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Dr. Jordi Ferrer Beltrán
Comissió Mixta
He is professor of philosophy of law at the University of Girona and researcher of the Chair of Juridical Culture. His lines of research include the theory and philosophy of law, the fundamentals of private law and the economic analysis of law. He has edited the books Fundamentos económicos de la responsabilidad extracontractual”, “Comprensión y justificación de la responsabilidad extracontractual” e “El derecho privado como cuestión pública”. He also published the books “Derecho de daños, principios morales y justicia social” and “Causalidad y atribución de responsabilidad” co-published Uncertain Causation in Tort Law”ertain Causation in Tort Law"
josemaria.perez@udg.edu
He is currently Professor of History of Law at the University of Girona. He has been a researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and a professor at several Chilean universities, at the University of Zaragoza, at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and at the University of Birmingham.He has published several essays on political history as: "Los discursos políticos del México originariol Discourses of Original Mexico" México D.F., 1998. He has also cultivated lirerature, such as poetry: "Lo que no te conté de mis viajes Zaragoza, 1998, and the novel, "El Tren de Cristal, Renacimiento", Sevilla, 2011.
He directs the legal culture magazine Ius Fugit, and is the director of the publishing house Nuevos Rumbos (http://www.edicionesnuevosrumbos.com). He is director of Editorial Policy in the Network of Reading Universities (http://www.universidadeslectoras.org), which brings together more than 50 Spanish, Italian, Russian and Portuguese universities, as well as various countries in the Americas. He directs the Novela collection of Campus of the Renacimiento publishing house.
His area of specialization is comparative politics, and has investigated democratization processes in Latin America, collective action, social movements, and parties and party systems. To get some of your publications you can see the web page
He works as a consultant on issues of governance and development. He is a member of several editorial boards of social science journals and associations of Political Science and Latin American Studies
Investigadors
Albert Ruda González is an associate professor of civil law at the Universitat de Girona. He has a European Doctorate in Law with extraordinary awards, a Bachelor's degree in Eastern Asian Studies and a Graduation in Humanities; He has published some 175 papers on Civil Responsibility Law and Contracts, Digital Law and Comparative Law. He is Coordinator (Chair) of the Spanish Hub of the European Law Institute and Degà of the Faculty of Law of the UdG (2016-2024).
He is currently a researcher at the Chair of Legal Culture of the University of Girona, Spain. Lawyer by the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. In the same university he obtained the Master's degrees in Law and Argumentation and he si also Doctor in Law and Social Sciences. PhD in Philosophy of Law from the Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy. Since 2015 he is a full-time professor at the National Autonomous Institute of Mexico. His publications include La decisión de encarcelar preventivamente y otros peligros procesales (Buenos Aires, 2017) and various articles in specialized journals of philosophy of law and criminal procedure law.
PHD cum laude in Legal Philosophy from the Institute for Legal Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. LLM cum laude in Evidentiary Legal Reasoning from the Universities of Girona and Geneva. Certified in Transnational Legal Studies from the Center for Transnational Legal Studies (London). Full-time Research-Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico. Visiting Professor at the University of Girona. Teaches Philosophy of Law at the Faculty of Law of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Level 1 member of the National System of Researchers, National Research and Technology Council of Mexico. His main research interests are legal epistemology, legal evidentiary reasoning, and analytic philosophy of law. Some of his publications include the books Inteligencia artificial aplicada al derecho (UNAM, 2007), and Jusnaturalismo procedimental, debido proceso penal y epistemología jurídica (Tirant Lo Blanch, 2017). Author of the presentation and of one of the chapters in Larry Laudan’s book El estándar de prueba y las garantías en el proceso penal (Hammurabi, 2012), and co-translator to the Spanish language, along with Professor Carmen Vázquez, of the book Truth, Error, and the Criminal Law: An Essay in Legal Epistemology (Cambridge, 2006), also by Larry Laudan.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0119-0515
His consolidated lines of research cover family and political structures in the Christian Mediterranean (Italy, Greece, France and Spain) and Hispanic America, and his emerging lines of research cover the legal and economic problems of post-modernity from the perspective of comparative history and the role of judges in the context of continental law, again from a diachronic perspective.
Professor of the area of philosophy of the right in the Universitat of Girona and consultor at the Universitat Oberta of Catalonia. Her main lines of investigation turn around the justification of the judicial decisions, fundamentally in all that related with the evidential reasoning, with a clear emphasis in the problems of the use of the expert knowledge for the taking of decision on the facts.She has participated in diverse projects of investigation like “Causality and imputación of responsibility” and “Science and judicial process: proof and attribution of responsibility” both funded by the Ministry of Science and Spanish Innovation; in the project CONSOLIDER “Perspectival Thoughts and Facts” funded by the Secretary of State of Investigation, Development and Innovation of Spain; and has been member of “Groups of Investigation Consolidated” recognised by the Agency of Management of University Helps and of Investigation (AGAUR, by his acronyms in Catalan) of the Generalitat of Catalonia.
Between her publications stands out De la prueba científica a la prueba pericial” (Marcial Pons, 2015); “Estándares de prueba y prueba científica” (Marcial Pons, 2013); “Debatiendo con Taruffo” (Marcial Pons, 2016); “La prueba informática. Algunas consideraciones desde la teoría racional de la prueba” (Ara Editores, 2009); en revistas “La prueba pericial en la experiencia estadounidense. El caso Daubert” (Jueces para la democracia, 2016); “El perito de confianza de los jueces” (Analisi i Diritto, 2016); “La admisibilidad de las pruebas periciales y la racionalidad de las decisiones judiciales” (DOXA, 2015) between others. Besides she has translated diverse works between which stand out “Truth, error and penal process” of Larry Laudan and “Pragmatc perspectives” of Susan Haack.
It has realised stays of investigation in the Institute of Philosophical Investigations (UNAM, Mexico); in the University of Miami (Miami, EUA); in the Institute Vienna Circle (University of Vienna, Austria); and in the Northwestern University (Chicago, EUA).
Since April 2013 she is a researcher at the Philosophy of Law Department of the University of Girona and since March 2014 a full-time researcher at the same University where she is finishing her doctoral thesis entitled "A legal contribution to the debate on institutions and development . Approach from problems shared by the countries of Latin America. "
In September 2013 she published the book Derecho y Desarrollo (Ediciones del Puerto, Buenos Aires), of which she is the author and in 2015, together with Jordi Ferrer and Carles Cruz, published the book Seguridad Jurídica en Iberoamérica (Marcial Pons, Madrid 2015). In this volume the work "Project of Legal Security Indicators" was published in co-authorship with Jordi Ferrer. It also has numerous publications in chapters of books and journals that are oriented to various topics related to human rights, law and development and problems of the criminal process.
She is currently a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the University of Girona. Lawyer from the Faculty of Law - University of Buenos Aires, Master in Rule of Law & Constitutional Democracy, and PhD in Law - curriculum philosophy of law and history of legal culture from the University of Genoa (Italy). She is also a researcher at the Cátedra de Cultura Jurídica (Girona); fellow of the Centre for Legal Fundamentals (Belgrade), Lisbon Legal Theory (Lisbon) and Tarello Institute for Legal Philosophy (Genoa); editor-in-chief of the journal Eudaimonia - Journal of Legal, Political and Social Theory and Philosophy and member of the editorial board of the journal Analisi e diritto. Her research interests include theory and philosophy of law, classical and contemporary models of authority, theory of legislation, legal interpretation and argumentation, coercion and (Rule of) law, legal methodology and legal realism (in particular Scandinavian legal realism). She has published the book Modelos contemporáneos de Autoridad (Marcial Pons), as well as co-edited the books Bernard Williams on Law and Jurisprudence (Bloomsbury) and Eugenio Bulygin en la Teoría del Derecho Contemporánea (Marcial Pons). Other recent publications: ‘The Death of the Legal Author‘ (with Bojan Spaic - in press, 2025), “On Coercion and the (Functions of) Law” (in press, 2025), “On the concept of authority and the unity of practical reasoning” (in press, 2025); and “On the ”evolutionary’ theory of legal systems’ (2024).
Dra. Tünde Mikes Jani
PhD candidate in Law at the University of São Paulo (USP) and in Law, Economics, and Business at the University of Girona (UdG). Holds a Master's degree in Law and Innovation from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF, 2021) and a Bachelor's degree in Law from the same institution (2019). Former Assistant Professor at UFJF (2021-2023).
Research interests: evidence and truth in legal proceedings, with a focus on legal epistemology and technological innovations. Publications on evidential reasoning and visual evidence.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3517-6116
Academia.edu: https://direito.academia.edu/GiuliaAlvesFardim
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Giulia-Alves-Fardim
Marianela Delgado is a doctoral student in Law, Economics and Business from the University of Girona and a Scholarship holder from the Generalitat of Catalonia. She has a Master's degree in Evidential Reasoning from the University of Girona and the Università di Genova. She was a member of the Federal Judicial Branch of Mexico, where she originally comes from, for several years, the last, as part of the work team of one of the ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation. She currently researches topics related to gender, evidentiary reasoning, gender violence crimes and hate crimes.
Assistant professor and full-time lecturer in the area of "Justice System and Conflict Resolution" at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Doctoral candidate in the Programme “ Doctorat en Dret, Economia i Empresa de la Universitat de Girona” (UdG). Master in Law from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil), with a scholarship from the CNPq. Researcher at the Chair of Legal Culture of the UdG and regular member of the Research Group PRODEJUS-PUCP. Lawyer from the University of Lima. Member of the IAPL, IIDP, IBDP and ABDPro. He was a member of the Commission for the Revision of the Peruvian Code of Civil Procedure set up by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of his country. Lecturer, legal consultant and arbitrator. CEO and co-founding partner of Evidence Lab.
Henry Mauricio Reyes Garcés studies a PhD in Law, Economics and Business in the University of Girona and is a Fellow of the Generalitat de Catalunya. He has a LLM in Legal Protection of Rights with an emphasis on Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory of the Universidad Externado de Colombia. He has specializations in Civil Liability and Compensable Damage of the same university and in University Teaching from the Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia. Lawyer with Cum Laude degree from the Universidad Industrial de Santander. He is currently researching in the philosophy line of Private Law of the Chair in Legal Culture (Càtedra de Cultura Jurídica) of the University of Girona.
Scientific Council
Dr. Carlos Bernal Pulido
(Università degli Studi di Genova) Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Genoa, he is Vice-President of the IVR (Internationale Vereinigung für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie) and member of the International Advisory Board of Tampere Club (Finland). He has been a visiting professor and has taught courses at various Universities in Europe, Latin America and the United States, having given lectures and presented papers at numerous International Congresses. He is co-director of the magazines "Materiali per una storia della cultura giuridica", "Analisi e Diritto" and "Ragion pratica" and a member of the Advisory Boards of other important scientific publications. His main works include: Settecento conservatore: Lampredi e il diritto naturale (1981), Contrattualismo, utilitarismo, garanzie (1984), Assaggi di metaética (1992) and Assaggi di metaética due (1998)
Brian Leiter joined the faculty in the academic year 2008-09, simultaneously founding the Law School’s Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values. Prior to that, he taught for thirteen years at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was (at the time) the youngest chairholder in the history of the law school. He has also been a Visiting Professor of Law at Yale University, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and the University of Paris X-Nanterre, and a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Oxford University and University College London.
His teaching and research interests are in moral, political, and legal philosophy, in both the Anglophone and Continental European traditions, and the law of evidence. His books include Objectivity in Law and Morals (Cambridge, 2001) (editor), Nietzsche on Morality (Routledge, 2002; 2nd ed., 2015), Naturalizing Jurisprudence (Oxford, 2007), Why Tolerate Religion? (Princeton, 2013), and Moral Psychology with Nietzsche (Oxford, 2018). He is presently working on realism as a theme in political and legal theory, on meta-ethical and metaphysical questions in general jurisprudence, and on philosophical issues about free speech, in both the liberal and Marxian traditions. His work has been translated into Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese, Russian, Portugese, Hebrew, Polish, Slovak, and Greek.
Leiter has delivered lectures at universities around the world, including the Paolo Bozzi Prize Address at the University of Turin, the Fresco Lectures in Jurisprudence at the University of Genoa, the Julius Stone Address in Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney, and the “Headliner” address at the annual Legal Theory Symposium at the National University of Singapore. He was editor of the journal Legal Theory from 2000 to 2008, and is the founding editor of the Routledge Philosophersbook series and of Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law (with Leslie Green). He also serves on the editorial boards of Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Journal of Moral Philosophy, The Philosopher’s Annual, Theoria (Sweden), Anilisi e Diritto (Italy), Problema: Anuario de Filosofia y Teoría (Mexico), Indian Journal of Legal Theory, and Revista de Teoría Jurídica (Argentina), among others.
Dra. Beatriz Quintero de Prieto
Riccardo Guastini is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Genoa and Director of the Tarello Institute for the Philosophy of Law in the Jurisprudence Department of the same university. He is co-director of the magazines “Analisi e diritto”, “Ragion pratica” and “Materiali per la storia della cultura giuridica”. His field of research unfolds, among other topics, in the analysis of normative language, fundamental legal concepts, the structure of legal systems and legal argumentation and interpretation techniques. Among his most recent works are: Le fonti del diritto. Fondamenti teorici (2010), Interpretare e argomentare (2011), Distinguendo ancora (2013) and Discustendo (2017).
The Chair of Legal Culture awarded him ex aquo together with Dr. Paolo Comanducci, the III International Prize in Legal Culture for his brilliant academic career. We share the video of the award ceremony:
External Researchers
A capabilities approach to access to justice. Unfulfilled promises and promising strategies in Europe and in the US, in Teoria Politica, 2016
What laws are experienced as, in Revus. A Journal for Constitutional Theory and Philosophy of Law, 2016 (forthcoming); - On some possible uses of folk concepts and intuitions in legal theory.
What people do and think about going to law, in Analisi e Diritto, 2016
Lawyer (Universidad Externado de Colombia) Specialist in Responsibility and Researchable Damage (Universidad Externado de Colombia) Master in Law of Damage (Universitat de Girona) Doctorate in Law since 2016 (Universitat de Girona) Scholar within the framework of the agreement between the Externado University of Colombia and the University of Girona Research line: Philosophy of the Law of damages
He is currently a full-time "tenure-track" professor of the Academic Department of Law of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and, since 2020, professor of the Master's Degree in Procedural Law at the same university. He is a Member of the International Association of Procedural Law (IAPL). Researcher at the Chair of Legal Culture (Càtedra de Cultura Jurídica) of the Universitat de Girona (Catalonia-Spain) where has been a "Juan de la Cierva" Postdoctoral Researcher, affiliated at the Philosophy of Law group (2019 - 2021) and Postdoctoral Researcher (2021 - 2022) with a scholarship from the same University. He also has taught the courses "Law & Economics" (in English) and " Mediación y Resolución de Conflictos Sociales" (2020-2022) also at the Universitat de Girona. He is a Doctor of Law from the Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy) with a thesis in civil procedural law. He has been a Visiting PhD Scholar in Switzerland, France and the UK.
His academic interests span civil procedural law and alternative means of dispute resolution; comparative law; economic analysis of law and process; environmental law and climate change law in their procedural aspects.
In 2022 he published his first monograph, entitled “Effettività della tutela giurisdizionale e misure coercitive nel processo civile. Un'indagine di diritto comparato", in the editorial series "Biblioteca di Diritto Processuale Civile", Giappichelli.
Abogado (Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, 2003).Máster en Argumentación Jurídica (Universidad de Alicante, 2011).
Máster en Estado de Derecho Global y Democracia Constitucional (Università degli Studi di Genova, 2014).
Doctorando en el àrea de filosofia del dret (Universitat de Girona, 2015-2019).
Líneas de investigación: teoría de las normas de competencia
He has been a grade professor, primarily at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, were he has taught the courses of Legal Logic, Philosophy of Law, and Ethics. He has participated in various national and international congresses. Among his research interests are Legal Theory, Logics applied to Law, Legal Reasoning, Constitutional Law, and Human Rights. At the present time, his research fuses mainly in Customary Law.
PhD in law at the Universidad Austral de Chile and at the Università degli di Genova. Master in Legal Argumentation at the Universitat d'Alacant, Master in the State of Global Law and Constitutional Democracy from the Università degli studi di Genova and Master in Fonamental Rights from the Carlos III University of Madrid. Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Scholarship – Training at the University of Girona. The six main lines of research on him are the theory of norms, the theory of legal reasoning and the analytical theory of law. Among his six publications, the following stand out: Excepciones implícitas e interpretación. Una reconstrucción analítica (Palestra) and Conflictos entre normas y derrotabilidad: una propuesta de análisis (Colex). He He also has published articles on: Diritto & Questioni Pubbliche, Revista Discusiones, Revista Chilena de Derecho, Ius et Praxis, Revista Problema. Anuario de Filosofía y Teoría del Derecho, Cuadernos Electrónicos de Filosofía del Derecho, Doxa, Cuadernos de Filosofía del Derecho, Revista Telemática de Filosofía del Derecho, among others.
Lorena Ramírez Ludeña, has a degree and a doctorate in law from Pompeu Fabra University, where she has worked as a teacher and researcher since 2004. She has carried out research stays for a total of 37 months in centers of recognized prestige such as the Universities of Oxford or Yale, having been awarded a scholarship by the latter in the framework of the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund. It has numerous publications in prestigious journals and publishers such as Isonomía, Doxa, Analisi e Diritto, Marcial Pons, Springer or Synthese. He has taught more than 1,000 hours of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in multiple courses of different universities, in Spanish, Catalan and English. She has been responsible for the incoming students of the Faculty of Law in the 2013-2014 academic year and is an academic tutor for undergraduate students since 2013. Finally, she has developed the teaching innovation tool TrivialIus, financed with two innovation projects, and that has been the subject of publications and presentations.
Graduated in law from the University of Chile. Master in Probative Reasoning from the University of Girona (Catalonia-Spain) and the University of Genoa (Italy). PhD candidate in Law, Economics and Business at the University of Girona. His research interests include legal epistemology and the philosophy of private law.
Miguel Fernández Núñez is currently, he is a PhD Student in Law at the University of Girona and at the University of Genoa. He pursued the Master on Legal Argumentation at the University of Alicante and a Double Degree in Law and Political Sciences at the Autonomous University of Madrid. He is the author of different articles, published on journals such as Jueces para la democracia and Doxa. His essays mainly adress theories of rights, judicial reasoning, theory of law and theory of argumentation.