Position: Researcher and Professor in the Department of Administrative Law at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Links: Website
Expertise Areas: International Law, Arms Control
Contact: Roser.Martinez@uab.cat
Bio:
Roser Martínez Quirante earned a Ph.D from the University of Barcelona (UAB), and has been Professor of Administrative Law since 2002. She has been the Academic Secretary of the Department of Public Law and from 2010 and she is the Third Cycle Coordinator of the Department of Public Law and Historical–Juridical sciences of the Faculty of Law of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She is also Professor of the School of Prevention and Integral Security of the UAB from its foundation in 2004 to the present day and has taught in different subjects, among which are the Law of Security, Intervention and Self-regulation, and Regulation of Weapons of fire in the USA and in Europe.
She has been Coordinator at the UAB of the European Commission Research Group (FP7 Program) on Prevention and Security (SEP-210083049, ERC-2013-SyG) And she has been the Coordinator of the EPSI-University Research Group at Massachussetts Lowell (UMAAS) Lowell for the development of teaching and research activities on security.
She has taken part in a Commission of the Spanish Senate, for the exposition of the legislative panorama of arms and violence in Europe and the United States for a future regulatory reform in Spain.
Publications:
Martínez, R., Armas:¿Libertad americana o prevención europea?, Ariel, Barcelona, 2002. Link.
Martínez, R., Soberanía dual y constitución integradora. La reciente jurisprudencia de la Corte Suprema Norteamericana, Ariel, Barcelona, 2003.
Martínez, R., “Armas en Estados Unidos: Sangre y Negocio”, AHORA, 16/10/2015, Link.
Ballbé, M., Martínez, R., Cabedo, Y., “La crisis financera causada por la deregulación del derecho administrativo americano. El conflicto competencial entre Whashington y los Estados para el (des)control de las hipotecas depredadoras: las sentencias de la Corte Suprema Watters v.Wachovia Bank de 2007 y Cuomo v.Clearinghouse de 2009”, a Administración y Justicia. Un anàlisis jurisprudencial, E. Garcia de Enterría y R. Alonso García (Coord.), Thomson Reuters, 2012
Ballbé, M., Martínez, R.,“Law and globalization: between the United States and Europe” a Global Administrative Law, Edited by J.Robalino and J.Rodríguez-Arana, Cameron May, London, 2010.
