Xulio Ferreiro Baamonde has been a Full Professor of Procedural Law at the University of A Coruña since 2012 and Dean of the Faculty of Law at UDC since 2021. He has also served as a Substitute Magistrate at the Provincial Court of A Coruña since 2021, having previously held the same position at the Provincial Court of Lugo between 2012 and 2015. He was Mayor of A Coruña from 2015 to 2019.

He has carried out research stays at Saint Louis University (Missouri, USA), the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg (Germany), the European Commission (Brussels, Belgium), the Catholic University of the North (Chile), the University of Michigan (MI, USA), and UCLA (Los Angeles, USA), as well as teaching stays at the University of Santiago de Guayaquil (Ecuador) and Widener University (DE, USA). He is the author of more than 150 bibliographic references and conference papers presented at national and international conferences. Among his most notable works are the monographs “The Victim in Criminal Proceedings” (La Ley, 2005), “The Process of the Illegalization of Political Parties” (Iustel, 2008), and “Provisional Enforcement of Civil Judgments” (Juruá, 2015); the coordination of the “Handbook on Spanish Criminal Proceedings” (Tirant lo Blanch, 2021); and his contribution to the manual “Criminal Procedural Law”, edited by A.J. Pérez-Cruz (latest edition, Tirant, 2023). His research has focused on arbitration, mediation, reform of criminal procedure, popular action, judicial cooperation, the Spanish judicial system, gender-based violence, victims’ rights, the banning of political parties, enforcement proceedings, the use of artificial intelligence in judicial proceedings, and consumer civil procedure, among other topics. He has also participated in 17 publicly funded research projects at regional, national, and European levels. His research activity has been recognized with three positive research evaluation periods (six-year terms), the most recent in 2022.

Professor Ferreiro currently teaches at the University of A Coruña, both in the undergraduate Law degree programme—where he participates in the English-language teaching programme—and in the Master’s Degree for Access to the Legal Profession. He has supervised six doctoral theses and around thirty Master’s dissertations. Between 2010 and 2015, he coordinated the Spanish Network of Professors for the Development of Teaching Materials for Legal Education through Film. He also served as Coordinator of the PhD Programme in Law at UDC, Secretary of the Department of Public Law at UDC, and Secretary of the Faculty of Law at UDC.