PHD. TOMÁS CANO CAMPOS

Tomás Cano studied the first three years of his law degree at the University of Barcelona (1988-1991) and graduated from the Complutense University of Madrid (1993). In 1996, he obtained his doctorate in Law at the University of Bologna (Italy) with the qualification of summa cum laude.

He was accredited for the body of University Professors in 2010 and has been Professor of Administrative Law at the Complutense University of Madrid since January 2017. He was Vice-Dean of Research at the UCM Law School from 2008 to 2016. Since 2018, he has been the director of its Administrative Law Department.

He has also been secretary of the Revista General de Derecho Administrativo [Journal of Administrative Law] since its creation in 2002 and of the Revista Española de Derecho Administrativo (Civitas) [Journal of Spanish Administrative Law] since 2012. From 2006 to 2008 he was a member of the Legal Lexicon Commission of the Real Academia Española de la Lengua [Royal Spanish Academy], directed by Professor Eduardo García de Enterría. He was a collaborator of the Advisory Council of the Community of Madrid from 2011 to 2016 and Consultant at DS Ovslaw from 2017 to 2019.

He combines teaching and research with his professional activity. He is the author of numerous publications on administrative law, in particular on the invalidity of acts and regulations, administrative sanctions, public contracts, administrative liability, traffic, transport and mobility. He has spent several periods abroad and given numerous courses and lectures at various universities and institutions in Spain and abroad. He has also held several research and consultancy contracts for companies and Public Administrations through the transfer office of the Complutense University of Madrid.

Languages: Spanish, French and Italian