Biography

Ruth Rubio Marín is Adjunct Professor at the School of Transnational Governance (STG), where she leads the work on Gender Governance. She is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Sevilla, as well as member of the Faculty of The Hauser Global Law School Program at New York University.

Previously, Professor Rubio Marín held a Chair in Comparative Public Law at the European University Institute. She has taught at several other prestigious academic institutions, including Columbia Law School and Princeton University, where she was selected as a Fellow for the Program in Law and Public Affairs.

Her research represents an attempt to understand how public law creates categories of inclusion and exclusion around different axes including gender, citizenship, nationality and ethnicity. Methodologically, she combines law and political theory.

As a consultant and activist, Professor Rubio Marín has worked for several national and international institutions and agencies, including the UN and the EU, as well as NGOs such as the International Center for Transitional Justice. She has given talks and keynote speeches in over 25 countries, and is an occasional contributor to public opinion formation through editorials in national and international press.

Fields of expertise

• Gender equality
• Gender governance
• Comparative constitutional law

Recent research output

• RUBIO MARIN, Ruth (2022), En defensa de la paridad como forma de entender la democracia, con vocación de permanencia: En respuesta a Micaela Alterio, Article

• LOMBARDO, Emanuela; KANTOLA, Johanna; RUBIO MARIN, Ruth (2021), De-democratization and opposition to gender equality politics in Europe, Article

• RUBIO MARIN, Ruth (2021), On constitutionalism and women's citizenship, Article

• RUBIO MARIN, Ruth; KYMLICKA, Will (ed/s), (2018), Gender parity and multicultural feminism : towards a new synthesis, Book

• RUBIO MARIN, Ruth; ESTRADA-TANCK, Dorothy (2020), Transitional justice standards on reparations for women subjected to violence in the CEDAW committee’s evolving legal practice, Article

• RUBIO MARIN, Ruth (2020), Engendering the Spanish monarchy : modernizing or abolishing?, Article