The First Interntional Conference Social Justice and Sustainable Development
The First “International conference Social Justice and Sustainable Development” with the Following The Agenda of 2030 Documents was organized by the University of Salamanca.
This event was organized by the Faculty of Law of the University of Salamanca and under the program “Administration, Treasury and Justice in the Social State”.
Important dates:
Held on: 2 Dec 2022
Abstract Submission deadline: 30 Oct 2022
Registration deadline: 30 Nov 2022
ABOUT OF ICSJSD 2022 Social Justice & Sustainable Development
Directors:
Prof. Lorenzo Mateo Bujosa Vadell | Majedeh Bozorgi
Coordinators:
Walter Reifarth Muñoz | Irene González Pulido | Irene Yañez
How conference will be hold?
The conference will be held in In-Person and online (ZOOM). The main speakers as well as the presenters of the articles will give presentations.
Language: ENGLISH & SPANISH
Type: In-Person & Online
Attendance is free for all interested parties.
Director
Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Mateo Bujosa Vadell
Director
Majedeh Bozorgi
MEET THE OUR SPEAKERS 2022
Prof. Mehrzad Boroujerdi
Professor and Vice Provost at Missouri University of Science and Technology
Prof. Mehrzad Boroujerdi
Professor and Vice Provost at Missouri University of Science and Technology
Mehrzad Boroujerdi is Vice Provost and Dean of the College of Arts, Sciences, and Education at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Previously he was Professor of Government and International Affairs and Director of the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech, and before that professor of political science at Syracuse University. Boroujerdi is the author or co-author of four books: Post-revolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook, published in 2018; Mirror for the Muslim Prince: Islam and Theory of Statecraft, published in 2013; Tarashidam, Parastidam, Shikastam: Guftarhay-i dar Siyasat va Huvyiyat-i Irani (I Carved, Worshiped and Shattered: Essays on Iranian Politics and Identity), published in 2010; and Iranian Intellectuals and the West: Tormented Triumph of Nativism, published in 1996.
Prof. Lorenzo Mateo Bujosa Vadell
Full Professor at University of Salamanca
Prof. Lorenzo Mateo Bujosa Vadell
Full Professor at University of Salamanca
Professor (Full Professor) of Procedural Law at the University of Salamanca. Bachelor and Doctor from the same University. President of the Ibero-American Institute of Procedural Law, member of the International Association of Procedural Law and the International Association of Criminal Law. He was Research Fellow for the Training of Teachers and Research Staff of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (1989-1992), Professor of Procedural Law (1994-2007) at the same University. Professor of Procedural Law at the Faculty of Law, in the Faculty of Environmental Sciences and in Education and Tourism at the University of Salamanca. He teaches postgraduate, doctoral and master's degrees in various European or Ibero-American Universities such as Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Italy, France, Portugal or Spain, among others.
Dr. Shirin Ebadi
Author, Lawyer & Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2003
Dr. Shirin Ebadi
Author, Lawyer & Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2003
Shirin Ebadi is an author, lawyer, and was the first female judge in Iran, living in exile in London since 2009. In 2003, she received the Nobel Peace Prize. Ebadi was a judge in Iran until 1979, the year of the Islamic Revolution, after which she was not allowed to work as a judge. In 1994, she co-founded the Society for Protecting the Rights of the Child in 1994. In 2002, she co-founded the Defenders of Human Rights Centre (DHRC) with other lawyers to assist those working towards promoting democracy, After her Nobel Prize in 2003, she co-founded the Nobel Women's Initiative in 2006, and used some of her prize money to support DHRC. In 2008, the Iranian government closed down DHRC by raiding her office, which had, by then, 30 lawyers working on cases. While she was traveling abroad, her professional archives and personal belongings were confiscated, her sister arrested on spurious charges.“
Prof. Frank J. Garcia
Professor of Law and Dean’s Distinguished Scholar at the Boston College Law School
Prof. Frank J. Garcia
Professor of Law and Dean’s Distinguished Scholar at the Boston College Law School
Frank J. Garcia is Professor of Law and Dean’s Distinguished Scholar at the Boston College Law School. A Fulbright Scholar, he has lectured widely on globalization and international economic law in Europe, South America and the Asia/Pacific region. He is the author of, among other volumes, Consent and Trade: Trading Freely in a Global Market (2019) and Global Justice and International Economic Law: Three Takes, both published by Cambridge University Press, and a co-author (with Aisbett, et al.) of Rethinking International Investment Governance: Principles for the 21st Century (2018). Professor Garcia is a Senior Fellow of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, and a member of the editorial board of the Oxford Journal of International Economic Law.
Prof. Narnia Bohler-Muller
Professor of Law Human Sciences Research Council
Prof. Narnia Bohler-Muller
Professor of Law Human Sciences Research Council
Speech topic: "Religion and gender equality: A survey-based analysis of six African countries and beyond". Professor Narnia Bohler-Muller holds the degrees of BJuris LLB LLM (UPE) LLD (UP) is is currently Divisional Executive of the Developmental, Capable and Ethical State research programme at the Human Sciences Research Council and a Research Associate, Centre for Africa and Gender Studies, University of Free State. Prof. Bohler-Muller has over 100 publications including six edited books. She is an admitted Advocate of the High Court of the Republic of South Africa. Her research interests include international and constitutional law; human rights, democracy and social justice.
Prof. Maria Inmaculada Sanchez Barrios
Professor. University of Salamanca
Prof. Maria Inmaculada Sanchez Barrios
Professor. University of Salamanca
Speech topic: The protection of women in criminal procedural Brief curriculum overview:
- She defended his Doctoral Thesis on the General Council of the Judiciary at USAL in 1993.
- She is Professor of Procedural Law at USAL since 1999.
- She is the Director of the USAL Equality Unit.
- She carried out teaching and postdoctoral research stays at various foreign universities: Paris XI, Paris II “Pantheon-Assas”, Bologna, Coimbra, L.U.I.S.S. di Roma, the Sapienza di Roma, London, Nacional de Bogotá, Antofagasta…
- She is the author of six monographs and forty-seven chapters of books and doctrinal articles published in national and foreign legal journals (among others, related to the subject, on effective judicial protection, judicial protection and security measures for victims of violence of gender, the prosecutor against violence against women...)
- She is a researcher in numerous national and regional R&D research projects (such as crimes against sexual freedom, juvenile justice, especially vulnerable victims…) and Europeans (EU EMEDUE Project).
- She has given numerous conferences and presentations at public and private, national and foreign institutions (Coimbra, Paris, Rome, Rio de Janeiro, Brussels, Bogotá, Buenos Aires…).
- She has held various academic positions: highlighting that of Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law of Salamanca (from 2004 to 2012) and currently she is the Director of the Equality Unit of the USAL.
- DIRECTOR OF THE EQUALITY UNIT of the University of Salamanca (since June 2016)
- DEPUTY DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF LAW of the University of Salamanca (2004-2012)
- President of the Commission of Places of the University of Salamanca (2008-2012)
- Director of the Aranzadi Classroom of the University of Salamanca (2003-2007)
- President of the Electoral Council of the University of Salamanca (2003)
- DIRECTOR of the Own Title (Expert and Specialist) in Legal Advisors in Consumer Affairs.
- COORDINATOR of the Master in Spanish Law for Foreign Jurists
- Member of the "IUDICIUM" Research Group: Group of procedural studies of the University of Salamanca (RESEARCH GROUP OF EXCELLENCE of Castilla y León)
- Member of the International Research Group on "Electronic Mediation"cross-border
Prof. Nuria del Álamo Gómez
Professor of Social Work and Social Services
Prof. Nuria del Álamo Gómez
Professor of Social Work and Social Services
Speech topic: Does immigration policy consider women? She is currently a contracted professor of the Department of Labor Law and Social Work; a Senior Researcher of the Institute of Ibero-America; a member of the Diversities Recognized Research Group "Public Policies in Defense of Inclusion, Diversity, and Gender" and coordinator of the line " Migrants and Rights" of the Legal Clinic of the Faculty of Law of the University of Salamanca. Her lines of research are international migration, skilled migration, and immigration management and integration policies. Brief:
- Department: Labor Law and Social Work
- Area of Knowledge: Social Work and Social Services
- Lines of Research: International migration - Mobility of talent - Social Policies and Services - Social Work
Prof. Ana Felicitas Muñoz Pérez
Professor at University of Rey Juan Carlos
Prof. Ana Felicitas Muñoz Pérez
Professor at University of Rey Juan Carlos
Speech topic: Artificial Intelligence and Equality Ana Felicitas Muñoz Pérez is Profesor Titular in university of Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, former “academic secretary” of the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences in this University. She worked in IBM before obtaining the degree of PhD -"cum laude"- in Commercial Law in the university of Complutense de Madrid. Master’s degree in business law in Instituto of Empresa (IE). It has three “six-year official periods of research” that accredit the academic activity of investigation with monographs and papers in specialized magazines and collective books focus in her main lines of research - company law and securities law and digitalization- although she has worked in other topics as competition law, arbitration and insolvency regulation. She has been visiting professor in Oxford, 2010, Fordham University, New York 2013, Widener University, Pennsylvania, 2015 and the University of Nevada in Reno 2017. She sat a high level profile academic group of research “Research group in digitalization and business law of the Rey Juan Carlos University” which gather more than 20 members from several Universities and the group have been developing several joint activities related to digital phenomena and commercial law...
Dr. Volodymyr Venher
professor at National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Dr. Volodymyr Venher
professor at National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Dr. Volodymyr Venher is an associate professor at National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He also acts as Executive Director at Kyiv-Mohyla Rule of Law Research Centre. Volodymyr has been successfully invited as visiting professor to “School of Ukrainian Law” (annually) at Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland) (2014-2022) and at Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas (Paris, French Republic) (2018). For the last five years Volodymyr was involved in different research projects as a legal expert on rule of law and constitutional law issues. Volodymyr also acts as an expert of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) in Project “Rule of Law – Central Asia”.
Dr. Majid Pourostad
Academic | Lawyer & Arbitrator
Dr. Majid Pourostad
Academic | Lawyer & Arbitrator
Speech topic: "Canada's Lessons for Iranian Feminist Lawyering Dr. Majid Pourostad, Ph.D. in Private Law, was Assistant Professor of Civil Procedure & Commercial Arbitration, Faculty of Law, IAUCTB, Tehran, Iran. Having moved to Canada in 2014, He obtained the degree of Professional LLM in "International Business Law" from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto and then he also became "Visiting Scholar" at the same law School. Currently, he is completing his "Articling Program" to be called to the Bar by The Law Society of Ontario.
Dr. Afrooz Maghzi
Iranian lawyer, socio-legal researcher, and human rights activist
Dr. Afrooz Maghzi
Iranian lawyer, socio-legal researcher, and human rights activist
Speech topic: When Legal Reform Promises Dawns: Iranian Women's Struggle for Social Justice Afrooz Maghzi is an Iranian lawyer, socio-legal researcher, and human rights activist. Her focus is on multiculturalism and minority rights in Europe, gender inequality in Islamic criminal and family law, and social movements. Currently, she is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (MPI), Halle (Saale), Germany, and at the Erlangen Centre for Islam and Law in Europe (EZIRE), Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen, Germany. Previously, Maghzi worked as a lawyer, researcher, and activist in Iran, Ireland, and Malaysia, cooperating with several civil society and international NGOs. She primarily endeavored to help victims and suspects in gender-related, political, and family cases, often pro bono. She represented clients before the highest jurisdictions in Iran and cooperated with several human rights campaigns, notably the “One Million Signatures Campaign” to repeal discriminatory laws against women. She recently completed her PhD in Religious and Customary-Based Non-State Justice at the University of Halle-Wittenberg and the MPI (Germany). She holds an LLM from University College Dublin (Ireland), an LLM from Mazandaran University (Iran), and an LLB from Tehran University (Iran). During her Fellowship at the University of Harvard, she will work on her current research project on the impact of transnational networking on legal advocacy in authoritarian settings, concentrating on cause lawyering in Iran.
Dr. Isabel Campo Blanco
Researcher and assistant professor at University of Salamanca
Dr. Isabel Campo Blanco
Researcher and assistant professor at University of Salamanca
Doctor from the University of Salamanca with the thesis Quality of life, quality of services and independent living in people with physical and sensory disabilities (2016) Researcher and assistant professor (INICO-USAL) Director of the Social Affairs Service at the University of Salamanca (2007-2010) City of Salamanca councilor (2011-2019) Vice President of The Red Cross Salamanca (since 2020) Managing Director CRE Alzheimer (Imserso, Ministry of Social Rights and 2030 Agenda)
Antonio José Pérez Mendoza
President of the Public Contracts Commission at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
Antonio José Pérez Mendoza
President of the Public Contracts Commission at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)Antonio is the President of the Public Contracts Commission at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and a member of the board of the Ecuadorian Arbitration Institute. In his private career, he has been a lawyer linked to the practice of contracts, arbitration, and litigation, being part of the renowned firm BUSTAMANTE FABARA in Ecuador for six years until today. He is an Ecuadorian lawyer with several years of experience. He began as a public official in the Attorney General's Office, where he was involved in his first stage as a public law advisor, joining in his second stage in the area of international arbitration for the defense of the State. His studies have provided him with an international vision of public law due to his master’s degree in administrative law at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar in Quito. Afterwards, he earned a master’s degree in administrative law and public administration at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, and now he is part of the prestigious MILE program at the World Trade Institute-University of Bern. Finally, Antonio also has publications in public procurement and constitutional law. He is a mediator and arbitration secretary at several international arbitration centers.
Dr. Walter Reifarth Muñoz
Assistant Professor Doctor at University of Salamanca
Dr. Walter Reifarth Muñoz
Assistant Professor Doctor at University of Salamanca
Walter Reifarth Muñoz is a Law and Business graduate of the University of Salamanca and also holds a Master's degree in Judicial Protection of Fundamental Rights (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) and in Constitutional Law (Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales). He received his J.D. cum laude from the University of Salamanca, where he is serving as postdoctoral researcher staying at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law. Mr. Reifarth's research is centered on collective redress and procedural guarantees.
Prof. Sergi Corominas Bach
Associate professor of procedural law at the University of Salamanca
Prof. Sergi Corominas Bach
Associate professor of procedural law at the University of Salamanca
Associate professor of procedural law at the University of Salamanca. Assistant professor doctor in Procedural Law accredited (ANECA). Doctor in Procedural Law from the University of Girona in 2015, with an international mention after national and international pre-doctoral stays. To the monograph entitled “Collective processes and legitimation. A necessary leap towards the future", published by Marcial Pons, it is worth adding several articles in national and international magazines, as well as different book chapters that denote research excellence backed by the different state grants obtained and belonging to different groups and centers of national and international research.
Majedeh Bozorgi
Doctoral Student of law
Majedeh Bozorgi
Doctoral Student of law
Majedeh Bozorgi is an experienced researcher and advocate for human rights, with a academic and professional background. Currently, she serves as Secretary for the Iranian Association for Human Rights in Spain and is pursuing a PhD in Administration, Finance, and Justice in the Social State at the University of Salamanca.She is the organizer of the annual Social Justice and Sustainable Development Conference, held in collaboration with the University of Salamanca. Majedeh has actively engaged in human rights research and advocacy over the past few years. In addition, she has co-directed and presented at several international conferences focused on social justice and gender equality, including the International Conference on Social Justice and Sustainable Development and the Human Rights of Refugees conference organized by the General Union of Workers. She has also moderated discussions on women’s rights and gender equality at the V International Congress, organized by the Equality Unit of the University of Salamanca. Her research, covering topics such as Women and Human Rights and the Legal Situations of Female Workers, reflects her contributions to the academic field of human rights. Majedeh is currently involved in two major research projects. The first, PREVENFEM, is an I+D+i project in collaboration with Fundación Universidad de Oviedo, focusing on a retrospective analysis of factors contributing to partner femicide, aiming to provide policy recommendations for the prevention of gender based violence. The second project, SUMA, is an initiative by the University of Salamanca aimed at promoting gender equality within academic settings.
SCHEDULE DETAILS Conference Schedules 2022
9:00 - 9:15 AM Opening
Prof. Dr. D. Fernando Carbajo Cascón Professor of Commercial Law, Dean of Faculty of law of USAL
Prof. Lorenzo Bujosa Vadell Professor of Procedural Law and Director of Conference
9:15 - 9:45 Table-01
Social justice and judicial procedural protection
Prof. Lorenzo Mateo Bujosa Vadell
9:45 - 10:15 Table-01
Legislative limitations for the judiciary in wartime
Dr. Volodymyr Venher
10:15 - 10:45 Table-01
Climate change litigation in the European Union
Dr. Walter Reifarth Muñoz
10:45 - 11:15 Table-01
Social justice in the environment of dementias
Dr. Isabel Campo Blanco
11:15 - 11:45
Coffee Time
11:45 - 12:15 Table-02
Gender equality in the University
Prof. Maria Inmaculada Sanchez Barrios
12:15- 12:45 Table-02
Migrations, gender and development
Prof. Nuria del Álamo Gómez
12.45- 13:15 Table-02
Gender Justice and Freedom:What does this mean for the women of Iran?
Prof. Narnia Bohler-Muller
13:15 - 13:45 Table-02
The Southern Mediterranean region after the Arab Spring: social justice and protest
Prof. Ángela Suárez Collado
13:45 - 15:30
Lunch Time
15:30 - 15:45 Table-03
Environmental damages and civil procedure: a global perspective
Prof. Sergi Corominas Bach
15:45 - 16:05 Table-03
Global justice and international law
Prof. Frank J. Garcia
16:05 - 16:25 Table-03
The Universal Decentralized Blockchain-based governance
Prof. Ana Felicitas Muñoz Pérez
16:25 - 16:45 Table-03
Transparency in public procurement in Latin American governments
Antonio José Pérez Mendoza
16:45 - 17:00 Table-03
Social justice in healthcare system by approach of decreasing legal corruption
Majedeh Bozorgi
17:00 - 17:30
Coffee Time
17:30 - 18:00 Table of IRAN
Anatomy of Social Protests in Iran
Prof. Mehrzad Boroujerdi
18:00 - 18:30 Table of IRAN
The Role of Law Society in Promoting Social Justice, Why do dictators dislike lawyers?
Dr. Majid Pourostad
18:30 - 19:00 Table of IRAN
The ways of Iranian people in their battle to achieve democracy [FA] + [EN] (LIVE Translate)
Dr. Shirin Ebadi
19:00 - 19:30 Table of IRAN
Social Justice lawyering in an authoritarian setting: The case of IRAN
Dr. Afrooz Maghzi
19:30 - 20:00 Table-05
Communications
Our Investigators (Presentation of researchers)
20:00 - 20:30
Closing ceremony
Prof. Dr. Ricardo Rivero Ortega Professor of Administrative Law, Rector of USAL
Prof. Lorenzo Bujosa Vadell Professor of Procedural Law and Director of Conference
Majedeh Bozorgi Co-Director of conference, PhD student
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Location
Conference Hall of Law School of University of Salamanca
P.º Francisco Tomás y Valiente, s/n, 37007, Salamanca, Castilla & Leon, ESPAIN
Time
2 Dec. 2022
09:00 – 13:40 | 15:30 – 20:30 (GMT+2)
Important Dates
Hold on: 2 December 2022
Abstract Submission deadline: 30 Oct 2022
Registration deadline: 30 Nov 2022