Carlos Jiménez piernas

CARLOS JIMÉNEZ PIERNAS

Professor of International Public Law and International Relations at the University of Alcalá

Head of the International Legal Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation

 

 

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

  • Degree with Extraordinary Award in Political Science and Administration from the Complutense University (1974)
  • Graduated with honors in law from the Universidad Complutense (1976)
  • National End-of-Career Award in Political Science and Administration
  • Doctor with Extraordinary Award in Law from the Universidad Complutense (1982)
  • Doctor with Extraordinary Award in Political Science and Administration at the Complutense University (1986)

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Professor of International Public Law and International Relations at the Universities of Alicante (1987-1996)
  • Professor of International Public Law and International Relations at the Universities of Alicante (since 1/10/1996)
  • Study stays in Geneva, The Hague and Oxford
  • He has six recognised five-year periods of teaching (30 years) and six six-year periods of research (36 years)
  • Professor Jean Monnet since 1995 at the University of Alicante
  • Holder of a Jean Monnet Chair of the European Commission at the University of Alcalá since 1998
  • Director of the Centre of Excellence on Regional Integration (CEIR) (since 2009)
  • Academic Director of the European Documentation Centre (EDC) (since 2012), integrated in the Institute of Latin American Studies (IELAT) of the University of Alcalá
  • Deputy Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies (since 02/2015)
  • Professor of courses and seminars of his specialty in: Diplomatic School (Madrid) | Center for Political and Constitutional Studies (Madrid) | Ortega y Gasset University Institute (Madrid) | National Institute of Public Administration (INAP) | General Council of the Judiciary | foreign universities and international organizations (OAS Inter-American Juridical Committee courses)
  • Co-director of the "Master in International Protection of Human Rights" (since 2004) of the University of Alcalá
  • Director of the "Master in Regional Integration" (since 2010) at the University of Alcalá
  • Director of the Department of Public International Law and Criminal Law (1987-1994)
  • Vice-rector of Academic Arrangement and Teaching Staff (1994-1996) at the University of Alicante
  • Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law (1997-1999) of the University of Alcalá
  • Director of the Department of Public Law (2000-2002) of the University of Alcalá
  • Member of the Hispano-Luso-American Institute of International Law (IHLADI) (since 1998)
  • Director of the Spanish Section of the Hispano-Luso-American Institute of International Law (2004-2008)
  • Corresponding member of the Argentine Association of International Law (since 1995)
  • Responsible for the "Regional Integration" Programme of the Centre for Cooperation with Central America of the University of Alcalá (2001-2009)
  • Honorary Professor at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua in León (UNAN-León) (since 2006)
  • Member of the Board of Directors of the Inter-University Centre for Integration Studies (CIPEI) based in UNAM-León (Nicaragua)(since 2006)
  • Director of the Spanish Yearbook of International Law (Ed. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands)(1991-2005) 
    • This Yearbook has been published in English since 1991 under the editorial sponsorship of the Spanish Association of Teachers of International Law and International Relations (AEPDIRI)
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the Spanish Journal of International Law (Ed. Asociación Española de Profesores de Derecho Internacional y Relaciones Internacionales, Madrid)(1987-1997)
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the Spanish Yearbook of International Law (since 2006)
  • Honorary Director of the Spanish Yearbook of International Law (from 2013)
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the electronic journal Ordine internazionale e diritti humani, since issue no. 1 (2014)
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the Revista Electrónica de Estudios Internacionales (REEI), since no. 29 (June 2015)
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal Paix et Sécurité Internationales, since issue no. 4 (2016)
  • Director of the Hispano-Luso-American Yearbook of International Law (AHLADI), published by the Hispano-Luso-American Institute of International Law(09/2008-01/2013)
    Author of more than seventy papers on the following subjects: concept and method of IPR | standard setting | territorial jurisdiction and the Law of the Sea | diplomatic protection | international State responsibility | human rights and integration law
  • Principal researcher in more than twenty national and international contracts and research projects, financed both by public funds (Spanish Ministry of Education, European Union) and private funds (Juan March Foundation)
  • Director of twelve doctoral theses, eleven of which were published
  • Coordinator of a research group composed of a dozen professors established in four Spanish universities (three public and one private) and one Central American university
  • Coordinator since 2006 of the Research Group of the University of Alcalá on "Public International Law, European Union Law and International Economic Law" (Reference CCSS2006/F49). It consists of a professor, two full professors, three contracted professors with a PhD and two PhDs, belonging to four different universities (UAH, UMH, UCH-CEU and UNAN-León de Nicaragua)
  • Coordinator since 2007 of the Teaching Innovation Group of the University of Alcalá on "New teaching strategies and learning support resources in International Law and European Union Law" (Reference GROUP UAH-GI07-20), formed by eight professors, three of them from different Universities of the UAH
  • President of the Organizing Committee of several national and international congresses
  • Member of several national juries convened by the Spanish Ministries of Public Administration and Defence
  • Consulted as an expert by companies, governments and international organizations
  • Counsel and advocate before the International Court of Justice since 1999 and before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea since 2012
  • Honorary advisor to the Central American Court of Justice since February 2006
  • External collaborator of the Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estratégicos (RIE)

 

PUBLICATIONS

  • JIMÉNEZ PIERNAS, C. (2007). Who’s is Who in Public International Law 2007. Ed. Crestwall Ltd. Cambridge. pp. 182-183. 
  • JIMÉNEZ PIERNAS, C. (2007).​ European Commission, Jean Monnet: Success Stories – Europe for Lifelong Learning, Luxembourg 2007 (Office for Official Publications of the European Communities). p. 28.
  • JIMÉNEZ PIERNAS, C. (1982). El proceso de formación del Derecho Internacional de los Archipiélagos, 2 ts. Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad Complutense. Madrid
  • JIMÉNEZ PIERNAS, C. (1988). La conducta arriesgada y la responsabilidad internacional del Estado. Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alicante. Alicante.
  • JIMÉNEZ PIERNAS, C. (1990). La revisión del estatuto territorial del Estado por el nuevo Derecho del Mar. Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alicante. Alicante. 
  • JIMÉNEZ PIERNAS, C. (1995).El método del Derecho Internacional Público: una aproximación sistémica y transdisciplinar. Ed. BOE/Univ. Carlos III de Madrid. Madrid.
  • JIMÉNEZ PIERNAS, C. (dir)(2009). Introducción al Derecho Internacional Público. Práctica española. Ed. Tecnos. Madrid.
  • JIMÉNEZ PIERNAS, C. (dir)(2011). Introducción al Derecho Internacional Público. Práctica de España y de la Unión Europea. Ed. Tecnos. Madrid.
  • JIMÉNEZ PIERNAS, C. (ed.)(1990). La responsabilidad internacional. Aspectos de Derecho Internacional Público y Derecho Internacional Privado, XIII Jornadas de la Asociación Española de Profesores de Derecho Internacional y Relaciones Internacionales. Alicante. 
  • JIMÉNEZ PIERNAS, C. (ed.)(2003). Iniciación a la práctica en Derecho Internacional y Derecho Comunitario Europeo. Editorial Marcial Pons. Madrid.
  • JIMÉNEZ PIERNAS, C. (ed.)(2007). The Legal Practice in International Law and European Community Law. A Spanish Perspective. . Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. Leiden