María Concepción Torres Díaz holds a PhD in Law and is a lecturer in the Constitutional Law area of the University of Alicante’s (UA) State Legal Studies Department-Faculty of Law, as well as a feminist lawyer and jurist. Expert in constitutional law, equality, rights against discrimination and gender perspective as a legal methodology.

For more than 20 years, she has pursued an academic and professional career as (a) a university lecturer and researcher with extensive teaching experience, mainly at the University of Alicante and the Spanish Distance Education University (UNED). She has authored many articles published in science journals, book chapters, monographs, etc., besides delivering more than 230 lectures at national and international conferences on constitutional justice, rights and freedoms, equality and non-discrimination, gender based violence and other topics (2008-present day). She is also (b) an independent professional, working as a lawyer and legal consultant, with a focus on gender mainstreaming (2003-present day), and (c) a scientific and legal analyst for such media outlets as Agenda Pública, elpaís.es, eldiario.es, elperiodico.com, IberICONnet, Tribuna Feminista, etc. (2014-present day).

Further information: PhD adjunct lecturer on the courses and Master’s Degree in Mistreatment and Gender-Based Violence (UNED, since 2008), also teaching other postgraduate courses. Researcher at the UA Institute for Gender Studies Research (UA). Member of the Association of Constitutionalists of Spain (ACE), the Ibero-American Institute of Constitutional Law and the Research Group in Constitutional Studies of the State and the European Union (GECO_UE). Ex officio member of the State Legal Studies Department Council. Lawyer registered with the Bar Association of Murcia (since 2002), where she belongs to the following sections: Family Law, Civil Law, Criminal Law, Health Law and Bioethics and ICT Law. She has received a favourable report from the Department of Universities (Spanish Ministry of Universities) recognising her teaching and research activity, based on a report by the Second Social and Legal Sciences Committee (Spanish Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation, ANECA), qualifying her as a PhD contract lecturer, PhD assistant lecturer and private university lecturer. Member of the Feminist Network of Constitutional Law (RFDC, 2011-2021). Associate member of the Multidisciplinary Network for Gender Studies in Human, Social and Legal Sciences (GENET). Member of the Law-ICT Network, a network of specialists in ICT law, and of the Spanish Professional Privacy Association (APEP). Owner and administrator of the website JURISTCONCEP.COM. She appeared in the Congress of Deputies before the Studies on Social Networks Subcommittee, within the Home Affairs Committee (10th term), and in the Valencia Region Parliament before the Committee on the Coordination, Organisation and Legal Regime of the Valencia Region Government Institutions (July 2018). She has participated in international conferences at the Judicial Function School of the Judicial Council of Ecuador (August 2014), the Transition Commission of the National Council for Gender Equality of Ecuador (September 2011) or the Gender Unit of the Mexican Senate (2016).