Numerary Member
Social Sciences: PhD in Social Sciences
Date of admission: February 20, 2024
Admission speech: «Comparative Law as a Teaching Method: From the University of Bologna to the 21st Century»
Reply speech: Hon. Dr. Joan-Francesc Pont Clemente, Doctor in Law
Outstanding career: Dean of the Law School at IE University and expert in international legal education and academic leadership. Recognized for promoting the global training of jurists and for her work in modernizing legal education from an interdisciplinary and humanistic perspective.
Dr. SOLEDAD ATIENZA BECERRIL
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
- Degree in Law from CEU San Pablo and PhD in Social Sciences from IE University.
- “Zertifikat über Europäische Studien” from the Universität des Saarlandes.
- Executive MBA from the IE Business School.
- “Women on Boards” Certificate from the Harvard Business School.
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
- Currently Dean of the IE Law School, IE University.
- Co-President of the Law Schools Global League and of the Committee on the Future of Legal Services of the International Bar Association.
- Director of the Pérez-Llorca IE Chair in Commercial Law.
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Fundación ICAM Cortina. Previously practised as a lawyer at Pérez-Llorca.
- Extensive international academic experience and a global vision of legal education and law practice. Her research focuses on innovative teaching methodologies in law.
PUBLICATIONS
- Blueprint on Global Legal Education. A European Perspective, in Legal Education and Legal Profession During and After COVID-19, Springer, 2022.
- Doing Law School Wrong: Case Teaching and Integrated Legal Practice Method, St. Louis University Law Journal, 2022.
- Moving Towards an International Legal Education in Spain, in The Internationalisation of Legal Education, Springer, 2016.
- Teaching Law. Can We Learn from the U.S. Experience?, Aranzadi / Thomson Reuters, 2014.
