Universitat de Girona

Faculty Member, Institute of European and Comparative Private Law

Other Affiliations: European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law (Vienna), Tort and Insurance Law
Universitat de Girona, Dret privat (Private Law)

Senior Lecturer in Private Law, Dr. iur.

Faculty of Law

Thesis Title: Pure ecological damage. Liability in tort for environmental impairment (El daño ecológico puro. La responsabilidad civil por el deterioro del medio ambiente)

About

Albert Ruda was born in 1975 in Barcelona. He graduated from the University of Girona in 1997, where he is currently Reader in Private Law (teaching consumer law and property law). After having published a short dissertation on barter agreements (2002), he submitted his Doctoral Thesis on tort liability for pure ecological damage (2006) under the direction of Prof. Miquel Martín-Casals, which was given the 2006 award to the best Spanish Thesis on civil protection (General Directorate for Civil Protection, Ministry of Internal Affairs), the 2006 "Francisco de Asís Sancho Rebullida" award of the University of Navarra to the best Spanish thesis on a private law topic, and the extraordinary prize of the University of Girona (2008), Previously, a paper of his on market share liability was given an award by the Spanish Society of Tort Lawyers (2002).
He is a member of the Institute of European and Comparative Private Law of the University of Girona, fellow of the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL, Vienna), reporter of the Trento “Common Core of European Private Law” Project (Environmental Liability), and former Van Calker scholar of the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (2001). He has extensive experience as a webmaster (civil.udg.edu, www.egtl.org) and has done research stays at the ECTIL (2001 and 2003), the Centre for Liability Law at the Tilburg University (2004) and the Faculty of Law of the University of Cambridge (2006).

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