Javier Martínez-Torrón

Professor, Catedratico de Universidad, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain

Javier Martínez-Torrón is Professor of Law at Complutense University (Madrid, Spain),  Vice-President of the Section of Canon Law and Church-State Relations of the Spanish Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation, and Honorary Foreign Member of the National Academy of Law and Social Sciences of Cordoba, Argentina. He is also a member of the steering committee of ICLARS (International Consortium on Law and Religion Studies). He has done consultancy for national governments as well as for international institutions, especially while being in the Spanish Advisory Commission for Religious Freedom in the Ministry of Justice (2002-2014) and in the OSCE/ODIHR Advisory Council for Freedom of Religion or Belief (2005-2013). He is co-founder and co-editor of Revista General de Derecho Canónico y Derecho Eclesiástico del Estado (2003), the first Spanish online academic journal specialized in issues relating to law and religion. His academic work focuses on the legal analysis human rights (especially freedom of religion or belief) from a comparative and international perspective. He has lectured and done research at numerous universities and institutions in the five continents.  More …