María Eugenia Rodríguez Palop
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María Eugenia Rodríguez Palop (; born 1970) is a Spanish jurist, professor of
Philosophy of Law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and as the ar ...
at the
Charles III University of Madrid University Charles III of Madrid () (UC3M) is a public university in the Community of Madrid, Spain. Established in 1989, UC3M is an institution with a distinctly international profile. It offers a broad range of master's and bachelor's degree p ...
(UC3M), specializing in
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Biography

Born on 9 March 1970 in Llerena, a town in the
province of Badajoz The province of Badajoz ( ; ) is a province of western Spain located in the autonomous community of Extremadura. It was formed in 1833. It is bordered by the provinces of Cáceres in the north, Toledo, Ciudad Real in the east, Córdoba in ...
, she obtained a degree in Law at the
Comillas Pontifical University Comillas Pontifical University () is a private Catholic Church, Catholic university run by the Spanish Province of the Society of Jesus in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. The university is involved in a number of academic exchange programmes, work practi ...
in 1993, later obtaining a PhD in the same field at the UC3M in 2000. A professor of
Philosophy of Law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and as the ar ...
at the
Charles III University of Madrid University Charles III of Madrid () (UC3M) is a public university in the Community of Madrid, Spain. Established in 1989, UC3M is an institution with a distinctly international profile. It offers a broad range of master's and bachelor's degree p ...
(UC3M), specialized in
human rights Human rights are universally recognized Morality, moral principles or Social norm, norms that establish standards of human behavior and are often protected by both Municipal law, national and international laws. These rights are considered ...
, she has also worked a researcher at the Institute of Genre Studies and the Institute of Human Rights "Bartolomé de les Casas" in the UC3M. Self-described as "
feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...
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ecologist Ecology () is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms and their environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere levels. Ecology overlaps with the closely re ...
", she was one of the 60 scholars signataries of a manifesto claiming for a reform of the
Spanish Constitution The Spanish Constitution () is the supreme law of the Kingdom of Spain. It was enacted after its approval in 1978 in a constitutional referendum; it represents the culmination of the Spanish transition to democracy. The current version was a ...
aiming to promote a "federal political project" in June 2018. In March, following the announcement of the resignation of Pablo Bustinduy to run as leader of the
Unidas Podemos Unidas Podemos (), formerly called Unidos Podemos () and also known in English as United We Can, was a democratic socialist electoral alliance formed by Podemos, United Left, and other left-wing to far-left parties in May to contest the 2016 S ...
candidacy to the
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, Podemos and Bustinduy presented Rodríguez Palop as his replacement. Rodríguez Palop, described then by Bustinduy as a "political and moral mainstay", had previously provided advisory services to the Podemos parliamentary group in the
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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rodriguez Palop, Maria Eugenia Academic staff of the Charles III University of Madrid Spanish jurists 1970 births Living people MEPs for Spain 2019–2024 Comillas Pontifical University alumni