Areas of Expertise

International and European Environmental Law; International and European Migration Law; External Action of the European Union; International and European Soft Law; The Military Occupation Regime; The Principle of the Responsibility to Protect; Foreign policy of the European Union; EU Development Cooperation Policy; Law of the Sea; Environmental Crime; Environmental Aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility.

Brief Bio

Prof. Dr. Teresa Fajardo is a Professor of Public International Law and International Relations at the Faculty of Law of the University of Granada. She graduated in Law (1991), Master in Community Law (1992), Specialist in European Law (1993) and Doctor in Law with an award for the best doctoral thesis from the University of Granada in the field of Law (2002). She has been a FPU Research Fellow at the University of Granada (1992-1995), a part-time Associate Professor (1996), full-time (1996 -2006) at the University of Granada, a PhD contracted Professor at the University of Granada (2006 - 2007). She has also participated in different international law projects in public calls: Efface, European Union Action To Fight Environmental Crime EFFACE of the European Commission (2012 - present), International Law and the new governance after the economic crisis of the Ministry of Science and Innovation (2012-2014), Articulation of the Foreign Action of the European Union after the Treaty of Lisbon of the Ministry of Science and Innovation (2011-2013), The Mediterranean Policy of the European Union of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (2012-2013).

Dr. Teresa Fajardo’s research and teaching have always been linked to International and European Environmental and Migration Law, and she has participated in European research projects funded by the European Commission and the European Parliament. She is a member of the Jean Monnet Chair on EU Environmental Law at the University of Barcelona. Her management positions at the University of Granada include:

• Coordinator of the Master of Higher International and European Studies.
• Member of the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program in Legal Sciences of the UGR.
• ANECA Evaluator from 2015 to the present.
• ACAP Evaluator from 2012 to 2015.
• Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law from 2008-2012.
• Deputy Director of the Center for Development Cooperation Initiatives of the UGR 2004-2005.

She undertook the following research projects:

1. FEDER Project, Principal Investigators: Diego Javier Liñán and Pablo Martín Rodríguez, “The Redefinition of the External Action of the European Union after Brexit”, EU-Externa. R+D+I Project A-SEJ-299-UGR18
2. Project title: CRIMEANTHROP, funded by the Research Council of Norway FRIHUMSAM Criminal justice, wildlife conservation and animal rights in the Anthropocene, with the participation of the Universities of Oslo (Norway), Northumbria (UK), Denver (USA), and Grenada 2018-2022.
3. Title of the Project: Biological diversity and International Law: new problems and trends, interaction of legal regimes and main regulatory challenges. Ref. DER2017-85406-P. Participating entities: University of Barcelona. Funding entity: Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness. Principal investigator: Mar Campins i Eritja and Xavier Pons Rafols. Type of participation: Part-time researcher. Number of researchers: 10. Funding amount: 26,000. Duration: 2018-2020.
4. Project Title: Spain, Security and European External Borders in the Strait Area, Ref. DER2015-68174-R. Participating entities: University of Cádiz. Funding entity: Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness. Principal investigator: Alejandro del Valle Gálvez and Inmaculada González García. 2016-2018.
5. Project Title: CODEPESCA. Public-private alliance in development cooperation in the fishing sector: Spanish fishing companies in developing countries. Ref. DER 2013-45995-R. Funding entity: Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. Principal investigator: José Manuel Sobrino. 2014-2016.
6. Project title: European Union Action To Fight Environmental Crime, EFFACE, of the 7th Research Framework Program of the European Commission, FP7-SSH-2012-2 / SSH.2012.2.2-3, Grant Agreement Number 320276. Type of Participation: Principal Investigator from the University of Granada. Financing amount: 2,318,624 euros with an allocation of 116,000 euros for the University of Granada. Duration: from 01.12.2012, to 31.03.2016.

Publications (Weblink only), if any:

• Mar Campins y Teresa Fajardo (Eds.), Biological Diversity and International Law. Challenges for the Post 2020 Scenario, Springer, 2021.
• Teresa Fajardo del Castillo, The foreign policy of the European Union regarding the environment , Tecnos, 2005.
• C. Holtwisch, T. Fajardo del Castillo, T. Tichá (Eds.): Strengthening European Environmental Law in an Enlarged Union, Shaker Verlag, Rechtswissenchaft, Aachen, 2004, 257 pp.
• C. Adelle, T. Fajardo del Castillo, M. Pallemaerts, S. Withana, K. Van Den Bossche, The External Dimension of the Sixth Environment Action Programme: An Evaluation of Implementing Policy Instruments, IEEP, Londres, 2010, 125 pp.

1. Teresa Fajardo, “Disentangling the UK from EU Environmental Agreements after Brexit: The Challenges Posed by Mixed Agreements and Soft Law”, en Juan Santos Vara, Ramses A. Wessel (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook on the International Dimension of Brexit, Routledge, Londres, 2020.
2. Teresa Fajardo, “The EU diplomacy for biodiversity”, en Mar Campins The European Union and Global Environmental Protection. Transforming Influence into Action, Routledge, Londres, 2020, pp. 35-49.
3. Teresa Fajardo, "The role of the European Union as a regulatory and diplomatic power in the face of new environmental challenges", in Francisco Aldecoa Luzárraga (Dir.), "70 years after the Schuman Declaration. The citizen debate at the Conference on the Future of Europe" , Marcial Pons, Madrid, 2020, pp. 271-282.
4. Teresa Fajardo, "The European Union and Marine Protected Areas in the Antarctic Ocean" , Revista Catalana de Dret Ambiental, Vol. X, No. 2 (2019), pp. 1-54.
5. Teresa Fajardo, “Marine Protected Areas Beyond 2020”, Catalan Environmental Law Magazine, Volume: X, No. 2 (2019), pp. 1-9, at https://www.raco.cat/index.php/rcda/article/view/367392
6. Teresa Fajardo, "Advances and Setbacks in the Negotiation of the Global Pact for the Environment" , Actualidad Jurídica Ambiental, No. 95, 2019, pp. 1-44.
7. Teresa Fajardo, “Foreign Environmental Competition of the European Union and Progressive Development of International Law within the Framework of the United Nations General Assembly,” General Review of European Law 47, 2019, pp. 110-158, at https://www.iustel.com/v2/revistas/detalle_revista.asp?id_noticia=421215
8. Teresa Fajardo, “The Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Its contributions to the progressive development of International Law and the consequences of the withdrawal of the United States” , Spanish Journal of International Law, Studies Section Vol. 70/1, January -June 2018, Madrid, pp. 23-51, DOI:10.17103/redi.70.1.2018.1.01.
9. Teresa Fajardo, “Transnational environmental crime: a challenging problem but not yet a legal concept”, Völkerrechtsblog, 17.02.2017, doi: 10.17176/20170215-170333