Research teams and lines (PhD in Biolaw: Bioethics, Health, and Human Rights (Inter-university))

Research team in Biolaw and Life Sciences

Research line 1: Biolaw and Human Rights: ethics, inter-culturalism and environmental biolaw 

Description of the line:

Human rights and their formulation from the perspective of biolaw in the different sectors in which there are risks of violating the dignity of persons. The incidence of ethical reflection, processing the multicultural reality and right to enjoy an adequate environment in connection with the heath of the persons, sustainable human development, and the rights of future generations to enjoy the biodiversity.

Lecturers-Researchers:

Alenza García, José Francisco PhD.
Professional Status: Professor. Public University of Navarre

Name:: José Francisco Alenza García
Speciality: Environmental law
Research lines: 
  • Climate change
  • Circular economy
  • Health and environment

Álvarez Carreño, Santiago Manuel PhD.
Professional Status: University Lecturer. University of Murcia

Name:: Santiago Manuel Álvarez Carreño
Speciality: Environmental law
Research lines:  
  • Damage to waters
  • Regression of environmental protection
  • Climate change and water

Ausín Díez, Txetxu PhD.
Professional Status: Scientist. CSIC

Name:: Txetxu Ausín Díez
Speciality:  Applied ethics
Research lines:
  • ioethics, ethics, and disruptive technologies (AI, data science, robotics)
  • Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)
  • Good governance

Casado Casado, Lucía PhD.
Professional Status: University Lecturer. Rovira i Virgili University

Name: Lucía Casado Casado
Speciality: Environmental law
Research lines:
  • Environmental responsibility 
  • Climate change

Estrada Tanck, E. Dorothy PhD.
Professional Status: Associate Professor. University of Murci

Name:: E. Dorothy Estrada Tanck
Speciality:  International public law/ International human rights law / Judicial clinic
Research lines:
  • Human rights (migrants and refugees; indigenous peoples; persons with disability; economic and social rights, including the right to wate; law and social justice)
  • Human rights of women and girls
  • Equality and gender justice
  • Human security

Fuentes Gasó, Josep Ramón PhD.
Professional Status: University Lecturer. Rovira i Virgili University

Name: Josep Ramon Fuentes i Gasó
Speciality:  Environmental law
Research lines:
  • Environmental responsibility 
  • Precautionary principle
  • Climate change

Galán Jiménez, Jaime Sebastián PhD.
Professional Status: Full-time Professor. San Luis de Potosí University (Mexico

Name: Jaime Sebastián F. Galán Jiménez
Speciality: Mediation and violence
Research lines:
  • Bioethics, mediation, gender and youth violence

García Costa, Francisco Manuel PhD.
Professional Status: University Lecturer. University of Murci

Name: Francisco Manuel García Costa
Speciality: Biolaw and fundamental rights
Research lines:
  • Modern trends in fundamental rights
  • New collective rights in environmental matters
  • Inter-culturalism and rights of indigenous peoples
  • Biolaw and constitutions
  • Biolaw and the right to health
  • Start-of-life Biolaw
  • Transit through life and end-of-life biolaw
  • Biolaw and protection of health data

García Ureta, Agustín PhD.
Professional Status: Professor. University of Basque Country

Name: Agustín García Ureta
Speciality: Administrative and environmental law
Research lines:
  • Human rights
  • Biodiversity

Dr. Jordano Fraga, Jesús
Catedrático de Universidad. Universidad de Sevilla

Name: Jesús Jordano Fraga
Speciality: Derecho ambiental
Research lines:
  • Responsabilidad ambiental

Kaufman, Nicholas PhD.
Professional Status: Full-time Professor. San Luis de Potosí University (Mexico)

Name: Nicholas Kaufmann
Speciality: Health and development in adolescents
Research lines:
  • Bioethics 
  • Sexual and reproductive rights
  • Gender and youth

Leciñena Ibarra, Ascensión PhD.
Professional Status: University Lecturer. University of Murcia

Name: Ascensión Leciñena Ibarra
Speciality: Disability law 
Research lines:
  • Protection of vulnerable persons
  • Support to the action of disabled persons
  • Autonomy of volition in the management of future disability
  • Active aging.


López Huerta, José Alfredo PhD.
Professional Status: Full-time Professor. San Luis de Potosí University (Mexico)

Name: José Alfredo López Huerta
Speciality: Social psychology of health
Research lines:
  • Psycho-social factors related to human rights
  • Health, disease, and human rights as a representational objective
  • Quality of life in vulnerable groups

Luévano Bustamante, Guillermo PhD.
Professional Status: Full-time Professor. San Luis de Potosí University (Mexico)

Name: Guillermo Luévano Bustamante
Speciality: Legal socio-anthropology; clinical learning of human rights
Research lines:
  • Defence of the environment and territories 
  • Anthropology for human rights
  • Rights of indigenous peoples

Martínez Navarro, Emilio PhD.
Professional Status: Professor. University of Murcia

Name: Emilio Martínez Navarro
Speciality: Moral and political philosophy
Research lines:
  • Applied ethics (Bioethics, ethics of the development of peoples, ethics of professions).

Mendezcarlo Silva, Violeta PhD.
Professional Status: Full-time Professor. San Luis de Potosí University (Mexico)

Name: Violeta Mendezcarlo Silva
Speciality: Environmental law 
Research lines:
  • Impacts of globalisation and the environment emergency
  • Environment and its correlation with other human rights (to water and sanitisation, to health, to food)
  • Sub-national regulatory framework for environmental protection
  • Right to the city and sustainability 
  • Environmental taxation
  • Environmental responsibility, environmental damage
  • Social economy

Monjaraz Fuentes, Paulina PhD.
Professional Status: Full-time Professor. San Luis de Potosí University (Mexico)

Name: Paulina Monjaraz Fuentes
Speciality: Phenomenology of the human being (Philosophical Anthropology)
Research lines:
  • Contemporary ethics 
  • Phenomenology of the human being 
  • Dialogue between contemporary psychology and phenomenology
  • Rational basis of dialogue 
  • Relational ontology: human relationality based on empathy (otherness)

Motas Guzmán, Miguel PhD.
Professional Status: University Lecturer. University of Murcia

Name: Miguel Motas Guzmán
Speciality: Toxicology, deontology, health legislation sanitaria, legal veterinarian
Research lines:
  • Biomonitorisation, biomagnification, environmental toxicology, environmental contaminants, public health, heavy metals, pesticides, persistent organic pollutants (POPs), bisphenol A, perfluorides, poisonings, intoxications, doping
  • Alternative methods, cytotoxicity, heavy metals, pesticides, risk assessment
  • Residues in foodstuffs, risk and safety assessment, chemical-toxicological analysis

Nogueira López, Alba PhD.
Professional Status: University Lecturer. University of Santiago de Compostela

Name: Alba Nogueira López
Speciality: Environmental law 
Research lines:
  • Environmental vulnerability
  • Precautionary principle
  • Circular economy

Pelayo González-Torre, Ángel PhD.
Professional Status: Professor. University of Cantabria

Name: Ángel Pelayo González-Torre
Speciality: Human rights and fundamental rights
Research lines:
  • Bioethics and law as different normative orders
  • The right to dignity in death. Dignity, freedom, and state coercion
  • Fundamental right of the patient to autonomy
  • Informed consent and distribution of responsibilities in medical practice


Pérez de los Cobos Hernández, Elisa PhD.
Professional Status: Associate Professor. University of Murcia

Name: Elisa Pérez de los Cobos Hernández
Speciality: Environmental law 
Research lines:
  • Biodiversity
  • Circular economy

Rosillo Martínez, Alejandro PhD.
Professional Status: Full-time Professor. San Luis de Potosí University (Mexico)

Name: Alejandro Rosillo Martínez
Speciality: Human rights and Philosophy of Law  
Research lines:
  • Right to health
  • Human rights and health.
  • Ethical basis of human rights.
  • Ethical perspectives of the relationship of the human being and nature

Dr. Salcedo Hernández, José Ramón
Titular de Universidad. Universidad de Murcia

Name: José Ramón Salcedo Hernández
Speciality: Bioderecho
Research lines:
  • Concepto, delimitación y metodología del Bioderecho
  • Bioderecho y atención integral al final de la vida
  • Eutanasia y suicidio asistido
  • Libertad de conciencia y objeción de conciencia

Sánchez-Armáss Capello, Omar PhD.
Professional Status: Full-time Professor. San Luis de Potosí University (Mexico)

Santasilia, Stefano PhD.
Professional Status: Full-time Professor. San Luis de Potosí University (Mexico)

Name: Stefano Santasilia
Speciality: Inter-culturalism and peace perspectives. Dimensions of corporealit
Research lines:
  • Interculturalism and basis of dialogue
  • Dynamics of peace and constitution of society
  • Phenomenology of inter-culturalism
  • Phenomenology of corporeality 
  • Body and dynamic policies
  • Urbanistic space, culture and corporealities

Soro Mateo, Blanca PhD.
Professional Status: University Lecturer. University of Murcia

Name: Blanca Soro Mateo
Speciality: Environmental law 
Research lines:
  • Environmental responsibility and restoration of biodiversity
  • Precautionary principle, environment, and health 
  • Climate change and law

Vicente Giménez, Teresa PhD.
Professional Status: University Lecturer. University of Murcia

Name: María Teresa Vicente Giménez
Speciality: Philosophy of Law
Research lines:
  • Ecological justice and laws of nature: the judicial personality of natural entities.
  • The need for international protection for environmental causes: climate refugees

Vivas Tesón, Inmaculada PhD.
Professional Status: University Lecturer. University of Sevilla

Name: Inmaculada Vivas Tesón
Speciality: Civil Law 
Research lines:
  • Data protection 
  • Human rights
  • Discrimination
  • Minors
  • Disabled persons
  • Persons with legally modified capacity
  • Informed consent
  • Civil liability 
  • Contracting

Research line 2:
Biolaw and Salud: Bioethics, clinical relationship, biomedicine, and new technologies

Description of the line:

Health as the axis on which Biolaw swings in the clinical relationship. Bioethical dilemmas that this poses. Biolaw and biomedicine. The incidence of technology in the health sector (e-health, processing health data and genetic data, robotics, and artificial intelligence) and, in general, in the human being (neurotechnology, genetic manipulation …).

Lecturers-Researchers:

Alonso de Vega, Francisco PhD.
Professional Status: Professor. University of Murcia

Name: Francisco Alonso de Vega
Speciality: Animal Health
Research lines:
  • Ethics in research 

Andreu Martínez, Mª Belén PhD.
Professional Status: University Lecturer. University of Murcia

Name: Mª Belén Andreu Martínez
Speciality: Civil Law 
Research lines:
  • Biolaw and new technologies (data protection, AI, robotics, and health)
  • Protection of intimacy, confidentiality, clinical history
  • Informed Consent
  • Reproductive rights 
  • Minors
  • Disabled persons

Arcos Vieira, María Luisa PhD.
Cat Professional Status: Professor. Public University of Navarre

Name: María Luisa Arcos Vieira
Speciality: Civil Law 
Research lines:
  • Law of obligations: contractual and non-contractual civil liability 
  • Personal law: autonomy and capacity.


Benavente Moreda, Pilar PhD.
Professional Status: University Lecturer. Autonomous University of Madrid

Name: Pilar Benavente Moreda
Speciality: Private Law (Civil Law). Rights of the personality, family rights and protection of vulnerable groups (minors, elderly, and LGTBIQ)
Research lines:
  • Reproductive rights (HAART, surrogate pregnancy, filiation derived from the use of HAART)
  • Rights of the personality in relation with vulnerable groups, transsexuality, intersexuality and their special link with regard to minors and their ethical and medical aspects
  • Family solidarity and its aspects in the field of elderly and persons with limited capacity

Blázquez Ruiz, F. Javier PhD.
Professional Status: Professor. Public University of Navarre

Name: F. Javier Blázquez Ruiz
Speciality: Philosophy of Law 
Research lines:
  • Medical experimentation during nationalsocialism 
  • End-of-life decisions
  • Discourse of hate, racism, and xenophobia
  • Ethical challenges of artificial intelligence. Biomedicine: utopia or dystopia
  • COVID-19 pandemic. Biolegal implications

Cavas Martínez, Faustino PhD.
Professional Status: Professor. University of Murcia

Name: Faustino Cavas Martínez
Speciality: Labour Law and Social Security
Research lines:
  • Vigilance of health and fundamental rights of workers.
  • New family realities and social protection 

Cayón de las Cuevas, Joaquín PhD.
Professional Status: Associate Professor. University of Cantabria

Name: Joaquín Cayón de las Cuevas
Speciality: Health Law and Bioethics 
Research lines:
  • Biolaw and new technologies 
  • Protection of clinical data and big data
  • Artificial intelligence in health
  • Reproductive rights 
  • Start- and end-of-life conflicts
  • Health liability 

Cobacho Gómez, José Antonio PhD.
Professional Status: Professor. University of Murcia

Name: José Antonio Cobacho Gómez
Speciality: Civil Law 
Research lines:
  • Health liability 
  • Right of the person

de la Vega García, Fernando Luis PhD.
Professional Status: University Lecturer. University of Murcia

Name: Fernando de la Vega García
Speciality: Industrial Property Law 
Research lines:
  • Legal protection of biotechnological interventions
  • Legal protection of plant innovations 
  • Legal protection of nanotechnolo

Dra. Elizari Urtasun, LeyreElizari Urtasun, Leyre PhD.
Professional Status: Associate Professor. Public University of Navarre
 

Name: Leyre Elizari Urtasun
Speciality: Civil Law 
Research lines:
  • Obligations law: contractual and non-contractual liability 
  • Personal law: autonomy and capacity.

Fernández Campos, Juan Antonio PhD.
Professional Status: University Lecturer. University of Murcia

Name: Juan Antonio Fernández Campos
Speciality: Civil Law (Patients and health service users’ rights)
Research lines:
  • Document of Advance Health Care Directives
  • Post-mortem assisted reproduction
  • Civil liability due to lack of information or patient consent

Garcia Romero, María Belén PhD.
Professional Status: Professor. University of Murcia

Name: Mª Belén García Romero
Speciality: Labour Law and Social Security
Research lines:
  • Social protection for vulnerable groups: persons at risk of social exclusion, disabled persons, gender violence victims.

Garcimartín Montero, Mª del Carmen PhD.
Professional Status: University Lecturer. University of A Coruña

Name: Mª del Carmen Garcimartín Montero
Speciality: Fundamental rights and public freedoms
Research lines:
  • Religious freedom
  • Conscientious objection 

Garrido Fernández, Mª Dolores PhD.
Professional Status: Professor. University of Murcia

Gutiérrez Panizo, Cándido PhD.
Professional Status: Professor. University of Murcia

Name: Cándido Gutiérrez Panizo
Speciality: Animal Medicine and Surgery
Research lines:
  • Ethics in research: legislation of Spain and its autonomies

Linares Padierna, Mª Belén PhD.
Professional Status: University Lecturer. University of Murcia

López Morales, Mª Belén PhD.
Professional Status: Professor. University of Murcia
 

Name: Mª Belén López Morales
Speciality: Food Technology and Security
Research lines:
  • Food Technology
  • New emerging technologies
  • Food security
  • Genetic manipulation (transgenic foodstuffs)
  • Consumer rights and health

 

Dra. Orozco González, Margarita

Profa. Contratada Doctora, Dep. Derecho Civil, Universidad de Murcia

Name: Margarita Orozco González
Speciality: Bioderecho
Research lines:
  • Bioderecho y nuevas tecnologías (protección de datos, IA, robótica y salud).
  • Protección de la intimidad, confidencialidad, historia clínica.
  • Menores.
  • Aspectos éticos de la inteligencia artificial, derechos y obligaciones.
  • Responsabilidad civil y reparación del daño.

Osuna Carrillo de Albornoz, Eduardo PhD.
Professional Status: Professor. University of Murcia

Name: Eduardo Osuna Carrillo de Albornoz
Speciality: Health Law and Legal Medicine
Research lines:
  • Biolaw of the clinical relationship
  • Clinical research
  • Biolaw and biomedicine
  • End-of-life medical attention
  • Mental health
  • Gender violence

Pardo López, María Magnolia PhD.
Professional Status: University Lecturer. University of Murcia

Name: María Magnolia Pardo López
Speciality: Administrative Law 
Research lines:
  • Biolaw and health
  • Biomedicine and new fundamental rights in the health sector

Paz Zulueta, María PhD.
Professional Status: Associate Professor. University of Cantabria

Name: María Paz Zulueta
Speciality: Health Law and Bioethics 
Research lines:
  • Rights in sexual and reproductive health
  • Analysis of the Regulation Impact on the development and introduction of health programmes

Pereira Sáez, Carolina PhD.
Professional Status: Associate Professor. University of A Coruña

Name: Carolina Pereira Sáez
Speciality: Philosophy of Law; fundamental rights 
Research lines:  

Plana Arnaldos, Mª Carmen PhD.
Professional Status: University Lecturer. University of Murcia

Name: Mª Carmen Plana Arnaldos
Speciality: Civil Law 
Research lines:
  • Reproductive rights 
  • Data protection and health 

Razquín Lizárraga, Martín María PhD.
Professional Status: Professor. Public University of Navarre

Name: Martín Razquín
Speciality: Environmental Law 
Research lines:
  • New technologies

Salcedo Hernández, José Ramón PhD.
Professional Status: University Lecturer. University of Murcia

Name: José Ramón Salcedo Hernández
Speciality: Biolaw
Research lines:
  • Concept, delimitation, and methodology of Biolaw
  • Biolaw and integrated end-of-life attention
  • Euthanasia and assisted suicide
  • Freedom of conscience and conscientious objection

Seoane Rodríguez, José Antonio PhD.
Professional Status: Professor. University of A Coruña

Name: José Antonio Seoane Rodríguez
Speciality: Philosophy of Law; Bioethics; fundamental rights
Research lines:
  • Bioethics and rights 
  • Justice and disability
  • Argumentation, deliberation, and decision making
  • Health-related conscientious objection
  • Confidentiality and health data
  • End-of-life decisions
  • Ethics committees

Torrubia Chalmeta, Blanca PhD.
Professional Status: Associate Professor. Open University of Catalunya

Name: Blanca Torrubia Chalmeta
Speciality: Commercial Law 
Research lines:
  • Liability for defective medicines and health products.
  • Protection of sensitive data.
  • New technologies applied to the production, distribution, and sale of medicines and health products.

Tomillo Urbina, Jorge Luis PhD.
Professional Status: Professor. University of Cantabria

Valero Torrijos, Julián PhD.
Professional Status: Professor. University of Murcia

Name: Julián Valero Torrijos
Speciality: Administrative Law 
Research lines:
  • Law, technology, and health 
  • Open data and reuse of public sector information
  • Digital transformation 
  • Big data and Artificial Intelligence