RAFEL AUDIVERT ARAU

Rafael Audivert has a degree in Law from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Bellaterra). He has a Diploma in Real Estate and Urban Planning Law from the Pompeu Fabra University (1993). He studied for a Doctorate at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he presented his thesis “Legal regime of the ecolabel”, with which he obtained the highest qualification.

He began to work as a self-employed lawyer and in 1998 he became a partner in the law firm Sicart, Santos & Asociados, with whom he collaborated until December 2002.

In 2003 he joined the firm Roca Junyent, SLP, where he worked as a partner in the Public Law department until June 2017, when he joined the firm Tornos Abogados.

He has been an associate professor of Administrative Law at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he taught Administrative Law and Environmental Law from 1996 to 2022. He has also taught specific modules at ESADE (Ramon Llull University), ISDE, Pompeu Fabra University, and the Institut Químic de Sarrià, and has been an associate professor of Environmental Law at the Open University of Catalonia.

He is a specialist in Administrative Law and, in particular, in Environmental Law. He is the author of numerous publications on this specialty, with special attention to environmental certification systems, industrial safety and vectors applicable to industrial activities. He has been a member of the Environment Section of the Barcelona Bar Association, of the Editorial Board of the Catalan Journal of Environmental Law, as well as of the Environment Commission of the Labor Promotion. He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the magazine Món Jurídic, of the Barcelona Bar Association, and of the Catalan Journal of Environmental Law.

Recognized since 2019 by the European directory Best Lawyers in the categories Administrative Law and Environmental Law.

He has been a member of the Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB) since 1993.