Department: Department of Common Law

Faculty: Faculty of Law

Area: Private International Law

Research group: De conflictu legum

Email: javier.maseda@usc.es

Doctor by the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela with the thesis El Control de la constitucionalidad de la ley extranjera 1995. Supervised by Dr. Santiago Álvarez González.

Law Degree (USC) in 1991, he begins his university career linked to the Area of Private International Law as a F.P.I Research Fellow (1992-1995). PhD in Law in 1996, he works as Associate Professor (1995-1997) and, later, as Assistant Professor (1997-2002), being since 2003 Tenured Professor of Private International Law. Member of the Research Group De conflictu legum, he is part as leading researcher or participant in different funded Research Projects on the subject, as well as, with other researchers, of the Program for the consolidation and structuring of competitive research units in a competitive competition regime (2006-2007; 2011-2013; 2014-2016; 2017-2020; 2021-2024). He carries out research works in different foreign research institutions, such as the Max Planck Institut für auslandïsches und internationalen Privatrecht (Hamburg-Germany), and für Geistiges Eigentum, Wettbewerbs- und Steuerrecht (Munich-Germany), the Institut Suisse de Droit Comparé (Lausanne -Switzerland), the Institut für Ausländisches und Internationales Privat- und Wirtschaftsrecht (Heidelberg-Germany), or The Hague Academy of International Law (The Hague-Netherlands), as well as lecturing assignments in different Masters, Specialization Courses and Doctorate Programs, or as Visiting Professor in foreign centers such as the Chair of Private International Law of the Public University of Costa Rica (San José-Costa Rica). He obtained a Labour Degree (Diploma in Employee Relations Specialist) in 1995 in the Escuela Universitaria de Graduados Sociales of the USC. Likewise, he is Professor-Tutor of Private International Law and Philosophy of Law (1996-2019) at the Associated Center of the Open University of Spain (U.N.E.D.-A Coruña). Author of several monographs and around a hundred publications including articles, participation in book chapters or critical comments on case law, several of his works deserve special mention, not only for their scientific interest, but also for being one of the first publications in the discipline of Private International Law written in Galician language. He is co-author of different works related to lecturing training and innovation, being a member at different periods of the USC Grupo de Formación e Innovación Docente (USC Lecturing and Innovation Group), of the Grupo de Trabajo de Calidad de la Docencia (Lecturing Quality Working Group) or the Comisión de Normalización Lingüística (Language Normalization Commission). Assistant in different national and international Conferences and Congresses, and participant as secretary, presenter or member of the organization board in several of them, he develops tasks of direction of different doctoral theses, as well as different research works, having also been a member of the Doctoral Commission of the USC Law School. He was recognized with four periods of individual evaluation of research activity (4 sexenios): 1995/2000, 2002/2007, 2008/2013, 2014-2020.