Gemma Fabregat Monfort

Gemma Fabregat is a Professor of Labour and Social Security Law at the University of Valencia and serves as Of Counsel at Sagardoy Abogados. She is also a faculty member at Sagardoy Business & Law School.

She currently holds the position of President of the Tripartite Council for the Development of Labour Relations and Collective Bargaining in the Valencian Community (second term).

She was the first woman to preside over the Electoral Board of the University of Valencia, an institution with over five centuries of history. She has been an elected member of the university’s faculty senate for ten years and served as Secretary of the Faculty of Law and Vice Dean for Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, and Sustainability for eight years.

She is an external evaluator for the Ministry of Science and Innovation, as well as for various specialised academic journals and publishers. She also serves on the editorial and scientific boards of several of them.

EDUCATION

Professor of Labour and Social Security Law. University of Valencia

Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) University of Valencia – Graduated with highest honours (1997)

PhD in Law. University of Valencia – Awarded with the Extraordinary Doctorate Prize (2001). Her doctoral thesis on functional mobility also received the CES–Valencian Community Award for Best Doctoral Thesis in Labour and Social Affairs.

She has completed research stays at the Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (London), the University of Cambridge, and the Università degli Studi di Milano.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

PhD in Law from the University of Valencia, awarded with the Extraordinary Doctorate Prize in 2001.

CES–Valencian Community Prize for the best doctoral thesis in labour and social matters.

Aequitas Award for professional career, granted by the Hon. Association of Social Graduates of Valencia in 2012.

Honorary Member Distinction, awarded by the Professional Association of Tax Advisors of the Valencian Community in 2019.

PUBLICATIONS

She is the author, co-author, coordinator, and editor of over one hundred publications, including monographs, articles in specialised legal journals, book chapters, and practical legal treatises.

Her main areas of research focus on the principle of equality and the prohibition of gender discrimination; workplace harassment; managerial authority, the employer’s ius variandi, and the fundamental rights of workers; internal flexibility mechanisms; and collective bargaining.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Lecturer in Labour and Social Security Law at the University of Valencia.

For nineteen years, she also served as a tutor in Labour Law at the Valencia branch of the Spanish National Distance Education University (UNED), while holding a permanent position as Associate Professor in the Department of Labour and Social Security Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Valencia.

She has participated as a speaker in over one hundred academic conferences and symposia, and has acted as an expert advisor on various matters, including the reform of the Valencian Public Sector Law from a gender perspective and the negotiation of an Equality Plan for employees of the Generalitat Valenciana. She has also collaborated extensively with a wide range of public institutions and governmental bodies on issues aligned with her main areas of expertise.

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