Bettina Steible

A native of France, I am an assistant professor (profesora lectora) at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC).

I hold a PhD in law from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), a Bachelor of Laws and a Master’s in Public Law from the University of Montpellier. I then pursued a Master’s degree in European Law and Politics, a two-year bilingual program with mobility at the four partner universities (UAB – ES, Università degli Studi di Milano - IT, Uniwersytet Szczecinski – PL, and Université Montpellier I - FR).

During my PhD (2013-2017), I had the chance to go to UC Berkeley (Boalt Hall, USA) and Paris II Panthéon-Assas University (FR) as a visiting scholar. I also benefited from a four-year predoctoral scholarship at the UAB, a ‘Carlos V European Award – Sofia Corradi’ grant from the European Academy of Yuste Foundation, and the 2018 Jaime Brunet Prize for the best doctoral thesis on the promotion of human rights. In parallel, I have undertaken teaching in public law at the UAB and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona).

Besides my experience in the academia, I have worked for the EU-funded project EuroMed Justice IV (2017-2019), the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) as a research assistant (2011-2012), and I served as Global Connections Volunteer at the UCF Global Perspectives Office, USA (2010).

I also offer research and consultancy services in my fields of expertise, which include European constitutional law, the multilevel protection of fundamental rights, and gender equality.