Prof. Dr. PATRICIA LAURENZO COPELLO

Full Professor in Criminal Law. University of Málaga

Full-time professor of Criminal law at the University of Malaga, is author of more than a hundred publications, which include ten books as sole or co-author and numerous chapters of books and articles in prestigious journals in Spain and abroad. She has published works in Italy, Portugal, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Mexico and Uruguay on aspects ranging from nuclear aspects of the legal theory of the offence (malice, the typical outcome, the legal good, medical  negligence, among others) to specific questions of the Special Part of Criminal law (food fraud, non-payment of pensions, drugs, immigration and aliens, abortion, domestic and gender violence), covering a wide spectrum of publications on applied criminal policy. Her current lines of research focus on two fields of interest for Penal Law and Criminal Policy: (1) Penal system and diversity, with special attention to anti-discrimination law, immigration and hate crimes; and (2) Penal law and gender, addressing the various manifestations of gender violence and sexual and reproductive rights.  Since 2006 she has led a consolidated inter-disciplinary team made up of researchers from various public universities working together on the following projects of the Spanish National Plan of R+D+i. Análisis de la LO 1/2004 de protección integral contra la violencia hacia las mujeres desde una perspectiva de género (SEJ 2005-06416/JURI); Multiculturalidad, género y derecho (DER 2009-08297) Colectivos en los márgenes: su exclusión por el Derecho en tiempos de crisis (DER 2012-34320) and currently, Comportamientos basados en el discurso de odio. Respuestas desde el Derecho Penal y otros ámbitos del ordenamiento jurídico (DER 2017-84178-P). She was visiting teacher in various Latin American universities, among them, the public universities of Buenos Aires and La Plata, in Argentina, the University of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay and the Higher University of San Andres, La Paz, Bolivia.She has taught courses and given conferences in numerous countries in Europe and America. She is a member of publishing and scientific boards of important journals in Spain and Latin America. On matters of legislative policy she formed part of the Committee of Experts appointed by the Ministry of Equality of the Government of Spain to advise on legislative reform of voluntary interruption of pregnancy (2008/2009) and in the international field, in 2016 she appeared as expert in the “Commission of Constitution, Codes, General Legislation and Administration” of the Chamber of Representatives of Uruguay on the occasion of the penal reform in progress. Currently she is international expert on a Project of the General People’s Defender of the Nation of Argentina for “support in drawing up, implementing and disseminating defense strategies for women offenders, victims of gender violence or in vulnerable circumstances” (2017-2019), funded by Expertise France for the programme Eurosocial. She has lengthy experience in the organisation and management of international seminars and has occupied academic positions directly related to research, namely vice-dean of research at the Faculty of Law of Malaga (1993/94) or the management of the Centre for Criminology Studies at the University of La Laguna (1998-2003), among others.  She was also Director of the Department of Public Law at the University of Malaga.

 

Some recent publications

 (2017) Maqueda Abreu/ Laurenzo Copello: El Derecho Penal en Casos.  Teoría y Práctica. 5th edition Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia. ISBN 978-84-9143-506-8

(2016) Laurenzo Copello/ Daunis Rodríguez: Colectivos en los márgenes del Derecho, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia. ISBN 978-84-9143-320-0.

(2014) Laurenzo Copello/Durán Muñoz (coordinators): Diversidad cultural, género y derecho, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia. ISBN: 978-84-9053-016-03

(2012) Dogmática y política criminal del aborto, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia. ISBN: 978-84-9033-468-3 4.

(2008) Coordinator and co-author: Laurenzo/Maqueda/Rubio: Género, Violencia y Derecho, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia. ISBN: 978-84-9876-227-3 Also published in Argentina (2009): Editores del Puerto, Buenos Aires. ISBN: 978-987-1397-29-7

(2015) ¿Hacen falta figuras género específicas para proteger mejor a las mujeres? Estudios Penales y Criminológicos; Volume XXXV. Pages 783-830. ISSN 1137-7550.

(2014) Desandando el camino: la contrarreforma del aborto. Revista Electrónica de Ciencias Penales y Criminología; Vol. 16-09. Pages 1-39.

(2012) Apuntes sobre el feminicidio. Revista de Derecho Penal y Criminología; Vol. 8 (3ª época). Pages 119-143. ISSN 1132-9955.

(2013) ¿Vulnerables o vulnerados? Las paradojas de la tutela penal de los inmigrantes, in Garantías y derechos de las víctimas especialmente vulnerables en el marco de la Unión Europea. Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia. Pages 75-88. ISBN: 978-84-9033-599-4

(2011) La violencia de género en la política criminal española: entre el reconocimiento social y la desconfianza hacia las mujeres, in Un Derecho Penal comprometido. Tribute to Prof. Landrove Díaz. Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia. Pages 607-630. ISBN: 978-84-9004-215-1

(2008) “El modelo de protección penal de los inmigrantes: de víctimas a excluidos”. Ref. Book: Cancio Meliá/ Pozuelo Pérez (coords.), Política Criminal en Vanguardia Thomson–Civitas, Madrid. Pages 223-249. ISBN: 978-84-470-3062-0

  • Thursday, 8 November

    SESSION 3. THE CHALLENGE OF DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT

  • 16:30  - 17:30
    Criminal law versus diversity: a programmed ambivalence
    Prof. Dr. PATRICIA LAURENZO COPELLO
    The intense migratory movements of the last few decades, result of profound economic inequalities between regions, armed conflict and climate disasters, have accentuated the multi-cultural nature of opulent societies, giving rise to the presence in the one same geographic space of a multitude of ethnic minorities with forms of life, religion and traditions that are removed from the axiological models of the hegemonic group. It is inevitable that problems of coexistence emerge in such a complex reality, problems that require a response from public bodies, among them Penal Law. An attentive look at the criminal policy model developed in recipient countries to manage conflicts deriving from the cultural diversity expose a programmed ambiguity: on the one had minorities are protected against racist and xenophobic behaviour with the basic argument of respect for diversity; but at the same time they are stigmatised through the express criminalisation of certain traditions or rites labelled as “barbarian” and primitive. This ambivalence between protection/sanction; vulnerability/primitivism, sustains an assistential policy marked by a colonial perspective removed from the recognition of rights.
    Diversity and Inclusion of Mobile EU Citizens and Third-County Nationals in the EU
    Prof. Dr. IRIS GOLDNER LANG
    The paper will discuss the European Union’s approach to dealing with mobile EU citizens and third-country nationals by examining whether, in what instances and under what conditions EU law grants them the right to reside in another EU Member State. It will be shown that there is a visible divide between EU free movement and migration policies, leading to significant differences between the rights of mobile EU citizens and third-country nationals in the EU. In this context, the paper will try to address three questions. First, why is there such a visible separation line between the EU free movement and migration policies in relation to intra-EU mobility of EU citizens and third-country nationals, knowing that the economic benefits of free movement of persons have been recognized in the EU for decades? Second, are there, nevertheless, areas where the two policies do merge? And, third, should a different approach to third-country nationals’ intra-EU mobility rights be more beneficial for their successful integration and/or for the process of EU integration?




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