Luis Medina Alcoz

Of Counsel

Luis Medina Alcoz is an Associate Professor of Administrative Law at the Complutense University of Madrid and has served as Of Counsel at Baño León since 2022. He was a legal adviser at the Constitutional Court for nearly ten years and has held academic roles as a visiting professor at the University of Trento, a tutor at the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies, a “Juan de la Cierva” research fellow at the Complutense University, and a researcher at
both the National Institute of Public Administration and the Ortega y Gasset University Institute. He was also a member of the Royal College of Spain in Bologna.

Education

Luis holds a European Doctorate from the University of Bologna and has an Advanced Studies Diploma and a Law degree from the Complutense University of Madrid. He has undertaken specialised courses and research residencies at the Universities of Edinburgh, London Guildhall, Bologna, Heidelberg, Osnabrück, and Trento.

Teaching activities and publications

Luis has twice won first prize from the Centre for Financial Studies for work on state liability (2005 and 2018) and received the National Institute of Public
Administration’s top prize for studies on Local Administration (2009). Since 2011, he has co-led the Complutense research group “State Transformations and Local Autonomy” with Tomás Cano Campos. He is a member of the European Group of Public Law (since 2007) and the Seminar on Theory and Method (since its founding in 2013). His primary research interests include the general theory of Administrative Law (particularly historical and political-constitutional foundations, rights, and procedures), liability law (both public and private), and the territorial organisation of the state (with a focus on local governance). On these subjects, he has published six solo-authored monographs (three with Thomson/Civitas, two with Marcial Pons, and one with INAP) and numerous articles, and he has directed or coordinated three collaborative works.

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