Dr Pablo Castillo-Ortiz
School of Law
Lecturer
P.Castillo-Ortiz@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 6854
+44 114 222 6854
Bartolomé House
Full contact details
Dr Pablo Castillo-Ortiz
School of Law
Bartolomé House
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND
School of Law
Bartolomé House
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND
- Profile
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I joined the University of Sheffield as a Lecturer in Spanish Law in September 2013. I am originally from Spain, where I was trained as a lawyer and where I gained my PhD in Law and Political Science (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid).
I carry out an interdisciplinary research in English and Spanish in the field of Law and Politics, focusing on European constitutional jurisdictions, Constitutional Politics and Regional Integration.
- Qualifications
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- PhD in Law and Politics Science, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
- MA in Democracy and Government, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
- LLB Law, Universidad de Almería (Spain)
- Research interests
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- European Constitutional Politics
- Spanish Constitutional Politics
- Constitutional Jurisdictions
- Regional IntegrationConfigurational Analysis
Member of the Sheffield Institute of Corporate and Commercial Law and the Sheffield Centre for International and European Law research clusters.
Areas of Research Supervision
- Spanish Public Law and Politics
- European Constitutonal Law and Politics
- Configurational Analysis
- Judicial institutions and judicial decision-making
- Publications
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Books
- Análisis Cualitativo Comparado (QCA). Madrid: Centro De Investigaciones Sociológicas.
- EU Treaties and the Judicial Politics of National Courts: A Law and Politics Approach. Routledge.
Journal articles
- The dilemmas of constitutional courts and the case for a new design of Kelsenian institutions. Law and Philosophy. View this article in WRRO
- Constitutional review in the member states of the EU-28 : a political analysis of institutional choices. Journal of Law and Society. View this article in WRRO
- The politics of implementation of the judicial council model in Europe. European Political Science Review. View this article in WRRO
- Gender, Intersectionality and Religious Manifestation Before the European Court of Human Rights. Journal of Human Rights, 18(1), 76-91. View this article in WRRO
- The Illiberal Abuse of Constitutional Courts in Europe. European Constitutional Law Review, 15(1), 48-72. View this article in WRRO
- Constitutional courts and citizens' perceptions of judicial systems in Europe. Comparative European Politics. View this article in WRRO
- Councils of the Judiciary and Judges’ Perceptions of Respect to Their Independence in Europe. The Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, 9(2), 315-336. View this article in WRRO
- The Political De-determination of Legal Rules and the Contested Meaning of the ‘No Bailout’ Clause. Social and Legal Studies, 26(2), 249-272. View this article in WRRO
- National Higher Courts and European Integration: A Survey of Six Decades of Academic Inquiry. German Law Journal, 18(4), 800-822. View this article in WRRO
- El asociacionismo de las profesiones jurídicas en España: análisis de la lógica asociativa de jueces, fiscales y abogados. Revista Española de Derecho Constitucional. View this article in WRRO
- Paths to the recognition of homo-parental adoptive rights in the EU-27: a QCA analysis. Contemporary Politics, 22(1), 40-56. View this article in WRRO
- Framing the Court: Political Reactions to the Ruling on the Declaration of Sovereignty of the Catalan Parliament. The Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, 7(1), 27-47.
- The Contested 'Constitution' of the EU and the quest for ever-democratic constitutionalism. Panoptica. View this article in WRRO
- “Does Law Matter?”. Judicial Politics, Legal Realism, and the Problem of Indeterminacy of Law as a Methodological Problem [“¿Importa el derecho?”. Política judicial, realismo jurídico y el problema de la indeterminación del derecho en tanto que problema metodológico]. Isegoria, 51, 575-596. View this article in WRRO
- ‘Playing the Judicial Card’: Litigation Strategies during the Process of Ratification of the Lisbon Treaty. European Law Journal, 20(5), 630-648. View this article in WRRO
- La crisis y las transformaciones del derecho público estatal y europeo vistas por la academia española [the crisis and the transformations of Spanish and European public law from the perspective of the Spanish academy]. Revista de Estudios Políticos, 165. View this article in WRRO
- La política judicial del tribunal constitucional en los procesos de ratificación de tratados de la Unión Europea: aproximación desde un nuevo realismo jurídico [The Judicial Politics of the Constitutional Court in the Processes of Ratification of European Union Treaties: approach from a new legal realism]. Revista de Estudios Políticos, 159.
- Taking rights ironically: ¿qué nos enseñan sobre el educado liberalismo los groseros populistas de extrema derecha? [Taking rights ironically: what do the rude extreme-right populists teach us about the educated liberalism?]. Astrolabio. Revista Internacional de Filosofía, 14.
- La inserción jurídica de las autonomías en la Unión Europea : "instucionalización" y "democratización" como rasgos centrales de un proceso inacabado” [The participation of Spanish autonomic communities in the European Union: democratization and institutionalization as core characteristics of an unfinished process]. RDUNED. Revista de Derecho UNED, 4.
Chapters
- National Courts and Ratification of the EU Treaties: Assessing the Impact of Political Contexts in Judicial Decisions In Evas T, Lord C & Liebert E (Ed.), Multilayered Representation in the European Union (pp. 129-155).
Reports
- Regional Organisations and Mechanisms for Democracy Protection in Latin America, the Caribbean and the European Union View this article in WRRO
Other
- Partnering for Democracy: Protecting the Democratic Order in Post-Brexit Europe. View this article in WRRO
- Análisis Cualitativo Comparado (QCA). Madrid: Centro De Investigaciones Sociológicas.
- Grants
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Title/Description: The Protection of Democracy in Integration Organizations in Europe and Latin-America and the Caribbean
- Awarding Body: EU-LAC Foundation
- People involved: Carlos Juan Closa Montero (PI), Pablo José Castillo Ortiz, José Antonio Sanahuja, Diana Tussie, Cintia Quiliconi
- Years funded for: 2014-2015
- Amount: €30,000
- Teaching interests
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I know how important a high-quality teaching is for my students. I try to combine the teaching of core and basic contents of each subject with the explanation of latest developments in the field, so that students are aware of which are the main current social and academic debates.
In the Spanish law modules that I teach I reproduce the main patterns of Spanish academia so that students can get familiar with it, I stimulate debate in Spanish language and encourage participation.
My aim is to get the best from my students, and for that reason I take into account what their starting point is and what their personal and social constraints are.
- Teaching activities
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Undergraduate
- Spanish Legal Language (Convenor)
- Legal and Political Culture and the Spanish-Speaking World (Convenor)
- European Union Law
- Spanish Law and Legal System (Convenor)
- Administrative Law and Justice
Postgraduate
- European Union Constitutional Law (Convenor)
- Professional activities
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- Reviewer for Revista de Estudios Políticos
- Member of the International Association for Public Law (ICON-S)
- Member of the Spanish Political Science Association (AECPA)
- Author of contributions for the newspaper El País and for ‘Contrapoder’ in Eldiario.es