Betancor Rodríguez, Andrés

Law

PhD: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

BIO

Andrés Betancor is a Full Professor of Administrative Law at CUNEF Universidad. He has been a teaching Administrative Law full-time since 1987, working in four other universities (Universidad de La Laguna, CEU, Carlos III and Pompeu Fabra) before joining CUNEF. Specifically, he was an Assistant Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (1990), then a Professor of Administrative Law at the same university (1990 to 2003), and finally, a Full Professor of Administrative Law at Universidad Pompeu Fabra (2003 to September 2024).

He has gained recognition for four sexenios (six-year research periods), supervised four doctoral theses (which were awarded the highest grade) and led four competitive research projects.

Outside academia, he was a member of the Junta Electoral Central (Central Electoral Commission) from November 2017 to December 2019. He received the ANGED award for his research on free trade in 2011 and was awarded the Cross of the Order of Civil Merit in 2019.

Research Interests

In addition to the general areas of administrative law, Professor Betancor’s research focuses on administrative power, discretionary power, the contentious-administrative jurisdiction process, the administrative act, organisations, and economic and environmental regulation. More recently, his interests have expanded to include issues related to the democratic institutional framework.

Career

In addition to his work as a professor in four universities prior to joining CUNEF, he has also held the following academic management roles:

Director of the seminar on “Institutions of the Democratic Rule of Law”, Rafael del Pino Foundation, 2020–Present

Chair of the Commission for the Accreditation of University Faculty for Legal Sciences, ANECA, September 2016–April 2018

Full member of the Commission for the Accreditation of Professors of Social and Legal Sciences, ANECA, September 2013–September 2016

Co-director of the Master in Public Law, Universidad Pompeu Fabra , 2004–2012

Director of the Master in Environmental Policy and Management, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 1996–2003

Publications in Scientific Journals

Betancor, Andrés (ed): “Instituciones del Estado democrático de Derecho, conversaciones. Contribución a la cultura cívica de la institucionalidad democrática”, Fundación Rafael del Pino – Boletín Oficial del Estado, Madrid, 2025.

Betancor, Andrés: “Responsabilidad y aseguramiento por daños ambientales. El caso Prestige”, Ed. Boletín Oficial del Estado, Madrid, pp. 247, 2018.

Betancor, Andrés: “Derecho Ambiental”, Ed. La Ley, grupo Wolters Kluwer, Las Rozas, Madrid, pp. 1860, 2014.

Betancor, Andrés: “¿España de los territorios o de los ciudadanos? La captura territorial de la libertad de comercio”, Ed. Iustel, Madrid, pp. 581, 2014.

Betancor, Andrés: “La revisión casacional de la prueba en el contencioso-administrativo”, Civitas Thomson Reuters, Cizur Menor, pp. 250, 2012.

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