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Prof. Dr. Lorena Bachmaier

Complutense University of Madrid
Law

External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
October 2017 – June 2018

E-Mail: l.bachmaier@der.ucm.es

Last Update: 31.08.2018

Curriculum Vitae

Professor Lorena Bachmaier Winter obtained her doctorate in law in 1994 at Complutense University Faculty of Law, Madrid (awarded the best doctoral thesis of the year in public law by her university). She also holds a degree in political science (1989, International Relations) from the same University, where she has taught criminal procedure, civil procedure, justice systems and arbitration. She has been a Full professor at Complutense University since 2009. Since 2004, Prof. Bachmaier has also taught a comparative law course for the summer law school of Saint Louis University Law School, Missouri/USA (Madrid Campus).

She has written extensively on a variety of subjects related to procedure and human rights and lectured at numerous universities and governmental agencies in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Prof. Bachmaier is an ex-fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and visiting scholar at the Universities of Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford and at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg. Honorary Professor and Distinguished Visitor by the University of La Rioja, Argentina, Premiul Excelentia from the University Nicolae Titulescu of Romania and in 2015 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by San Pedro University, Perú. In 2015, she was also recipient of the “Luis Portero Award” for the best legal study on fundamental rights in Spain.

Prof. Bachmaier has also broad experience as international expert in the fields of the rule of law and human rights as well as in criminal justice reforms in Eastern European countries. In 2013, Prof. Bachmaier was appointed as chair of the Working Group on Transnational Organised Crime of the Council of Europe.

Selected Publications

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