 2016 — for his work on dual vocational training and performance-based remuneration systems.

His international academic projection is further evidenced by research stays in prestigious universities and research centres. The first was at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, under the supervision of Prof. Gillian Lester, a globally recognised labour law expert (currently Dean of Columbia Law School, New York). UC Berkeley is ranked among the top five universities worldwide. His second research stay took place at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, ranked as the second-best law faculty in the world (after Harvard). His third stay was at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich, also internationally renowned. He has also conducted research at the University of Paris X Nanterre and the University of Vienna.

He is also the coordinator of the blog “Argumentos en Derecho Laboral”.