Prof. Dr. Mª LUISA CUERDA ARNAU

Full Professor in Criminal Law. Jaume I University

I. Qualifications

  • Law Degree. 1986 Universidad de Valencia. Extraordinary Award
  • Doctor of Law 1995 Universidad Jaume I. Extraordinary Award

II. Research Activity

II.1. Research Periods

Four research periods recognized by the CNEAI.

II.2. Publications (selection related to the subject of the Congress)

Single-author papers

  • Atenuación y remisión de la pena en los delitos de terrorismo, Publications Service Ministry of Justice. Madrid, 1995. Doctoral Thesis. Extraordinary Award
  • Los delitos de atentado y resistencia, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2003
  • Protección jurídica del orden público, la paz pública y la seguridad ciudadana, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2016
  • Terrorismo, sistema penal y derechos fundamentales, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2018

Papers:

  • Terrorismo y libertades políticas Teoría & Derecho, 2008
  • El premio por el abandono de la organización y la colaboración con las autoridades como estrategia de lucha contra el terrorismo Estudios penales y Criminológicos Magazine, 2005
  • El nuevo delito político, (Apología del terrorismo). Estudios de derecho judicial, CGPJ, 2007, p. 89 to 121.
  • Proporcionalidad penal y libertad de expresión: la función dogmatica del efecto de desaliento, Revista general de Derecho Penal, No. 8, 2007, p. 1 to 43.
  • El derecho penal ante el proceso de paz, in Fuerzas Armadas y Seguridad pública, VVAA, dir. González Cussac, Castellón, 2007
  • Terrorismo y libertades políticas, Teoría y Derecho, No. 3/2008, p. 60 to 97

 

II.3. Funded research projects (selection related to the subject of the Congress)

  • TITLE: Criminal protection of authorities and public officials against public order offences. Special reference to terrorist crimes
  • PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER: José Luis González Cussac
  • REFERENCE: BJU2002-03454
  • ORGANIZATION: Ministry of Education and Science. Directorate General for Research.
  • PERIOD: 1 November 2002 – 31 October 2005

 

  • TITLE: New threats to national security: Terrorism,
    organized crime and communication and information technologies.
  • PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER: José Luis González Cussac-Mª Luisa Cuerda Arnau
  • REFERENCE: DER2008-05707/JURI
  • ORGANIZATION: Ministry of Science and Innovation
  • PERIOD: 2009 – 2011

II.4. Long stays at foreign centres (selection)

  • Facoltà di Giurisprudenza. University of Bolonia, 1990-1991.
  • Max-Planck-Institut für auslandishes und internationales Strafrecht, 1991.
  • Institut für Kriminologie und Wirtschaftsstrafrecht, 1994.
  • School of Law  Universidad Pública de Buenos Aires, 1996.
  • New York University School of Law. New York University, 1999.
  • Facoltà di Giurisprudenza. Università di Trento, 2008.
  • Facoltà di Giurisprudenza. Università di Trento, 2009.

III- Other professionals activities

  • Deputy Magistrate of the Provincial Court. Castellón, legal year: 1999 and continuing.
  • Consultant to the European Union and the Centre for the Administration of Justice  (Universidad Internacional de La Florida).

 

  • Thursday, 8 November

    SESSION 2. THE CHALLENGE OF TERRORISM FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

  • 11:00  - 12:00
    Terrorism and freedom of expression
    Prof. Dr. Mª LUISA CUERDA ARNAU
    So-called jihadist terrorism represents a global threat to human rights from a dual perspective. On the one hand, organizations and criminal groups indiscriminately attack people and States with hitherto unknown criminal tactics. On the other hand, even the most consolidated democracies decide to tackle this new challenge with strategies which, in many cases, unacceptably defer internationally recognized rights and freedoms. This paper will address the latest penal reforms in the Spanish Criminal Code on terrorism introduced by Organic Law 2/2015. The priority objective is to demonstrate that they have been promoted from the most blatant populism, they have been implemented outside of a rigorous evaluation of their effectiveness, as well as to show that, as a whole, they reveal a deep aversion to guarantees. What is even more serious is that citizens begin to internalize that individual rights can take a back seat when speaking of national security, a disturbing and deliberately ambiguous concept in which almost everything has a place. Given this reality, it is imperative that democratic societies recover the conviction that human rights are the lifeblood of a peaceful, fair and supportive coexistence.

    The impending threat of Islamist terrorism and how to confront it through policing. A legal-penal analysis of the extreme hypothesis: shoot to kill
    Prof. Dr. MIGUEL ÁNGEL CANO PAÑOS
    Islamist terrorism presents a series of characteristics that diverge enormously from traditional terrorism, of an ethno-nationalist or socio-revolutionary nature; characteristics that can be summarised in two relevant standpoints: first, the adoption by terrorists of a broad concept of enemy, with no distinction between direct or indirect victims. Second, the totally unpredictable nature of their actions which, in many cases due to their suicidal nature, make it possible to change the modus operandi in a relatively short span of time. These circumstances mean that police forces find themselves faced with an omnipresent, ubiquitous and unpredictable threat. A threat which means that the use of so-called «direct coercion» in situations of grave danger, including the use of firearms to neutralise an action which is considered exceptional, result in the destruction of human life, even if it is the presumed terrorist. Examples such as those that occurred in Catalonia in the last two years vindicate this situation. On the basis of these assumptions, the aim of the talk is to analyse, from a criminological and, especially, a legal-penal point of view, the exercise of violence by police forces to supress extremely dangerous situations in the context of the threat posed by Islamist terrorism.




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