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.

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