The recognition took place during the International Advocacy Conference 2016 held in the city of La Habana from 12 to 14 October, organized by the National Organization of Collective Law Offices of Cuba, to which more than 800 jurists from Cuba and Latin America attended, a meeting which has been carried out for years and which involves the approach and debate about important law matters that worry jurists of the 21st century.

Graduate and Doctorate in Law by the UV, Silvia Barona holds the Grand Cross of St. Raymond of Peñafort (Orden de San Raimundo de Peñafort). Her scientific training was developed in Germany, where she has received several grants (DAAD, Max-Planck, Alexander Von Humboldt). She is Honorary Doctor of the Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University in Santa Cruz de la Sierra since 2006 and she has made research stays in several universities: Harvard, New York, Edinburgh, Mainz y Cambridge, among others.

She is author of 15 books, and she has been co-author in other 91 books, some of them under her direction. She has published a hundred articles in national and international magazines. She has taken part in 12 research projects (the majority as Main Researcher).

She has directed fifteen doctoral thesis and, currently, she is making and defending four more. She has given conferences and courses in the majority of Spanish and Latin American universities (Argentina, Perú, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Santo Domingo, Cuba, México, Honduras, Colombia…), and she has also participated in training courses for judges, prosecutors, arbitrators, lawyers, etc.

In recent years, she has stand out in her research, academic and professional trajectory her connection with mediation and arbitration. She is arbitrator and she was president of the Court of Arbitration and Mediation of the Chamber of Commerce of València (2007-2011) and currently she is closely liked to mediation and arbitration (ADR). She was a member of the committee of eight experts of Ministry of Justice for the elaboration of the principles for the ‘Ley de Planta y Demarcación Judicial’ (Law on territorial organization).