Josep Capdeferro

Josep Capdeferro is associate professor Serra Húnter of History of Law and Institutions of the Department of Law, where he is a member of the Research Group on History of Catalan Law. He graduated in Law at the UPF (1995), where he also obtained the European Doctorate in Law (2010).

He did a predoctoral research stay at the University of Paris II - Panthéon-Assas (1999-2001) and postdoctoral stays at the same French university (2012) and at the Institute of Comparative and European Law of the University of Oxford (2022 ). He has been a visiting professor at the Public University of Navarra (2005-2006) and at the University of Toulouse I - Capitole (2019). His research is based mainly on unpublished archival sources, legal pleadings and legal literature from the 16th-18th centuries. His lines of research focus on jurists and legal culture, representative public law institutions (mainly municipalities, Courts or the Diputació del General), the supervision of public offices, historically discriminated groups such as women or descendants of Jewish converts ,

He has participated in more than fifteen national competitive research projects. He is currently principal researcher of the R+D+i project "Singular conflicts to judge, arbitrate or agree (12th-20th centuries)". He has published around fifty academic works in prominent national magazines (Afers, Ivs Fvgit, Recerques o Scripta) and international (eHumanista or Parliaments, Estates and Representation) and in prestigious international publishing houses such as École Française de Rome, John Benjamins, Routledge or Springer.

In terms of management, before assuming the position of international mobility delegate, he was mobility coordinator of the Faculty of Law (2004-2018) and teaching coordinator of the English Law & Spanish Law program, taught jointly by King's College London and the UPF, and tutor of agreements of high strategic value of the Faculty of Law (2018-2023).

He was appointed by the rector on March 30, 2023.