Numerary Member
Social Sciences: PhD in Law
Date of admission: November 5, 2015
Admission speech: “The Guarantee-Based Utopia of Criminal Law in the New ‘Middle Ages’”
Reply speech: Dr. José María Gay de Liébana Saludas
Outstanding career: Recognised as one of the leading authorities in Criminal Law and Economic Criminal Law in Spain. He has participated in major legal cases at both national and international levels. His work has made a decisive contribution to the development of modern Criminal Law and to the training of jurists in Europe and Latin America.
Dr. FERMÍN MORALES PRATS
UNIVERSITY QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD in Law from the University of Barcelona (1983). In 1984 he was awarded the Extraordinary Doctorate Prize by the University of Barcelona for his doctoral thesis “Privacy in Spanish Criminal Law” (later published as Criminal Protection of Privacy: Privacy and Information Technology).
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
- Since 1994, Full Professor of Criminal Law at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Previously, he held the same position at the University of Cantabria and the University of Lleida.
- He has supervised numerous doctoral theses and participated in national and international research projects.
- In the 1980s and 1990s, he was a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (Freiburg, Germany) and at the Institute of Criminology and Economic Criminal Law of the University of Freiburg, under the supervision of Prof. K. Tiedemann.
- Visiting professor at Italian universities.
- Practicing lawyer.
- Founding member of the Spanish Union of Criminal Lawyers and currently a board member.
- Appointed Full Academician of the Royal Academy of Doctors (Barcelona) on 5 November 2015, with the inaugural lecture “The Guarantist Utopia of Criminal Law in the New Middle Ages”.
PUBLICATIONS
- Author of over eighty publications in the field of Criminal Law and Criminal Policy. Co-author and coordinator of the work Commentaries on the Spanish Criminal Code, directed by Prof. Gonzalo Quintero Olivares.
- Co-director of the journal Derecho y Proceso Penal (Aranzadi) and member of the Scientific Committee of L’Indice Penale.
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
- Medal from the Barcelona Bar Association (1999).
- Awarded by the International Association of Best Lawyers as Best Criminal Lawyer (2020 and 2024).
- His professional firm has been recognized by Chambers Europe (2008 – present) as one of the best law firms in Dispute Resolution Corporate Crime Spain.
- Extraordinary Doctorate Award from the University of Barcelona.
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