José Antonio Castillo Parrilla
Guest Professor
Biographical Note | Pedagogical Experience | Main Publications
- Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the University of Granada, where has developed the research line called “Legal status of the new forms of digital wealth”
- European PhD in Digital Law from the University of Bologna (April 2018) and PhD in Civil Law from the University of Granada (January 2019)
- His Doctoral Thesis “Propuesta de legal construction of digital or computer assets” (University of Bologna) has received the Prize for the best Doctoral Thesis in Private Law from the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation of Granada (2019), as well as the Accésit of the I Eduardo de Hinojosa Prize (May 2018) for the best monograph in legal sciences, published by Dykinson with the title “Bienes digitales. A European necessity”
- Fields of research: digital law and property law, from a European, national and comparative law perspective, in particular the legal study of new forms of digital wealth. In particular, Directive 2019/770 and its implications for data transactions, the possibility of paying with one’s own data or the need to deal with the reality that data (both personal and non-personal) is an economic asset.
- Teaches in the Department of Civil Law at the University of Granada since 2015, having dealt with subjects such as Real Estate Law, Property Law, Law and IT, Tort Law, Contract Law or Civil Liability arising from crime.
- Taught Civil Law at the Spanish Law School of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow for two academic years; as well as two seminars at the NOVA University of Lisbon in 2019 (“Digital Revolution and Digital Wealth“) and 2021 (“Contracts through platforms and EU Regulation“).
- Is co-director of a thesis entitled “Dati e algoritmi: trasparenza opaca” (U. Calabria; U. Granada), and of a final thesis entitled “Responsabilidad civil derivada del uso de IA. Current situation and challenges of a future European Regulation“, which received the Eduardo Roca Roca Award of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence of Granada 2022.
Co-author of the “Manual Teoría General de Obligaciones y Contratos Contratos en Particular (2 vols., Atelier, 2022)”, which has been translated into English and prepared for dissemination in the Philippines under the H2020 Calesa Project, of which UNL is part.