Javier Martínez-Torrón, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American academic
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Place of Birth: Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain
About Javier Martínez-Torrón
- Javier Martínez-Torrón (Córdoba, Spain, 1955) has been Professor of Law (Catedrático) at Complutense University, Madrid (Spain) since 2000.
- He obtained his first chair at the University of Granada in 1993.
- Doctor utroque iure (of Law and of Canon Law).
- Founder and Director of the Seminar of Comparative Law of the University of Granada (1997–2000).
- Director of the Seminar of Professors of Church-State Relations of Complutense University (2000-).
- Visiting professor and researcher in numerous Universities of Spain, Europe, North-America, and Latin-America (among them Cambridge, Chicago, Columbia, Berkeley, Harvard, Ottawa, Freiburg (Germany) and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México - UNAM).
- He is also, since 2001, part-time Professor of the Saint Louis University Law School (Comparative Law, Summer Law Courses). Professor Martínez-Torrón is Vice-President of the Section of Canon Law and Church-State Relations of the Spanish Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation (1994).
- Member of the OSCE/ODIHR Advisory Council on Freedom of Religion of Belief (2005).
- Member of the Advisory Commission on Religious Freedom of the Spanish Ministry of Justice (2002).
- Member of the Bioethics Committee of the Autonomous Region of Madrid, Spain (2004).
- Co-founder of the Spanish Association of Comparative Law (1996), and member of its board of directors.
- Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law (2002).
- Member of the International Academy for Freedom of Religion and Belief (1997).
- Member of the International Advisory Council of The Oslo Coalition on Freedom of Religion and Belief (1999).
- Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University (2006).
- Member of the Steering Committee of the Project “EuReSIS Net” (European Studies on Religion and State Interaction), funded by the Erasmus Program of the European Union (2006–2009).
- He has consulted for the governments of Spain, Mexico and France, on issues related to freedom of religion and belief. Javier Martínez-Torrón was a founding member of the Directive Board of the first Spanish legal periodical specifically focused on the law of the State on religious issues (Anuario de Derecho Eclesiástico del Estado, 1995).
- He is founder and Deputy Director of the Revista General de Derecho Canónico y Derecho Eclesiástico del Estado (2003), the first electronic legal periodical in Spain specialized on Church-State relations and canon law (included in the Latindex catalogue).
- He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Ecclesiastical Law Journal, published by Cambridge University Press (2006).
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