Law and Democratic Backsliding

Professor of Constitutionalism and Globalization EHU/UPV Director of International Cooperation of the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa. Professor of International Law at the University of Deusto. D. in Law and International Relations from the EHU under the direction of Noe Cornago and co-direction of Talha Syed. The global regime of Intellectual Property. LLM University of California, Berkeley. Fulbright Scholarship 2003-2004. Law Degree EHU

UPV/EHU, Catedrático de Derecho Constitucional Catedrático de Derecho Constitucional en la UPV/EHU y Life Member de Clare Hall College, Universidad de Cambridge (Reino Unido). Ha formado parte del Comité de Expertos de la CELRM del Consejo de Europa (2006-2013), del Consejo Asesor del Euskera (2007-2016) y de la Comisión Arbitral (2009-2015). Entre sus publicaciones más recientes se incluyen: “La reforma federal del sistema autonómico: ¿cuadratura del círculo o triángulo virtuoso?” (2025), “Demandas de secesión en contextos democráticos. Desarrollos a partir de la teoría canadiense de la claridad” (2024), “El Ararteko y su ley reguladora a examen: balance y perspectivas de reforma” (2024), “La distribución de competencias en el sistema autonómico: la necesidad de la reforma” (2024), "Minority Languages in Spain: Recognition, Promotion and Some Conflicts" (2022, con Antonio López Castillo), “Cuestiones territoriales y secesión: reflexiones comparadas en la democracia de emergencia” (2022), “El Tribunal Constitucional frente a la emergencia pandémica (SSTC 148/2021, 168/2021 y 183/2021)” (2022), “Sobre elecciones en tiempo de pandemia. A propósito de las elecciones en Euskadi y Galicia y de la anulación de las elecciones en Cataluña

Professor of Constitutionalism and Globalization EHU/UPV Director of International Cooperation of the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa. Professor of International Law at the University of Deusto. D. in Law and International Relations from the EHU under the direction of Noe Cornago and co-direction of Talha Syed. The global regime of Intellectual Property. LLM University of California, Berkeley. Fulbright Scholarship 2003-2004. Law Degree EHU

Prof Dimitry Kochenov holds a chair in European Constitutional Law and Citizenship and specializes in Citizenship and the Rule of Law. He served as a guest professor or a fellow is numerous institutions worldwide, including Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School (LAPA), NYU Law School (Emile Noël), UNAM Mexico, LUISS in Rome (Co-chair of EU Law), Institute of Gloval Studies in Basel, and the Scuola dei Studi Superiori at the University of Torino. His Citizenship (MIT Press 2019) has been translated into Italian and Russian and other most recent works include Quality of Nationality Index (ed with Lindeboom, Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2020); The Internal Market and the Future of European Integration (ed with Amtenbrink, Davies and Lindeboom, Cambridge 2019); EU Citizenship and Federalism (ed Cambridge 2017); The Enforcement of EU Law and Values (ed with Jakab, Oxford, 2017). Dimity consulted governments and international organizations on the subjects of his academi interest.

PhD Lecturer of the Department of Political Science and Administration of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication (UPV/EHU). She has been Vice Dean of Teaching Organization of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication and Coordinator of the Degree in Political Science and Public Management. For the last five years, he has been a member of the Undergraduate Commission of the University of the Basque Country and a member of the Editorial Board of the Spanish Journal of Political Science. Public policies, especially equality policies and federal systems have been her main lines of research.