Dr. Dr. H.C. (mult.) Santiago Mir Puig (1947-2020)
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Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Barcelona, he holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Alcalá (Spain), an Honorary Doctorate from the National University of Trujillo (Peru), and Honorary Professor at the University of San Marcos (Lima, Peru). He has served as Dean of the Faculty of Law at the same university and Director of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences. 

Among his numerous publications, the following books stand out: Introduction to the foundations of criminal law (1976, 1982, 2002); Function of punishment and theory of crime in the social and democratic state of law (1979, 1982); Criminal law in the social and democratic state of law (1994); Criminal law, general part (1984, 1985, 1990, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2011, 2015); State, punishment and crime (2006); Constitutional bases of criminal law (2011); and Commentaries on the Penal Code. Reform LO 1/2015 (2015).

A significant portion of his Treatise on Criminal Law has been translated into Portuguese and published in Brazil under the title Direito penal. Fundamentos e teoría do crimen (Penal Law. Fundamentals and Theory of Crime) (2007). He has lectured in Germany, Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, France, Honduras, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, and Venezuela, and was a visiting professor at the University of Puerto Rico for two semesters (1996 and 1997). Since 1987, he has directed an annual Master’s Degree in Criminal Law, which since 1997-98 has been jointly organized by the University of Barcelona and the Pompeu Fabra University and co-directed by Professor Dr. Jesús M. Silva Sánchez.

Dra. Dra. H.C. Mirentxu Corcoy Bidasolo
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Professor Emeritus of Criminal Law. Honorary Doctorate from the University of Buenos Aires. Substitute Judge of the Provincial Court of Barcelona from 1995 to 2007. Director of the Criminal Law Department at the University of Barcelona from 1993 to 1998 and from 2008 to 2016. Coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Criminal Law at the UB/UPF from 1992 to 2025, and Head of Criminology Studies at the University of Barcelona from 2004 to 2009. Co-director of the postgraduate courses “Expert in  Criminal Compliance  .” Consultant in Economic Criminal Law at González Franco Corporate & Criminal Lawyers. Visiting professor at various universities, teaching postgraduate courses: Università degli Studi di Palermo (Italy); Université Lumière Lyon (France); Catholic University of Valparaíso, Austral (Buenos Aires), Santo Tomás (Bogotá), Central de Ecuador (Quito), Catholic University of Peru (Lima). Member of the Bioethics and Law Observatory of the UNESCO Chair. Lines of research: reckless crime, objective imputation, dangerous crimes, criminal theory and process, protection of fundamental rights, attribution of liability in companies and  criminal compliance  , as well as consumer safety, the environment, and corruption. Most relevant publications:  Criminal Law. Special Part. Doctrine and Jurisprudence with Solved Cases. Volume 1  (2015);  Economic and Business Criminal Law. General and Special Parts. Volume 2  (2016);  Commentaries on the Criminal Code. Reform LO 1/2015  (2015);  Reckless Crime. Criteria for Imputing the Result  (2nd ed., 2005);  Crimes of Danger and Protection of Supra-Individual Criminal Assets  (1999). He has supervised more than thirty doctoral theses, defended with distinction , many of which have been published.

Dr. Joan Josep Queralt Jiménez
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Dr. Víctor Gómez Martín
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Full Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Barcelona. He is currently Director of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology and Public International Law and International Relations at the University of Barcelona; Coordinator of the Official Master’s Degree in Criminology, Criminal Policy and Criminal Legal Sociology (MOCPC-SJP); Co-Director of the Master’s Degree in Criminal Law offered by the University of Barcelona and Pompeu Fabra University; Director of the Advanced Course and the Expert Course in Compliance at the University of Barcelona; and Coordinator of the “Cinema i Dret” and “Dijous criminals” courses of the University of Barcelona’s University of Experience program. He has served as Coordinator of the Criminal Law and Criminology Section (2021-2025); Head of Criminological and Security Studies at the University of Barcelona (2012-2021); Coordinator of the Official Master’s Degree in Applied Criminology (MOCA) (2022-2025); Coordinator of the Research Group on Criminal Law, Criminal Policy, and Criminology at the University of Barcelona (DPPCCUB), funded by the Agency for the Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR) of the Generalitat de Catalunya (2021-2025); Director of the Postgraduate Course in Judicial Police and the Course on Mental Disorders in the Ethical and Legal Context at the University of Barcelona; and Co-director of a teaching innovation project at the University of Barcelona.

He has published seven monographs, 40 articles in national and international peer-reviewed scientific journals, and 120 book chapters in prestigious national and international publishing houses. He has directed nine competitive research projects and has been part of the research team for another eight (two of which are still ongoing). He also has four six-year research positions (1999-2004; 2005-2010; 2011-2016; 2017-2022) from the National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity (CNEAI).

He has supervised six doctoral theses, four of which have received the highest grade (excellent cum laude) and one with the extraordinary doctoral award. He is currently supervising five more. In 2022, he was awarded the Luis del Castillo Prize for the best research project on International Criminal Justice and Human Rights, awarded by the Barcelona Bar Association, for his work “The Delimitation of the Circle of Protectable Groups in Hate Crimes and Discrimination. An Investigation in Light of the Jurisprudence of the European Court.” Between 2004 and 2008, he served as a Substitute Judge at the Barcelona Provincial Court.

Since December 22, 2023, he has served as a member of Committee No. 17 (Law I) of the accreditation program for civil servant teachers of the Academy Program of the National Evaluation and Accreditation Agency (ANECA). He is also an evaluator for the Center for Legal Studies and Specialized Training (CEJFE) of the Government of Catalonia and the State Research Agency (AEI), as well as for numerous indexed journals and prestigious publishing houses. Main lines of investigation: special crimes, statute of limitations, criminal liability of legal entities, hate crimes and discrimination, and public and private corruption.

Dr. Sergi Cardenal Montraveta
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Sergi Cardenal is full professor of criminal law at the University of Barcelona. His studies and professional career at the Faculty of Law of the aforementioned university have been complemented with stays at various German universities (Max Planck Institute fur Ausländisches und Internationales Strafrecht, Universität Hamburg y Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) and at the Università Commerciale L. Bocconi.

Her research activity has been developed within the framework of 14 research projects funded by public administrations and has been recognized with 4 six-year research periods (1995-2002, 2003-2008, 2009-2015 and 2016-2021). He is currently co-principal investigator of the project “Nuevos retos y reformas pendientes de la justicia penal de menores”, PID2021-125718NB-100.

Some of his publications deal with the methodology of legal science, the essential aspects of the general theory of crime and their legal consequences. Notable among these are his doctoral thesis (El tipo penal en Beling y los neokantianos, 2002), the monograph La prescripción de la pena tras la reforma del Código Penal de 2015 (2015), works dedicated to the punishment of concurrent crimes (2017, 2023 and 2024), to the substitution and suspension of the sentence (2006, 2015, 2017 and 2018) and those relating to the fine, especially the two monographs published in 2020: La pena de multa. Estudio sobre su justificación y la determinación de su cuantía and Ejecución y prescripción de la pena de multa. Also worth highlighting is his work La responsabilidad penal de los menores, 3rd ed., 2024. In a second group are works dedicated to the study of more specific legal problems. Here are located the works dedicated to the relationships between the crimes of attempted homicide and injuries (1995), the limits of the crime of bribery (2002), the crimes against the rights of foreign workers (2002), the crime of breach of sentence (2004), the regulation of crimes against traffic safety in comparative law (2007 and 2008), the recidivism in juvenile criminal law (2010), the consequences of STC 97/2010 in the field of suspension of the statutes of limitation of the punishment  (2012), the crimes that limit freedom of expression (2021 and 2022), the comments on the regulation of crimes against public administration, catastrophic risk and crimes against road safety (2011, 2015, 2019 and 2023) and the most recent studies on the treatment of crimes against sexual freedom and other crimes of maximum seriousness committed by minors (2024 and 2025). 

His dedication to research and teaching (in postgraduate courses and degrees in Law, Criminology, and Security) has been complemented by various management responsibilities in individual positions, on various committees and in representative bodies of the University of Barcelona.

Between 2005 and 2014, his academic activity was complemented and enriched by his work as a substitute Magistrate at the Provincial Criminal Court of Barcelona.

Dra. Carolina Bolea Bardon
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Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law at the University of Barcelona (accredited as Full Professor). She teaches in the Law degree program at the UB and in various Master’s and postgraduate courses. She has participated in numerous R&D&I projects. She is Principal Investigator of the project “Extreme Violence against Women: Criminal Response and Alternatives for Prevention” (PID2022-140170NB-I00). She is a member of the research team of the Consolidated Research Group on Criminal Law and Criminal Policy. Her most recent publications include: “Guarantor Positions in the Face of Bullying,” InDret 4/2017; “Hypothetical Causality and Uncertainty in Omission,” in Estudios de Derecho Penal (Tribute to S. Mir Puig, BdeF, 2017); “Criminal Liability of Physicians for Omission from a Normative Theory of Preventability,” InDret 4/2018; Alternative Conduct and Imputation of the Result. Atelier. 2020; “Hypothetical Settlement Agreements and Follow-up Procedures,” Golddammer’s Archive for Strafrecht, 2022; Breach of Sentence and Gender-Based Violence: Is the Woman’s Consent Absolutely Irrelevant? Electronic Journal of Criminal Science and Criminology. 2023.

Dra. Ujala Joshi Jubert
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Dr. Juan Carlos Hortal Ibarra
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Senior Lecturer Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Barcelona (2011). Accredited as a full professor by AQU (2025). PhD in Law from the same University and Extraordinary Doctorate Award from the Faculty of Law in 2004. He has held the coordination of the criminal law area in the Official Master’s Degree in Advocacy UB-ICAB (2012-2018), assuming the position of Deputy to the General Coordinator (2014-2015). He also held the position of Deputy to the Head of Studies of Criminology (2015-2018), and coordinator of the internship program in this degree (2013-2018). In the UB-UPF Criminal Law Master’s Program, he has been the coordinator of the external internship program in law firms since 2011, and co-coordinator of the Master’s Thesis (TFM) since 2023. In October 2018, he was appointed Deputy to the Ombudsman of the UB. Outside the University, he was an Alternate Judge at the Provincial Court of Barcelona (July 2005-November 2009/July 2011-May 2015), during which time he issued over 200 rulings as the rapporteur. From 2008 to 2025, he was a member of the Ethical Research Committee with Medications of the Vall D’Hebron University Hospital (CEIM), where, in September 2017, he began representing and defending patients’ interests.

Among the various lines of research that have occupied and continue to occupy Professor Hortal, the following stand out for their social relevance and importance in judicial practice: labor criminal law; road and sexual criminal law; prevention and punishment of white-collar and minor property crime; and civil liability ex delicto. To date, he has published a total of 16 articles in journals; 34 contributions to collective works; 1 monograph, co-directed a tribute book; and co-coordinated 5 collective works (https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/autor?codigo=334516). He has participated in the preparation of various manuals and commentaries published by prestigious publishers under the direction of Professors Drs. Mirentxu Corcoy Bidasolo and Santiago Mir Puig. All this has translated, to date, into obtaining three research periods by AQU (2002-2008/2009-2014/2015-2022). Since 2022, he has been part of the panel of legal experts at the State Research Agency. He has supervised a total of 2 doctoral theses (defended in 2011 and 2021 with an excellent grade), and three others are currently in progress. He has been part of the research team in various competitive international, national, and regional projects. He is the co-principal investigator of the project funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation titled “Extreme Violence Against Women: Criminal Response and Alternatives for Prevention” (PID2022-140170NB-I00: 2023-2027), and the general coordinator of the ERASMUS+ project funded by the EACEA titled “Fighting Labor Exploitation through the Training of Specialists in the Educational and Agricultural Sectors” (FLEE-ASSET: 2024-2027).

He has taught in the Law Degree and the extinct Law Bachelor’s degree; the Criminology Degree and the extinct Criminology Bachelor’s degree; the Graduate in Private Investigation; and the extinct Graduate in Criminology and Criminal Policy. In addition to the UB-UPF Criminal Law Master’s Program, he has taught as a professor in various other programs, including the Interuniversity Master’s in Contemporary Migrations UAB-UB; the Master’s in Cybercrime UIC; the Master’s in Forensic and Criminal Psychology UB; and the Master’s in Criminal Advocacy ICAB. He has been invited as a speaker at numerous national and international seminars, courses, and postgraduate programs organized by prestigious universities (University of Granada; University of Castilla-La Mancha; University of Las Palmas; University Miguel Hernández; University Austral; University of Buenos Aires; Central University of Ecuador; Università degli Studi di Palermo, Università degli Studi di Milan….), and institutions linked to the criminal justice system (General Council of the Judiciary; Judicial School; Illustrious Bar Association of Barcelona; or the Institute of Public Security of Catalonia).

Dra. Silvia Fernández Bautista
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Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law at the University of Barcelona since February 1999. She holds a PhD in Law from the University of Barcelona since December 2005, with her thesis “Crimes with Restrictions on the Place of Authorship. An Approach to the Figure of the Administrator”, which received  a cum  laude  grade and the Extraordinary Doctorate Award for the 2005-2006 academic year. Associate Professor at the University of Barcelona since April 2017. She has completed pre- and post-doctoral stays at international research centers ( Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster , Universität Bremen , Università degli estudi di Modena e Regio Emilia ). She is a researcher on more than a dozen European, national, and regional research projects. She has been principal investigator of the project “Policies for the care of migrant children: from open conflict to comprehensive care and access to justice” (2018 IEA 5 00003). Co-principal investigator of the project “New challenges and pending reforms in juvenile criminal justice” (I+D PID2021-125718NB-100). She is the author of two monographs ( The administrator in fact and in law. Approach to crimes with restrictions on the place of authorship, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2007; Social cannabis clubs: unlawfulness and personal imputation, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia 2021) and more than thirty national and international publications with a considerable range of topics. As a result of these publications, she has been a speaker at numerous national and international conferences. Her teaching experience has included the Bachelor’s and Bachelor’s Degree in Law, the Bachelor’s and Bachelor’s Degree in Criminology, and the Private Investigation program. She also teaches various postgraduate courses and Master’s programs, and has been a visiting professor at international institutions (Universitè Lumière-Lyon 2, Faculté de Droit et Science Politique). 

Dr. David Carpio Briz
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Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law at the University of Barcelona. He received his Bachelor’s Degree (2005) and PhD (2011) distinctions. 

Main lines of research: Constitutional approach to punitive law (penal and administrative); organized crime; money laundering; crimes against the system; and constitutional guarantees. More recently, he has also focused on crimes against the constitution and the study of national security in criminal policy.

Dr. Javier Cigüela Sola
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Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Barcelona. Coordinator of the Official Master’s Degree in Applied Criminology (MOCA). He holds a PhD with extraordinary honors from Pompeu Fabra University (2014). He is a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2020-2023). 

Her research focuses on a dialogue between criminal law, political philosophy, sociology, and, more recently, media theory and cultural analysis. In these fields, she has published three monographs:  The Media of Criminal Law: Politics, Punishment, and Criminal Discourse in the Digital Age  (Trotta, 2025),  Crime and Punishment of the Socially Excluded  (Tirant, 2019),  Collective Guilt in Criminal Law  (Marcial Pons, 2015), the essay  Excluded and Made Transparent: From the Panopticon to the Digital Screen  (BdF, 2022; Valencia Nova Essay Prize 2017), and more than 40 collective book chapters and articles in Spanish, German, and English-language scientific journals. Her recent publications include “Social Exclusion, Crime, and Criminal Responsibility” (co-edited with M. Martín Lorenzo, Atelier, 2024); “Soziale Exklusion und politische Legitimität der Strafe”,  Goltdammer’s Archiv , 1/2021; “Crime and Punishment of the Poor from Recognition Perspective,” in  Poverty, Inequality and the Critical Theory of Recognition , Springer, 2020; and “Criminal populism and parallel justice”,  RECPC  22-12, 2020.

Dr. Carlos Castellví Monserrat
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Lecturer in Criminal Law at the University of Barcelona. After graduating with an honors degree in Law from the University of Barcelona (average grade 3.4/4), I completed a Master’s Degree in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences (UB/UPF) and a Master’s Degree in Criminology, Criminal Policy, and Sociology of Criminal Law (UB), earning the highest academic achievement in both classes. I subsequently obtained a FPU contract to pursue my doctorate. In October 2019, I defended my doctoral thesis and obtained a cum laude distinction. At that time, I began teaching at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) as a Collaborating Professor. After a year, I was hired as a Visiting Professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid. In February 2021, after obtaining accreditation as Assistant Professor (ANECA) and Lecturer (AQU), I obtained the Lecturer position at the University of Barcelona, which I currently hold. I later received the accreditation of Associate Professor (2023) and Full Professor (2024). 

Main lines of research: confiscation, agent provocateur, moral philosophy, sexual consent, intimidation, and deception. Below are some of my recent publications: “Acts that clearly express a person’s will? On the meaning of “only yes is yes” and the definition of sexual consent,” Yearbook of Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences, 2024, pp. 481–518; “Moral Philosophy, Social Exclusion, and the Legitimacy of State Punishment,” Criminal Policy, 2023, pp. 538–563; “Rape by Deception? On the Concept of Consent and the Object of Sexual Consent,” InDret, 2023, pp. 171–220; “Intimidation or Abuse of a Position of Superiority? On Consent, Freedom, and Threats in Sexual Assaults,” Electronic Journal of Criminal Science and Criminology, 2023, pp. 1–46; “Are police deceptions that are not expressly permitted prohibited?”, Police Infiltrations, Undercover Agents, and Fundamental Rights, Criminal Policy, 2022, pp. 173–198; “Seize without Punishment: The Usefulness and Legitimacy of Profits Forfeiture,” InDret, 2019, pp. 1–66.

Dr. Vicente Valiente Ivañez
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Lecturer in Criminal Law at the University of Barcelona. He has been a fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). 

Main lines of research: subjective imputation (intention, negligence, and culpability); moral philosophy and criminal law; public disorder.

Dr. Alejandro Turienzo Fernández
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Lecturer in Criminal Law and Criminology. Bachelor’s Degree in Law, Pompeu Fabra University (2014). Postgraduate degree in Compliance, Pompeu Fabra University–IDEC/Carlos III University of Madrid (2015). Master’s Degree in Access to the Legal Profession, Open University of Catalonia (2016). Master’s Degree in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences, University of Barcelona and Pompeu Fabra University (2019). PhD in Criminal Law (with international distinction), University of Barcelona (2020). Master’s Degree in Criminological and Victimological Intervention, Miguel Hernández University (2025).

He has carried out research stays at the New York City University School of Law, Humboldt University of Berlin, the Autonomous University of Madrid, the University of León, and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.

His research covers corporate criminal liability and compliance, corporate criminology, individual criminal liability in business structures, minors’ exposure to pornography, the limits of pornography, and theories of criminalization.

Dr. Gabriel Rogé Such
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Lecturer in Criminal Law at the University of Barcelona. He holds a Law degree from the University of Mendoza (2011). He holds a Master’s degree in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences from the University of Barcelona and Pompeu Fabra University (2013). He also holds a Master’s degree in Legal Philosophy from the University of Genoa (2016/2017). He also holds a PhD in Law from the University of Barcelona (2023). He also held various positions at the Public Prosecutor’s Office (Argentina) between 2006 and 2018, all of which were accessed through a public competition and examination. 

Main research interests: imputation (mens rea), analytical Philosophy, Philosophy of mind, and theory of norms. He has also published book chapters about special crimes, such as criminal association and crimes against public administration.