The ceremony included interventions of the Principal of the Universitat de València, Mª Vicenta Mestre; the president of the Government of the Valencian Community, Ximo Puig; Alborch family representatives; the former Spokesperson of the Spanish Government, Rosa Conde; lecturer and Medal of the Universitat, Isabel Morant; and members of the Faculty of Law, like the dean Francisco Javier Palao, lecturer Jesús Olavarría and the director of the Department of Mercantile Law ‘Manuel Broseta’, Francisco García.

During her speech, Principal Mª Vicenta Mestre, has stressed ‘the mutual admiration the Universitat felt for Carmen and Carmen felt for the Universitat. I want to thank the family Alborch Bataller for their generosity, for handing over to the UV the private library of Carmen Alborch.’ ‘She was a fighter, an optimistic, a committed woman who had hopes for the future; let Carmen be an example for all’, claimed Mestre.

The president Ximo Puig thanked the Universitat for ‘a heartfelt homage full of reason and emotion.’ In addition, Puig has pointed out that ‘Carmen Alborch was always ahead of her time, a constant in vanguard who represents the principles of freedom and equality. Wherever she passed through became a better place when she left.’

Carmen Alborch’s brother, Rafael, has thanked the Universitat for the way it always treated Carmen, ‘from the moment she began as a dean of the Faculty of Law until her last years when she received the institutional Medal’. Rafael Alborch wanted to emphasise he ‘knows how much respect and admiration the Universitat always had for Carmen and you should know it was always mutual, because she always thought the Universitat was her home.’

‘Something people do not comment very frequently is the fact Carmen was an intellectual woman who achieved a status in public opinion’ claimed the former minister Rosa Conde. ‘Carmen was deeply excited for spending her last years as a honorary teacher of the Faculty of Law, because she believed the Universitat to be her place, her refuge, her anchor’ said the former Spokesperson.

The UV Medal, Isabel Morant reminded us that ‘Carmen was always accompanied by the value of feminism in all her facets, privately and professionally’. Paraphrasing singer Raimon, she emphasised: ‘we will always remember you with the hopes of living freely and peacefully’.

Lecturer Jesús Olavarria, who was a member of the management team when Carmen Alborch was elected dean, remembers Carmen as a ‘multifaceted, talented woman, who created a diverse and plural team that motivated countless changes in the Faculty of Law’. The director of the Department of Mercantile Law, Francisco González, claimed that, even during her last years, ‘she always participated actively and intensely in all of her actions despite having a place at the Faculty, because she never stopped thinking she was a teacher of Mercantile Law.’

The General Secretary of the Universitat, Mª Elena Olmos, who was once her student, remembered that having her as a teach was ‘a revolution, a before and an after’. ‘She broke the routine of master classes and she let us discuss, debate and participate, something that really improved our education. She also became a model for all of the girls in the class, because that was the first time we were seeing a woman teaching at the Faculty of Law’.

During the homage ceremony there were several musical interpretations and audios of Carmen Alborch, as well as a video of the Minister of Culture, José Guirao, transferred by À Punt, in which he highlighted ‘the great sense of humour Carmen had’ and a video produced by the TAU that showed memories and opinions about Carmen from people who were part of her team during her time as a dean of the Faculty of Law.

The homage also counted on the presence of the government delegate in the Valencian Community, Juan Carlos Fulgencio; the Secretary of State for Equality, Ana Mª Botella; the regional minister for Treasury and Economic Model, Vicent Soler; the regional minister of Justice, Public Administration, Democratic Reforms and Public Freedoms, Gabriela Bravo; the regional minister for Transparency, Social Responsibility, Participation and Cooperation, Manuel Alcaraz; the president of the High Court of the Valencian Community, Pilar de la Oliva; the president of the Diputación de Valencia, Antoni Gaspar, as well as many other authorities and representatives of the Valencian political, social and cultural atmosphere.

Several members of the Board of Directors and the Governing Council of the Universitat de València, the former deans of the Universitat, Francisco Tomás and Esteban Morcillo, as well as many deans and members of the management team from when Carmen Alborch was a dean herself.

Other prominent authorities who attended the ceremony were the acting mayor of the Valencia City Council, Sandra Gómez, the mayor of Quart de Poblet and vice president of Les Corts, Carmen Martínez, the administrator of the popular group in Les Corts, Isabel Bonig, the administrator of the PSPV-PSOE in Les Corts, Manuel Mata and the local spokesperson of Citizens in the Valencia City Council, Fernando Giner, as well as many other deputies, autonomous secretaries and general directors.