Lucía Avilés Palacios

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Lucía Avilés Palacios is a judge since 2009, assigned to Criminal Court no. 2 in Mataró. She is an expert in gender-based violence. She has given training in criminal matters, gender-based violence, sexual violence and prosecution with a gender perspective in the European Parliament, the Government Delegation against Gender Violence, the Ministry of Equality and the General Council of Judiciary, as well as in bar associations, security forces bodies, and several national and international universities. She has been appointed as an expert in the implementation of Spanish and international regulations on violence against women. In 2020, she was appointed to appear before the Parliament of Catalonia in relation to the Proposal for a law amending Law 5/2008 of women’s right to eradicate male violence. In 2017, she participated in Brussels to the European Commission’s work group for the Implementation of the Protection Order. In 2022, she participated in a working session on the Proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the fight against violence against women. She is a co-author of the book Justicia en clave feminista: reflexiones en torno a la inserción de la perspectiva de género en el ámbito judicial (2021) and the book Análisis de la justicia desde la perspectiva de género (2018). She is a founding member of the Association of Female Judges of Spain and an honorary member of the Gender Studies Institute of the Argentine Constitutional Institute (2017).