Delegate for the Eutopia Educational Project
- Delegate for the Eutopia Educational Project: Aida Torres
Postal address
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Edifici Mercè
Plaça de la Mercè, 10-12
08002 Barcelona
Contact
Phone number: 93 542 20 00
Fax: 93 542 20 02
Functions
The delegate for the EUTOPIA educational project will have the following responsibilities and roles:
· Coordinating with commissioner for the EUTOPIA project.
· Coordinating and supporting the WP2 EUTOPIA learning communities.
· Aligning the learning communities with the EDvolution model.
Curricula
Aida Torres Pérez is an associate professor of Constitutional Law and an ICREA Acadèmia researcher at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). She received her doctorate from Yale University, where she also completed a master’s degree in Law (LL.M). She has been a visiting researcher to the European University Institute (Florence), the University of Trento (2011), the University of Maastricht, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg), the European Union Court of Justice (Luxembourg), and the Centre of Excellence for International Courts, iCourts (Copenhagen).
Her research interests lie at the intersection of European and constitutional law. Her main lines of research include the plurality of rights protection systems in Europe and the interactions between the EU Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights and constitutional courts; European constitutionalism; the rule of law and judicial independence in the EU; and the independence of international courts. She has published extensively on these subjects with renowned publishers and in prestigious journals such as Oxford University Press, Hart Publishing, European Constitutional Law Review, International Journal of Constitutional Law, Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, and Journal of European Integration.
She is the principal investigator of a research project on “Economic and Social Constitutionalism: New Challenges for the Rule of Law in the EU”, which is a continuation of a previous project on the constitutional impact of European economic governance. She has also participated in several projects funded by the European Commission as UPF coordinator. She is an external member of the Centre for Judicial Cooperation of the European University Institute (Florence) and has served as an external advisor to the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
In the area of management, she has been deputy director of the Department of Law, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Law, and is currently responsible for the educational model of the EUTOPIA Project.