José María de Torres - CV english

Professor attached to the Department of Civil Law

NAME: JOSÉ MANUEL DE TORRES PEREA

Titular proffesor of Civil Law

FULL TIME

Email: jmdetorres@uma.es

Phone: 952132211

 

COURSE 2017/18:

-Associate Professor at the School of Law of the University of Malaga (UMA), Spain. Department of Civil Law, Ecclesiastical Law and Roman Law.

-Professor at the University of Málaga, Spain. (UMA).

-Professor at the Universidad Internacional de Andalucía (UNIA), Spain.

-Director of the current Diploma of Advance Studies on Family Law. (Curso de experto en Derecho de familia) at the Universidad Internacional de Andalucia, Spain. (UNIA)

ORGANIZATION OF CONGRESSES:

• Director of the Spanish and Philippine Private Law Scientific Congress, that took place at Málaga University, Spain, 16-17 April 2015.
• Director of the Second International Latin-American and Philippine Civil Law online Congress: Concordances and Particularities. 17-28 November 2014, Eumednet. University of Málaga.
• Director of the First International Latin-American and Philippine Civil Law online Congress: Concordances and Particularities. 1-20 December 2015, Eumednet. University of Málaga.

VISITING SCHOLAR / LECTURER IN OVERSEAS INSTITUTIONS

• "Modernization of Civil Law". Visiting Scholar Contact Researcher: Dr. Rubén Balane. School of Law Ateneo de Manila University, Makati, Filipinas. 1 month in 2016.
• "Discrimination in the private sphere". Visiting Scholar Contact Researcher: Dr. Dorothy Roberts. School of Law at Pennsylvania University, Philadelphia, US. 4 months in 2015.
• "Land Law". Visiting Scholar Contact Researcher: Dr. Nicolas Kang-Riou. School of Business and Law at Salford University, Manchester, UK. 2 months in 2013.
• "Promissory estoppel". Visiting Scholar Contact Researcher: Dr. Ian Johnson. Law School at John Moores University, Liverpool, UK. 2 months in 2012.
• "Children’s best interest". Visiting Scholar Contact Researcher: Dr. Dorothy Roberts. School of Law at Northwestern University, Chicago, US. 4 months in 2012.
• “La reforma del derecho de alimentos en Alemania”. Visiting Scholar Contact Researcher: Dr. Dr.H.c. Peter Gottwald. Department of Civil Law at Regensburg University, Regensburg, Germany. 1 month in 2008.
• “Tratamiento del interés del menor en el Derecho alemán”. Visiting Scholar Contact Researcher: Dr. Dr.H.c. Hans Leo Weyers. Department of Civil Law at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 2 months in 2004.
• “Tratamiento del interés del menor en el Derecho alemán”. Visiting Scholar Contact Researcher: Dr. Dr.H.c. Hans Leo. Department of Civil Law at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 3 months in 2003.
• “Alcance de la personalidad jurídica de la sociedad civil externa”. Visiting Scholar Contact Researcher: Dr. Dr.H.c. Hans Leo. Department of Civil Law at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 2 months in 2002.

LANGUAGES:

• German. Goethe Zertifikat B2 (2008).

• English. Cambridge English Advanced Certificate C1 (2013).

LINES OF RESEARCH:

• Family Law, Best interest of the child, Guarantee, Legal Person, Contracts, Abusive clauses, Consume Law, Torts.