Prof. José Luis Gil y Gil (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain)

José Luis Gil y Gil is PhD (1991) and won the special award of PhD of the University of Alcalá and the prize for the best doctoral thesis of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (1991-1992). Since September 2011, he is Professor of Labour Law at the University of Alcalá. He has done extended research stays at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, the Université de Bordeaux, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main. He has been visiting professor at the University Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV (1995, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2011 and 2012), Nantes (1995, 1999 and 2008) and Pantheon-Assas Paris II (2009, 2010 and 2013). His research has focused on the dogmatic of the employment contract and also in the international and European labour law. He has published over a hundred articles on these and other matters, on domestic and foreign legal journals, and monographs such as La prescripción de las faltas laborales (1993), Autotutela privada y poder disciplinario en la empresa (1994), La prescripción y la caducidad en el contrato de trabajo (2000) and Principio de la buena fe y poderes del empresario (2003).