Mikel Anderez Belategi

Mikel Anderez Belategi is a adjunct lecturer in Criminal Law at the University of the Basque Country-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU) and a member of the research team at the Unesco Chair in Human Rights and Public Authorities. He is also a member of the Research Group Hate Crimes in Spain: pending challenges, funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Spanish Government (PID2020-15320GB-100).

His research focuses on the penitentiary execution of sentences, and he is the author of several publications on prison law, life imprisonment, hate speech and freedom of expression. In 2022, he defended his doctoral thesis entitled "Reintegration as an individual guarantee for persons deprived of liberty: an interpretive proposal in the light of international human rights standards and constitutional jurisprudence". He has obtained the accreditation of Profesor Agregado in may 2024.