is a Ramon y Cajal Researcher and Professor of Private International Law at Basque Country University. Doctor in Law with extraordinary prize by the University of the Basque Country. She has been a visiting scholar at Max Planck Institut, Für Ausländisches Und Nternationales (Hamburg) at University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), at L’Ecole doctorale de Droit international, Droit européen, relations internationales et Droit comparé de l’Université Panthéon Assas, (Paris) and at International Instittute for The Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), (Rome). She has been teaching (either in Grade either in Master) Private International Law, European Private Law and International Commerce at the University of Buenos Aires, UNED, Basque Country University, at Santiago de Compostela University, at Deusto University and UNIR. She has been involved in several research projects, six of them European Research Projects financed by the European Commission (Directorate-General Justice). She is author of two books, and several book chapters, and she has published numerous papers in scientifics journals. Her current research interests are focused on International Private Law, European Law, Successions Law and Businesses and Human rights. She is member of Globernance. Institute for Democratic Governance, Real Sociedad Bascongada de Amigos del País, Academia Vasca de Derecho and Spanish Associaton of International law teachers, too