Associate Professor in the Department of Public Law
Alumni Relations
Academic training
Doctor of the Science of Law. Cornell University
Master en Derecho. ESADE
Master's Degree in Legal Theory. European Academy of Legal Theory
Llicenciatura en Dret. ESADE - Universitat Ramon Llull
Interest Areas
Legal theory
Legal logic and reasoning
Legal sociology and anthropology
North American Law and legal theory
Ethics and professional liability
Legal education
Theory and philosophy of science
Biography
Law degree from ESADE (Barcelona, 1999); Master in Theory of Law from the European Academy of Legal Theory (Brussels, 2000); Doctor of Juridical Science from Cornell University (NY, USA, 2004) with a thesis on North American legal thought supervised by Professor Robert Summers. His academic career has been conducted in the field of philosophy of law, from which he also approaches socio-legal studies and professional ethics (both legal and business-oriented). At ESADE, his main activities are carried out at the Law School and he also collaborates with the Department of Social Sciences at the Business School. He teaches philosophy of law, legal reasoning, professional ethics and social thought on various Law and Business programmes at the degree, masters and doctorate levels. He has been Visiting Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), ICADE (Madrid), the Center for Transnational Legal Studies (London) and, during the 2010-2011 academic year, Bucerius Law School (Hamburg). He has several academic publications in English and Spanish. In English, in addition to his doctoral thesis, he has published two chapters in two books, and two further articles are pending publication in scientific journals. In Spanish, he has co-authored on several book projects and scientific journals, and has also edited and translated into Spanish the dissenting votes of the United States Supreme Court judge, Judge O. W. Holmes. He is the author of a paper on corporate governance and corporate social responsibility in Spain, published by the ESADE Institute for Social Innovation, and has also made several media appearances. He has participated in numerous international conferences, in which he has delivered lectures and papers.
Selected publications
Arjona Sebastià, C. (2011). La propiedad sin control. Un análisis de la breve historia del gobierno corporativo. Revista Electrónica de Pensamiento, Economía y Sociedad (10), 4-27.
Arjona Sebastià, C. & Mària, J. F. (2010). La idea de justicia en Amartya Sen y la educación jurídica en las Facultades Jesuitas. Networking Jesuit Higher Education for a Globalizing World. México DF.
Elósegui, M. & Arjona Sebastià, C. (2010). Law and cultural diversity in Spain. In M-C Foblets, J. F. Gaudreault-DesBiens & A. D. Renteln (eds.) (Ed.). Cultural diversity and the law: state responses from around the world: proceedings of the colloquium 'The response of state law to the expression of cultural diversity' (pp. 345-363). Bruxelles: Bruylant.[ISBN: 978-2-8027-2764-4]
Arjona Sebastià, C. Shaping the future of (Jesuit) legal education. Explore (Fall 2011), 18-21.
Arjona Sebastià, C. (2009). El taxista ful: el okupa de los taxis. In R. García Manrique & M. Ruiz Sanz (eds.) (Ed.). El derecho en el cine español contemporáneo (pp. 351-366). Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch.[ISBN: 978-84-9876-518-2]
Arjona Sebastià, C. (2009). El crimen de Cuenca: anatomía de una tortura. In R. García Manrique & M. Ruiz Sanz (eds.) (Ed.). El derecho en el cine español contemporáneo (pp. 115-134). Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch.[ISBN: 978-84-9876-518-2]
Truffin, B. & Arjona Sebastià, C. (2009). The cultural defence in Spain. In M.-C. Foblets & A. D. Renteln (eds.) (Ed.). Multicultural jurisprudence: Comparative perspectives on the cultural defense (pp. 85-120). Oxford: Hart.[ISBN: 978-1-84113-896-1]
Arjona Sebastià, C.. (2009). La RSE en el gobierno corporativo de las sociedades del Ibex 35: un análisis de transparencia.ESADE. Instituto de Innovación Social.
Arjona Sebastià, C. (2008). La teoría general de la forma de Robert Summers: a propósito de Robert S. Summers, "Form and function in a legal system. A general study". Doxa: Cuadernos de filosofía del derecho, (31), 689-704.
Arjona Sebastià, C. (2006). Los votos discrepantes del juez O. W. Holmes. Madrid: Iustel. [ISBN: 84-96440-61-3].
Arjona Sebastià, C. (2005). Pluralismo vs. Dogmática. Una aproximación epistemológica al fenómeno jurídico. Revista del Conesup (8), 90-111.
Roscoe Pound and Problems of Contemporary Jurisprudence. Doctorando:Arjona Sebastià, C.. CORNELL UNIVERSITY, 12/2003
Arjona Sebastià, C. (2003). Afinidades entre Dworkin y Pound. Un breve estudio sobre influencias y coincidencias . Doxa, (26), 387-417.
Arjona Sebastià, C. (2002). Medios, fines y pluralidad de procesos en el pensamiento de Lon L. Fuller. Doxa, (25), 701-715.
