Francisco Velasco Caballero
He studied Law at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). He completed his doctoral studies in Germany (U. Erlangen-Nürnberg). Since 2010 he has been Professor of Administrative Law at the UAM. Throughout all these years he has maintained a continuous line of exclusive dedication to teaching and research, except for a three-year hiatus during which he was a lawyer at the Constitutional Court of Spain (1998-2000).
He is the author of 10 monographs, 104 chapters in collective books and 68 articles in indexed journals. Some of his latest publications are: "La Administración pública en la colaboración público-privada" (2023) and "Complejidad competencial y diversidad de formas normativas: el caso de la Ley por el Derecho a la vivienda" (2023). Specifically in relation to behavioural sciences, he has recently published "Psychology for Administrative Law" (2023) and "Cognitive Psychology, Automatic Thinking and Administrative Law Teaching" (2021).
Although his research training is initially closely linked to German universities, in the last decade he has moved closer to other international legal environments, with stays at the University of Illinois (2010 and 2014), at the University of Paris II (2016) and another at Western Ontario in Canada (2018). His most recent stays have been at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin (2024) and at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität in Munich (2024).
He has been Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law of the UAM, Deputy Director and Director of the Department of Public Law and Legal Philosophy and a member of the Governing Council of the UAM. In addition, in 2003 he founded the Institute of Local Law at the UAM, of which he was its director for ten years and is now director of research. He has been a member of the State Research Agency. In 2019 he founded the Revista de Derecho Público: Teoría y Método, which is ranked 3rd in Q1 of all Law Journals in Spain. He is currently co-directing a state research project on depopulation and a European project on the interaction between rural and urban local governments (Logov). He also directs at the UAM the thematic block of "Neuroscience and Law" integrated in the Agreement for the Development of the Charter of Digital Rights (funded by Red.es).