BIOGRAPHY

Julia Lopez is Professor of Labor and Social Security Law at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. She did her undergraduate work in Law at the Complutense University in Madrid. She earned her doctorate in law at the Complutense University in 1985, where her Doctoral Thesis received an award for the best Dissertation presented in Pubic Law that year. She has been a faculty member in the Law School of the Pompeu Fabra University since 1996. She teaches labor law, social security law and European and international labor law. She has been affiliated with the Universities of Rome and Naples (Italy), Paris-Nanterre II ( France) , the Institute of European Studies of the Free University of Brussels (Belgium) and the University of Notre Dame (US). Her publications include several books she has authored or coauthored as well as edited books and numerous articles about decentralization and labor law, family legal policies and equal treatment, immigration and workers rights . Her most recent publications are " Rethinking euro-rights for workers in the year of the new currency " in The Year of the Euro , edited by R.M. Fishman and T. Messina, University of Notre Dame Press , 2006 ; she has a chapter on " Social Dialogue and concertation in Social Security in Spain " in a volume about Social Dialogue in Latin American and Spain , ( forthcoming October 2006) and she has edited a volume about Derechos laborales y de la Seguridad Social de los inmigrantes , Consejo General del Poder Judicial , 2006 to which she contributed an article " Una mirada a los derechos de los inmigrantes desde el derecho de dignidad ". She is working now on wage flexibility and worker rights and she is the coordinator of an international research project about the ILO Conventions and the judicialization of legal systems sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Labor, in which others participants are from UCLA, Oxford , Catania among others Universities .