Dr Jordi Ribot is a professor of civil law and director of the Institute of European Private and Comparative Law at the University of Girona. His research has focused on personal and family law, as well as tort law. In the field of family law, he is the author of the book Alimentos entre parientes y subsidiariedad de la protección social (1999) and articles and chapters in national and international works. This has allowed him to be part of the Academic Network Family Law in Europe (FL-EUR), where he belongs to the working group on voluntary support measures. In the legislative field, he took part in drafting the second book of the Civil Code of Catalonia, as a member of various working groups of the Observatory of Private Law of Catalonia (2003-2010) and has chaired the person and family section of the Codification Commission of Catalonia. He is currently a member of the permanent section. In matters of civil liability, he has collaborated with the European Centre on Tort and Insurance Law (Vienna). His main contributions are to the collective works Essential Cases on Natural Causation (2007), Essential Cases on Damage (2011), Essential Cases on Misconduct (2018) and Essential Cases on Scope of Liability (2024). His research interests include, among others, topics that reflect the interaction between private law remedies, such as maintenance or tortious claims, and other legal instruments serving the same purposes, such as social assistance benefits or no-fault compensation systems. Research Gate · Google Scholar · Academia