As of 1st June 2021, Juan Pablo Rodriguez Delgado, Senior Lecturer of Commercial Law at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, will join the team at Albors Galiano Portales as Of Counsel. He will assist the Maritime and Insurance teams of the firm. With his incorporation, the firm seeks to further strengthen its links with academia.

Juan Pablo is Lecturer at the Universidad Carlos III in several areas, both undergraduate and postgraduate, including Company Law, Commercial Contracts, Business Law for Entrepreneurs or Maritime Law. He is also the coordinator of several Master courses at the Universidad Carlos III and ISDE.

He majored in Law at the Universidad Carlos III, where he holds a PhD in Law in 2015 with a Thesis on the Period of Responsibility of the sea carrier. Juan Pablo is currently the Coordinator of the moot court competition Moot Madrid (www.mootmadrid.es) and the Law Summer School in Madrid (organized by Seattle University and Carlos III). He is also the coach of the university team at the International Maritime Law Arbitration Moot organized by Murdoch University (Australia).

Juan Pablo has carried out several research stays, benefited from different grants, at international institutions in the field of private law, including the University of Southampton, Fordham University, UNIDROIT, Tulane University and the Universitá degli Studi di Bologna.

His publications include the book “El periodo de responsabilidad del porteador en el contrato de transporte marítimo” (Marcial Pons, 2016) and numerous articles and books chapters, primarily in two areas: maritime law and commercial contracts.