Prof Landa is currently Full Professor in Criminal Law at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU (Euskadi, Spain). He is director of the UNESCO Chair for Human Rights and Public Authorities of the UPV/EHU (http://www.katedraddhh.eus).
His principal lines of research deal with racism, xenophobia and discrimination, hate crimes, crimes against humanity, terrorism and penology.