Professor of Civil Law
OTHER DISTINCTIONS
- (1977 a 1980) Secretary General of the Autónoma University of Madrid
- (1979 to 1984) Director of the Civil Law Department of the Faculty of Law at the Autónoma University of Madrid, as from 26 February
- (1980) Vice-Rector of the Autónoma University of Madrid
- (1981) Acting Rector of the Autónoma University of Madrid from 18 February to 30 June
- (1981) Director of the Law Department in the MBA specialisation programme sponsored by the Ibero-American Cooperation Institute (ICI) and the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the Autónoma University of Madrid
- Since 1981, member of the advisory board of the publisher Tecnos for its Biblioteca de Textos Legales and Ciencias Jurídicas legal series
- Since 1982, editor of the civil case-law journal Cuadernos Cívitas de Jurisprudencia Civil
- Since 1985, member of the advisory board of the civil doctrine journal Actualidad Civil
- Since 1985, member of the editorial board of the judiciary journal Poder Judicial
- (1989) Member of the organising committee appointed by the Ministry of Justice for commentaries on the Civil Code on the occasion of its centenary
- (1990) Director of a seminar on arbitration held at the Menéndez Pelayo International University on 25-28 October
- Since 1990, member of the Expert Committee on Intellectual Property set up by the EC Commission
- (1990) Director of a course on medicine and law at the Autónoma University of Madrid on 12-14 September, with a lecture on involuntary medical treatments
- (1991) Director of a seminar on intellectual property rights and audiovisual works at the Menéndez Pelayo International University (8-12 July), with a lecture on general issues with audiovisual works
- (1992) Director of a seminar on copyright and software (20-24 July), with two lectures on general aspects of legal protection for software and on the Protocol to the Berne Convention and software
- (1992) Lead researcher in a research project funded by the Inter-Ministerial Committee for Science and Technology to study the adaptation of Spanish law to EC law on copyright and related matters
- Since 1992, editor of the civil law journal Aranzadi Civil (currently Revista Doctrinal Aranzadi Civil-Mercantil)
- Since 1993, member of the advisory board of the insurance journal Iniuria
- Since 1993, editor of the legal journal Derecho Privado y Constitución
- Since 1993, member of the advisory board of the European Review of Private Law
- (1995) Lead researcher in a research project funded by the Inter-Ministerial Committee for Science and Technology to study the recast text of the Intellectual Property Act, EC directives and their application in Spain
- Since 1997, corresponding member of the Consumer Law Institute at the Argentine Notarial University
- (1997) Appointed by the governing council of the University of León as honorary professor of that university (decision of 10 November)
- (1998) Lead researcher in a research project funded by the Inter-Ministerial Committee for Science and Technology to study legal protection for databases
- Since 1999, editor of the Spanish Intellectual Property Review (PE.I)
- (2000) Direction of a course on intellectual property at the Madrid Bar Association (5-9 June), and keynote lecture on “The concept of work” (5 June)
- (2002) Lead researcher in a research project funded by the Inter-Ministerial Committee for Science and Technology to study intellectual property rights on the internet
- Since 2004, member of the editorial board of the legal journal Revista Jurídica del Deporte y del Entretenimiento
- Since 2005, director of the master’s course in intellectual property (currently master’s in intellectual and industrial property and new technologies) at the Autónoma University of Madrid (since 2003/2014, honorary director)
- (2005) Lead researcher in a research project funded by the Inter-Ministerial Committee for Science and Technology to study the transposition to Spanish law of Directive 2004/48/EC on the enforcement of intellectual property rights
- January 2006, invested as Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Castilla-La Mancha
- Organisation, as member of the Civil Law Group of Six (G6DC) congress in October 2009 in Toledo, and participation therein
- (2014) Invested as Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of León
- (2014) Elected Chair of the Association of Civil Law Lecturers