• Services offered
• Results
• Available relevant infrastructure

Services offered

Consolidar un grupo investigador especializado en una materia de trascendencia social indudable. Realizar trabajos de investigación que puedan servir de orientación en la resolución de problemas reales. Establecer líneas de contacto con operadores sociales (asociaciones, entidades públicas...) encargadas de la protección y tratamiento de situaciones de discapacidad o dependencia. Fomentar la realización de actividades y eventos relacionados con la materia.

Results

This is a competitive research group, recognised by the University of Alicante in 2007. At present, seven UA researchers and two assistant researchers are affiliated with the group. Its members include four university professors, three senior lecturers and a teacher accredited as a senior lecturer.

The group has taken part in 59 R&D projects and contracts and joined 11 R&D committees since its creation. Remarkable research projects include “Nuevos desafíos del Derecho biomédico en la protección jurídico-civil de las personas mayores” [“New challenges of biomedical law for the legal-civil protection of the elderly”] (PID2022-139899OB-I00); “El derecho a la salud, personas mayores y autonomía personal” [“The right to health, the elderly and personal autonomy”]; “Las nuevas bases del consentimiento informado” [“The new principles of informed consent”] (ICAR Foundation); “Armonización del Derecho de familia derivado de las Técnicas de Reproducción Humana Asistida” [“Harmonisation of family law derived from human assisted reproductive technology”] (DER2017-85756-P); a project under the Prometeo Programme for research groups of excellence (CIPROM/2022/40); the receipt of funding under the María Zambrano Programme for attracting international talent; and the participation in the University of Alicante Research Chair in Notarial Law and the ENIA-UA Research Chair in Ethical and Responsible Artificial Intelligence.

The group members have carried out 248 research dissemination activities, such as participating in or organising conferences and giving lectures.

Over the last few years, the group has published 48 works in scientific journals (including electronic journals), 109 book chapters and more than seven monographs.

Recent publications:

- ALGARRA PRATS, E., “The duty of respect as a general principle in family relationships. Analysis of Spanish law”, Aplicación práctica de los principios del Derecho, C. E. Aedo and A. Varela (coords.), Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2024, pp. 243-278.

- BARCELÓ DOMÉNECH, J., “Informed consent of vulnerable people”, El Derecho civil ante los retos actuales de la vulnerabilidad personal, M. V. Mayor del Hoyo and S. Salas Murillo (dirs.), Aranzadi, Cizur Menor (Navarra), 2024, pp. 339-357.

- BERENGUER ALBALADEJO, C., Prevention and reparation of damage caused by algorithmic discrimination, Dykinson, Madrid, 2025.

- DE LAS HERAS GARCÍA, M. A., The Socini clause and forced heirship, Thomson Reuters Aranzadi, Cizur Menor (Navarra), 2022.

- FEMENÍA LÓPEZ, P. J., “Civil liability derived from the acquisition and use of wearables and digital services related to health”, Inteligencia artificial y derecho de daños: Cuestiones actuales: Acorde al Reglamento (UE) 2024/1689, J.A. Moreno Martínez and P .J. Femenía López (coords.), Dykinson, Madrid, 2024, pp. 261-318.

- MÚRTULA LAFUENTE, V., Older women victims of gender-based violence and civil protection of their fundamental rights, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2024.

Detailed information on the research group available at https://cvnet.cpd.ua.es/curriculum-breve/Grp/en/research-group-on-disability-and-family-(gidf)/526.

Available relevant infrastructure

- Biblioteca de Departamento con amplia bibliografía especializada en la materia, así como las principales fuentes jurisprudenciales. - Salas de lectura en las que pueden realizarse consultas directas tanto documentales como telemáticas. - Bases de datos especializadas.