Dr Pablo Castillo-Ortiz

School of Law

Senior Lecturer

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Bartolomé House

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Dr Pablo Castillo-Ortiz
School of Law
Bartolomé House
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND
Profile

I joined the School of Law of the University of Sheffield in 2013 as a Lecturer, and in 2022 I was promoted to Senior Lecturer.

My research focuses on the role of judicial institutions in democratic systems and processes of regional integration (particularly the European Union). My work has been published in journals such as, inter alia, European Constitutional Law Review, European Political Science Review, and Comparative European Politics. I also have been cited in Amicus Curiae briefs submitted to the European Court of Human Rights, and featured or published in international media such as France 24, El País and EUObserver.

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (now Advance HE). I enjoy teaching and helping students grow academically through an interdisciplinary legal education. In my classes I value the diversity of viewpoints of students and I try to create a respectful and friendly learning environment for all.

Qualifications
  • PhD in Law and Politics Science, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
  • MA in Democracy and Government, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
  • LLB Law, Universidad de Almería (Spain)
Research interests
  • Constitutional Review
  • Judicial Politics
  • Regional Integration
  • Comparative constitutional institutions
  • Empirical legal studies

Member of the Sheffield Institute of Corporate and Commercial Law and the Sheffield Centre for International and European Law research clusters.

Publications

Books

  • Castillo-Ortiz P (2023) . Switzerland: Springer Nature.
  • Castillo Ortiz PJ, Medina I, Álamos-Concha P & Rihoux B (2017) Análisis Cualitativo Comparado (QCA). Madrid: Centro De Investigaciones Sociológicas.
  • Castillo Ortiz PJ (2015) . Routledge.

Journal articles

  • Castillo Ortiz P & Roznai Y (2024) . ICL Journal, 18(1), 1-24.
  • Castillo Ortiz P (2024) . Legal Studies, 44(2), 242-259.
  • Castillo‐Ortiz P (2023) . JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies.
  • Castillo Ortiz P (2022) . International Journal of Constitutional Law, 20(2), 733-757.
  • Castillo Ortiz P (2020) . Law and Philosophy, 39, 617-655.
  • Navarrete R & Castillo Ortiz PJ (2020) . Comparative European Politics, 18(2), 128-150.
  • Castillo Ortiz P (2020) . Journal of Law and Society, 47(1), 87-120.
  • Castillo Ortiz P (2019) . European Political Science Review, 11(4), 503-520.
  • Castillo Ortiz PJ, Ali A & Samanta N (2019) . Journal of Human Rights, 18(1), 76-91.
  • Castillo Ortiz PJ (2019) . European Constitutional Law Review, 15(1), 48-72.
  • Ortiz PJC (2017) . German Law Journal, 18(4), 799-822.
  • Castillo Ortiz PJ (2017) . The Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, 9(2), 315-336.
  • Castillo Ortiz PJ (2017) National Higher Courts and European Integration. A Survey of Six Decades of Academic Inquiry. German Law Journal, 18(4).
  • Castillo Ortiz PJ (2016) . Social and Legal Studies.
  • Castillo Ortiz PJ & Medina I (2016) . Contemporary Politics, 22(1), 40-56.
  • Castillo Ortiz PJ & Medina I (2015) . Revista Española de Derecho Constitucional.
  • Castillo Ortiz PJ (2015) . Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, 7(1), 27-47.
  • Castillo Ortiz PJ (2015) The Contested 'Constitution' of the EU and the quest for ever-democratic constitutionalism. Panoptica, 10(1).
  • Castillo Ortiz PJ (2014) . Isegoria(51), 575-596.
  • Castillo Ortiz P (2014) . European Law Journal, 20(5), 630-648.
  • Castillo Ortiz PJ (2014) La crisis y las transformaciones del derecho público estatal y europeo vistas por la academia española [the crisis and the transformations of Spanish and European public law from the perspective of the Spanish academy]. Revista de Estudios Políticos, 165, 281-304.
  • Ortiz PJC (2013) The judicial policy of the Spanish Constitutional Court in the process of ratifying European Union treaties: Approximation based on a new juridical realism. Revista De Estudios Politicos(159), 107-138.
  • Castillo Ortiz P (2013) La política judicial del tribunal constitucional en los procesos de ratificación de tratados de la Unión Europea: aproximación desde un nuevo realismo jurídico [The Judicial Politics of the Constitutional Court in the Processes of Ratification of European Union Treaties: approach from a new legal realism]. Revista de Estudios Políticos, 159.
  • Castillo Ortiz P (2013) Taking rights ironically: ¿qué nos enseñan sobre el educado liberalismo los groseros populistas de extrema derecha? [Taking rights ironically: what do the rude extreme-right populists teach us about the educated liberalism?]. Astrolabio. Revista Internacional de Filosofía, 14.
  • Castillo Ortiz P (2009) La inserción jurídica de las autonomías en la Unión Europea : "instucionalización" y "democratización" como rasgos centrales de un proceso inacabado” [The participation of Spanish autonomic communities in the European Union: democratization and institutionalization as core characteristics of an unfinished process]. RDUNED. Revista de Derecho UNED, 4.

Book chapters

  • Castillo-Ortiz P (2021) Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) as an empirical method for international law1, Research Methods in International Law A Handbook (pp. 326-343).
  • Castillo Ortiz P & Closa Montero (2012) National Courts and Ratification of the EU Treaties: Assessing the Impact of Political Contexts in Judicial Decisions In Evas T, Lord C & Liebert E (Ed.), Multilayered Representation in the European Union (pp. 129-155).

Reports

  • Castillo Ortiz PJ, Closa C & Palestini S (2016) Regional Organisations and Mechanisms for Democracy Protection in Latin America, the Caribbean and the European Union

Other

  • Castillo Ortiz PJ (2018) Partnering for Democracy: Protecting the Democratic Order in Post-Brexit Europe.
Research group

Areas of Research Supervision

I am happy to supervise students in my areas of research specialisation.

Grants

Title/Description: The Protection of Democracy in Integration Organizations in Europe and Latin-America and the Caribbean

  • Awarding Body: EU-LAC Foundation
  • People involved: Carlos Juan Closa Montero (PI), Pablo José Castillo Ortiz, José Antonio Sanahuja, Diana Tussie, Cintia Quiliconi
  • Years funded for: 2014-2015
  • Amount: €30,000
Teaching interests

I know how important a high-quality teaching is for my students. I try to combine the teaching of core and basic contents of each subject with the explanation of latest developments in the field, so that students are aware of which are the main current social and academic debates.

In the Spanish law modules that I teach I reproduce the main patterns of Spanish academia so that students can get familiar with it, I stimulate debate in Spanish language and encourage participation.

My aim is to get the best from my students, and for that reason I take into account what their starting point is and what their personal and social constraints are.

Topics I am interested in teaching:

  • Constitutional Law
  • Spanish Law
  • EU Law
  • Law and Politics
Teaching activities

Undergraduate

  • Spanish Legal Language (Convenor)
  • Legal and Political Culture and the Spanish-Speaking World (Convenor)
  • Principles of Comparative Law (Convenor)
  • Spanish Law and Legal System (Convenor)
  • Law, Accountability and Government
  • Introduction to Comparative Law (convenor)
Professional activities and memberships
  • Member of the Advisory Board of Compasss, an international network for the development and dissemination of configurational methods of empirical research
  • Reviewer for Revista de Estudios Políticos
  • Member of the International Association for Public Law (ICON-S)
  • Member of the Spanish Political Science Association (AECPA)
  • Author of contributions for the newspaper El País and for ‘Contrapoder’ in Eldiario.es