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Patricia Faraldo

Patricia Faraldo

Of Counsel

Patricia Faraldo is of counsel in the Public Law Department of the firm, Professor of Criminal Law and Adjunct Professor at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.

She has served as a Judge of the Administrative Litigation Division of the High Court of Justice of Galicia and of the Criminal Division of the Provincial Court of A Coruña.

She has participated as a speaker in numerous seminars, conferences and congresses at Spanish, European (Lisbon, Oporto, Milan, Bari, Modena, Palermo, Catania, Pavia, Trento, Teramo, Fribourg, Nothingham, Dublin, Budapest), American (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, San Salvador, Guayaquil, Mexico City, Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Curitiba) and Australian (Brisbane) universities.
In addition, she has carried out research stays at the Universities of Toronto (Canada), Western Cape (South Africa), Milan and Bologna (Italy) and Freiburg (Germany).

She is currently a Eurias Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of Freiburg, Germany, where she works on a project on “Monetized Justice”, after having enjoyed a Marie Curie scholarship as an International Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Criminal Law, also in Freiburg, Germany.

She is the author of 9 books and coordinator or director of another 9, with topics focused mainly on economic criminal law (corporate crimes, criminal liability of leaders in hierarchical structures, environmental crimes, smuggling, computer crimes against property and the socio-economic order). She has written almost two hundred doctrinal articles that have been published in specialized journals, both Spanish and foreign, and in collective works edited in various countries.