Argelia Queralt Jiménez holds a PhD in Law and is an Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Barcelona. She actively participates in different research projects and is a member of the Grup d'Estudis Constitucionals i Europeus. Her main lines of research are the multilevel protection of fundamental rights and freedoms in Europe and Latin America; in particular, she has been working on the European Court of Humans Rights and the impacts of its judgement on the national legal orders. Her research also includes the rights of political participation and gender studies. More recently she has initiated two lines of research: current risks to the democratic rule of law (legal populism and illiberalism), taking the pro-independence movement in Catalonia as a case study, and the legal situation of unaccompanied foreign minors. The principal features of her research are European perspective, comparative methodology and interdisciplinary approach to the topics of study.
She is the author of more than 40 publications and two monographs: 'The Court of Strasbourg: an international jurisdiction for the protection of fundamental rights' (2003) and 'The interpretation of rights: Strasbourg Court of the Constitutional Court' (2008) (Nicolas Pérez Prize 2006, CEPC).
Recently, she has been at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, in Heidelberg, for 6 months as a invited professor. She is a member of the ICCAL network (ius constitutionale commune en América Latina). Furthermore, she is a member of the European Group of Public Law and takes part in different networks and research groups dealing with European issues.
She is also part of the Spanish reference group of I.Connnect of I-CON society to whom we send every year an summary of the Spanish constitutional jurisprudence in 4 areas: institutions, sources of law, rights and freedoms and territorial organization.
In recent times, she has been devoted to the study and analysis of the legal-political conflict in Catalonia, analysing its bases and revealing its weaknesses and elements of confrontation with the democratic rule of law, taking as a reference the Constitution, the structural values of the EU and the system of the Council of Europe.
In the field of the transfer and dissemination of social sciences, Argelia Queralt is the editorial director of Agenda Publica. She also collaborates with El País, Rtve and la Ser as a legal-political analyst.
To date, her professional merits have been recognised with 3 five-year periods of teaching and two six-year periods of research, as well as with accreditation as a contracted doctor and university lecturer, both in 2011.
