PROF. INMACULADA MARÍN ALONSO
Visiting from April 14 to May 15 2016
Professor of Department of Labor Law and Social Security imalonso@us.es | Law degree from the University of Seville. Specialty Business Law. Promotion 1988-1993. Doctor in Law from1997. Thesis title: The joint collective bargaining labour and civil service staff in Public Administration. Qualification: Apto Cum Laude by Unanimity Positive Valuation by the National Commission of Research Activity (CNAI) research of three sections: First six years: 1996-2001; Second presidential term: 2002-2007; Third presidential term: 2008-2013. ViceDean for Academic Affairs at the Faculty of Labour Sciences at the University of Seville. Member of the Board of Center Faculty of Economics and member of the Board of Center School of Labour Sciences at the University of Seville. Course Director Advanced Labour Law and Social Security for Postgraduates organized by the Centre for Continuing Training of the University of Seville and International University of Andalusia. |
PROF. MARIANA FERNÁNDEZ CAMPOS
Visiting from April 12 to May 13 2016
Associate Professor Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies | (Ph.D., La Habana, 2013) is an Associate Professor with research interests in Latin language, literature, civilization and archaeology and modern and ancient Greek translation. Professor Fernández Campos teaches graduate and postgraduate courses in Latin, Roman Civilization and Literature. She is also Vice President of the International Relationships Office at the University of Havana. |
PROF. ROBERT ELGIE
Visiting from 1st July to 15th August 2016
Professor of Department of Law and Government | Robert Elgie is the Paddy Moriarty Professor of Government and International Studies. He gained a First Class Honours degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oriel College, Oxford University in 1987. He graduated with a PhD in Government from the London School of Economics, in 1991. Since this time, he has published more than 40 articles in international refereed journals, as well as four single-authored monographs, two co-authored books, seven edited and co-edited books, and more than 30 book chapters. He is the editor of the journal French Politics. He is the Review Editor for the journal Government and Opposition. He is also the lead co-editor of the prestigious Oxford Handbook of French Politics to be published by Oxford University Press. He has received funding on four occasions from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, including a Senior Research Fellowship for 2009-2010 totalling ?107,308. He has supervised numerous PhD students to successful completion. Robert Elgie is well known for his work on semi-presidentialism and his definition of the concept has been adopted as the scientific standard. His most recent book on this topic is Semi-Presidentialism published by Oxford University Press in 2011. He has also published extensively on political leadership and French politics. His work has received considerable external recognition. Twice he has been asked to brief the UK Ambassador designate to France (Sir John Holmes in 2001 and Sir Peter Westmacott in 2007). His invited talks include presentations at the Seimas (Parliament) of the Republic of Lithuania, the Economic Policy Research Foundation Of Turkey, the United Nations Institute for Social Development (Geneva), and Taiwan Thinktank. He is also a member of the network of experts on the Constitution Building Processes (CBP) Programme at International IDEA. In April 2012 he was formally asked to provide a briefing report on Constituent Assembly of Nepal's proposed system of government. In January 2013 he was asked to give an expert presentation to the Convention on the Constitution for the proposed reforms to the presidency of Ireland. |
PROF. JOSEFA CANTERO MARTINEZ
Visiting from July 13 to Semptember 13 2016
Professor of Departamento de Derecho Público y de la Empresa
| Josefa Martínez Cantero is Associate Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). She is president of the association Juristas de la Salud (Jurists of Health, www.ajs.es) and secretary of the Master's Degree in Health Law and Bioethics at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (http://www.mdsb-14.posgrado.uclm.es/ ). |
PROF. MICHAEL SHIN
Visiting on October 2016
Associate Professor Department of Geography
| (Ph.D., Colorado, 1998) is an Associate Professor with research interests in geographic information systems (GIS), political geography, globalization and Italy. Professor Shin teaches courses in GIS, cartography and geographic data visualization, and is Director of the UCLA Program in Geospatial Information Systems & Technology. " |