Borja Sánchez Barroso

Researcher | Fellow 2025-26

Bio

Dr. Sánchez Barroso holds a Ph.D. in Law from Universidad Pontificia Comillas, where he served as an Assistant Lecturer from 2017 to 2022. In 2022, he joined the Universidad Católica de Valencia and was recently awarded a tenure-track position as Lecturer in Constitutional Law (Profesor Ayudante Doctor) at the Universitat de València through a public competitive examination. He currently works at the Universitat de València as a lecturer and researcher. He is also accredited as Profesor Contratado Doctor and Private University Professor by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Universities.

Before beginning his academic and research career, Dr. Sánchez Barroso spent four years as a practicing attorney specializing in Public Law at Uría Menéndez Abogados. He has completed research stays at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law in Heidelberg and at Columbia University in New York, in addition to participating in an Erasmus+ teaching stay at Université Cergy-Pontoise in Paris.

He has received several distinctions, including the José Ramón de San Pedro Award for Best Doctoral Thesis (2021–2022), second prize (accésit) in the 7th Award from Teoría y Realidad Constitucional Journal and the Manuel Giménez Abad Foundation for scientific articles by young constitutional law scholars (2023), and the Young Jurists Award from the Garrigues Study Center (2013). He also holds a recognized research excellence period (sexenio) granted by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Universities for the years 2018–2023.

Some of his latest publications include:

Sánchez Barroso, B., El principio de precaución en España. Precisiones sobre el papel de los poderes públicos frente al riesgo en un Estado constitucional, Congreso de los Diputados, Madrid, 2021, ISBN 978-84-7943-556-1;
Sánchez Barroso, B., “Beyond the principle of proportionality: controlling the restriction of rights under factual uncertainty”, Oslo Law Review, Vol. 9, nº 2, 2022, pp. 74-91;
Sánchez Barroso, B., “El papel del Parlamento en la gestión ordinaria de riesgos. Un análisis a la luz del «principio de precaución»”, Revista de las Cortes Generales, nº 110, 2021, pp. 273-323, ISSN 0213-0130;
Sánchez Barroso, B., “¿Puede aplicarse el principio de precaución en el campo de la Inteligencia Artificial?” en Cernada Badía, R., Respuestas jurídicas al desafío tecnológico: nuevas perspectivas del Derecho digital, Tirant lo Blanch 2024, ISBN: 978-84-1056-806-8; and
Sánchez Barroso, B., “El uso de inteligencia artificial por las Administraciones Públicas: retos, principios y derechos que lo encuadran”, en Ortega Burgos, E. y Pastor Ruiz, F. (dirs.), Derecho Administrativo 2023, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia