The conversation will be structured through four round tables that will cover the areas of research and teaching to which the honour guest has devoted his career: legal and political philosophy; human mobility and migration and asylum policies; citizenship, human rights and disobedience; and film and law. The following participants will speak on his figure and his teachings: Javier Palao, dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Valencia (UV); Vicente Bellver, director of the Department of Political Legal Philosophy, UV; Fernando Flores, director of the Institute of Human Rights, UV; María José Añón, full university professor of Legal Philosophy, UV; Manolo Atienza, full university professor of Legal Philosophy, University of Alacant; Francisco Jarauta, full university professor of Philosophy, University of Murcia; Sami Naïr, full university professor of Political Science, Universitiy of Paris, Saint Denis and essayist; Ángeles Solanes, full university professor of Legal Philosophy and vice-principal, UV; Antonio Izquierdo Escribano, full university professor of Sociology at the University of A Coruña; Elena Arce Jiménez, Law PhD and expert on migration; Paloma Favieres Ruíz, expert on human rights and mobility; Gemma Pinyol-Jiménez, director of migration policies at Instrategies and researcher associated to GRITIM-UPF; Cristina García Pascual, full university professor of Legal Philosophy, UV; José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, ambassador of Spain at the Unesco and Legal Philosophy professor, UC3M; Alicia García Ruiz, Philosopher, professor at the Charles III University of Madrid; Mª Eugenia Rodríguez-Palop, MEP and Legal Philosophy professor, UC3M; José García Añón, full university professor of Legal Philosophy, University of Valencia; Salvador Vives director of the Tirant Lo Blanch publishing house; Fernando Flores, director of the Film and Law collection and Constitutional Law professor; Beatriz Gallardo Paúls, full university professor of Linguistics at The University of Valencia;  and Irene de Lucas Ramón, director and screenwriter.

During the seminar, a special issue of the journal Cuadernos Electrónicos de Filosofía del Derecho will be presented. More than seventy lawyers of all law fields and academics of other disciplines such as history, sociology..., as well as political stakeholders and human rights activists will participate. It is the 49th issue of the journal and as professor Cristina García Pascual highlights: “some of the topics throughout his lengthy teaching and researcher pathway are reviewed and discussed on this issue and also his vast and brilliant academic output”.   The contributions are organised around four thematic areas: Fundamentals of law, values and principles; human mobility, rights and borders; legitimacy, citizenship and disobedience to law; Human Rights, boundaries and extensions; Literature, film and law.

Javier de Lucas is founder of the Institute of Human Rights of the University of Valencia. He has been director of this research centre in different periods of time. He was the Chair of the Science Committee of the Spanish Senate in the last legislature and rapporteur of the Euthanasia Law by the Socialist Parliamentary Group. Among other honours, he received the I Diversitas Award, granted by the University of Salamanca in acknowledgement of his academic trajectory and defence of Human Rights, especially of the migrant population.

Javier de Lucas was President of CEAR (Spanish Committee for Refugees Assistance) between 2008-2009 and member of the Monitoring Committee of the Human Rights National Plan (2009-2012). He was director of the Colegio de España in Paris (Cité international universitaire de Paris, CiuP) from 2005 to 2012. The Director-General of the UNESCO appointed him member of the UNESCO HPSD (High Panel on Science, Technology and Innovation for Development), formed by 24 academics from all over the world.

He is member of scientific Councils of numerous Research Institutes and of national and international specialised scientific journals. He is also part of the editorial board of the Spanish version of Le Monde Diplomatique and the Scientific Council of ATTAC. He is co-director of the Film and Law collection (Tirant lo Blanch publisher) and of the Human rights series (Tirant lo Blanch publishing house).

He has been main researcher in fourteen research projects of the R&D programme and in four European Programmes Projects. He has tutored twenty doctoral theses. As professor and researcher he has published more than 250 papers (books and articles) in Spanish and foreign specialised journals on problems of theory and philosophy of law and human rights, and also on political philosophy and legislative criticism, in particular on obedience to law, legitimacy, legal interpretation and argumentation, citizenship, conscientious objection and insubordination, and legal issues related to minority rights, multiculturalism, globalisation, solidarity, volunteering, racism and xenophobia.     For more than 30 years his preferential work fields are immigration policies and migrants’ rights, and the problems of democracy in the process of globalisation.

The sessions can be followed by Zoom on:

https://uv-es.zoom.us/j/91751290657