Carolina Fernández Blanco holds a PhD in Law from the University of Girona (2018), where she graduated with Excellent Cum Laude for her dissertation on the relationship between institutions and development in Latin America. She previously completed an LL.M. at Columbia University (2011), where she was awarded the Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar Award in recognition of her academic performance, as well as the Parker School Recognition of Achievement in International and Comparative Law. She holds a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires.
She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Girona (since 2021), where she also serves as coordinator of the Official Master’s Degree in Tort Law. Her academic work focuses on legal theory, the philosophy of private law, and legislative rationality, with particular attention to the connections between legal effectiveness, the rule of law, poverty, and development. In terms of teaching, she lectures in the Master’s Degree in Tort Law and in the Master’s Programme in Global Rule of Law and Constitutional Democracy. She also teaches in specialised programmes related to civil liability and the distributive function of private law.
Her research career is characterised by strong involvement in competitive research projects.
She currently participates as a researcher in the project “Biases in the Production and Application of Law” (PID2023-152057NB-I00) and is a member of the research team in the project “Social Epistemology and Law” (PID2024-159612NB-I00), both funded by the Spanish State Research Agency. She has previously been involved in several national and international research projects focused on lawmaking processes, attribution of responsibility, and legal certainty.
She has received recognition for her teaching, including being recognised as best lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Girona (2020–2021) and her inclusion in the teaching excellence recognition (third place) for the 2023–2024 academic year.
She is the author of recent monographs such as Eficacia, efectividad y entramado normativo (Marcial Pons, 2026) and co-editor of Errores en la creación y aplicación del derecho (2026).
She has contributed as author and editor to numerous collective volumes on legal certainty, poverty, development, and the rule of law, establishing herself as a recognised scholar in these fields. She has also published in leading journals such as European Law Journal, Doxa, Isonomía, and Diritto & Questioni Pubbliche, addressing topics including symbolic legislation, legal effectiveness, the role of social norms, and the limitations of the rule of law in Latin American contexts.
Her academic activity is complemented by active participation in international conferences, seminars, and workshops at universities and research centres across Europe and Latin America (including Bologna, Split, Ljubljana, Genoa, Buenos Aires, and Santiago de Chile, among others). In these settings, she has presented research on evidence-based legislation, social norms, parliamentary deliberation, and distributive justice.
She has also engaged extensively in knowledge transfer and public outreach, participating in institutional conferences, publishing in platforms such as Verfassungsblog, and contributing to training programmes for legislators and public officials in Latin America, particularly in the fields of legislative rationality and evidence-based policymaking.
In the field of teaching and professional training, she has delivered courses for parliaments and public institutions in various countries, contributing to capacity-building in rational legislation and democratic deliberation. She also has extensive experience supervising master’s theses and serving on academic evaluation committees.
Her previous professional experience includes legal practice in the private sector in Argentina, as well as international litigation before the Inter-American and European human rights systems. She has also worked as a legal advisor for leading human rights organisations such as CELS and CEJIL, and as an independent consultant in international law, human rights, and development.
In the editorial field, she has acted as a peer reviewer for several international academic journals and has been involved in editorial teams since the early stages of her career. She is a member of various academic and professional networks and has contributed to the organisation of international conferences and workshops in legal theory and private law.
Her profile combines strong international academic training, an extensive research output, significant institutional engagement, and a clear commitment to connecting legal theory with contemporary social challenges.