Research projects

• Funding body: Ayudas a Proyectos de Investigación Aristos Campus Mundus 2021
• Reference: ACM2021_03
• Period: Mayo 2021 – Abril 2022
• Principal Investigator: Teresa Duplá
• Equipo investigador: Silvia Rómboli

It is a basic and multidisciplinary research project framed in the FA1 area of specialization, with which we intend to carry out an original study on the main legal challenges, derived from effects and conflicts, of the current family in the framework of an inclusive society. For this, a research team has been created between four research groups from the Spanish ACM universities, and it is planned to contact and work throughout the project on the possibility of incorporating researchers from one of the partner universities in the USA.

The main objective of the project based on the aforementioned axes is the joint publication of articles in scientific journals of impact, as well as the preparation of a monographic work on the subject; secondarily if the opportunity arises, the preparation and presentation of a proposal related to the main theme to national or international competitive calls.

• Funding body: Ayudas a Proyectos de Investigación Aristos Campus Mundus 2020
• Reference: ACM2020_15
• Period: Agosto 2020 – Octubre 2021
• Principal Investigator: Teresa Duplá
• Research Team: Silvia Rómboli and David Velázquez

The main focus of this research project is the family, presented in the context of a current inclusive society. Our goal is to identify and develop a better understanding of current problems and future challenges for legal and social cohesion brought about by modern familial and societal advances.

The research starts from a selection of challenges faced by the current family from different areas of law: a) challenges in the private legal field (new parent-child relationships derived from gestation by surrogacy; reformulation of kinship; regional (in)-equalities of new family models); b) challenges in the public legal sphere (aggravating, mitigating and kinship; the right of correction of children; acquittal excuse and defences in paternal responsibility; fundamental rights and family).

Our interest is driven by the need to update the legal system in make it more adaptable to the new familial situations and their consequences. Research will be multidisciplinary and carried out in partnership with Deusto and Comenius universities.

• Funding body: Ayudas a Proyectos de Investigación Aristos Campus Mundus 2018
• Reference: ACM2018_12
• Period: Mayo 2018 – Agosto 2019
• Principal Investigator: Teresa Duplá
• Research Team: David Velázquez

The focus of the research presented here is the figure of bullying, understood generically as harassing, abusive, or intimidating behavior, regardless of the place or circumstances in which it occurs. The necessary starting point for the study requires experts in the field of social psychology to specify and describe in detail the types of behavior covered by the figure under study, and for this we have the participation of expert researchers from the Mental Health Institute.

From the description of the characteristics of bullying, the research continues with an in-depth analysis of the current legal treatment of this figure/behavior in various areas of law. The starting point is the current normative dispersion, the lack of an overall analysis of the matter, and the need for consistency within the legal system. The aim is to confirm the following starting hypothesis: we are faced with a figure/behavior that is already contemplated and regulated in our legal system, although the term bullying is not directly used. In view of this, the main objective is to identify and develop, from different areas of law, the legal regulation of bullying, for which we have experts from three ACM universities, as well as experts from other collaborating universities. Given the growing interest in bullying, we thought it would be worthwhile publishing the research results with three days of presentation in the three participating universities and issue a monograph on the topic.

• Ref.: ACM2022_12
• Principal Investigator: Teresa Duplá
• Research group: Conflict Management
• Funding body: Aristos Campus Mundus (ACM)
• Funding: 1.800,00 €
• Duration: 12 months

This project has a multidisciplinary nature: basic and applied research; and is part of the specialization area FA1 of the call. We intend to develop an original and current study of the legal and social challenges emanating from the new disability model accepted by Law 8/2021, on June 2 in Spain. Therefore, a team has been set up made up of six research groups from the three Spanish ACM universities, without prejudice to the inclusion of researchers from US universities. The project's main objective is to prepare a monographic collective work on the core topic of the research, and the joint publication of articles in impact scientific journals. Open scientific meetings are planned to reflect on the matter. Secondarily, an attempt will be made to prepare proposals for competitive calls, linked to the research topic.