Javier Barnes

A regular advisor to Spanish and European Union public administrations, he specializes in comparative and European administrative law, as well as in regulatory policies and the new regulatory and governance methods, and their effects on new administrative law, both from a European and American perspective. 

Mr. Barnes is a member of international study groups, on the reform of administrative law, in Germany, and on global administrative law, in the US. He is head of the Center for Administrative Law and Regulatory Reform (Centro de Derecho Administrativo y Reforma Regulatoria), that brings together universities, think tanks and experts from a wide range of fields and countries.

He was advisor to the Constitutional Court from 1994 to 1998, and a member of the Advisory Board of Andalusia from 2002 to 2006.

Javier Barnes is a professor of administrative law at the University of Huelva and a visiting lecturer at universities in New York (New York University), Heidelberg (Universität Heidelberg) and Trento (Università degli Studi di Trento).

He has published studies in several countries in his area of specialty (the administrative procedure and justice in a compared panorama; property and liability; the information society and the public administration or the principle of proportionality). Some of his recent studies include the collective works “Innovation and reform in administrative law,” (“Innovación y reforma en el derecho administrativo”), in 2006, and “The transformation of the administrative procedure” (“La transformación del procedimiento administrativo") in 2008, published by Editorial Derecho Global – Global Law Press, an international academic project that also manages the website http://www.globallawpress.org/introduccion.htm; and “Towards a Third Generation of Administrative Procedure” (Yale University Press, 2010).

Bachelor of Laws (with special distinction, 1983), Universidad de Sevilla, 1982

Doctor of Laws (with special distinction), Universidad de Sevilla, 1987

Humboldt Scholarship, Heidelberg University, 1993, 2000 and 2008

Jean Monnet Scholarship (European University Institute), University of Florence, 1994

Languages: English, German and Italian