Xulio Ferreiro Baamonde is an Associate Professor of Procedural Law at the Universidade da Coruña (UDC), where he has taught since 2012. He has been Dean of the Faculty of Law since 2021 and was accredited as Full Professor in 2025. He has also served as substitute judge at the Provincial Courts of A Coruña and Lugo, and was Mayor of A Coruña from 2015 to 2019.
He has carried out research stays at institutions such as Saint Louis University (Missouri, USA), the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg (Germany), the European Commission (Brussels, Belgium), Universidad Católica del Norte (Chile), the University of Michigan (USA), and UCLA (USA). He has authored over 150 academic publications and conference papers, addressing topics including arbitration, mediation, criminal procedure reform, 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 legal processes, consumer protection in civil procedure, and the public justice service. His research has been recognized with three national research awards (“sexenios”), the most recent in 2022.
Professor Ferreiro teaches in both the undergraduate Law program and the Master’s in Legal Practice at UDC, participating in the English-language teaching track. He has supervised six doctoral theses and around thirty Master’s dissertations.