Oriol Mir

Oriol Mir (Barcelona, 1975) is Full Professor of Administrative Law in the Department of Law, head of its Administrative Law section and coordinator of the research group Observatorio de la Evolución de las Instituciones (Obsei).

Before joining the UPF, he was Associate Professor (2003-2017), Assistant Professor (2002-2003) and Pre-doctoral Fellow (1997-2001) in the Department of Administrative Law and Procedural Law at the University of Barcelona.

He graduated in Law from the University of Barcelona in 1997 (with the Extraordinary Degree Award) and in 2001 he obtained a European Doctorate in Public Law from the University of Bologna.

His career has been marked by several research stays at the University of Bologna (SPISA, 1999-2001, with a grant awarded by the Real Colegio de España en Bolonia), at the University of Heidelberg (January-December 2005, with a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation), at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (July 2010-2014) and at the Universities of Yale (July 2019) and Harvard (April-June 2022).

His main research interests are state liability, administrative procedure, better regulation, administrative transparency, European administrative law, the regulation of genetically modified organisms and the use of algorithms and artificial intelligence systems by public authorities.

He has been awarded the European Union’s Altiero Spinelli Prize as a member of the steering committee of the European network of professors ReNEUAL and his research has been rewarded in all the (four) sexennial evaluations of the Spanish Research Agency since 1998.

He regularly advises public and private institutions and has been head of research of the Legal Advisory Commission of Catalonia (Comissió Jurídica Assessora, 2006-2010) and vice-president of the Access to Documents Commission of Catalonia (GAIP, 2015-2017).

In his classes on Basic Institutions of Administrative Law, Administrative Activity, European and Global Administrative Law and Administrative Litigation that he teaches at the UPF, he tries to transmit to his students the passion for Law as an essential tool for the resolution of social conflicts, the protection of citizens against power and the satisfaction of collective needs.

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