José María Sauca Cano

Principal Researcher

Overview:

He has held the Spanish Chair in Social Sciences in Mexico on Human Rights (MEC-FLACSO) (2004/05) and has been a visiting scholar at the Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada) (2007/08 & 2012) and at the University of Oxford (UK) (2013/14; 2015 & 2016/17).
Additionally, he has spent research time at the universities of Turin (Italy), Bordeaux (France) and IISJL from Oñati (Basque Country) and has given talks, seminars, postgraduate courses and lectures at numerous institutions in Europe and throughout the length and breadth of Latin
America. He has mainly published about legal and political philosophical issues. Among his recently published works are the monographs (ed.), El legado de Dworkin a la filosofía del Derecho. Tomando en serio el imperio del erizo, Madrid: CEPC, 2015; with A.G. Gagnon (eds.), Negociating Diversity: Identity, Pluralism and Democracy, Brussels: Peter Lange, 2014 and, Identidad y Derecho. Nuevas propuestas para viejos problemas, Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch, 2010.
Among his academic former positions are the Director of Postgraduate Programs at his University (2003-04), Director of the PhD in Fundamental Rights (1997-2003) and has been the secretary of the Institute of Human Rights Bartolomé de las Casas (1991-1997). He is currently head of the Research Group on Law and Justice (GIDYJ) –www.derechoyjusticia.net-; he runs the academic magazine Eunomía. Revista en Cultura de la Legalidad -www.uc3m.es/eunomia- and the Jesús G. Amuchastegui Permanent Seminar. He directs the Spanish Network for Excellence on Culture of Lawfulness and Fight against Corruption and the Inter-University Research Programme on Culture of Lawfulness -www.culturadelalegalidad.net-. He is member of some publishing boards and referee of some academic magazines and publishers, adviser of some institutions for quality assessment and accreditation and, he has also organized several international conferences, a large number of national conferences and directed several research projects.


Research areas:

  1. Culture of legality.

  2. Itentity and Law.

  3. Civil society, citizenship and democracy.

  4. Political Theory and Human Rights.

  5. Legal Philosophy, Theory and Methodology.


Recent publications:

  • «En torno a la existencia de los derechos colectivos según Ricardo Caracciolo: entre asertivo y normativo» en C. Redondo y P. Navarro (coords.) La filosofía desde el Derecho. Homenaje a Ricardo Caracciolo, Fontamara, México, 2016,  pp. 171 -181

  • and Isabel Wences, «Derechos colectivos (en la doctrina de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos)», en Eunomía. Revista en Cultura de la Legalidad, núm. 9, Oct-mar, 2015, pp. 195-204

  • «Liberalismo e identidad cultural en Dworkin», en José María Sauca (ed.), El legado de Dworkin a la filosofía del Derecho. Tomando en serio el imperio del erizo, Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, Madrid, 2015, pp. 250-270 (ISBN: 978-84-259-1662-5).

  • «Introducción», en José María Sauca (ed.), Aviones usados como bombas. Problemas políticos y constitucionales en la lucha contra el terrorismo, Madrid: Los Libros de la Catarata, 2015, pp. 7-16. (ISBN 978-84-8319-982-4).

  • «Cultura de la legalidad: movimiento y proyecto», (en coautoria con Isabel Wences), en Isabel Wences, Rosa Conde y Adrián Bonilla, Cultura de la legalidad en Iberoamérica: Desafíos y experiencias, San José de Costa Rica: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), 2014, pp. 17-46. (ISBN 978-9977-68-274-7).

  • «The Canadian School of Diversity’s New Influences on the Theory of Collective Rights in Spain. A Critical Review of the Seymour Contribution», in Alain-G. Gagnon and José Mª. Sauca (eds.), Negociating Diversity: Identity, Pluralism and Democracy, Brussels: Peter Lang, 2014, pp. 61-86. (ISBN 978-2-87574-171-4).


Recent actvities:

  • Director of the Research Group on Law and Justice (GIDYJ). Carlos III University of Madrid.

  • Director of Eunomía. Journal in Culture of Legality

  • Director of the Permanent Seminary Jesús G. Amuchastegui (SPA).

  • Main Researcher of the spanish Excellence Network: Culture of Lawfulness and Fight against Corruption (Mineco)

  • Corordinator of the Inter-University Program on Culture of Lawfulness (New Trust-cm).

  • Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Law. University of Oxford (2016/17)

  • Visiting Professor Global Rule of Law and Constitutional Democracy. Università degli Studi di Genova. (2012-2016)

  • Co-coordinador with Prof. Timothy A. O. Endicott of the II International Meeting on Law and Justice: What Aspects of Justice should not be the Law’s Concern? held on 30 June, 1 and 2 July, 2016 at Carlos III University of Madrid

  • Coordinator of the Conference on The legacy of Ronald Dworkin to the philosophy of Law, held on 29 and 30 October 2013 at the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies (Madrid).

  • Presentation named De la Justicia Redistributiva a la Justicia como Reconocimiento en el 3er Congreso Internacional de Filosofía del Derecho La Justicia,  organizado por la Escuela Judicial del Poder Judicial del Estado de México. (Toluca, octubre de 2016). [www.youtube.com/watch?v=up10AHhtxJQ]

  • Presentation named «La reforma del Título VIII de la Constitución. La cuestión territorial», en el IV Seminario Derecho y Memoria Histórica "¿Reforma Constitucional o Proceso Constituyente?”. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (19 y 20 de noviembre de 2015)

  • Presentation named Multinational Democracies in Europe. The Case of Spain, en el eSYMPOSIUM, Suum Cuique Tribuere: The International Complexities of Social Justice in the 21st Century, Legal Intersections Research Centre (Lirc), School of Law, University of Wollongow, (November 2014)

  • Lectura Contemporánea de los Clásicos: ¿Por qué leer a Tocqueville hoy? en el Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).Abril de 2013