Elisabet Cerrato Guri
Associate Professor of Procedural Law in the Department of Private, Procedural and Financial Law at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili; PhD in Law from the same university (2008) and recipient of the Extraordinary Doctorate Award (2009).
She has been awarded three six-year research periods (sexenios) and four five-year teaching periods (quinquenios), as well as recognition for teaching excellence in 2025.
She has participated in 18 research projects obtained through public and competitive calls, acting as principal investigator in three of them (the most recent, "New Gender Challenges of Evidence Law," PID2020-115304GB-C22, funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities), resulting in more than 50 publications.
She is the author of three monographs (Judicial Protection of Victims of Gender-Based Violence: Some Problematic Issues, 2024; Summary Protection of Possession, 2011; and Private Civil Enforcement: Realization by an Individual or Specialized Entity, 2008), editor of Evidence of Gender-Based Violence and Its Judicial Problems (2022), and co-editor of Proposals for the Legal and Social Protection of Children and Women Victims of Gender-Based Violence (2025).
She has contributed to the drafting of the Procedural Guide to Good Practices in the Actions of the Public Prosecutor's Office in Cases of Crimes Against Sexual Freedom with Child and Adolescent Victims, adopted by the Office of the Public Prosecutor of Catalonia for implementation (2025), https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14226/2746, as well as to the report commissioned by the European Parliament, European Protection Order Directive 2011/99/EU. European Implementation Assessment, European Parliamentary Research Service (2017).
She has participated as a speaker in more than 70 national and international conferences and academic events.
She has received several distinctions, among which the following stand out: the Feixò Carreras Award from the Barcelona Bar Association (2007); a grant from the Centre for Legal Studies and Specialized Training (CEJFE) of the Department of Justice of the Government of Catalonia to carry out the study Conflictes de competència judicial en la protecció de la infància i adolescència davant les violències masclistes: anàlisi de la LO 1/2025 i les seccions especialitzades en violència de gènere i violència contra la infància i adolescència a Catalunya (2025); a CEJFE grant to conduct the study Anàlisi de l'experiència i aplicació dels mètodes adequats de solució de controvèrsies (MASC) en els tribunals de justícia de Catalunya: diagnosi i propostes de millora (2026); and the Social Council Awards of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili for the Social Impact of Research, with the proposal "The Impact of Research on Mortgage Enforcement as a Driver for Promoting New Dynamics. Proposals for the Legal and Social Protection of Children and Women Victims of Gender-Based Violence" (2025). She has numerous publications in highly regarded legal journals and in book chapters indexed in the Scholarly Publishers Indicators.
She has undertaken several research stays at the University of Bologna (2008) and at the University of Oxford (2014, 2015, 2019, and 2024). Since December 2023, she has served as Secretary of the Faculty of Legal Sciences at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili.
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