Woolf Public Seminar | Politics, Law, and Technology | Juan D. María | Towards a Political Theory of Municipalities

​Please note: This seminar will be hosted in Spanish.

​Hosted by Andres Gonzalez Watty and Juan D. María, the seminar titled “Towards a Political Theory of Municipalities” (or, in Spanish "Hacia una ciencia política de lo municipal") seeks to explore concepts and categories that help explain a shift of power towards municipalities in a world where the presence and effectiveness of nation-states are waning, and attention has increasingly turned to global and transnational governance — all within a context shaped by technological developments such as Bitcoin.

Juan D. María is a researcher in Philosophy and Theory of Law in the context of new technologies and biotechnology at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). Holds a degree in Law and Philosophy (UCM) and a Master’s in Auditing and Advanced Accounting from the General council of Economists.

​Contributor at the Juan de Mariana Institute. Postgraduate Lecturer at UCEMA.

​Andres Gonzalez Watty holds a Doctorate in Socio-Legal Studies from the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford, a Master’s in Regulation from the London School of Economics, a Master’s in Public Administration and Policy from the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE), and a Bachelor’s degree in Law from Universidad Panamericana.

​He is Dean of Authstone College (Woolf, ad honorem) and serves as Legal Clerk in Justice Laynez’s chambers at the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN). He has also been Academic Coordinator at the Federal School of Judicial Training.

​He has taught and continues to teach at institutions such as ITAM, Universidad Panamericana, INFOTEC, Escuela Libre de Derecho, and the Federal School of Judicial Training. He is the author of books and publications both in Mexico and abroad.