María López Belloso
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1979 (age 46–47)
University of the Basque Country (PG)
María López Belloso | |
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 María López Belloso | |
| Born | María López Belloso 1979 (age 46–47) |
| Alma mater | University of Deusto (BA, MA, PhD) University of the Basque Country (PG) |
| Occupations | Lawyer, jurist, human rights activist and writer |
| Employer(s) | University of the Basque Country University of Deusto |
María López Belloso (Santurtzi, 1979)[1] is a Basque lawyer, jurist, human rights activist and writer.[2]
She specializes in human rights, international humanitarian law and international law. She is also specialized in Western Sahara region.[3][4] She is also an activist for women's rights and gender equality.[5][6]
María López Belloso was born in Santurtzi (Basque Country) in 1979.[1] She studied a licenciate degree in law at the University of Deusto (1997–2002).[7] She later obtained a master's degree in international humanitarian action (NOHA) at the University of Deusto (2002–2003), and a postgraduate degree in public international law at the University of the Basque Country (2003–2005).[7]
She obtained her doctorate in law and human rights at the University of Deusto in 2017 with the thesis "The processes of truth, justice and reparation for victims of forced disappearance in the Western Sahara conflict", directed by Carlos Martín Beristain and Felipe Gomez Isa.[8] In 2018 she was awarded the Brunet Prize for the best doctoral thesis on human rights, awarded by the Jaime Brunet Foundation.[1][9][10]
She specializes in human rights, international humanitarian law and international law. She is also specialized in Western Sahara region.[3][4]
Between 2005 and 2009 she was a researcher in the field of human rights at the University of the Basque Country and the HEGOA Institute for Development and International Cooperation Studies. She was also a university teacher of Public International Law at the University of the Basque Country until 2012.[citation needed]
In 2018 she was a speaker at the International Congress on Human Rights, together with the computer scientist Borja Sanz Urquijo, with the conference "Hic Sunt draconis: Human Rights and Big data, analysis of an unexplored collaboration", on the effect that big data and artificial intelligence (AI) can have on human rights.[11] For that conference, López and Sanz received the ICHR Award for the best conference on human rights.[12]
She is currently a researcher and university teacher at the University of Deusto.[13] She specializes in the challenges that artificial intelligence (AI) can bring to human rights.[14][15][16]
She is currently part of the EU project Gearing Roles (Gender Equality Actions in Research Institutions to transform Gender ROLES), on the equality of men and women in the university environment, equality plans and the situation of women in teaching and research.[17][18]
