Juan Garcia Blesa

Professional Experience

Current posts

Senior Research Associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), FernUniversität in Hagen, Law School – Germany – From May 2014 (Coordination of doctorate school and international cooperation program – management, teaching and research duties)

Adjunct Lecturer of Human Rights, Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences – Düsseldorf, Germany – From October 2014

Previous posts

• –Project "Social integration of immigrant workers in the olive oil sector in the province of Jaén, Spain", University of Jaen, Spain –January 2014-October 2015 (researcher and project manager)

Adjunct Lecturer of Human Rights and Business, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg – Germany –October 2013-September 2015 (research-based teaching)

• – Research Project Strategy of Security and Cooperation in the Region of the Mediterranean Sea (Ref. 194/02), Dept. of International Studies, School of Law, University of Jaén, Spain – Project leader: Prof. Dr. Víctor L. Gutiérrez Castillo, January 2012-December 2013

Adjunct Lecturer of Intercultural Studies, University of Hamburg, Germany – October 2012-July 2013

Lecturer of Human Rights, Saint Louis University (MO, USA), Division of Business and Social Sciences – Madrid Campus –September 2012-December 2012

OSCE International Election Observer, Kyrgyzstan, October–November 2011

Assistant Professor of Comparative and International Law, American University in Bosnia and Herzegovina, College of International Law and Diplomacy – October 2010-September 2011

Visiting Researcher, University of Surrey, United Kingdom – May 2010-August 2010

Adjunct Lecturer of Int’l & EU Law, Master’s Program in Euro-Mediterranean Relations, International University of Andalusia, Spain & Morocco – September 2009-June 2011

Adjunct Lecturer of Int’l Law, Master’s Program in Peace, Conflicts and Human Rights, University of Malaga, Spain – November 2009-June 2010

Adjunct Lecturer of EU Law, EU Immigration Law and Human Rights, University of Jaen, Spain, March 2010

• , Research Project “Africa in the Western Society: International Cooperation as a Tool for Development?” University of Jaen, March 2009- March 2010

Researche Associate, Research Group “International Law and Politics”, University of Seville, Spain – September 2004-October 2009 (various research, teaching, and management tasks)

Lecturer of Public Law, Master’s Program in Spanish Autonomic and Local Government, University of Córdoba, Spain – 2008-2009

Postgraduate Fellow, Spanish Diplomatic School, Madrid – September 2007-August 2008 (various research, teaching, and management tasks)

Research Fellow, Centro de Estudios Andaluces (Public Law Dept.), Seville, Spain – January 2005-September 2006

Selected Publications

J. Garcia Blesa and V.L. Gutierrez “The Rights of the Victims of Past Atrocities in Spain: Reparation without Truth and Justice?” 29 Connecticut Journal of Int'l Law, 2014 (EBSCO Legal Source)

J. Garcia Blesa & Víctor L. Gutiérrez Castillo, “The Euro-American human rights dialogue and the crimes of the Francoist Regime”, in Inter-American and European Human Rights Journal, vol. 6, no. 1-2, 2013

V.L. Gutiérrez Castillo & J. García Blesa, “International Legal Regimes Governing Marine Renewable Energies in the European Union: the Southern Spanish Maritime Spaces”, Spanish Yearbook of International Law, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Vol. XVII, 2012

J. García Blesa, “Transitional Exceptions to the Rule of Law in International Administrations: The Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Right to Due Process”, International Peacekeeping, 18(04), 2011 (JCR Thomson Reuters 2011-2014 – 3^rd Tier//Scimago)

J. Garcia Blesa, “Soberanía contemporánea y principio de subsidiariedad: el desempeño internacional de funciones soberanas en Derecho Internacional”, 10 Revista de Estudios Jurídicos, 2010

J. García Blesa, “On the Approach to the Interpretation of the UN Security Council Resolutions Relevant to the UK’s Military Intervention against Iraq”, 6 Surrey Law Working Papers 2010

M. Agudo, J. García Blesa and J.L. Lara, “La participación autonómica ante los órganos de la UE: plasmación en la reforma estatutaria andaluza”, 1(2) Administración & Ciudadanía: Revista da Escola Galega de Administración Pública, 2007

M. Agudo, J. García Blesa and J.L. Lara, “La elaboración del nuevo Estatuto de Autonomía” in M. Agudo (Coord.) El Estatuto de Autonomía de Andalucía de 2007, Centro de Estudios Andaluces, 2007

J. García Blesa, “Los derechos de los inmigrantes permanentes en la UE: un test sobre la acción de integración comunitaria”, La Investigación de la Inmigración en Andalucía, Consejería de Gobernación – Junta de Andalucía, 2006

J. García Blesa, “EU Law Dynamics and Equal Treatment towards Immigrants”, 14(5) Africa e Mediterraneo Review, 2006

M. Agudo, J. García Blesa and J.L. Lara, “La reforma del Estatuto de Autonomía de Andalucía”, 3 Revista Actualidad, Centro de Estudios Andaluces, 2005

J. García Blesa, “El acceso efectivo a un tribunal: la asistencia jurídica gratuita en los procesos civiles y otros medios de garantía en el marco del Convenio Europeo de Derechos Humanos” 4 Anuario de Derecho Europeo, 2004

Education

PhD in International Law, University of Seville, Spain, October 2009 (Summa cum laude)

Master in Diplomacy and International Relations, Spanish Diplomatic School, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Madrid, July 2007

Master of Advanced Studies in International Law and International Relations, University of Seville, June 2005

Law Degree, University of Seville, Spain, July 2001 (Erasmus Scholarship at the Université de Pau, Faculté de Droit, 2001-2002)

Further Education

Project Management (incl. MS-Project), Institut für Berufliche Bildung, Hamburg, 2013

International Election Observer, Human Rights Office, Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nov. 2009

International Crisis Management, Instituto Universitario General Gutiérrez Mellado, Madrid, March-April 2008

Advanced Course in EU Law, Jean Monet Chair of EU Law, University of Seville, May 2004

Diploma of Helsinki Summer Seminar on International Law, Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, Helsinki, August 2003

International Humanitarian Law Certificate, Spanish Red Cross, Soria, 2003

Membership of Professional and Learned Societies

Member of the Antonio Cassese Initiative for Justice, Peace and Humanity

Member of the Madrid Bar Association (associate no. 96815)

Expert reviewer for Methaodos – Revista de ciencias sociales (from January 2015)