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Curriculum Vitae
Professor Aniceto Masferrer
Comparative Legal History
Law School
University of Valencia
January 2018
CV Resume
Aniceto Masferrer is Professor of Legal History and teaches legal history and comparative
law at the Faculty of Law, University of Valencia, Spain. He has been a fellow researcher at the
Institute Max-Planck for European Legal History (2000-2003), Visiting Professor at the University
of Cambridge (2005), Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School (2006-07) and at Melbourne Law
School (2008), and Visiting Professor at the University of Tasmania (2010), Visiting Scholar at
Louisiana State University – The Paul M. Hebert Law Center – (2013), Visiting Scholar at George
Washington University Law School (as the Recipient of the Richard & Diane Cummins Legal
History Research Grant for 2014), and Visiting Professor at the École Normale Supérieure – Paris
(2015). He has lectured at universities around the world (France, Germany, Belgium, The
Netherlands, Malta, Israel, United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, USA, Canada, Australia and New
Zealand).
He is the author of nine books (including his Spanish Legal Traditions. A Comparative
Legal History Outline, Madrid, 2009; 2012, 2nd
ed.) and the editor of ten (including Post 9/11 and
the State of Permanent Legal Emergency: Security and Human Rights in Countering Terrorism,
Springer, 2012; Counter-Terrorism, Human Rights And The Rule Of Law. Crossing Legal
Boundaries in Defence of the State, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013; La Codificación española. Una
aproximación doctrinal e historiográfica a sus influencias extranjeras, y a la francesa en
particular, Thomson Reuters-Aranzadi, 2014; and Human Dignity of the Vulnerable in the Age of
Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Dordrecht-Heidelberg-London-New York, Springer, 2016),
and eighty book chapters/articles published in Spanish, European and American law journals. He
has published extensively on criminal law from an historical and comparative perspective, as well
as on the codification movement and fundamental rights in the Western legal tradition.
He has participated in several international research projects (one of them under the
direction of Profs. John Bell and David Ibbetson, University of Cambridge, whose results were
published in several volumes under the title Comparative Studies in the Development of the Law of
Torts in Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2010-2012). He has been the main researcher of
several research projects (for example, on “Security and Human Rights in countering terrorism from
a historical and comparative perspective,” which involved more than thirty scholars from several
universities (Spanish, European, Northern-American, Canadian and Australian universities), and
whose results were published in three collective monographs, coordinated by himself (and edited by
Aranzadi-Thomson Reuters 2011; Springer 2012; and Edward Elgar Publishing 2013). Currently,
he is leading a research project (financed by Economics and Competitiveness Ministry) on the
foreign influences in Spanish Codification of criminal law (ref. DER2012-38469; DER201678388-
P). He also coordinates a collective monograph entitled “Comparative Legal History” (published by
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017), which involves a notable amount of scholars from a number of
European and Anglo-American jurisdictions.
He is author of four books for teaching purposes. He is now coordinating a casebook on
comparative legal traditions (Western Legal Traditions, Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2017). In 2010 he
received the award ‘Teaching Excellence’ (which is annually granted by the Valencian Government
to the best university lecturer).
He is a member of the advisory board of several Spanish, European, Anglo-American and
Asian Law Journals, and the Chief Editor of GLOSSAE. European Journal of Legal History
(http://www.glossae.eu). He is member of the American Society for Legal History, the current
president of the European Society for Comparative Legal History (from 2010), and vice-president
of the Fundación Universitas (www.fundacionuniversitas.org). He is also the Director of the
Institute for Social, Political and Legal Studies, member of the Spanish Royal Academy of
Jurisprudence and Legislation, and board member of the Valencian Committee for European
Affairs.
Personal Details First and last name: Aniceto Masferrer Date of birth: 10/01/1971 Place of birth: Girona, Spain Nationality: Spanish
Address:
Work: Campus dels Tarongers Edificio Departamental Occidental 46071 Valencia (Spain) Phone: (+34) 96 1625312 Fax: (+34) 96 382 8759 E-mail address: [email protected]
Education
1989-1995 Degree of Law (Licenciatura) Law School (University of Barcelona, Spain)
1996-2000 Ph D. Law
Thesis: “La pena de infamia en Cataluña y Castilla. Una aproximación a las fuentes normativas y doctrinales bajomedievales y modernas” (Magna Cum Laude)
Law School (University of Girona, Spain)
Employment Present (from April 2003) Professor
Legal History and Comparative Law University of Valencia (Valencia, Spain) Dec.-January 2017 Visiting Researcher Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
(México City, México) March 2015 Professeur Invité (Droit comparé) École Normale Supérieure (Paris, France) November 2014 Visiting Professor (Comparative Law)
Faculty of Law Bar-Ilan University (Ramat-Gan, Israel)
August-Sept. 2014 Visiting Scholar
GW Law School George Washington University (Washington DC, USA) (Recipient of the Richard & Diane Cummins Legal History Research Grant for 2014, George Washington Law School)
Nov-December 2013 Visiting Scholar
Center of Civil Law Studies The Paul M. Hebert Law Center Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, LA, USA)
January-February 2010 Visiting Professor (Comparative Law) Faculty of Law
University of Tasmania (Hobart, Tasmania, Australia) July-October 2008 Visiting Scholar
Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies Melbourne Law School (Melbourne, Vic, Australia)
2006-2007 Visiting Scholar
Harvard Law School (Cambridge, MA, USA) (Recipient of the Mark De Wolfe Howe Fund Grant, granted by HLS)
February-July 2005 Herbert Smith Visiting Professor
Faculty of Law University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK)
2003-2006 Professor of Legal History
University of Valencia (Valencia, Spain) July-August 2003 Fellow Researcher
Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtgeschichte (Frankfurt/M., Germany)
May 2003 Visiting Fellow Centre of Latin American Studies University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK)
May-June 2002 Visiting Fellow Centre of Latin American Studies University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK)
April 2002 Fellow Researcher
Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtgeschichte (Frankfurt/M., Germany)
May – August 2001 Fellow Researcher
Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtgeschichte (Frankfurt/M., Germany)
May – August 2000 Fellow Researcher
Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtgeschichte (Frankfurt/M., Germany)
2000-2003 PhD. Assistant Professor of Legal History University of Girona (Girona, Spain) July-August 1998 Fellow Researcher
Institut für Römisches Recht der Universität zu Köln (Köln, Germany)
1996-2000 Assistant Professor of Legal History University of Girona (Girona, Spain)
Areas of Expertise
Legal history, comparative law, comparative legal traditions, civil law, legislation and statutory interpretation, criminal law, jurisprudence, constitutional law, human rights and international law
Publications Books
Western Legal Traditions Casebook (C. Van Rhee, A. Masferrer and S.P. Donlan, eds.), Hart Publishing (Ius Commune Series) (forthcoming, 2018).
Comparative Legal History (O. Moréteau, A. Masferrer and K.Å.
Modéer, eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing (‘Research Handbooks in Comparative Law' collection) (forthcoming, 2018).
The Western Codification of Criminal Law: The Myth of the Predominant
French Influence in Europe and America Revisited (Aniceto Masferrer, ed.), Dordrecht-Heidelberg-London-New York, Springer (Collection ‘History of Law and Justice’) (forthcoming, 2018).
Derechos humanos (with Vicente Bellver & Pedro Talavera), Madrid,
Digital Reasons (forthcoming, 2018). Derechos humanos. Un análisis multidisciplinar de su teoría y praxis (J.M.
Enríquez Sánchez, A. Masferrer, R.E. Aguilera Portales, eds.), Madrid: UNED, 2017 (http://portal.uned.es/portal/page?_pageid=93,23377989&_dad=portal&_schema=PORT
AL&IdArticulo=0102077CT01A01). La Codificación penal española. Tradición e influencias extranjeras: su
contribución al proceso codificador. Parte General (Aniceto Masferrer, ed.), Pamplona: Aranzadi–Thomson Reuters, 2017.
Human Dignity of the Vulnerable in the Age of Rights: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives (Aniceto Masferrer & Emilio García-Sánchez, eds.), Dordrecht-Heidelberg-London-New York, Springer (Collection ‘Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice’), 2016.
La Universidad: Lo que ha sido, lo que es y lo que debiera ser (with Juan A.
Obarrio), Madrid, Digital Reasons, 2015 (available at http://www.digitalreasons.es/index.php#nuestrosLibros.php?valor=La%20Universidad).
La Codificación española. Una aproximación doctrinal e historiográfica a sus
influencias extranjeras, y a la francesa en particular (Aniceto Masferrer, ed.), Pamplona: Aranzadi–Thomson Reuters, 2014.
Counter-Terrorism, Human Rights and the Rule of Law: Crossing Legal
Boundaries in Defence of the State (Aniceto Masferrer & Clive Walker, eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013.
Expresión oral y proceso de aprendizaje. La importancia de la oratoria en el
ámbito universitario (Juan A. Obarrio & Aniceto Masferrer, eds.). Madrid, Dykinson, 2013, 212 pp.
Post 9/11 and the State of Permanent Legal Emergency: Security and
Human Rights in Countering Terrorism (Aniceto Masferrer, ed.). Dordrecht-Heidelberg-London-New York, Springer (Collection ‘Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice’), 2012.
Manual de Ius Commune. La recepción en la tradición jurídica valenciana
(with J.A. Obarrio). Madrid, Dykinson, 2012, 234 pp.
La formación del Derecho foral valenciano. Contribución al estudio de las tradiciones jurídicas hispánicas en el marco del ius commune (with J.A. Obarrio). Madrid, Dykinson, 2012, 479 pp.
Estado de Derecho y derechos fundamentales en la lucha contra el
terrorismo. Una aproximación multidisciplinar (histórica, jurídico-comparada, filosófica y económica) (Aniceto Masferrer, ed.). Pamplona, Thomson-Aranzadi, 2011.
Spanish Legal Traditions. A Comparative Legal History Outline. Madrid,
Dykinson, 2009 (2nd Ed., 2012).
Textos de Historia del Derecho. Con Cuestiones para su análisis y comentario (with J.A. Obarrio). Madrid, Dykinson, 2009, 178 pp.
La inhabilitación y suspensión del ejercicio de la función pública en la
tradición penal europea y anglosajona. Especial consideración a los Derechos francés, alemán, español, inglés y norteamericano (awarded with the Premio Nacional Victoria Kent 2008). Madrid, Servicio de Publicaciones del Ministerio del Interior, 2009, 483 pp.
Work reviewed by Juan Alfredo OBARRIO MORENO (Revista General de Derecho Romano 12
(diciembre, 2009); Juan SAINZ GUERRA (Anuario de Historia del Derecho Español 80 (2010), pp. 916-919.
La pervivencia del Derecho foral valenciano tras los Decretos de Nueva
Planta. Contribución al estudio de la práctica forense del siglo XVIII. Prólogo de R. Ferrero Micó. Madrid, Dykinson, 2008, 223 pp.
Work reviewed by Juan Alfredo OBARRIO MORENO (Revista General de Derecho Romano 12, Junio-2009 and Anuario de Historia del Derecho Español 78-79, 2008-2009).
Tradición y reformismo en la Codificación penal española. Hacia el ocaso de
un mito. Materiales, apuntes y reflexiones para un nuevo enfoque metodológico e historiográfico del movimiento codificador penal europeo. Prólogo de J. Sainz Guerra. Universidad de Jaén, 2003, 241 pp.
La pena de infamia en el Derecho histórico español. Contribución al estudio
de la tradición penal europea en el marco del ius commune. Dykinson, Madrid, 2001, 429 pp.
Work reviewed by José SARRIÓN GUALDA (Revista d’Història del Dret català I, 2001, pp. 296-298 y Anuario de Historia del Derecho Español 71, 2001, pp. 836-837); Antonio PÉREZ MARTÍN (Anuario de Historia del Derecho Español 71, 2001, pp. 758-759); Jan HALLEBEEK (Tijdschrift voor rechtsgeschiedenis 70, 2002, pp. 356-360).
Articles and Book Chapters
“The repression of Valencian Advocates after the Spanish Civil War” (with Pascual Marzal), Anti-Democratic Ideology and Criminal Law under Fascist, National Socialist and Authoritarian Regimes (Stephen Skinner, ed.), Hart Publishing (forthcoming, 2018).
“The Ius Commune as the ratio scripta in the Civil Law Tradition: A Comparative Approach to the Spanish Case” (with Juan A. Obarrio), Comparative Legal History (‘Research Handbooks in Comparative Law' collection), Edward Elgar Publishing (forthcoming, 2018).
“‘Dignidad de la naturaleza humana’. Los precedentes históricos de la noción jurídica de dignidad humana (siglos XVII-XVIII): un modelo para el presente y el futuro”, Pasado, presente y futuro del constitucionalismo mexicano: La constitución de 1917, Ed. Porrua–Universidad Anáhuac–Escuela Libre de Derecho, tomo VI (‘Tendencias constitucionales para el siglo XXI’), vol. II (forthcoming, 2018).
“Estado de Derecho y terrorismo” (with M. Llobet), Pasado, presente y futuro del constitucionalismo mexicano: La constitución de 1917, Ed. Porrua–
Universidad de Anáhuac–Escuela Libre de Derecho, tomo VI (‘Tendencias constitucionales para el siglo XXI’), vol. IV (forthcoming, 2018).
“La dignidad humana en el Constitucionalismo moderno. Análisis retrospectivo de su evolución: del actual México a la Nueva España”, 1916 Rumbo a la Constitución de 1917, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas – UNAM (forthcoming, 2018).
“El derecho al aborto en la jurisprudencia mexicana. Contribución al estudio de la influencia norteamericana en el constitucionalismo mexicano”, Centenario de la Constitución de México de 1917, Ciudad de México: Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (forthcoming, 2018).
“Francisco Martínez Marina”, Great Christian Jurists in Spanish History (Rafael Domingo & Javier Martínez-Torrón, eds.), Cambridge University Press & Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University (forthcoming, 2018).
“Libertad sexual y derecho a la privacidad en la tradición norteamericana (1965-2015)”, Estudios en homenaje al profesor Jesús Ballesteros, Tirant lo blanch (forthcoming, 2018).
“The Myth of French Influence over Spanish Codification. The General Part of the Criminal Codes of 1822 and 1848”, The Western Codification of Criminal Law: The Myth of its Predominant French Influence Revisited (Aniceto Masferrer, ed.), Dordrecht-Heidelberg-London-New York, Springer (Collection ‘History of Law and Justice’) (forthcoming, 2018).
“Tradition and Foreign Influences in the 19th-century Codification of Criminal Law. Dispelling the Myth of the overall French Influence in Europe and Latin America”, The Western Codification of Criminal Law: The Myth of its Predominant French Influence Revisited (Aniceto Masferrer, ed.), Dordrecht-Heidelberg-London-New York, Springer (Collection ‘History of Law and Justice’) (forthcoming, 2018). “La distinción entre delito y pecado en la tradición penal bajomedieval y moderna. Una propuesta revisionista de la historiografía española, europea y anglosajona”, Anuario de Historia del Derecho Español 87 (2017), pp. 693-756.
“The Lawyers’ Reality: Wrongdoing in Spain in the Era of Codification” (with Matthew Dyson), Samuel Llano and Alison Sinclair (eds.), Writing Wrongdoing: Spain 1800-1936, London: Tamesis, 2017, pp. 19-33.
“Derechos de nueva generación”, Derechos humanos. Un análisis multidisciplinar de su teoría y praxis (J.M. Enríquez Sánchez, A. Masferrer, R.E. Aguilera Portales, eds.), Madrid: UNED, 2017, pp. 331-358. “Derechos humanos: síntesis desde una perspectiva multidisciplinar” (with J.M. Enríquez Sánchez), Derechos humanos. Un análisis multidisciplinar de su teoría y praxis (J.M. Enríquez Sánchez, A. Masferrer, R.E. Aguilera Portales, eds.), Madrid: UNED, 2017, pp. 489-505.
“The Need for a Secularized Criminal Law: Past, Present and Future. A
Proposal to Unravel a Complex Issue in the Western Society”, Trending Topics of Law and Justice: Legal English Workshops 2015/16, Tirant lo Blanch, 2017, pp. 299-321.
“Una historia retrospectiva de la dignidad humana. De la Constitución española (1978) al Descubrimiento de América (1492)”, GLOSSAE. European Journal of Legal History 14 (2017), pp. 493-545. “La Codificación del Derecho penal en España. Tradición e influencias extranjeras: su contribución al proceso codificador”, Historia de los delitos y las penas en la Edad Contemporánea, Madrid: Dykinson-UNED, 2017, pp. 59-95. “Tradición e influencias extranjeras en la codificación penal española”, La Codificación penal española. Tradición e influencias extranjeras: su contribución al proceso codificador. Parte General (Aniceto Masferrer, ed.), Pamplona: Aranzadi–Thomson Reuters, 2017, pp. 27-56. “Noción y clasificación del delito en la Codificación española: una aproximación comparada con la Codificación francesa y alemana” (with I. Ramos Vázquez), La Codificación penal española. Tradición e influencias extranjeras: su contribución al proceso codificador. Parte General (Aniceto Masferrer, ed.), Pamplona: Aranzadi–Thomson Reuters, 2017, pp. 167-218. “Tradición e influencias extranjeras en la clasificación de las penas en los Códigos españoles decimonónicos” (with E. Iñesta Pastor), La Codificación penal española. Tradición e influencias extranjeras: su contribución al proceso codificador. Parte General (Aniceto Masferrer, ed.), Pamplona: Aranzadi–Thomson Reuters, 2017, pp. 501-540.
“Las penas privativas de derechos en la Codificación penal española. Tradición e influencias extranjeras en la regulación de las penas de inhabilitación y suspensión del ejercicio de la función pública: un análisis comparado del caso español”, La Codificación penal española. Tradición e influencias extranjeras: su contribución al proceso codificador. Parte General (Aniceto Masferrer, ed.), Pamplona: Aranzadi–Thomson Reuters, 2017, pp. 735-815. “Codification as Nationalization or Denationalization of Law: The Spanish Case in Comparative Perspective”, Comparative Legal History 4.2 (2016), pp. 100-130. “The Siete Partidas of Wise King Alfonso IX and its Gloss” (“Las Siete Partidas del sabio rey don Alonso el nono, nuevamente Glosadas por el licenciado Gregorio López del Consejo Real de Indias de su Magestad”), The Formation and Transmission of Western Legal Culture: 150 Books that Made the Law in the Age of Printing (Serge Dauchy, Georges Martyn, Anthony Musson, Heikki Pihlajämäki, Alain Wijffels, eds.) (Springer, 2016; Collection ‘Studies in the History of Law and Justice’), pp. 106-110. “Taking Human Dignity more Humanely: A Historical Contribution to the Ethical Foundations of the Constitutional Democracy”, Human Dignity of the Vulnerable in the Age of Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Aniceto Masferrer & Emilio García-Sánchez, eds.), Dordrecht-Heidelberg-London-New York, Springer (Collection ‘Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice’), 2016, pp. 221-256. “Vulnerability and Human Dignity in the Age of Rights” (with Emilio García-Sánchez), Human Dignity of the Vulnerable in the Age of Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Aniceto Masferrer & Emilio García-Sánchez, eds.), Dordrecht-Heidelberg-London-New York, Springer (Collection ‘Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice’), 2016, pp. 1-25. “Inocencio III y la persecución de la herejía. Notas para una revisión historiográfica”, Recuerdos literarios en honor a un gran historiador de Castilla: Gonzalo Martínez Díez (1924-2015) (I. Ruiz Rodríguez & F. Martínez Llorente, coords.), Madrid, Dykinson, 2016, pp. 267-287. “La contribución canónica a la salvaguarda de la paz en la Edad Media: El IV Concilio de Letrán (1215)”, Vergentis. Revista de Investigación de la Cátedra Internacional Conjunta Inocencio III 2 [July 2016], pp. 47-83
(http://vergentis.ucam.edu/revistas/numero2/2-Masferrer-Contribucion-IV-Concilio-Letra-a-la-paz-Seguridad.pdf) (ISSN: 2445-2394). “Should Legal Uniqueness Be Compared? The Spanish Civil Code: Its Subsidiary Character” (with Juan B. Cañizares-Navarro), Comparative law and… / Droit Comparé et… (A. Albarian, O. Moréteau eds.), Presses universitaires d’Aix-Marseille, 2015, pp. 85-96. “José Sarrión Gualda: Semblanza de un Historiador del Derecho”, GLOSSAE. European Journal of Legal History 12 (2015), pp. 1-30.
“Plurality of Laws and Ius Commune in the Spanish Legal Traditions: The Cases of Catalonia and Valencia,” The Laws’ Many Bodies, c1600-1900 (Seán Donlan & Dirk Heirbaut, eds.), Duncker & Humblot, 2015, pp. 193-222. “Antonio Pérez Martín: Notas sobre su contribución a la historiografía jurídica española y europea”, Historia et ius: Rivista di storia giuridica dell’età medievale e moderna 7 (2015), pp. 1-19 (available at www.historiaetius.eu - 7/2015 – paper 19).
“Counter-terrorism, emergency and national laws” (with Mariona Llobet), The Routledge Handbook of Law and Terrorism (Clive Walker & Genevieve Lennon, eds.), Routledge: London & New York, 2015, pp. 38-51. “Del fracaso recopilatorio a la pérdida definitiva del Derecho foral valenciano (1707-1804)”, Revista de Dret Històric Català 14 (2015), pp. 243-272. “La aspiración recopilatoria en la tradición jurídica valenciana (1564-1707)”, Revista Valenciana d’Estudis Autonòmics 60 (2015), vol. II, pp. 121-155. “La Codificación española y sus influencias extranjeras. Una revisión en torno al alcance del influjo francés”, La Codificación española. Una aproximación doctrinal e historiográfica a sus influencias extranjeras, y a la francesa en particular (Aniceto Masferrer, ed.), Pamplona: Aranzadi–Thomson Reuters, 2014, pp. 21-52. “Tradición e influencias extranjeras en el Código penal de 1848. Aproximación a un mito historiográfico” (with D. del M. Sánchez González), La Codificación española. Una aproximación doctrinal e historiográfica a sus influencias extranjeras, y a la francesa en particular (Aniceto Masferrer, ed.), Pamplona: Aranzadi–Thomson Reuters, 2014, pp. 271-349.
“Peace and Liberty in the Catalan Medieval Legal Tradition. A Contribution to the Interaction between Religious Law and Secular Law in the European Middle Ages,” Constitutionalism in Europe before 1789. Constitutional arrangements from the High middle Ages to the French Revolution, Oslo: Pax Forlag A/S, 2014, pp. 28-48. “El principio de soberanía: una aproximación histórica a sus límites” (with Juan A. Obarrio), Historia y Derecho. Estudios dedicados al profesor Santos Coronas, Universidad de Oviedo - KRK Ediciones, 2014, v. II, pp. 965-988. “Countering Terrorism and Crossing Legal Boundaries,” (with Clive Walker), The World Financial Review (EBR Media Ltd), January-February 2014, pp. 49-51. “The ill-fated union: Constitutional Entrenchment of Rights and the Will Theory from Rousseau to Waldron” (with Anna Taitslin), The Legal Doctrines of the Rule of Law and the Legal State (Rechtsstaat) (James.E.Hickey & James R. Silkenat, eds.), Dordrecht-Heidelberg-London-New York, Springer (Collection ‘Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice’, vol. 38) 2014, pp. 105-128. (This article has been translated into Russian and published as follows: “Обреченный союз: Конституционное закрепление прав и волевая теория от Руссо до Уолдрона” (with Anna Taitslin), The Legal State and the Rule of Law Doctrines in Modern World / Collection of Articles (Valery D. Zorkin & Petr D. Barenboim; compiled by Petr D. Barenboim), Moscow Publishers LOOM & Justitsinform, Moscow, 2013, pp. 178-212.
“Ius Commune y tradición jurídica europea. Notas sobre la contribución del Prof. Antonio Pérez Martín a la historiografía jurídica europea,” GLOSSAE. European Journal of Legal History 10 (2013), pp. 1-47. “La antinomia ‘Derechos fundamentales’ – ‘soberanía nacional’ en los orígenes del Constitucionalismo moderno,” GLOSSAE. European Journal of Legal History 10 (2013), pp. 277-302.
“The Crime of infidencia in the Cortes of Cádiz: An Approach to the Crime of Treason during the Early Spanish Constitutionalism (1808-1814),” Revolten und politische Verbrechen zwischen dem 12. und 19. Jahrhundert. Rechtliche Reaktionen und juristisch-politische Diskurse / Revolts and Political Crime from the 12th to the 19th Century. Legal Responses and Juridical-Political Discourses, herausgegeben von Angela De Benedictis und Karl Härter unter redaktioneller Mitarbeit von Tina Hannappel und Thomas Walter (Studien zur europäischen Rechtsgeschichte 285), Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 2013, pp. 447-473.
“The Fragility of Fundamental Rights in the Origins of Modern Constitutionalism. Its Negative Impact in Protecting Human Rights in the ‘War on Terror’ Era”, Counter-Terrorism, Human Rights and the Rule of Law: Crossing Legal Boundaries in Defence of the State (Aniceto Masferrer & Clive Walker, eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013, pp. 37-60. “Countering Terrorism and Crossing Legal Boundaries” (with Clive Walker), Counter-Terrorism, Human Rights and the Rule of Law: Comparative Studies of the Responses to Terrorism and the Crossing of Legal Boundaries (Aniceto Masferrer & Clive Walker, eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013, pp. 3-16.
“The Principle of Legality and Codification in the 19th-century Western Criminal Law Reform”, From the Judge’s Arbitrium to the Legality Principle: Legislation as a Source of Law in Criminal Trials (Georges Martyn, Anthony Musson and Heikki Pihlajamäki, eds.), Duncker & Humblot, 2013, pp. 253-293. “El arte de la palabra en público. La importancia de la oratoria en el ámbito universitario” (with J. A. Obarrio), Expresión oral y proceso de aprendizaje. La importancia de la oratoria en el ámbito universitario (J. Alfredo Obarrio & Aniceto Masferrer). Dykinson, Madrid, 2013, pp. 19-27. “Expresión oral y proceso de aprendizaje en la Universidad del siglo XXI” (with J. A. Obarrio), Expresión oral y proceso de aprendizaje. La importancia de la oratoria en el ámbito universitario (J. Alfredo Obarrio & Aniceto Masferrer). Dykinson, Madrid, 2013, 29-36. “La metodología docente interactiva y su principal obstáculo: el miedo. Cómo superarlo para poder expresarse en público”, Expresión oral y proceso de aprendizaje. La importancia de la oratoria en el ámbito universitario (J. A. Obarrio & Aniceto Masferrer). Dykinson, Madrid, 2013, pp. 165-190. “José Sarrión Gualda, tres décadas de historiografía jurídica”, Revista de la Inquisición, Intolerancia y Derechos humanos 16 (2012), pp. 147-176. “The Current Move towards Comparative Legal History,” 3 Rom. J. Comp. L. 151-175 2012.
“The Longing for Comparative Legal History,” GLOSSAE. European Journal of Legal History 9 (2012), pp. 206-220.
“El retorno de Glossae, con lo añejo y lo nuevo”, GLOSSAE. European Journal of Legal History 9 (2012), I-IV.
“The Napoleonic Code pénal and the Codification of Criminal Law in Spain”, Le Code Pénal. Les Métamorphoses d’un Modèle 1810-2010. Actes du colloque international Lille/Ghent, 16-18 décembre 2010 (Chantal Aboucaya & Renée Martinage, coords.), Lille, Centre d’Histoire Judiciare, 2012, pp. 65-98. “La salvaguarda del honor y dignidad de los convictos en el Constitucionalismo español y alemán. Una aproximación histórica al contenido penal del Constitucionalismo europeo”, Homenaje al Profesor José Antonio Escudero. Madrid, UCM Editorial Complutense, 2012, vol. III, pp. 273-301).
“Security, Criminal Justice and Human Rights in Countering Terrorism in the Post 9/11 Era”, Post 9/11 and the State of Permanent Legal Emergency: Security and Human Rights in Countering Terrorism (Aniceto Masferrer, editor). Dordrecht-Heidelberg-London-New York, Springer (Collection ‘Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice’) 2012, pp. 1-11. “The State Power and the Limits of the Principle of Sovereignty: An Historical Approach” (with J.A. Obarrio), Post 9/11 and the State of Permanent Legal Emergency: Security and Human Rights in Countering Terrorism (Aniceto Masferrer, editor). Dordrecht-Heidelberg-London-New York, Springer (Collection ‘Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice’) 2012, pp. 15-51. “Seguridad y derechos fundamentales en la lucha contra el terrorismo. Los límites del poder político en un Estado de Derecho”, Estado de Derecho y derechos fundamentales en la lucha contra el terrorismo. Una aproximación multidisciplinar (histórica, jurídico-comparada, filosófica y económica) (Aniceto Masferrer, ed.), Pamplona, Thomson-Aranzadi, 2011, pp. 19-43. “Legislación anti-terrorista, Estado de Derecho y Derechos fundamentales: una aproximación a los límites del Estado en el constitucionalismo moderno”, Estado de Derecho y derechos fundamentales en la lucha contra el terrorismo. Una aproximación multidisciplinar (histórica, jurídico-comparada, filosófica y económica) (Aniceto Masferrer, ed.), Pamplona, Thomson-Aranzadi, 2011, pp. 191-254. “La soberanía nacional en las Cortes gaditanas: su debate y aprobación”, Cortes y Constitución de Cádiz. 200 años (José Antonio Escudero, dir.). Madrid, Fundación Rafael del Pino-Espasa, 2011, vol. II, pp. 639-672.
“Las inmisiones en el Derecho español (1850-2000)”, Blasco Gascó, Francisco de Paula (coord.), Estudios jurídicos en homenaje a Vicente L. Montés Penadés, Madrid, 2011, vol. II, pp.
“Plurality of Laws, Legal Diversity and Codification in Spain,” Journal of Civil Law Studies 4, n. 2 (December, 2011), pp. 419-448.
“La costumbre en la Administración de Justicia del siglo XVIII: el caso valenciano”, Droit et moeurs. Societé d’Histoire du Droit. Journées internationals 2010 Jaén-Baeza (ISBN: 978-84-8439-576-8), pp. 529-548 (edited by the Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de Jaén, 2011).
“Spanish Legal History: A Need for its Comparative Approach”, Kjell Å. Modéer and Per Nilsén (eds.), How to Teach European Comparative Legal History (Workshop, Faculty of Law, Lund University, 19-20 August 2009). Lund, 2011, pp. 107-142.
(Work reviewed by Agustín Parise, Revista de Historia del Derecho no. 42, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires jul./dic. 2011, http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?pid=S1853-17842011000200010&script=sci_arttext)
“Relations Between Neighbours in Spanish Law (1850-2000)”, The Development of Liability between Neighbours. Comparative Studies in the Development on the Law of Torts in Europe (James Gordley, ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010 (ISBN13: 9780521767668; ISBN: 0521767660), pp. 173-204 (http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521767660).
“Defense of the Common Law against postbellum American Codification: Reasonable and Fallacious Argumentation”, American Journal for Legal History 50.4 (2008-2010), pp. 355-430.
“Liberal State and Criminal Law Reform in Spain”, Sellers, Mortimer; Tomaszewski, Tadeusz (Eds.), The Rule of Law in Comparative Perspective. Series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, vol. 3 (2010), pp. 19-40 (Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010, Hardcover, ISBN: 978-90-481-3748-0).
“Autonomía y potestad sancionadora en el municipio medieval. Una aproximación al contenido de las ordinacions de 1358 en el contexto municipal catalán”, El municipio medieval: nuevas perspectivas (Javier Alvarado, coord.). Sicania University Press- Sanz y Torres, Mesina-Madrid, 2009, pp. 298-332.
“Codification of Spanish Criminal Law in the Nineteenth Century. A Comparative Legal History Approach”, Journal of Comparative Law Vol. 4, no. 1 (2009), pp. 96-139.
“The Passionate Discussion among Common Lawyers about postbellum American Codification: An approach to its Legal Argumentation” Arizona State Law Journal 40, 1 (2008), pp. 173-256. “La naturaleza jurídico-política de las Cortes valencianas a finales del Antiguo Régimen en la doctrina de los juristas” (with J. Sarrión Gualda), A la Vetlla de la Guerra de Successió: Corts i Parlaments de la Corona d’Aragó (1-3 June 2006). Valencia, Universidad de Valencia, 2008, pp. 641-658. “El Derecho y su aplicación en la Valencia del siglo XVIII. Derecho real y Derecho foral tras los Decretos de Nueva Planta”, Génesis territorial de España, Zaragoza, El Justicia de Aragón, 2007, pp. 425-460. “La ciencia del Derecho penal en la Codificación decimonónica. Una aproximación panorámica a su contenido y rasgos fundamentales”, Estudios de Historia de las ciencias criminales en España, Madrid, Dykinson, 2007, pp. 273-349.
“La tenença de taula en el Derecho foral valenciano. Contribución al estudio de los procedimientos de control de los oficios públicos en el Antiguo Régimen” (with J. Sarrión Gualda), XVIII Congrés Internacional d’Història de la Corona de Aragó (Valencia, 2004), València, 2005, v. I, pp. 677-696. “El alcance de la prohibición de las penas inhumanas y degradantes en el constitucionalismo español y europeo. Una contribución histórico-comparada al contenido penal del constitucionalismo español y alemán”, Presente y futuro de la Constitución española de 1978 (editado por la Facultad de Dret de la Universitat de València y Tirant lo Blanch, ISBN 84-8456-248-4). Valencia 2005, pp. 515-544. “Contribución de la Teología y ciencia canónica al Derecho penal europeo moderno. Materiales y breves notas para su estudio”, Europa, sé tú misma. Actas del VI Congreso Católicos y Vida Pública (Madrid, 19-21 de noviembre de 2004). Madrid, 2005, vol. I, pp. 185-200. “La contribución de F.L. Ganshof a la historiografía feudal europea. Una revisión crítica a la historiografía española en torno al feudalismo ganshofiano” (with Dirk Heirbaut), Anuario de Historia del Derecho Español 75 (2005), pp. 595-636.
“François Louis Ganshof, a Belgian view of the Middle Ages” (with Dirk Heirbaut), Rewriting the Middle Ages in the Twentieth Century (ed. by J. Aurell and F. Crosas). Tornhout (Belgium), Brepols International Academic Publishers, 2005, pp. 223-241. “El ius commune en la historiografía penal española. Una apuesta metodológica de apertura hacia lo supranacional y europeo”, O. Condorelli, E. Montanos-Ferrin, K. Pennington, Hgg., Studi in Onore di Manlio Bellomo, Roma, 2004, t. III, pp. 563-587.
“La historiografía penal española del siglo XX. Una aproximación a sus principales líneas temáticas y metodológicas”, Rudimentos Legales 5 (2003), pp. 29-125. “Continuismo, reformismo y ruptura en la Codificación penal francesa. Contribución al estudio de una controversia historiográfica actual de alcance europeo”, Anuario de Historia del Derecho Español 73 (2003), pp. 403-420. “Autonomía municipal y potestad normativa: espacios de jurisdicción criminal en el municipio catalán bajomedieval y moderno”, R. FERRERO (Coord.), Autonomía municipal en el mundo mediterráneo: Historia y perspectiva (Actas de la IV Reunión Científica de Equipos de Investigación Universitarios, Universidad de Valencia, 16-19 de noviembre). Valencia, 2002, pp. 45-57. “L’element sancionador i el contingut penal de les ordinacions municipals catalanes. Especial consideració a les Ordinacions de Girona de 1358”, El món urbà a la Corona d’Aragó del 1137 als Decrets de Nova Planta. Actes del XVII Congreso de Historia de la Corona de Aragón (Barcelona-Lleida, 7-12 de septiembre). Barcelona, 2003, vol. III, pp. 523-551. “La dimensión ejemplarizante del Derecho penal municipal catalán en el marco de la tradición jurídica europea. Algunas reflexiones iushistórico-penales de carácter metodológico”, Anuario de Historia del Derecho Español 71 (2001), pp. 439-471. "La influència dels Usatges en el Dret penal dels municipis de la Catalunya Nova. Notes per a un estudi", El territori i les seves institucions històriques. Actes. Ascó, 28, 29 i 30 de novembre de 1997. Fundació Noguera. Estudis. Barcelona, 1999, pp. 809-837.
“La pena de infamia en la Codificación penal española”, Ius fugit. Revista Interdisciplinar de Estudios Histórico-Jurídicos 7 (1998), pp. 123-176. "La pena de infamia en las Costumbres de Horta (1296)", Actes de les Jornades d'estudi del VII Centenari dels Costums D'Orta (1296-1996). Ajuntament d'Horta de Sant Joan, 1997, pp. 329-342.
Articles and Book Chapters (in progress and forthcoming)
“La distinción entre delito y pecado en la tradición penal bajomedieval y moderna. Una propuesta revisionista de la historiografía española, europea y anglosajona” (forthcoming)
“The French Codification and Codiphobia in the Common Law Tradition” (forthcoming) “The Decline and Replacement of Custom in the Early Modern Spain (1469-1812)” (forthcoming)
“Tradition und Reformismus in der europäischen Strafrechtskodifikation. Der Einfluss der politischen Revolution auf die spanische Strafrechtswissenschaft“ (forthcoming)
“Fundamental Rights, Legality and Criminal Law in the European Constitutionalism. A Comparative Approach to the prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in Spanish and German Legal Systems” (forthcoming)
“The Role of the Custom and the Case Law in the 18th-Century Administration of Justice in a Civil Law Jurisdiction: The Case of Valencia” (forthcoming) “The Origin of Terrorism in Spain: Its Political and Ideological Roots” (forthcoming, 2017).
Other Articles (and reviews, etc.)
Berni y Català, José, Diccionario Biográfico Español, ed. by the Real Academia de Historia (ISBN: 978-84-96849-56-3, D.L.: M-43389-2009), Vol. VIII: De ‘Berenguela Berenguer’ to ‘Borbón y Borbón Parma’, 2010 (ISBN 13: 978-84-96849-64-8), pp. 203-205.
Review of TATJER PRAT, Mª Teresa: La Audiencia Real de la Corona de Aragón. Orígenes y primera etapa de su actuación (S. XIII y XIV). Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Col.lecció d’Estudis d’Història del Dret (Seminari Permanent i Interuniversitari d’Història del Dret Català Josep M. Font Rius), 2009, 263 pp. (ISBN: 978-84-88042-70-5), in Anuario de Historia del Derecho Español 80 (2010), pp. 977-981.
Review of OBARRIO MORENO, Juan Alfredo: La preterición en el ámbito del ius commune: los comentarios de Tomás Cerdán de Tallada al fuero Declaran. Estudio, traducción y transcripción. Ed. Dykinson. Madrid, 2009, 382 pp., in Revista General del Derecho Romano 12 (June, 2009).
Review of OBARRIO MORENO, Juan Alfredo: Testamentorum sollemnia iuris romani medii aevi memoria. Ed. Dykinson. Madrid, 402 pp., in Revista General del Derecho Romano 12 (June, 2009).
Short biographies of the Catalan lawyers Jaume de Montjuic, Jaume Vallseca, Guillem Vallseca, Jaume de Marquilles, Pere d’Amigant i de Ferrer, Mateu Adrià, Jaume Callís, Jaume Càncer y Bonaventura Tristany-Bofill i Benach, in Diccionario Crítico de Juristas españoles, portugueses y latinoamericanos (hispánicos, brasileños, quebequenses y restantes francófonos) (ed. y coord. por M.J. Peláez). Zaragoza-Barcelona, 2005, pp. 51-52, 97, 175-176, 185-186. (http://www.libreriaproteo.es/libro-354329-DICCIONARIO-CRITICO-DE-JURISTAS-ESPANOLES-
PORTUGUESES-Y-LATINOAMERICA-VI.html)
Short biography of the German lawyer Sebastián Brant, en Juritas Universales, edit. por Rafael Domingo. 1. Juristas Antiguos, Madrid, 2004, pp. 566-569.
Review of the Simposio sobre Tomás Mieres (Facultad de Derecho –UdG-, 20 de diciembre de 2000), con motivo de la dedicación del Aula de Práctica Jurídica a este distinguido jurista gerundense (en Revista d’Història del Dret català I, 2001, pp. 239-241; and Anuario de Historia del Derecho Español (71, 2001).
Review of SAINZ GUERRA, Juan: La evolución del Derecho penal en España. Jaén, Universidad de Jaén, 2004 (ISBN: 84-8439-214-7), Anuario de Historia del Derecho Español 74 (2004).
Review of REYES ÁLVAREZ, Jaime: Ars regnandi – Regierungsstabilität und Herrschaftskrisen in Iberoamerika. Am Beispiel von Argentinen und Chile. Peter
Lang (Frankfurt/Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford), 2003, 364 pp. Europäische Hochschulschriften: Reihe 2, Rechtswissenschaft. Bd. 3700. ISBN 3-631-51092-6, en Anuario de Historia del Derecho Español 74 (2004). Review of SERRANO DAURA, Josep: Senyoriu i Municipi a la Catalunya Nova (segles XII-XIX). 2 vols., Barcelona, 2000, Revista d’Història del Dret català II (2002), pp. 321-334.
Review of IGLESIAS RÍO, Miguel Ángel: Perspectiva histórico-cultural y comparada de la legítima defensa. Universidad de Burgos, 1999 (Anuario de Historia del Derecho Español 71, 2001).
Review of GARCÍA DE VICENTE, Juan Carlos: Homicidio por necesidad. La legítima defensa en la teología tardomedieval. Bern-Berlin-Bruxelles-Frankfurt am Main-New York-Wien: Lang, 1999, en Ius Commune. Zeitschrift für europäische Rechtsgeschichte 28 (2001), pp. 414-418.
Works-in-progress
Main researcher of the research project I+D (MINECO) entitled “Las influencias extranjeras en la tradición penal española: su concreto alcance en la Parte Especial de los Códigos decimonónicos” (DER2016-78388-P), 2016-2019.
Member of the Project “The Western Legal Traditions Casebook” and Co-editor of the future textbook (by Hart Publishing, Ius Commune Series) (http://esclh.blogspot.com/p/western-legal-traditions-casebook.html).
I’m coordinating (with Olivier Moreteau & Kjell Modéer) a Comparative Legal History Volume (by Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017).
I’m working on a project about ‘the secularization of criminal law in the Western legal tradition’, subject upon which I’ve given some papers and seminars in the USA and Europe over the last four years.
Past Research Projects
Main researcher of the research project I+D (MINECO) entitled “La influencia de la Codificación francesa en la tradición penal española: su concreto alcance en la Parte general de los Códigos decimonónicos” (DER2012-38469) (2013-2016).
“Legal reform in the Anglo-American legal tradition: the Codification movement in England, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand”. This topic constitutes part of a wider research project which led me to work at the Universities of Cambridge (2005), Harvard (2006-2007) and Merbourne (2008), where I dealt with the Codification issue in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. At Harvard Law School I worked on the codification of American law; the first part of this research was published with the title: “The Passionate Discussion among Common Lawyers about postbellum American Codification: An approach to its Legal Argumentation,” 40 Arizona State Law Journal 173 (2008), pp. 173-256; the second part has already been published with the title: “Defense of the Common Law against postbellum American Codification: Reasonable and Fallacious Argumentation”, American Journal for Legal History 50.4 (2008-2010; published in 2010), pp. 355-430. I have also given several papers on this matter in Europe, USA, Australia and New Zealand.
Member of the international research Project entitled ‘Books of Law: the Formation and Transmission of Western Legal Tradition’, sponsored by the French CNRS, led by Serge Dauchy (Lille, France), Heikki Pihlajämäki (Helsinki, Finland), Georges Martyn (Ghent, Belgium), and Anthony Musson (Exeter, UK), Alain Wijffels (Leiden University), 2012-2015.
Member of the international research Project entitled 'How to do research in European Comparative Legal History: Texts, Contexts and Legal Institutions’, led by Prof. Dr. Kjell Modéer and sponsored by the University of Lund (Sweeden), 2013.
Member of the international research Project entitled 'Jurisdictional Complexity in Western Legal History, C1600-1900', 2011-2013 (whose book came out in 2015) (http://esclh.blogspot.com/2010/08/call-for-participants-western-legal.html)
Main researcher of the research project entitled “Democratic State's Response to Terrorism under the Rule of Law. A Historical and Comparative Approach to the protection of Human Rights and Civil liberties in the Fight against Terrorism”, sponsored by the Fundación Universitas (2010-2012).
In this regard, I delivered a paper in the 19. Kolloquium zur Polizeigeschichte, organized by the Center for Terrorism and Counterterrorism (University of Leiden) and Max-Planck-Institute für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte (Frankfurt am Main, 17th – 19th July 2008), with the title “An Approach to the Origins of the Terrorism in Spain (1868-1930). Civil and Liberties vs. Security?”.
http://www.mpier.de/pdf/veranstaltungen/programm_pol_und_terr_2008.pdf http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=9484
On this matter I also gave a paper in the workshop Shooting to Kill, organized by The Australian National University (Onati, Spain, 18th – 19th June 2009), with the title: “A research Project on the State’s Response to Terrorism under the Rule of Law: a Historical and Comparative Approach. Security versus Liberty: The Challenge of Terrorism in Democratic States”. I organised the international Conference “Democratic State's Response to Terrorism under the Rule of Law. A Historical and Comparative Approach to the protection of Human Rights and Civil liberties in the Fight against Terrorism”, at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain, 14 - 15 July, 2011
(http://www.iisj.net/iisj/de/calendario-workshops-2011.asp?cod=5651&nombre=5651&prt=1)
As a result of this research project, in addition to the conferences attended and papers presented, two books were published:
(for my specific contributions, see the list of my book chapters)
Aniceto Masferrer (ed.), Post 9/11 and the State of Permanent Legal Emergency: Security and Human Rights in Countering Terrorism. Dordrecht-Heidelberg-London-New York, Springer (Collection ‘Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice’), 2012. Aniceto Masferrer & Clive Walker (eds.), Counter-Terrorism, Human Rights and the Rule of Law: Crossing Legal Boundaries in Defence of the State, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013.
Participation in the research project entitled ‘Wrongdoing in Spain, 1800-1936: Realities, Representations and Reactions’ (http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/read-all-about-it), financed by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of United Kingdom (£600,725), and directed by Dr. Alison Sinclair, Professor of Modern Spanish Literature and Intellectual History’ (http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/as49) (Univ. Cambridge), 2011 – 2014.
Main researcher of the research project entiled “Seguridad vs. Derechos fundamentales en la lucha contra el terrorismo en un Estado democrático y de Derecho: una aproximación histórica, jurídica y
económica”, supported by the University of Valencia (UV-AE-10-24010). In this context, I organized the International Workshop entitled “Estado de Derecho y Derechos fundamentales ante la lucha contra el terrorismo: Una aproximación histórica y jurídico-comparada” (which was held at the Faculty of Law, Univ. Valencia, 20-21 December 2010). As a result of this Project, a collective monograph was published:
Aniceto Masferrer (ed.), Estado de Derecho y derechos fundamentales en la lucha contra el terrorismo. Una aproximación multidisciplinar (histórica, jurídico-comparada, filosófica y económica). Pamplona, Thomson-Aranzadi, 2011.
Participation in the international research Project entitled ‘From Judges to the Legality Principle: Legislation as a Source of Law in Criminal Trials’, 2009-2011.
Participation in the international research project “European Legal Development: Liability for Wrongs in the European Legal Development (1850-2000)” (www.eld.law.cam.ac.uk), supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of United Kingdom (Grant: £250,000), and directed by Prof. Dr. John Bell and Prof. Dr. David Ibbetson, at the Comparative Law and Civil Law Departments, respectively (Universidad de Cambridge). Period of time: January 2005- March 2008.
Participation in the research project “Los Decretos de Nueva Planta y la aplicación del Derecho en los Reinos de la Corona de Aragón”, supported by the Aragón Justice and directed by Prof. Dr. José Antonio Escudero López, Department of Legal History and Institutions at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), 2006-2007.
Member of the research project “La Administración de Justicia en la América Hispana: organización y funcionamiento de las Reales Audiencias de santa Fe de Bogotá y de Quito (siglos XVI y XVII)”, supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology (Dirección General de Investigación) and directed by Prof. Dra. Isabel Martínez Navas, Professor History of Law and Institutions at the University of La Rioja.
Member of the research project “Edición crítica de las Partidas III-V de Alfonso X El Sabio” (BJU2001-487), supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology (Dirección General de Investigación) and directed by Prof. Dr. Antonio Pérez Martín, History of Law and Institutions Professor and Director of the Instituto de Derecho Común Europeo (University of Murcia).
Selected Conferences and Invited Talks (Spain, France, Italy, Malta, Belgium, Israel,
Netherlands, Norway, Germany, Sweden, Romania, Poland, England, Scotland, México, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand)
(Updated: October 2017) October 2017 “The notion of human dignity in Historical Retrospective: from
Eleanor Roosevelt to Francisco de Vitoria”, paper given at the ‘Alan Watson Seminar’, organized by the ‘Center for Legal History’, Faculty of Law, University of Edinburgh, 6 October 2017, 5:30pm – 7:00pm.
July 2017 “The Role of Nature in the 18th-century criminal law discourse:
A Critical and Comparative Analysis”, paper delivered at the British Legal History Conference 2017, entitled ‘Networks and Connections’, held at the University College London (London), 5-8 July (5 July), 3:45pm – 5:15pm.
May 2017 “The French Codification as a Model? Its Failures in Western
Legal Traditions: the Spanish Case”, paper delivered at the Colloque entitled ‘AU-DELÀ DES PARTICULARISMES: L’HISTOIRE COMPARATIVE DU DROIT’, organized by the College de France (Paris), under the academic direction of Prof. Alain WIJFFELS (Vendredi 12 mai 2017 de 9h à 18, College de France, hamphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs), at 2:45pm.
January 2017 “Los precedentes de la noción constitucional de dignidad
humana”, paper delivered at the Faculty of Law, Universidad Anáhuac (México City), 23th January 2017, 5:30pm – 7:00pm.
January 2017 “La relación entre el Derecho penal y la moral”, paper
delivered at the Universidad Nacional de Tlaxcala (Tlaxcala, México), 20th January 2017, 11:00am – 12:30pm.
January 2017 “La relación entre Derecho penal, religión y moral en un
Estado Laico”, paper delivered at the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (Hidalgo, México), 13th January 2017, 10:00am – 11:30am.
January 2017 “Los antecedentes de la noción de dignidad humana en el
Constitucionalismo Mexicano”, paper delivered at the
Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (Morelia, México), 13th January 2017, 6:00pm – 7:30pm.
December 2016 “La dignidad humana: una visión retrospectiva de su
evolución en el Constitucionalismo moderno”, paper delivered in the context of the Master “Constitucionalismo y derechos humanos”, at the Universidad Panamericana (México City, México), 14th December 2016, 7:00pm – 10:00pm.
December 2016 “De los ‘Derechos fundamentales’ a los ‘Derechos de nueva
generación’”, paper delivered in the context of the Master “Constitucionalismo y derechos humanos”, at the Universidad Panamericana (México City, México), 13th December 2016, 7:00pm – 10:00pm.
December 2016 “De los ‘Derechos naturales’ a los ‘Derechos fundamentales’”,
paper delivered in the context of the Master “Constitucionalismo y derechos humanos”, at the Universidad Panamericana (México City, México), 9th December 2016, 7:00pm – 10:00pm.
Nov.-Dec. 2016 “La dignidad humana en el Constitucionalismo moderno:
Análisis retrospectivo de su evolución (del siglo XXI hasta el siglo XVII)”, as plenary speaker at the International Conference entitled “1916 Rumbo a la Constitución de 1917”, organized by several Mexican academic institutions (UAER, COHU, UNAM, CEAM, COLMICH, UMSNH), and held in Jiquilpan, Sahuayo, Zamora and Morelia) (México), 29 Nov.-1 Dec. 2016 (29th Nov.).
November 2016 “The Myth of the French Influence over the Spanish
Codification: The General Part of the Criminal Codes of 1822 and 1848”, paper delivered at the International Conference, entitled “The Influence of the Code pénal (1810) over the Codification in Europe and Latin America: Tradition and Foreign Influences in the Codification Movement”, organized by the Institute for Social, Political and Legal Studies, and held at the Faculty of Law, Univ. Valencia, 9-11 November 2016 (11th November)
November 2016 “Tradition and Foreign Influences in the 19th-century
Codification of Criminal Law: Dispelling the Myth of the
overall French Influence in Europe and Latin America”, paper delivered at the International Conference, entitled “The Influence of the Code pénal (1810) over the Codification in Europe and Latin America: Tradition and Foreign Influences in the Codification Movement”, organized by the Institute for Social, Political and Legal Studies, and held at the Faculty of Law, Univ. Valencia, 9-11 November 2016 (10th November).
November 2016 “Una introducción a la Parte General de los Códigos penales
decimonónicos: Tradición e influencias extranjeras”, paper delivered at the International Conference, entitled “The Influence of the Code pénal (1810) over the Codification in Europe and Latin America: Tradition and Foreign Influences in the Codification Movement”, organized by the Institute for Social, Political and Legal Studies, and held at the Faculty of Law, Univ. Valencia, 9-11 November 2016 (9th November).
November 2016 “Derecho y moral: la secularización del Derecho penal y sus
implicaciones en la actualidad”, paper delivered at the III Seminario Interdisciplinar de Derecho y Ética Social (SIDES), organized by the Institute for Social, Political and Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, Univ. Valencia, 3rd November 2016.
June 2016 “Codification as nationalization or denationalization of law:
The Spanish case”, paper delivered at the Fourth Biennial ESCLH Conference, entitled ‘Culture, Identity and Legal Instrumentalism’, organized by the ‘European Society for Comparative Legal History’, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Gdańsk, Polonia, 28th June – 1st July 2016 (30th June).
June 2016 “Legal history and the history of ideas: The notion of the
human dignity in historical perspective”, paper delivered at the Summer School Program, Fourth Biennial Conference, organized by the ‘European Society for Comparative Legal History’, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Gdańsk, Polonia, 28th June 2016.
June 2016 “How a Western Lawyer Looks at the Criminal Justice in Early
Eighteenth-Century China,” Comments on the paper “Proof Sufficientcy and Political Structrure: Criminal Justice in Early Eighteenth-Century China,” by Zhiqiang Wang, at the Conference Organizing Justice: China and Europe from the 15th to
the early 20th century, organized by the Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt/M, 1-3 June, 2nd June.
Abril 2016 “La Parte General de los Códigos penales decimonónicos:
Tradición e influencias extranjeras”, paper delivered at the conference entitled ‘La Codificación penal española decimonónica: Tradición e influencias extranjeras en la Parte General’, organized by the Institute for Social, Political and Legal Studies, and held at the Faculty of Law, Univ. Valencia, 14-15 April (15th April).
Abril 2016 “Tipología de penas: Las penas privativas de derechos”, paper
delivered at the conference entitled ‘La Codificación penal española decimonónica: Tradición e influencias extranjeras en la Parte General’, organized by the Institute for Social, Political and Legal Studies, and held at the Faculty of Law, Univ. Valencia, 14-15 April (15th April).
April 2016 “Between Utilitarianism and Spiritualism: The historical and
philosophical foundations of an unlimited criminal law”, paper delivered at the conference entitled ‘The Limits of Criminalization: Precursor Crimes of Terrorism (Towards an Orwellian Society throughout Precursor and Communication Conducts? A Conceptual and Legislative Analysis)’, held in the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, 14-15 April 2016 (14th April).
March 2016 “Libertad vs. dignidad en el Derecho penal occidental: pasado,
presente y futuro”, paper delivered at the II Seminario Interdisciplinar de Derecho y Ética Social (SIDES), organized by the Institute for Social, Political and Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, Univ. Valencia, 3rd March 2016.
December 2015 “La salvaguarda de la paz y la seguridad en el Medioevo: la
contribución del IV Concilio de Letrán”, plenary lecture delivered at the International Congress, entitled ‘Innocent III and his time: From absolute papal monarchy to the Fourth Lateral Council”, organized by the Cátedra Inocencio III. Investigación en Historia del Derecho, Derecho común y Derecho canónico (Universidad Católica de Murcia), 9-12 December, 9th December 2015.
November 2015 “Dignidad y derechos humanos: una aproximación crítica a los ‘nuevos derechos’”, paper delivered at the II Seminario Interdisciplinar de Derecho y Ética Social (SIDES), organized by the Institute for Social, Political and Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, Univ. Valencia, 26th November 2015.
Oct. – Nov. 2015 “May a Civil Code Be a Subsidiary Legal Source? The Spanish
Case”, paper delivered at the Annual meeting organized by the American Society for Legal History, Washington DC, 29th October – 1st Nov 2015, 30th October 2015.
October 2015 “Taking Sex Less Seriously: The Secularization of Criminal
Law in the Western Tradition,” Lecture given at the College of Law, Loyola University New Orleans, LA, USA, 29th October 2015.
October 2015 “The Significance and Relevance of Comparative Legal
History”, Lecture given at the Faculty of Law, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania, 7th October 2015.
October 2015 “Taking Human Dignity more Humanely: The Notion of
Human Dignity in the 17th and 18th Centuries”, Lecture given at the Faculty of Law, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania, 8th October 2015.
September 2015 “The Need for a Secularized Criminal Law: Past, Present and
Future. A Proposal to Unravel a Complex Issue in the Western Society”, paper delivered at the context of the Legal English Workshops, Faculty of Law, Univ. Valencia, 24th September 2015.
September 2015 “The repression of Valencian Advocates after the Spanish Civil
War”, paper delivered at the Conference Anti-Democratic Ideology and Criminal Law under Fascist, National Socialist and Authoritarian Regimes (Centre for European Legal Studies, University of London, 10-11 September, 2015), 10th September 2015.
July 2015 “Derecho a la privacidad y a la libertad sexual: bases
filosóficas de una evolución jurídica” (with Vicente Bellver), paper delivered at the Annual International Legal Philosophy Conference (Roundtable ‘Humanidad y Derecho: ser, valor y
praxis jurídica’), Washington D.C., 27-30 July 2015, 30th July 2015.
July 2015 “Social contract of submission and the right to resist: the 17th
century view and its modern relevance” (with Anna Taitslin), talk given at the 23rd British Legal History Conference, with the title “Law: Challenges to Authority and the Recognition of Rights”, University of Reading, UK, 8-11 July 2015.
April 2015 “Los precedentes medievales de los Derechos humanos”,
paper delivered at the Conference Las Cortes de León (1188) y la Carta Magna (1215): Precedentes medievales del Constitucionalismo moderno (Faculty of Law, Univ. Valencia), 24th April 2015.
March 2015 “The role of lawyers and legal doctrine in the Spanish legal
traditions”, paper delivered in a Legal History Seminar at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris, France), 27th March 2015.
March 2015 “The Secularization of criminal law in the Western tradition:
past, present and future”, Lecture given to law students at the Université Paris X Nanterre (Paris, France), 23rd March 2015.
March 2015 “Codification and legal reform in the civil law and common
law traditions”, Lectures given within the Comparative Law course I taught at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris, France), 16th & 23rd March 2015.
March 2015 “La secularización del Derecho penal en la tradición
occidental: problemas y dilemas actuales”, paper delivered at the II Seminario Interdisciplinar de Derecho y Ética Social (SIDES), organized by the Institute for Social, Political and Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, Univ. Valencia, 5th March 2015.
January 2015 “Furs e ordinacions del regne de València. El moviment
compilatori a la tradició jurídica valenciana”, paper delivered in the context of the Clàssics a la Nau Programme, organized by the University of Valencia & Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua, Valencia, 29th January 2015.
November 2014 “Los Derechos humanos: pasado, presente y futuro. La
controversia sobre los nuevos derechos”, paper delivered at the I Seminario Interdisciplinar de Derecho y Ética Social (SIDES),
organized by the Institute for Social, Political and Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, Univ. Valencia, 20th November 2014.
November 2014 ‘Taking Sex Less Seriously’: The Secularization of Criminal
Law in the Western Legal Tradition”, paper delivered in the context of a Faculty Seminar at Bar-Ilan University, School of Law (Ramat-Gan, Israel), 4th November 2014.
September 2014 “How a Common Lawyer May Look at Codification”, Lecture
given to law students at George Washington University Law School, DC, USA, 11th September 2014.
September 2014 “The Secularization of Criminal Law in the Early Modern
Age”, paper delivered in the context of a Faculty Seminar at George Washington University Law School, DC, USA, 10th September 2014.
July 2014 “Should Legal Uniqueness be Compared? The Subsidiary
character of the Civil Code in Spain” (with Juan B. Cañizares), paper delivered at the Iuris Diversitas Conference entitled ‘Comparative Law and …,” University of Marseille, Aix Provence, France, 17-19 July 2014 (18th July).
July 2014 “The Fundaments of the Modern Penal Codification: a Socio-
historical Analysis” (with Yves Cartuyvels), paper delivered at the Third Biennial Conference, organised by the ‘European Society for Comparative Legal History’, entitled ‘Traditions
and Changes’, held at the Faculty of Law, University of
Macerata, Italy, 8-9 July 2014 (9th July). May 2014 “Counter-terrorism, emergency and national laws” (with
Mariona Llobet), paper delivered at the Routledge Handbook of Law and Terrorism Workshops, Scottish Universities Insight Institute, Glasgow, UK, 29th-30th May 2014 (30th May).
November 2013 “French Codification and ‘Codiphobia’ in the Common Law
Tradition,” paper delivered in the context of a Faculty Seminar at Tulane Law School, LA, USA, 25th November 2013.
November 2013 “’May They Rest in Peace’: The Death of Natural Rights in the
Origins of Modern Constitutionalism,” paper delivered in the context of a Faculty Seminar at the School of Law, University of Baltimore, MD, USA, 22nd November 2013.
November 2013 “The Crime of Treason in the Origins of Spanish
Constitutionalism,” paper delivered in the context of a Faculty Seminar at the College of Law, Loyola University New Orleans, LA, USA, 15th November 2013.
November 2013 “The Fragility of Fundamental Rights in the Western
Constitutionalism,” paper delivered in the context of a Faculty Seminar at the College of Law, Florida International University, FL, USA, 12th November 2013.
November 2013 “Taking Sex Less Seriously: A Comparative Approach to the
Secularization of Criminal Law in the 18th and 19th Centuries”, paper delivered at the Annual meeting organized by the American Society for Legal History, Miami, USA, 7th-10th November 2013 (9th November).
November 2013 “The Fight for Codification in the US: The Case of New York,”
paper delivered in the context of a Faculty Seminar at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University, LA, USA, 4th November 2013 (see at http://sites.law.lsu.edu/worldwide/2013/11/05/spanish-professor-aniceto-masferrer-discussed-codification-in-the-u-s-at-lsu/)
October 2013 “Las nociones de delito y pecado en la tradición Occidental”,
talk given at the VII Congreso Universitas, entitled “Iglesia y Estado: ¿Dualismo de poderes? Actuales dilemas en el 1700 Aniversario del Edicto de Milán (313)”, Salón de Grados, Biblioteca Mayans i Siscar, Univ. Valencia, 10-11 October, 11th October 2013.
August 2013 “The Ius Commune as the ratio scripta in the Civil Law
Tradition: A Comparative Approach”, paper delivered in the Comparative Legal History Workshop entitled Comparative Legal History: Methodology & Legal Sources, Institutions & Codifications, organized by the Faculty of Law, Lund University, and sponsored by the Olin Foundation of Legal History, Stockholm (August 19th – 21st, 2013).
July 2013 “Law as Command in the 18th-century Jurisprudence:
Rousseau and the Death of Natural Rights,” talk given at the 21st British Legal History Conference, University of Glasgow, UK, 10-13 July 2013
May 2013 “The Principle of National Sovereignty in the Early Spanish
Constitutionalism: The Constitution of Cádiz (1812),” talk given at the Center for Advance Studies (CAS), Oslo, Norway, Wednesday May 15th, 2013 02:15 pm - 04:00 pm
May 2013 “The Influence of the Napoleonic Codification in the Western Legal Tradition: The Case of Spain,” talk given at the Research Group on Legal Culture, Faculty of Law, University of Bergen, Norway, 14th May 2013, 12.00 pm – 2.00 pm
May 2013 “Reason vs Culture? The Passionate Defense of Common Law
against the Civil Law Thread”, Lecture given within the course 'Legal History and Comparative Law: Legal culture in a Europe in Change‘, Faculty of Law, University of Bergen, Norway, 14th May 2013, 10.15 am – 11.45 pm
March 2013 “La relación entre el Derecho y el poder: una visión histórica”,
talk given at the VI Congreso Universitas, entitled “Límites al poder político: pasado, presente, futuro”, Univ. Valencia (Salón de Grados, Biblioteca Mayans i Siscar), 11-12 March 2013, 11th March 2013.
March 2013 “La influencia de la Codificación francesa en la tradición
jurídica occidental”, talk given at the Conference, entitled “La influencia de la Codificación francesa en la tradición jurídica española en el marco europeo y americano”, Univ. Valencia (Salón de Grados, Biblioteca Mayans i Siscar), 6th March 2013.
November 2012 “Los retos de la formación universitaria ante el mercado
laboral”, talk given at the V Congreso Universitas, entitled “Claves para la incorporación al mercado laboral en tiempos de crisis”, Univ. Valencia (Salón de Grados, Biblioteca Mayans i Siscar), 8-9 November 2012, 9th November 2012.
November 2012 “Ciudadanía y derechos: su evolución desde la Constitución
de Caracalla (s. III) hasta el Constitucionalismo moderno (s. XIX)”, talk given at the Conference entitled “Constitutio Antoniniana: Jornadas a propósito del 1800 aniversario de la Constittución del 212”, organised by the GIRHA (Univ. Valencia), Valencia, 22-23 November 2012, 22nd November 2012.
October 2012 “La metodología docente interactiva y su principal obstáculo: el miedo. Cómo superarlo para poder expresarse en público”, talk given at the IV Congreso Universitas, entitled “El arte de la palabra en público. La importancia de la oratoria en el ámbito universitario”, Univ. Valencia (Salón de Grados, Biblioteca Mayans i Siscar), 4-5 October 2012.
October 2012 “Books of Law in the Spanish Legal Heritage”, Talk given at
the International Conference entitled ‘Books of Law: the Formation and Transmission of Western Legal Tradition’, sponsored by the French CNRS, held at the University of Lille, France, 22nd October 2012.
October 2012 “La criminalización de los afrancesados en las Cortes de
Cádiz”, Talk given at the International Conference entitled “Luces y sombras del Primer Constitucionalismo Español: Las Españas de 1812”, organised by the Faculty of Law, Univ. Valencia, 1-3 October, 2012, 2nd October 2012.
July 2012 “The Spanish criminal-law codification. Its influences and
colonial Impact”, Talk given at the Second Biennial Conference, organised by the ‘European Society for Comparative Legal History’, entitled ‘Comparative Legal History: Definitions and Challenges’, held at the Faculty of
Law, VU University, Amsterdam, 9-10 July 2012 (10th July).
July 2012 “Plurality of Laws and Priority Order of Legal Sources in the
Spanish Legal History”, Talk given at the International Conference 'Jurisdictional Complexity in Western Legal History, C1600-1900', Faculty of Law, University of Ghent, 6-7 July 2012 (6th July).
May 2012 “Religious clothing and symbols in the Modern Spain: a legal
approach to their limits”, paper given at the International Workshop “‘Illegal’ Covering: Comparative Perspectives on Legal and Social Discourses on Religious Diversity” (with J. Landete), held in the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, 17-18 May 2011 (18th May).
April 2012 “Peace and Liberty in the Spanish Medieval Legal Tradition
(12th - 13th Centuries)”, Talk given at the International Conference entitled Constitutionalism in Europe before 1789, held in Bergen 25-26 April 2012, as a part of the research project
«New Perspectives in Constitutional History», and in cooperation with the Bergen City Museum, 25th April 2012.
April 2012 “The Decline of Custom in the Early Modern Spain”, Talk given at the International conference entitled Is There a Role for Custom in Modern European Legal Systems?, led by Prof. Emily Kadens and jointly-sponsored by the School of Law and the Center for European Studies at the University of Texas, 14th April 2012.
March 2012 “Cómo transformar las dificultades en oportunidades: el reto
del estudiante universitario ante la crisis”, Talk given at the III Congreso Universitas, entitled “Universidad e Incorporación al mercado laboral en tiempos de crisis”, Univ. Valencia (Salón de Grados, Biblioteca Gregori Mayans, Campus dels Tarongers), 8-9 March 2012.
November 2011 “The Principle of Legality and Codification in the 19th-century
Western Criminal Law Reform”, Talk given at the Boston College Law School Legal History Roundtable, Boston College, 16th November 2011.
(http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/scholarlyevents/roundtable.html)
November 2011 “French Codification and Codiphobia in the Common Law
Tradition”, Talk given at the Real Colegio Español (Harvard University - University Complutense of Madrid, Cambridge, MA), 15th November 2011.
(http://www.realcolegiocomplutense.harvard.edu/ActividadesEn.htm) November 2011 “The Pursuit of Peace and Security in the Iberian Peninsula
(10th – 11th Centuries)”, paper delivered at the Annual meeting organized by the American Society for Legal History, Atlanta, USA, 10th-13th November 2011 (11th November).
October 2011 “Honor e infamia en el entorno jurídico-público, mediático y
social: una apuesta por la libertad. Algunas inicitivas en el ámbito universitario”, talk given at the II Congreso Universitas, entitled “La Justicia y el Derecho ante la opinión pública y los medios de comunicación”, Univ. Valencia (Salón de Grados, Biblioteca Mayans i Siscar), 6-7 October 2011
September 2011 “The origins of Terrorism in Spain: A Legislative Approach”,
paper given at the Plenary Session of the Conference “Crime Violence and the Modern State III: Law, Order and Individual Rights - Theory, Intent and Practice”, University of Lyon, 8-10 September 2011
July 2011 ‘The Role of Custom and the Case Law in the Eighteenth-
Century Administration of Justice in a Civil Law Jurisdiction: the Case of Valencia (Spain)’, paper given at the THE TWENTIETH BRITISH LEGAL HISTORY CONFERENCE, CAMBRIDGE (2011): LAW AND LEGAL PROCESS, University of Cambridge, 13-16 July 2011 (16th July)
July 2011 “The State Power and the Limitations of the Principle of Sovereignty: An Historical Approach” (with Juan A. Obarrio), paper given at the International Workshop “Democratic State's Response to Terrorism under the Rule of Law. A Historical and Comparative Approach to the protection of Human Rights and Civil liberties in the Fight against Terrorism”, held in the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, 14-15 July 2011 (14th July).
June 2011 “The Doctrine of the Freedom of Contract in the Market: Its
Limitations”, Talk given within the Programme in European Private Law for Postgraduates (PEPP) 2010, organised by the Universities of Hamburg, Katowice, Cambridge and Valencia (Valencia, June 8, 2011).
April 2011 “The crime of 'infidencia' in the Early Spanish
Constitutionalism”, talk given at the Conference entitled Revolten und politische Verbrechen zwischen dem 12. und 19. Jahrhundert Reaktionen der Rechtssysteme und juristisch-politische Diskurse / Rivolte e crimini politici tra XII e XIX secolo Reazioni del sistema giuridico e discorso giuridico-politico (7.-8. April 2011, Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt am Main), forthcoming (2012).
March 2011 “Law and Judicial Precedent in the Continental and Anglo-
American Tradition”, paper given at the I International Conference “Multilevel Constitutionalism: European Parliament and National Parliaments” (Brussels, UNED, 2-4 March 2011).
December 2010 “La amenaza terrorista frente al Estado de Derecho y los
Derechos fundamentales: una aproximación comparada al Constitucionalismo moderno”, talk given at the International Workshop entitled “Estado de Derecho y Derechos fundamentales ante la lucha contra el terrorismo: Una aproximación histórica y jurídico-comparada”, Facultad de Derecho, Univ. Valencia, 20-21 December 2010.
December 2010 “The Napoleonic Code pénal and the Codification of Criminal
Law in Spain”, paper given at the Conference The Influence of the French Criminal Code (Ghent-Lille, 10-12 December 2010).
November 2010 “The Principle of Legality and codification in the 19th-century
Western Criminal Law Reform”, paper given at the Conference From Judges to the Legality Principle: Legislation as a Source of Law in Criminal Trials (Ghent, November 28th – December 1st, 2010).
November 2010 ‘El Constitucionalismo moderno en la tradición occidental’,
Talk given at the ‘Seminario de Historia del Derecho español’ entitled “Una aproximación comparada y metodológica al constitucionalismo español: la Constitución de Cádiz”, organised by the Área de Historia del Derecho y de las Instituciones (Departamento de Derecho Privado, Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Económicas), Castellón, November 24, 2010.
October 2010 “Sociedad y Derecho en Occidente: la rule of law en la tradición
anglosajona y el principio de legalidad en la tradición continental”, talk given at the I Congreso Universitas, entitled “El Derecho en la civilización Occidental: Presupuestos filosóficos, culturales y sociales”, Salón de Grados, Facultad de Derecho, Univ. Valencia, 14-15 October 2010.
July 2010 “The French Codification and the Western Legal Traditions”,
paper given at the Inaugural Conference of the European Society for Comparative Legal History entitled “Law and Historical Development from a Comparative Perspective” (University of Valencia, 5-6 July 2010).
June 2010 “Legal and Normative Diversity in Spain: Spanish Legal
Traditions and the Codification of Private Law”, paper given at the Mediterranean Legal Hybridity Symposium (University of Malta, 11-12 June 2010).
“La costumbre y el precedente judicial en la Administración de Justicia (siglo XVIII)”, paper given at the Journées internationales de la Société d’Histoire du Droit (Jaén, 3-4 June, 2010).
February 2010 “The Codification Movement in the Anglo-American Context:
The Controversy on Field’s Civil Code”, paper delivered in the context of a Public Seminar at the New South Wales Law School, Sydney, Australia, 8th February 2010.
December 2009 “Codification and Legal Diversity: The Spanish Civil Code”,
lecture given at the Law school, Free University of Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), 8th December 2009.
December 2009 “Codification system and Roman Law Tradition in the Anglo-
American Context: The Controversy on the New York Civil Code”, lecture given at the Forum Romanum Society (Amsterdam, Holland, 8th December 2009).
August 2009 “How to teach Comparative Legal History in Spain”, paper
delivered in the Work-shop for European Legal Historians entitled How to Teach European Comparative Legal History, organized by the Faculty of Law, Lund University (August 20th – 22nd, 2009).
June 2009 “The State’s Response to Terrorism under the Rule of Law: a
Historical and Comparative Approach. Security versus Liberty: The Challenge of Terrorism in Democratic States”, paper delivered in the workshop Shooting to Kill, organized by The Australian National University (Onati, Spain, 18th – 19th June 2009).
June 2009 “El Dret i la Justícia a l’Edad Mitjana: de Jaume I als Reis
Católics”, Talk given at the ‘Cicle de conferències’ entitled ‘La Font, història i patrimoni d’un poble’ (‘Casa de Cultura’, La Font d’En Carròs, Valencia), 12th June 2009.
March 2009 “La recepción del Derecho común en España”, lecture given at
the Law school, Universidad de Jaén, 18th March 2009. March 2009 "Reformismo jurídico y Codificación en la tradición jurídica
anglosajona. El valor de la ley y del precedente judicial en el sistema del common law", lecture given at the Law school,
Universitat Illes Balears, 10th March 2009. December 2008 “The Experience of Legal History in Spain”, lecture given in
the Series of Legal History Lectures Gentse Rechtshistorische Causerieën, at the Faculty of Law, University of Gent, Belgium, on Monday 15th December 2008.
November 2008 “Old Regional Identities and Codification: Spain”, paper
delivered at the Annual meeting organized by the American Society for Legal History (Ottawa, Canada, 14th November 2008). (http://www.h-net.org/~law/ASLH/conferences/2008conference/Program_final.doc)
September 2008 “Problems of Codification Revisited: Some Lessons to Be
Learned from the New York State Controversy on Codification”, paper delivered in the context of a Public Seminar at the National Europe Center, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 12th September 2008.
September 2008 “Paradoxical Defence of the Common Law against Postbellum
American Codification”, paper delivered in the context of a Public Seminar at Waikato Law School, New Zealand, 1st September 2008.
August 2008 “The Codification Movement in the American Legal Tradition:
Common Law v. Civil Law?”, paper delivered in the context of a Public Seminar at Auckland Law School, Auckland, New Zealand, 29th August 2008.
August 2008 “Codification system in the Anglo-American Legal Tradition:
The case of New York”, talk given at the context of a CCCS Seminar (organized by the Center for Comparative Constitutional Studies), Melbourne Law School, on Wednesday 27 August 2008. (http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/aacl/Aniceto%20Masferrer%20Seminar%20Flyer.doc) (http://cccs.law.unimelb.edu.au/download.cfm?DownloadFile=CF96036F-EED9-88F5-B859C3AF26ECBBF6) (http://cccs.law.unimelb.edu.au/index.cfm?objectid=6F03606A-B0D0-AB80-E25472E051E2B6F4&DiaryID=3938) (http://voice.unimelb.edu.au/view.php?articleID=5383)
August 2008 “The Codification of Civil Law in the American Legal
Tradition: A History of a Failure?”, paper delivered in the context of a Staff Seminar at Tasmania Law School, Australia,
on Thursday 21 August 2008.
July 2008 “An Approach to the Origins of the Terrorism in Spain (1868-1930). Civil and Liberties vs. Security?”, paper delivered (with Juan Sainz Guerra) within the 19. Kolloquium zur Polizeigeschichte, organized by the Center for Terrorism and Counterterrorism (University of Leiden) and Max-Planck-Institute für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte (Frankfurt am Main, 17th – 19th July 2008).
http://www.mpier.de/pdf/veranstaltungen/programm_pol_und_terr_2008.pdf http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=9484
November 2007 “El Fuero de Andújar y la Justicia: una aproximacíón
comparada al sistema de fuentes bajomedievales”, Talk given at the conference about El Fuero de Andújar, organized by professor Juan Sainz Guerra (Andújar, 8-10 November 2007).
October 2007 “Legal Reform and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century. The
Codification of Spanish Criminal Law in Imperial Context”, Talk given at the Annual meeting organized by the American Society for Legal History (Tempe, Arizona, USA, 27th October 2007).
(http://www.h-net.org/~law/ASLH/conferences/2007conference/Program_Preliminary_Oct.doc)
“Law of Contracts in the Civil Law Tradition: does it come from the French Revolution or from its own Historical Development?”, Talk given at the Dean’s Session del College of Law (Arizona State University, USA), 25th October 2007.
“Religious Freedom and School in Spain”, Talk given at the Faculty Seminar of the College of Law (Arizona State University, USA), 23rd October 2007. (http://www.law.asu.edu/?id=1014)
July 2007 “The Influence of the Legal Doctrine to the Development of
Fault Liability in Civil Law Countries”, Talk given at the Seminar on the “European Legal Development Project Workshop: Liability for Wrongs in the European Law (1850-2000)” at the University of Cambridge, 12th July 2007.
May 2007 “El reformismo jurídico anglosajón del siglo XIX”, Talk given to the students registered in any Legal History course (Faculty of Law, University of Girona).
February 2007 “The Codification Movement in the American Legal Tradition.
A Passionate Discussion among Common-law Lawyers”, Talk given at the Real Colegio Español (Harvard University - University Complutense of Madrid, Cambridge, MA), 1st February 2007.
(http://www.realcolegiocomplutense.harvard.edu/_borders/Actividades.htm)
January 2007 “Paradoxical Defense of the Common Law against postbellum
American Codification: Reasonable and Fallacious Argumentation”, Talk given at Harvard Law School (Harvard University) within the Graduate Program for Visiting Scholars, January 29, 2007.
June 2006 “La naturaleza jurídico-política de las Cortes valencianas a
finales del Antiguo Régimen en la doctrina de los juristas”, Talk given (with Prof. José Sarrión) at the conference A la Vetlla de la Guerra de Successió: Corts i Parlaments de la Corona d’Aragó (1-3 June 2006).
(http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:iHLOaPghTKgJ:www.uv.es/ferrero/Cortes+%22Aniceto+Masferrer%22&hl=fr&ct=clnk&cd=77&gl=es)
September 2005 “The Role of Fault Liability between Neighbours in Spain
(1850-2000)”, Talk given in the European Legal Development Project Workshop (Cambridge, 12-14 September 2005), within the Project “Liability for Wrongs in the European Law (1850-2000), financed by the British Government and lead by Profs. Drs. John Bell and David Ibbetson (University of Cambridge).
November 2004 “Contribución de la Teología y ciencia canónica al Derecho
penal europeo moderno. Materiales y breves notas para su estudio” Talk given in the VI Congreso de Católicos y Vida Pública, organised by the University of San Pablo-Ceu (Madrid, 19-21st November 2004).
October 2004 “Tradition und Reformismus in der europäischen
Strafrechtskodifikation. Der Einfluss der politischen Revolution auf die spanische Strafrechtswissenschaft“, talk given at the University of Würzburg, Germany (21st October 2004).
September 2004 “La purga de taula y otras reformas jurisdiccionales en las Cortes de Valencia de 1301-1302”, talk given in the XVIII Congreso de Historia de la Corona de Aragón (Valencia, 9-14 September, 2004) (September 14).
April 2004 “Le droit romain et la formation historique du droit catalan”,
Talk given in the “Master Profesional de Relaciones Fronterizas”, organised by the Institut Franco-Catalan Transfrontalier (University of Perpignan, France), 30th April 2004.
December 2003 “El Derecho penal en la encrucijada de la Historia: memoria de
un pasado, pervivencias en el presente y bases para un futuro”, Conference given in the IX Jornadas de Historia del Derecho. El Derecho y su aplicación a lo largo de la Historia: el Derecho penal histórico (Universidad de Jaén, 11-13th December 2003).
May 2003 “François Louis Ganshof, a Belgian view of the Middle Ages”,
paper delivered (with Dirk Heirbaut) in the Conference titled Grandes medievalistas del siglo XX, organized by the University of Navarre, Navarre, Spain, 14th – 16th May 2003.
February 2003 “El Dret romà i la formació del Dret català”, talk given in the
Institut Franco-Catalan Transfrontalier de la Université de Perpignan (France), 20th February 2003.
November 2002 “Ordenanzas municipales y facultades jurisdiccionales del
municipio catalán moderno”, Talk given in the IV Reunión Científica de Equipos de Investigación Universitarios, organised by the University of Valencia (Prof. Dr. Remedios Ferrero), in Valencia, 13-16th November 2002.
February 2002 “Le droit romain et la formation historique du droit catalan”,
talk given in the “Master Profesional de Relaciones Fronterizas”, organised by the Institut Franco-Catalan Transfrontalier (University of Perpignan, France), 20th February 2002.
November 2000 “Autonomía municipal y potestad normativa: espacios de
jurisdicción criminal en el municipio catalán bajomedieval y moderno”, Talk given at the IV Reunión Científica de Equipos de Investigación Universitarios, entitled Autonomía municipal
en el mundo mediterráneo: Historia y perspectiva (Univ. Valencia, 16-19 November 2000).
September 2000 “L’element sancionador i el contingut penal de les ordinacions
municipals catalanes. Especial consideració a les Ordinacions de Girona de 1358”, Talk given in the XVII Congreso de Historia de la Corona de Aragón (Barcelona-Lleida, 7-12th September 2000).
June 2000 “Die Infamiestrafe in der spanischen Strafrechtsgeschichte
(13.-19 Jh.) und die Ehrenstrafen, insbesondere der Amtsverlust im deutschen Strafrecht (18.-19. Jh.)”, Talk in the Max-Planck-Institut of European legal History (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 5th June 2000.
June 2000 “La función moralizante del Derecho penal en las Costums de
Miravet y de otros municipios catalanes en el contexto jurídico europeo bajomedieval y moderno”, Tlak given in the Jornades d’Estudi sobre els Costums de la Batllia de Miravet. 680è Aniversari Gandesa, 1319 / Arles, 1320 (Gandesa, 16-18th June 2000).
October 1998 "La pena de infamia en la Codificación penal española", Talk
given in the II Congreso Internacional de Historia de los Derechos Humanos: "Otro 98: el Cincuentenario de la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos (26-29th October 1998), organised by the University of Salamanca.
November 1997 "La influència dels Usatges en el Dret penal dels municipis de
la Catalunya Nova. Notes per a un estudi", Talk given in the Jornades about "El territori i les seves institucions històriques", in Ascó, 28-30th November 1997.
October 1996 "La pena de infamia en las Costumbres de Horta (1296)", Talk
given in the Jornades d'estudi VII Centenari dels Costums d'Orta (1296-1996), 25-27th October 1996.
Other Conferences
September 2003 ‘Congreso de la Comisión Internacional para el estudio de la
historia de las instituciones representativas y parlamentarias’,
organised by the ‘Museu d’Història de Catalunya’ (with the ‘Generalitat de Catalunya’ and the Universities ‘Pompeu Fabra’ and ‘País Vasco’, Barcelona, 3-6 September 2003.
Juny 2003 Historische Kriminalitätsforschung in der Vormoderne (13).
Fachtagung mit dem Arbeitskreis Historische Kriminalitätsforschung in der Vormoderne (19.-21. Juny 2003 in Stuttgart-Hohenheim).
July 2002 IV Curso de Verano “Ciudad de Tarazona”: Aragón, Reino y
Corona. Historia jurídica e institucional (Tarazona, 29 July-1 August 2002).
Juny 2002 Congreso Internacional sobre las Cortes Generales de la Corona de
Aragón en el Siglo XVI (Monzón, 10-13th June 2002), organised by different spanish Universities (Zaragoza, Girona, Pompeu Fabra, Miguel Hernández and Baleares).
July 2001 Sommerkurs 2001 in the Max-Planck-Institut für europäische
Rechtsgeschichte Frankfurt am Main, lead by Prof. Dr. António Manuel Hespanha (8-13th July 2001).
July 2000 Sommerkurs 2000 in the Max-Planck-Institut für europäische
Rechtsgeschichte Frankfurt am Main, lead by Prof. Dr. Dr. H.c. Kjell A. Modéer (2-7th July 2000).
Juny 1999 Jornadas Internacionales de Historia del Derecho en El Escorial, 3-6
June 1999, about "El Derecho Común y Europa", organised by the Société d'Histoire du Droit (Paris) and the University Rey Juan Carlos.
August 1998 Sommerkurs 1998 in the Max-Planck-Institut für europäische
Rechtsgeschichte Frankfurt am Main, lead by Prof. Aldo Mazzacane (3-7th August 1998).
Direction of Doctoral Thesis
- “Las penas infamantes en la Codificación penal francesa”, by Juan B. Cañizares-Navarro (Univ. Valencia, Valencia, 27 July 2011).
- “El General D. Manuel Díez-Alegría y el reformismo militar durante el tardo-franquismo y la transición”, by Pablo González-Pola de la Granja (Univ. Católica San Vicente Mártir, Valencia, 22 February 2017). - “El concepto de nación española en el constitucionalismo decimonónico español”, by Luis Sebastián (Univ. Valencia, Valencia, 7 July 2017). - “Las relaciones Iglesia-Estado en el municipio de Valencia durante la II República”, by Vicente Escrivá (Univ. Católica San Vicente Mártir, Valencia).
Expected Thesis Submission Date: March 2018.
Courses and Seminars
2007 Commentator of the papers concerning the Civil Law
Tradition within the European Legal Development Workshop Project, organized by the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK, July 2007).
2004 Direction of a seminar entitled 'Europäische Rechtsgeschichte'
at the Faculty of Law (University if Würzburg, Germany), from 17th to 24th October 2004.
1997-2001 From 1997/98 to 2000/01 organised several seminars on
History of Criminal Law in Spain and Europe.
Selected Awards, Grants, Fellowships, and Honors
Dec.-Jan. 2017 Concession of a fellowship by the Instituto de Investigaciones
Jurídicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (Ciudad de México, México), to work at the Instituto as a fellow researcher.
October 2015 European Program Socrates-Erasmus Grant, Law School
(University of Valencia) to teach at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (Romania).
August-Sept. 2014 Concession of the Richard & Diane Cummins Legal History
Research Grant for 2014 to perform a research project at George
Washington University, School of Law (Washington D.C., USA).
Nov.-Dec 2013 Grant given by the Valencian Government (Generalitat
Valenciana) to stay and do research at the Center of Civil Law Studies, LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center (Baton Rouge, LA, USA).
December 2010 Award for Teaching Excellence Year 2010 (given by the
Valencian Government - University of Valencia). February 2010 European Program Socrates-Erasmus Grant, Law School
(University of Valencia) to perform a project at the University of Gent (Belgium).
December 2008 Award concession: Premio Nacional Victoria Kent 2008 for the
book entitled La suspensión e inhabilitación para el ejercicio de la función pública en la tradición penal europea y anglosajona. Especial consideración a los Derechos francés, alemán, español, inglés y norteamericano (Madrid, 2009).
November 2008 European Program Socrates-Erasmus Grant, Law School
(University of Valencia) to perform a project at the University of Gent (Belgium).
January 2008 Grant given by the University of Valencia to stay and do
research for two months at Melbourne Law School. January 2007 An additional grant given by the Valencian Government
(Generalitat Valenciana) to stay and do research at Harvard Law School.
May 2006 Mark De Wolfe Howe Fund Grant (Harvard Law School
Institution) to perform a research project at Harvard Law School (Cambridge, MA, USA).
February 2006 European Program Socrates-Erasmus Grant, Law School
(University of Valencia) to perform a project at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), 27th April – 4th May 2006.
February 2005 Herbert Smith Foundation Grant, Law School (University of
Cambridge) to perform a research project in Cambridge (February-July, 2005).
February 2005 Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, “Salvador Madariaga”
Program, to participate in a European research Project directed by Prof. John Bell and Prof. David Ibbetson from the Law School, at the University of Cambrige (February-July, 2005).
November 2004 European Program Socrates-Erasmus Grant, Law School
(University of Valencia) to give some lectures at the University of Würzburg (Germany) (November, 2004).
June 2003 Grant from the Max-Planck-Institute of European History of
Law (Frankfurt am Main) to perform a research project at this Institut (June-August, 2003).
April 2002 Grant from the Max-Planck-Institute of European History of
Law (Frankfurt am Main) to perform a research project at this Institut (April, 2002).
May 2001 Grant from the Max-Planck-Institute of European History of
Law (Frankfurt am Main) to perform a research project at this Institut (May-August, 2001).
February 2001 Department of Justice (Generalitat de Catalunya) scholarship and
the Girona Lawyer School Grant to publish my Ph.D. thesis. May 2000 Grant from the Max-Planck-Institute of European History of
Law (Frankfurt am Main) to perform a research project at this Institut (May-August, 2000).
February 1996 Ph.D. program scholarship (University of Girona).
Other professional activities
Involvement in Scientific/Academic Societies & other Institutions
Member (‘Académico Correspondiente’) of the Spanish Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation (20th December 2012) Member of the European Society for Comparative Legal History, Co-founder and current President (http://esclh.blogspot.com)
Member of the American Society for Legal History (http://www.legalhistorian.org/)
Member of Iuris Diversitas (http://jurisdiversitas.blogspot.com) Universitas Foundation, Founder, former President and current Vice-President (www.fundacionuniversitas.org) President of the Grupo de Estudios Sociales e Interdisciplinares (GESI – Fundación Universitas) (http://www.fundacionuniversitas.org/index.php/es/gesi.html) Director of the Institute for Social, Political and Legal Studies (Valencia, Spain) Board member of the Valencian Committee for European Affairs, a consultative body in charge of advising and realizing studies and proposals to improve the participation in European issues and for planning strategic actions of the Valencian Autonomous Community. Former member of the European Criminal Justice Observatory (http://www.ecjo.eu) Former member of the Spanish ‘Expert Group’ of Fair Trials International (http://www.fairtrials.net/) Involvement in Book Series and Law Journals Member of the ‘Editorial Board’ of the series-collection Studies in the History of Law and Justice, Springer (http://www.springer.com/law?SGWID=0-10017-12-68503-0) Member of the ‘Editorial Board’ of the series-collection Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, Springer (http://www.springer.com/series/7888) Chief-Editor of GLOSSAE. European Journal of Legal History (http://www.glossae.eu) Member of the ‘International Editorial Board’ of the journal Comparative Legal History. An International and Comparative Review of Law and History (sponsored by the European Society for Comparative Legal History and edited by Hard Publishing of Oxford) (http://www.hartjournals.co.uk/clh/index.html) Correspondent of Clio@Themis. Revue électronique d’histoire du droit (http://www.cliothemis.com/Qui-sommes-nous)
Member of the ‘Editorial Board’ of the Romanian Journal of Comparative Law (www.rjcl.ru) Member of the ‘International Advisory Committee’ of the Anuario de Historia del Derecho Español (http://ahde.urjc.es/miembros/) Member of the ‘Editorial Board’ of the Revista de Derecho Civil Valenciano (http://derechocivilvalenciano.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=28) Member of the ‘Consejo de Redacción’ of the Revista Aranzadi de Derecho y Nuevas Tecnologías, edited by Aranzadi – Thomson-Reuters, sponsored by the ‘Ilustre Colegio de Registradores de la Propiedad y Mercantiles de España’ (http://www.aranzadi.es/index.php/catalogo/tipo/revistas/revista-aranzadi-de-derecho-y-nuevas-tecnologias) Member of the ‘Consejo de Redacción’ de la Revista Aequitas. Estudios sobre Historia, Derecho e Instituciones (http://revistaaequitas.wordpress.com/equipo/) Member of the ‘Comité Científico’ de Anales del Derecho. Revista de la Facultad de Derecho, Univ. Murcia http://revistas.um.es/content/analesderecho/ComiteCientifico.pdf) Member of the ‘Comité Científico’ de la Revista ReCrim (‘Revista del Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Criminología y Ciencias Penales de la Univ. Valencia’) (http://www.uv.es/recrim/) Referee for book series / legal history journals Brill, Studies in the History of Private Law (http://www.brill.com/publications/studies-history-private-law) Springer, Series-collection Studies in the History of Law and Justice (http://www.springer.com/law?SGWID=0-10017-12-68503-0) Springer, Series-collection Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice (http://www.springer.com/series/7888) Comparative Legal History. An International and Comparative Review of Law and History Referee for funding agencies (national and international)
Evaluator of the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (former group of ANEP experts), Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (MINECO), from February 2017. ‘Expert’ – ‘Evaluator for funding proposals’ of the Fund for Scientific Research-FNRS (F.R.S.-FNRS), Brussels (Belgium) ‘Expert’ – ‘Evaluator for funding proposals’ of the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Research Foundation Flanders), Ghent (Belgium) ‘Expert’ – ‘Evaluator for funding proposals’ of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Wien (Austria) Collaboration with Mass Media (Articles published in Newspapers):
“Claves para la regeneración de una sociedad civil libre (VI): Pensamiento propio y totalitarismo democrático”, Las Provincias (Valencia, Spain), 17/11/2013 “Claves para la regeneración de una sociedad civil libre (V): Ideología, (in)tolerancia y sectarismo”, Las Provincias (Valencia, Spain), 27/10/2013 “Claves para la regeneración de una sociedad civil libre (IV): Pensar y hablar en conciencia en una sociedad plural y democrática”, Las Provincias (Valencia, Spain), 14/9/2013 “Claves para la regeneración de una sociedad civil libre (III): Libertad y miedo a hablar en público”, Las Provincias (Valencia, Spain), 1/9/2013
“Claves para la regeneración de una sociedad civil libre (II): Libertad y miedo al fracaso”, Las Provincias (Valencia, Spain), 7/7/2013
“Claves para la regeneración de una sociedad civil libre (I): Libertad y aceptación de uno mismo”, Las Provincias (Valencia, Spain), 2/6/2013 “Menos Estado (del malestar) y más libertad”, Las Provincias (Valencia, Spain), 3/2/2013 “Menos política y más sociedad civil”, Las Provincias (Valencia, Spain), 6/1/2013
“Libertad y Constitución de Cádiz”, Las Provincias (Valencia, Spain), 18/3/2012
“Patología del sectarismo”, Las Provincias (Valencia, Spain), 12/2/2012 “José Sarrión Gualda, maestro y amigo”, Las Provincias (Valencia, Spain), 11/12/2011 “La deshumanización del Derecho y el aborto”, ABC (‘Tribuna Libre’), 28/7/2011 “Terrorismo y derechos fundamentales”, Las Provincias (Valencia, Spain), 04/12/2011
“El Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos y el ‘derecho’ al aborto”, Las Provincias (Valencia, Spain), 09/1/2011 “Derechos humanos vs deseos inhumanos”, Las Provincias (Valencia, Spain), 07/11/2010 “5 de julio de 2010: día tristísimo”, Las Provincias (Valencia, Spain), 04/7/2010 “Política y corrupción”, Las Provincias (Valencia, Spain), 02/5/2010 “Globalismo narcisista”, Las Provincias (Valencia, Spain), 21/2/2010 “Terrorismo y derechos humanos precarios”, Las Provincias (Valencia, Spain), 13/12/2009 “Derecho a la vida y sentido común”, Las Provincias (Valencia, Spain), 4/10/2009 “El estudiante universitario de hoy: su capacidad reflexiva”, Las Provincias (Valencia, Spain), 5/7/2009 “El estudiante universitario de hoy: hablar en público”, Las Provincias (Valencia, Spain), 6/9/2009 “Contagio ideológico y pensamiento débil”, Las Provincias (Valencia, Spain), 1/6/2009 “Pensar y hablar en conciencia”, Las Provincias (Valencia, Spain), 6/4/2009 “Derechos fundamentales, ‘ética’ democrática y adoctrinamiento social”, Las Provincias (Valencia, Spain), 13/1/2009 “Democracia, ética y libertad de expresión”, El Levante (Valencia, Spain), 10/11/2008 “Ruidos y Derechos humanos”, Las Provincias (Valencia, Spain), 13/7/2008 “La politización del Derecho y la objeción de conciencia”, Las Provincias (Valencia, Spain), 26/6/2008 “Derecho foral y política”, Las Provincias (Valencia, Spain), 15/6/2008 “El Conseller Castellanos y el Derecho foral”, Las Provincias (Valencia, Spain), 25/5/2008 “La crisis de la libertad y del Derecho”, El Levante (Valencia, Spain), 25/6/2007 “¿Educación?¿Adoctrinamiento? Prefiero la libertad”, El Levante (Valencia, Spain), 20/4/2006 “Libertad religiosa y vida pública en América”, Levante (Valencia, Spain), 16/12/2006 “El matrimonio en la Historia”, El País (Madrid, Spain), 9/5/2005
Languages (in addition to Spanish and Catalan)