Fátima FLORES MENDOZA
fflores@ull.es
Professional Activity. She is a tenured Professor of Criminal Law (since 2002), member of the Centre for Studies in Criminology (since 1996) and Secretary General of the University of La Laguna (since 2003).
Education. Licensed in Law (1993), Doctor in Law (1999). She has made several research stays to broaden her education in national and international centres: University of Deusto, University of Zaragoza, University of Cologne and University of Munich (Germany).
| | Research Activity. She has focused her activity in three fields of research: legal theory of the offence, legal consequences of the offence and Law and the Biomedical Sciences. In the first field of research are: her doctoral thesis La Objeción de Conciencia en Derecho Penal, Comares, 2001, the article «Los comportamientos de conciencia en la estructura jurídica del delito» in Actualidad Penal (28), 2002, and the work «La fundamentación ética de la obediencia al Derecho» in Anales de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de la Laguna (12), 1992-1993, for which she obtained the first prize in the third edition of the awards Premio de Estudios Jurídicos González Vicén. Likewise, she has dealt with the issue of error in the field of Criminal Law in «Algunas reflexiones sobre el error de los terceros en relación con actos de disposición de la propia vida», in Revista de Derecho Penal y Criminología (11), 2003 and in a monograph on El error sobre las circunstancias modificativas de la responsabilidad penal, Comares, 2004.
In the field of the legal consequences of the offence, she has dealt with the dismissal in the workplace in «La expulsión del extranjero en el Código Penal Español», published in a co-authored book entitled Inmigración y Derecho Penal. Bases para un debate:Patricia Laurenzo Copello (Coord.), Tirant lo Blanch, 2002. She has also published with the same title an updated version in Anales de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de La Laguna (18), 2001, vol. I.
Finally, in the last field of research, she has dealt with the issue of injuries to the foetus in the Criminal Code in «Las lesiones al feto en el Código Penal de 1995» in Actualidad Penal (43), 1996 and in Revista de Derecho y Genoma Humano/Law and the Human Genome Review (5), 1996. She has dealt with the legal statute of animals used for research in «El estatuto jurídico de los animales en la investigación», (in the Press), and has made several bibliographic summaries on monographs related with the legal implications of the research on the Human Genome.
All these works have been the result of several aforementioned research stays in national and international centres, which have been underwritten with several scholarships and research project of diverse institutions. She has participated, among others, in the following research projects: Secreto de Estado. Prueba testifical y proceso penal: respuestas actuales desde el Derecho Penal y el Derecho Procesal, University of La Laguna (1997-1998); El impacto de la inmigración ilegal en el Derecho Penal (con especial consideración de sus consecuencias en la práctica judicial y penitenciaria), Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of the Provincial Government of Canarias (1999-2000); Idoneidad de los instrumentos jurídico-penales para la protección de los intereses socioeconómicos de los consumidores,University of La Laguna (2001-2002); La realidad de la aplicación del nuevo Derecho penal de menores en Canarias, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of the Provincial Government of Canarias (2004-2006) and Derecho Penal y nuevas tecnologías: sobre los intentos de adaptación del Derecho Penal al desarrollo social y tecnológico, Ministry of Education and Science (2005-2008). |
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