Diana Sancho
Lecturer in Commercial Law
Email: diana.sancho@leicester.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)116 252 2649
Personal details
- Licenciada (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
- LLM (London School of Economics)
- PhD (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Biography
I completed my PhD on the cross-border mobility of companies within the EU (2001).
Later, I published a monograph on international transfers of personal data (2003) and explored the topic further publishing a book on international business on personal data (2010).
Originally from Spain, I was associate professor of Private International Law at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos from 2009-2013.
I have been a member of a number of research projects on contractual obligations, non-contractual obligations and international aspects of company Law.
I was a research Fellow at the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University in 2003, 2004 and 2006.
I joined the University of Leicester in September 2013.
Teaching
- Conflict of Laws
- Commercial Conflict of Laws
- European Union Law
Publications
- “Developing Search Engine Law: It Is Not Just about the Right to Be Forgotten”, Legal Issues of Economic Integration 42, no. 4 (2015): 357–382.
- Negocios internacionales de tratamiento de datos personales, Thomson Reuters-Civitas, 2010, 270 pp.
- Transferencia internacional de datos personales, Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, 2003, 294 pp.
- La transferencia internacional de la sede social en el espacio europeo, Eurolex, 2001, 364 pp.
- “Tratamiento de datos para la satisfacción del interés legítimo del responsable: a propósito de la Sentencia de 24 noviembre de 2011 del Tribunal de Justicia”, nº 54, January 11, 2011, www.datospersonales.org
- “Art. 2.1. Ámbito de aplicación territorial”, Comentario a la Ley de Protección de Datos, Antonio Troncoso (Dir.), Thomson Reuters-Civitas, 2010, pp. 91-109
- “Jurisdiction over jurisdiction and choice of court agreements: views on the Hague Convention of 2005 and implications for the European regime”, Yearbook of Private International Law, XII, 2010, pp. 399-418
- Sancho Villa D./Gardeñes Santiago M./ Upegui Villegas C., “La Ley 3/2009, de 3 de abril, sobre modificaciones estructurales de las sociedades mercantiles y el Derecho internacional privado de sociedades”, Anuario Español de Derecho Internacional Privado, 2009 pp. 595-624
- “Normas corporativas vinculantes (binding corporate rules): aspectos sustantivos y de cooperación internacional”, Revista Española de Protección de Datos, 4, 2008, pp. 35-60
- “Exclusión de la responsabilidad del Estado por actos iure imperii en Roma II: consideraciones sobre la aplicación del Reglamento a la responsabilidad del Estado por actos iure gestiones”, Anuario Español de Derecho International Privado, 2007, pp. 353-368
- “Developing Search Engine Law: It Is Not Just about the Right to Be Forgotten”, Legal Issues of Economic Integration 42, no. 4 (2015): 357–382.
Research
- Private International Law (Jurisdiction, Choice of Laws, Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments)
- International Commercial Litigation
- EU Data Protection Law
- the interaction between EU and national law
Supervision
I welcome expressions of interest from prospective doctoral students within the areas of my research interests.