Magdalena Nogueira Guastavino

Education

1996            School of Law, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Doctor in Labor Law, Magna Cum Laude

PhD Extraordinary Award from the Faculty of Law of the UAM (1997)

Dissertation: Unfair competition in the labor contract and covenants not to compete

1988-1989      Master in Labor and Tax advising

Autonomous University of Madrid and the European Social Fund

Master in Law

1978-1983       School of Law, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Graduated in Law

Professional positions

• Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Professor of Labour Law (since 1997), Associate Professor of Labor Law (1989-1996). Catedrática de Derecho del Trabajo
• Deputy Judge from the High Court of Justice of Madrid (2013)
• Vice President of the Spanish Association of Labor Law and Social Security (since 2013)
• Constitutional Court, Constitutional Court Law Clerk (2000-2001). Constitutional Court Judge Law Clerk  (2001-2007) of Judge Eugenio Gay Montalvo, former President of the General Council of Spanish Lawyers and Vice President of the Constitutional Court from 20011-2012. Main Task: Study of cases (appeals): Legal Reports for the Constitutional Judges and Preparation of draft judgments and court rulings
• General Secretary of the Spanish Association of Labor Law and Social Security (2004-2012)
• Member on the Board of the Association of Lawyers of the Constitutional Court from 2005 to 2007.
• Centro Studi di Relazioni Industrial (Centro di ricerca interdipartimentale dell‘ Università di Cagliari), Visiting Scholar (sep. 2008- jan. 2009).
• Vice Dean of the Law Faculty (UAM) (1995-2000) 
• Visiting researcher: Berkeley University (1994) with Prof. Frank P.Newman and in Louisiana State University with Prof. John Devlin
•  Practicing Lawyer in a Law Firm (1988-1990) Labor and civil law

.Recent and Representative Publications[*]

 Books

Co-Director:

• Lessons on Labor Procedure Law, Tirant lo Blanch (Valencia), 2013 (printing)
• Lessons on European Social Law, Tirant Lo Blanch (Valencia), 2011
• One Hundred Years of Social Security, Madrid (UNED) 2000

Monographs

• The prohibition of unfair competition in the labor contract as a manifestation of the contractual duty of good faith, Pamplona ( Aranzadi ), 1997
• Post contractual covenants not to compete, Madrid (Mc Grau- Hill), 1998
• Craft unions and collective bargaining, Valencia (Tirant lo Blanch ) 2001
• The Supreme Court doctrine in Social Security. A synthesis of case law (1991-1996), Valencia (Tirant lo Blanch), 1997 in collaboration with Supreme Court Judge Aurelio Desdentado Bonete
• The writ of amparo: a labor approach, Valencia (Tirant lo Blanch), 2005 , in collaboration with Jesus Mercader Uguina

Articles and Book Chapters

Author of numerous articles on Labour Law and case law reviews of ECJ, ECHR, Spanish Constitutional Court and Spanish Supreme Court on Labor law and fundamental social rights (vid. Complete Cv). Some of them:

• Quarterly Review of case law the European Court of Human Rights, the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Spanish Constitutional Court (Actum Social, Editorial Francis Lefebvre) for 10 years

• Appeals, remedies and other means of judicial review, in AAVV (Dir. M.NOGUEIRA/G BECEDAS) Lecciones de Jurisdicción Social, Tirant lo Blanch (Valencia), 2013, pp 763-817

• From Spanish first preliminary ruling to the first Constitutional Court preliminary ruling: a gain with irregresividad principle in Social Security: the case of Giménez Zaera, Revista del Ministerio de Empleo y Seguridad Social, nº 102, 2013, págs. 35-72

• The progressive social policy of the European Union in AAVV Lecciones de derecho social de la Unión Europea / Magdalena Nogueira Guastavino (dir.), Olga Fotinopoulou Basurko (dir.), José María Miranda Boto (dir.), 2012, ISBN 978-84-9004-592-3, págs. 27-58

• Transfer of undertakings and collective redundancies in AAVV Lecciones de derecho social de la Unión Europea / Magdalena Nogueira Guastavino (dir.), Olga Fotinopoulou Basurko (dir.), José María Miranda Boto (dir.), 2012, ISBN 978-84-9004-592-3 págs. 415-464

• Discrimination in access to employment, professional categories, training and promotion: trends in collective bargaining, AAVV (Dir. Olimpia Molina) Negociando la igualdad en las empresas estado de la cuestión y estrategias para la implementación de una política de igualdad de género”, Comares, 2012

• Craft Union in a global cyberc unionism, AAVV (Valdés Dal-.Re, M.L. Molero), La representación de los trabajadores en las nuevas organizaciones de empresa”, Madrid (MTIN, Fundación Largo Caballero), 2010, pp. 151-182

• Judicial protection of the principle of equality and non discrimination, AAVV (Olimpia Molina), Gestión práctica de Planes de igualdad, Madrid (Bomarzo, CARL), 2010 

• The Spanish Constitutional Court doctrine on social rights of non-EU citizens en AAVV (R. Escudero), Inmigración y movilidad de los trabajadores, Madrid (La Ley Wolters Kluwer), 2010, pp. 431-475

• Compensation for violation of fundamental rights, in Indemnizaciones por Responsabilidades Laborales 2010-2011, Madrid, Francis Lefvbre, 2010

• Purpose and scope of the Organic Law on Equality between women and men. Commentary on the Preliminary Title, in AA.VV. (Dir. A.V. Sempere Navarro y C. Sánchez Trigueros), Comentarios a la Ley Orgánica 3/2007, de 22 de marzo, para la Igualdad efectiva entre mujeres y hombres, Colección Grandes Tratados, Pamplona (Aranzadi), 2008, págs. 45-83

• Contractions and expansions in the reform of the Organic Law of the Constitutional Court: premature birth motion of the nullity incident (motion for reversal), Teoría y derecho: revista de pensamiento jurídico, ISSN 1888-3443, Nº. 3, 2008, págs. 205-232

• The parties to collective agreements in atypical Statutory Collective Agreements:
  group of companies, intersectoral networks, temporary agencies and crafts agreements, in VV. (Dir. F. Valdés Dal-Re y J. Lahera) Manual jurídico de negociación Colectiva, Madrid (La Ley), Colección Manuales Profesionales, 2008, págs. 291-336

• Extinction of contract of employment and age discrimination, in AA.VV., Tratado de Jubilación. Homenaje al prof. L.E. de la Villa Gil con ocasión de su jubilación Madrid (Iustel), 2007

• The scope of Social Security protection: occupational accident and illness allowances, in   VV. (Dir. De la Villa) , Derecho de la Seguridad Social, Valencia (Tirant lo Blanch), 2004,  4 ed, páginas 310 a 341

• Scope of the General Social Security System, in AAVV. (Dir. L.E. De la Villa Gil), Ley General de Seguridad Social. Comentarios, jurisprudencia concordancias y doctrina, Madrid (Colex), 2004, págs. 305-318,

• Limits of the negative effect of res judicata, in AAVV El Proceso Laboral. Estudios en homenaje al Profesor Luis Enrique de la Villa Gil, Valladolid (Ed. Lex Nova), 2001, págs. 683 a 724

• The rejection by the Constitutional Court of of unconstitutionality exceptions raised about the RDL 8/2010 due to the reduction of the salaries of public employees, Aranzadi Social, núm. 60/2011

• The constitutional doctrine of direct discrimination on grounds of pregnancy in the XXI century, Revista del Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración, núm. 73, 2008, págs. 171-204.

• The binomial „action-reaction“: evolution and latest trends on indemnity guarantee (non retaliation principle), Revista Española de Derecho del Trabajo, núm. 132, 2006, págs. 907 a 956.

• Subsidiarity of the amparo appeal and the dangerous boomerang effect of dilatation of the content of freedom of association: comment to the judgment of the Constitutional Court 92/2005, of April 18, Aranzadi Social, ISSN 1131-5369, núm. 11, 2005, págs. 43-70.

• The progressive extension of indemnity in the remuneration of union representatives in the doctrine of the Constitutional Court, Revista General de Derecho del Trabajo y de la Seguridad Social (Iustel), núm. 9, 2005, págs 1-19

• Death and predictable resurrection of compulsory retirement clauses in collective agreements, Revista Social Mes a Mes, Editorial Francis Lefebvre, agosto/septiembre, 2004, págs. 36 a 44.

• Commentary on the Constitutional Court Judgment 239/2002, of December 11: the myth of Pandora and welfare in XXI century, Revista General de Derecho del Trabajo y de la Seguridad Social (Iustel), núm. 1, 2002, págs. 1-18

• Legal Engineering and temporary employment: the dim boundaries between contracts and agency work, Temas Laborales, Revista Andaluza de Trabajo, núm. 56, 2000, págs. 221 a 258

III. Research  Areas

Fundamental Rights and Labor Law

Collective and individual Labor rights

European Social Law

Labor Procedure Law

Others

• Independent expert: Project on the Dutch Law on Flexibility and Security (European Commission DGV Peer Review Program 2000 Flexibility and Security Act The Netherlands , 2000)
• Independent expert (peer review): Projects evaluation in the China – EU School of Law (2011).

• Member of the research team of some European Projects:

• “International industrial relations: increasing and disseminating expertise. Focus on the Mediterranean countries” Project on European Commission (DG EMPL) budget line: 04.03.03.01. Reference: VP/2012/0418 –SI2.635886 (2013)

• “Internal market in Europe: sanctions and procedures for unlawful collective actions” (2010) Project of The Swedish Council for Working Life Research (FAS) (Prof. Malmberg)

• “Unity and flexibility in the future of the European Union” Project Jean Monnet (REF: 141396-LLP-1_2008-ES-AJM-IC) with a conference about “Other specifics areas and possibilities of using the enhanced cooperation instrument”

• The regionalization of Public Employment Services. A comparative Analysis between Belgium, Italy and Spain directed by Proffesor Piera Loi and developed by the Fondatione Pietro Seveso (2000). Project (DGV: VC/1999/0162)

• Flexibility and Security Act. The Netherlands (Coord: Monika Natter: ÖSB Consulting GmbH and INBAS) “Mutual Learning Programme, of the European Employment Strategy” European Commission DGV Peer Review Programme (2000).

• Member of several Spanish Research Projects and Public contracts:

• The applicative dimension of labor standards: a sectorial study
• Key issues of labor law reform
• Structure and content of collective bargaining in the Autonomous Community of Madrid, with particular reference to their impact on employment and labor mobility
• Alternatives to traditional teaching in law schools
• Collective bargaining on employment layoffs
• Problems of worker representation in the new business organizations

• Numerous conferences on Labor Law subjects in Spain and other countries.

• Member of the editorial board of several National Reviews [Revista General de Derecho del Trabajo y de la Seguridad Social (Iustel); Boletín del Ministerio de Justicia]

• External evaluator for national and European reviews [Revista Española de Derecho Europeo; Revista Europea de Derechos Fundamentales; Collana Diritto del lavoro nei sistema giuridici nazionali, integrati e transnazionali fondata da G. Pera, L. Nogler e S. Sciara]

• Permanent collaborator in Editorial Francis Lefebvre

[*] The Books and Articles have been published in Spanish and their Titles have been translated into English.