She is a Lecturer in Procedural Law in the Department of Private, Procedural and Financial Law at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. She holds a PhD in Law from the same university, with international distinction (2014) and an Extraordinary Doctoral Award (2015).
She has participated in various national and international research projects, among the most recent of which are: the European Project "Impact of the Barnahus model on protected rights of children victims of sexual abuse in the criminal justice system", funded by the OAK Foundation and led by Prof. Núria Torres Rosell; the R&D research projects of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation "New Technological Challenges of the Law of Evidence", led by Prof. Joan Picó i Junoy, and "New Gender Challenges of the Law of Evidence", led by Prof. Elisabet Cerrato Guri; as well as the Consolidated Research Group "Retos del Derecho Procesal" (ReDePro) of the Agency for the Management of University and Research Grants of the Government of Catalonia.
She has received several awards and has been a beneficiary of grants and funding obtained through public and competitive calls, among which the following stand out: the research grant awarded by the Catalan Observatory of Justice in Gender-Based Violence "Conflicts of judicial jurisdiction in the protection of children and adolescents in situations of gender-based violence: analysis of Organic Law 1/2025 and the specialised sections on gender-based violence and violence against children and adolescents in Catalonia" (2025); the grant awarded by the Centre for Legal Studies and Specialised Training of the Catalan Department of Justice for the preparation of a study on private civil enforcement (2019); the Social Impact of Research Award granted by the Social Council of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2020), ex post modality, with the proposal "The impact of research on mortgage enforcement as a driver to promote new dynamics within the courts of justice"; the Research Award of the Association of Catalan Judicial and Forensic Experts, 12th Edition, entitled "The control of expert impartiality through challenges (a study of Article 343 of the Spanish Civil Procedure Act)" (2021); and the Social Impact of Research Award granted by the Social Council of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2023), ex ante modality, with the project "Impact of the Barnahus model on protected rights of children victims of sexual abuse in the criminal justice system".
She has taken part in numerous national and international scientific conferences and seminars as a keynote speaker, paper presenter and member of organising committees. Furthermore, she has carried out several research stays at national and international institutions: one at the Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy (2013), four at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom (2012, 2015, 2019 and 2024), and two at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2022 and 2024-2025).
She is the author of numerous publications on the law of evidence in both criminal and civil proceedings, as well as on civil enforcement, among which her monograph "Telephone Interceptions in Criminal Proceedings" (J.M. Bosch Publishing, 2014) is particularly noteworthy. Her most relevant publications in 2025 include:
- Casanova Martí, "Video-recorded interview y prerecorded cross-examination como medidas especiales de protección de los testigos vulnerables víctimas de delitos sexuales en Inglaterra y Gales. Análisis del sistema anglosajón y propuestas de mejora para España", InDret 3.2025, pp. 526-562.
- Casanova Martí, Aplicabilidad práctica de la prueba preconstituida: especial atención en el modelo Barnahus, a Propuestas para la protección jurídica y social de la infancia y de las víctimas de violencia de género (coord. Cerrato, Torres y Zafra), Tirant lo Blanch, 2025, pp. 223 a 260.
- Torres Rosell, Cruz Jiménez, Hernández-Hidalgo, Casanova Martí, «Indicadores de victimización secundaria en procesos penales por violencia sexual infantil en el contexto Barnahus», InDret 3.2025, pp. 367-395.
- Casanova Martí, Hacia una justicia especializada: las nuevas Secciones de Violencia contra la Infancia y la Adolescencia en los Tribunales de Instancia, a Reflexiones acerca de la Ley de eficiencia (LO 1/2025) (dir. Alonso Salgado; Valiño Ces; Rodríguez Álvarez), COLEX, 2025, pp. 25 a 35.
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