Professor of Criminal Law and Director of the  Basque Institute of Criminology (IVAC-KREI) President of the International Association of Penal Law (AIDP) Director of the Summer Courses of the University of the Basque Country Español Français     Instituto Vasco de Criminología. Universidad del País Vasco Centro Carlos Santamaría zentroa - Elhuyar plaza, 2 - 20018  Donostia-San Sebastián - SPAIN Tel: +34 943 017 486      Fax: +34 943 017 474 ivac-krei@ehu.es

CURRICULUM VITAE (Short)

President of the International Association of Penal Law (2004-   ); Director of the Basque Institute of Criminology; Deputy of the President of the Society of Basque Studies (2005-); Elected member of Jakiunde Academy; Member of the International Scientific Advisory Board (Fachbeirat) Max Planck Institut für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht (Freiburg i. Br. Alemania) (2008-); Member of the Board of Directors of the International Society of Criminology;  Member of the Governing Board of the Istituto Superiore Internazionale di Scienze Criminalli (Siracusa, Italy); Member of the Governing Board of the Centro Internacional de Investigación sobre la Delincuencia, la Marginalidad y las Relaciones Sociales, San Sebastián.

Honorable Professor. Northwest University of Politics and Law (Xi'an; China).

Doctor honoris causa, University Alexandru Ioan Cuza (Iasi, Romania) 2011

University studies:  Faculty of Law (1972-1977; at the University of Valladolid. Extraordinary Prize. Prize Caja de Ahorros Provincial de Guipúzcoa (Licenciado en Derecho); Second Spanish National Prize of the Law Faculties.

Ph.D. in Law (1981), at the University of the Basque Country. Extraordinary Prize of the Law Faculty.

Diplom of High Studies on Criminology at the University of Madrid (1979).

Other studies and research: Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, University of Edinburgh, Université Catholique de Louvain, Max-Planck Institut für Strafrecht;  DePaul University (Chicago, USA); University of Nevada-Reno (USA).

Visiting  professor: Katholieke Universiteit. Leuven (Belgium), Pontificia U.Católica de Chile, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (France), Université de Paris XII (France), Renmin University (Beijing, China),  Beijing Normal University (China), Northwest University of Politics and Law (Xi'an; China).

Among the directive positions previously developed, specially merit to be mentioned that he was Vice-President of the University of the Basque Country (1991-2000); Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of the Basque Country (1987-1988) and Head of the Department of Public Law (1988-1991); Deputy of the General Secretary of the International Association of Penal Law (1989-2004); Chief Editor of the Revue Internationale de Droit Pénal / International Review of Penal Law (1989-2004); Vice-President (Gipuzkoa) of the  Society of Basque Studies (2002-2005).

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