Studies, training and positon. Prof. Cámara Lapuente is the holder of a degree (1991) and a doctorate in Law with honours (1996) from the University of Navarre, including extraordinary award for his thesis on testamentary secret trusts. He became senior lecturer (“profesor titular”) at the University of La Rioja (1999) and after passing his habilitation (2007, University Carlos III, Madrid) he became full professor at the University of La Rioja (2007). Prof. Cámara has developed some research stays in Germany (Freiburg, DAAD, 1993; Munich, 1996) and England (visiting scholar at the Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford, 2003 and 2015).
Research and academic activities. Prof. Cámara Lapuente has participated actively in the comparative research and building of a genuine European Private Law: first, he has been a member of international research networks such as the Trento Group on the Common Core of European Private Law (section trusts, since 1998, led by profs. U. Mattei, M. Graziadei and L. Smith), Task Force on the Casebook of EU Consumer Law [Hart, Oxford, since 2004, led by profs. H. Micklitz, J. Stuyck and E. Terryn ], Comparative Succession Law Group [Hamburg, since 1998, led by profs. H. Zimmermann, K. Reid and M. de Wahl, four volumes published in OUP]. Second, he has participated as a member of projects funded by the European Commission to review the consumers’ acquis and propose new rules (EU Consumer Law Compendium, 2004-2010, led by prof. H. Schulte-Nölke; Digital Content Services for Consumers, 2010-2011, led by prof. M Loos). Third, he was appointed by the European Commission as an expert to assess some issues of the Proposal of EU Regulation on succession law (London, 2008). Fourth, he was a co-founder of the Association for a European Law Institute (ELIA, Frankfurt 2010) and is currently a member of the European Law Institute (ELI, Viena, since 2012), the Spanish Association of Comparative Law (Zaragoza, since 1999), the Societé de Legislation Comparé (Paris, since 2006), the International Academy of Comparative Law (Paris, since 2007) and TransEuropeanExperts (since 2009). He is also the President of the International Academy of Succession Law ("Academia Internacional de Derecho de Sucesiones", Buenos Aires, since 2023).
He has presented invited papers to some international events, such as the Congresses organised by the International Academy of Comparative Law (as national reporter in Bristol, 1998 on trusts; Brisbane 2002 on Intellectual Property and IT Law; Utrecht 2006 on succession law; Fukuoka 2018 on unfair terms on prices), a closing speech at the “International Conference on European Contract Law", held in the Europäische Rechtsacademie (ERA) in Trier (Germany, March 2002), and interventions as speaker in workshops and seminars in different universities and institutes (Oxford 2003, Münster 2004, MPI Hamburg 2010, Barcelona 2010, Edinburgh 2013, EUI-Florence 2013, V Münster Coloquia 2019, Paris II Pantheon-Assas/Fondation de Droit Continental 2018, 2019 and 2023, MPI Hamburg 2022, Buenos Aires 2023, etc.).
Prof. Cámara is the author of five books, more than 150 articles and chapters, and editor and co-author of a handbook on succession law (2nd ed 2022). In his capacity of director/chief-editor of joint books, he has produced the first treaty on European Private Law in Spain (Derecho privado Europeo, Colex, Madrid 2003), a reference legislative commentary to all rules in force on consumer protection in Spain (Comentario a las normas de protección de los consumidores, Colex, Madrid, 2011), a pioneering volume on the rules on CESL and Directive 2011/83/UE (La Revisión de las normas europeas y nacionales de protección de los consumidores, Civitas, Navarre, 2012), and a book on Private Law facing the digital paradigm (El Derecho privado ante el paradigma digital, Marcial Pons, Madrid-Barcelona, 2020). In the national environment, as a drafter of blueprints of Acts, he co-directed the drafting team of the Law on Cultural Heritage of La Rioja (2002) and was a member of the drafting team of the Catalonian Law on trusts (2006). He has been Director of an online Master on real estate agency and management (MUGAPI, 2002-2005), and is co-director of the Permanent Seminar on Private Law (2000-2020, funded by the Centre for Study of Land Registers). Prof. Cámara has been invited as speaker in relevant meetings of legal practitioners such as the seminar on European contract law with the judges of the Spanish Supreme Court (2009) or the XI Congress of Notaries 2012, and he contributes regularly since 2007 in some courses at the Judiciary College (School for judicial training, Barcelona). His papers on unfair terms have been expressly quoted by the Spanish Supreme Court (STS 214/2014, of 15 April and STS 367/2016, of 3 June), and by Advocate General of the EU Court of Justice in en case C-125/18 on IRPH index in mortgages.
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Main areas of resarch: Comparative Law and European Private Law, consumer protection, unfair terms, contracts, Succession Law, Intellectual Property and the Internet, Trusts, Digital Law.
















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