Nuria Arenas Hidalgo
is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Huelva (Spain). Director of the Migration and Equality Department of the Research Centre for Contemporary Thought and Innovation for Social Development. She holds a Ph.D in International Law, and has published on International and EU Refugee Law, migration, asylum and border control, peace and security, and gender studies. Visiting Scholar in the Centre for Migration Law (The Netherlands), Senior Researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Public Law in Heidelberg (Germany), Institute for the Study of Migration Law, Georgetown University (United States), Institute des Haute Études Internationales (France) and Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Costa Rica). Currently, her main research interest is related to the New European Pact on Migration and Asylum and participate in several research projects in the field of dialogue between human rights Courts in the case law on gender-based violence.
Noelia Arjona Hernández
PhD in Public International Law, University of Seville. Member of the Research Group Politics and International Law (sej119) at the University of Seville. She is currently a Lecturer in Public International Law at the San Isidoro University Centre, attached to Pablo de Olavide University (Seville). She does research on State Immunity and Immunity of International Organisations, as well as on the Law of the Sea. Her recent Doctoral Thesis addresses Immunity of ums in peacetime.
Miguel Ballenilla García de Gamarra
is Major General and Director of the Higher School of the Armed Forces. Doctor of History and Master’s in Strategic Studies, he has spent his professional career mainly in units of the Spanish Legion with which he has participated in missions in Bosnia (1992), Iraq (2004), Lebanon (2006) and Afghanistan (2010). He has published several books, book chapters, research papers, articles and lectures on military history, leadership, strategy and international security, as well as on operations in which he has participated.
Jonatán Cruz Ángeles
is currently Assistant Professor Doctor (accredited to Associate Professor Doctor) in the area of Public International Law and International Relations at
the University of Jaén (Spain). Spanish by birth, he has a degree in Law. He took the Interuniversity Master’s Degree in Diplomacy and International Relations at the Diplomatic School of Madrid, a syllabus coordinated by the Complutense University of Madrid and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation. He holds a PhD in Social and Legal Sciences, in international co-tutorship with the Université Paris x, Ouest-Nanterre, La Défense. His main field of research is the Study of the Theory and Practice of International Courts. His doctorate led him to publish the monograph: Derechos humanos y nuevos modelos de familia. Estudio en el marco de los sistemas europeo e interamericano de protección de derechos humanos [Human rights and new family models. A study in the framework of the European and Inter-American systems of human rights protection] (2018). Pablo Antonio Fernández-Sánchez
is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Seville (Spain) and President of the ihladi (Instituto Hispano Luso Americano de Derecho Internacional). He has taught at Universities in Europe, the United States, Latin America and Africa. He has published 27 books, 5 of them in English, 105 papers in Spanish, 28 in English, 6 in French and 5 in Italian.
Adriana Fillol Mazo
is Ph.D, Assistant Professor in International Public Law and International Relations at the University of Seville. Her area of specialisation is the human right to food and international food security. Her publications include: Seguridad Alimentaria y Derecho Internacional (2020) (Food Security and International Law); El hambre como riesgo y amenaza a la paz y seguridad internacionales (2020) (Hunger as a Risk and Threat to International Peace and Security); El fenómeno de los acaparamientos de tierras: retos jurídico-políticos y respuestas a través de los estudios de caso (2020) (The Phenomenon of Land Grabbing: Legal-Political Challenges and Responses through Case Studies); Food Security Issues and Challenges (2021).
Victoriano Gallego Arce
is PhD in Law from the University of Seville. Lecturer in Constitutional Law and Administrative Law at the San Isidoro University Centre, attached to the University of Seville. Lecturer-Tutor at the National University of Distance Education (uned). Army Reserve Officer (Artillery). Author of Informative Activity, Extreme Conflict and Law (Dykinson-Madrid: 2013).
Ana Cristina Gallego-Hernández is Lecturer in Public International Law and International Relations at the University of Seville. She also teaches in the Master’s Degree in Human Rights, Democracy and Globalisation at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (obc). She has satisfactorily passed the Centre for Studies and Research-The Hague Academy of International Law, both in 2019 and 2020. As a Member of the Research Group Política y Derecho Internacional (sej119), her main lines of research include: international treaties, health security, international peace and security, and extraterritoriality. In this regard, she has participated in various National and International Projects, and is author of over a dozen publications, being noteworthy the monograph El Derecho Internacional a la Salud a la luz de la Paz y Seguridad Internacionales, as part of her Doctoral Thesis.
Rosa Giles Carnero
is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Huelva and member of the Research Center for Contemporary Thought and Innovation for Social Development. She holds a Ph.D in International Law, and has published on international and EU environmental law, peace and security, and gender studies. Currently her main research interest is related to international and European action on climate change, and incorporates a gender approach. Her recent publications include a new book in 2021 titled The International Legal Regime on Climate Change: Dynamics of Advances and Limitations, published by Aranzadi Editorial; and different chapters of books and articles about environmental international and European law. She has coordinated a Jean Monnet Module on Climate Change Policy in the University of Huelva (2011–2014), and has participated in several research projects with a line of study on environmental governance.
Ángel Gómez de Ágreda
is Air Force Colonel. PhD Engineering at Polytechnic School of Madrid. He was head of cooperation for the Joint Cyber Defense Command at the nato Cybersecurity Cooperation Center of Excellence. He is the author of the book Mundo Orwell. Manual de supervivencia para un mundo hiperconectado (Orwell World. Survival Manual for a hyperconnected world), Ariel, Madrid. isbn: 978-84-344-2978-9 (2019).
Victor Luis Gutiérrez Castillo
holds a Ph.D. in Law with international mention (Best Ph.D. Award) from the University of Córdoba. He is currently a tenured Associate Professor of Public International Law at the University of Jaen. He leads the Common European
Law & International Studies Research Group, funded by Andalusian Scientific Information System, and undertakes research on law of the sea, human rights and post-conflict reconstruction. Before joining Jaen, he was a lecturer at University of Cordoba, ceade-Wales University and International University of Andalusia. Likewise, he was Chief of the Department of Institutional and Academic Relations of International Institute of Arab and Muslim World Studies (Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation) and Vice-Rector of the International University of Andalusia. He has given courses and lectures on these issues and he is the author of several publications, among others Los Conflictos armados en la era de la globalización, Parthenon (Madrid: 2007). Miguel Ángel Martín López
has a degree in Law (1996), a degree in Political Science (1998) and a PhD in International Law (2000). He was a scholarship holder for university teacher training from the Ministry of Education and is currently a full professor of International Public Law at the University of Seville. He is also by opposition international cooperation technician of the Diputación de Córdoba, having developed his professional activity there for almost fifteen years, with projects in Latin America, Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa, being since 2016 on leave of absence. He participated in the creation of the Chair of Hunger and Poverty Studies at the University of Cordoba in 2005 and is a member of the steering committee of the Spanish Right to Food Observatory as well as the French Lascaux Center for Transitions. He has been awarded several research prizes on agricultural and food law research issues by Casa África, fao Mexico and the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Magdalena M. Martin Martínez
is currently Full Professor of International Law and International Relations at the University of Málaga (uma). PhD, European University Institute, Florence. She has published several books: National Sovereignty and International Organizations (1996); La Corte Penal Internacional. Justicia Versus Impunidad, (2000); La integración política de los inmigrantes. La vía del sufragio (2008); Sexual Crimes in International Humanitarian Law (2013); Crímenes internacionales de Violencia Sexual y Conflictos Armados (2016); Curso de Derecho de la Unión Europea (3rd Edition, 2018); Derecho Internacional Público. Síntesis de Teoría y Práctica (2019); Cooperación Internacional Penal. Una Aproximación Criminológica (2021). Her main lines of research concern the International Criminal Law; the International Law of Human Rights; the European Union’s Area of Freedom of Freedom Security and Justice, and External Action; Immigration; and Gender Studies and Multiculturalism.
Borja Montes Toscano is e-lawfas Legal Content Manager at the nato Allied Command Operations (aco) Office of Legal Affairs (shape, Belgium). He is PhD candidate (Public International Law) at the University of Seville and Member of the Bar Association of Lucena/Córdoba. His main fields of research are Artificial Intelligence and State accountability, Maritime Security and Climate Change, International Administrative Tribunals, Food Security, Space Law and Privileges and Immunities of International Organizations.
Pilar Pozo Serrano
is senior lecturer of public international law and international relations at the University of Valencia Faculty of Law (Spain). Her research interests include: European Union Common Foreign and Security Policy; international law governing the use of force and international humanitarian law. Author of La guerra de Af-Pakistan y el uso de la fuerza en las relaciones internacionales (2012) and coauthor of Una tierra, dos Estados: Análisis jurídico-político del conflicto árabe-israelí (2011). Coeditor of Terrorismo sin fronteras. Actores, escenarios y respuestas en un mundo global (2010) and La seguridad más allá del Estado. Actores no estatales y seguridad internacional (2011).
Consuelo Ramón Chornet
is Professor of International Law and International Relations, and director of Geostrategy for peace, safety and defense Research group, at the Human Rights Institute of the University of Valencia. (idhuv). He is former director of the Human Rights Institute of the University of Valencia, Spain. He is an expert in international terrorism, Human Rights, Humanitarian Law and Cooperation. His publications include Terrorismo y respuesta de fuerza en el marco del Derecho Internacional (1993), ¿Violencia necesaria? La intervención humanitaria ante el Derecho Internacional (1995); La acción colectiva del uso de la fuerza. Nuevos escenarios, ‘nuevos’ principios de actuación en el orden internacional. C. Ramón Coord. (2012); Dimensiones de la seguridad en la política europea y global. C. Ramón Coord. (2021).
Rafael Rodríguez Prieto
is a political and legal theorist. Researcher, Laboratorio de Ideas y Prácticas Políticas (lippo), rcc James B. Conant Research Group and Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale su Discriminazioni e vulnerabilità. His research interests include critical legal theory, participatory politics, anti-Semitism and the battles for control of the Internet. He published ‘Cambridgenalization’ in Politics? The Spanish Act 3/2018, December 5, Data Protection Regulation and the Future
of Democracy (Democracy and Globalization, Springer, 2021) Movinets and the Future of Social Movements: How 15M and Occupy Revolutionised Political Protest (Essays 2014: Politics, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2014) with Aleksandra Hadzelek and Poder e Internet -Power and Internet-, (Madrid: Cátedra, 2016) with Fernando Martínez Cabezudo. Pedro Sánchez Herráez
is Infantry Colonel, holds a General Staff Diploma and a PhD in Peace and International Security. During his professional career he has alternated assignments and responsibilities in combat units of the Spanish Armed Forces – special mention should be made of the 15 years he served in the Spanish Legion, with which he participated in three international missions (Bosnia Herzegovina in 1993, Albania in 1997 and Kosovo in 2000) – as well as being a Professor at the Army War College, in the Operations and in the Strategy and Organization Departments. He is currently an analyst at the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies, located at the Centro Superior de Estudios de la Defensa Nacional (Madrid). He is the author of numerous works and publications, as well as a regular lecturer at civilian and military centres and institutions, always on subjects related to his area of work and research in security and defence.
Chema Suarez Serrano
is journalist at Radio Television of Andalusia (Spain) where he directs and presents live news programs. He obtained a doctorate in Public International Law and International Relations at the University of Granada, and has been trained at the University of Geneva, the Hague Academy of International Law and the Institute of International Humanitarian Law in San Remo. He is a member of the research group on Politics and International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Seville and is currently studying the so-called hybrid conflicts and the risks that arise from the new means and methods of warfare. His scientific production covers the international protection of Human Rights with special attention to freedom of expression. He is the author of the book Journalism and International Humanitarian Law, an analysis for the 21st century (2017).
Fernando Villena-Sánchez
is Spanish Diplomat for the last 13 years. He started his career as a desk officer in the Directorate for Disarmament, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Spain. He has served as Deputy Head and Consul in the Embassies of Spain in San Salvador, Nicosia and Pretoria for the last nine years. He has also collaborated regularly with the Ministry of Defense as an
analyst in geopolitics and as an invited teacher. He has written many articles and been part on collective books on arms control, geopolitics, military history and international security. Today, Mr. Villena is posted in the Spanish Ministry of Defense as an analyst and security/political advisor for the Vice Minister of Defense Policy.