The former Attorney General of the State Álvaro García Ortiz will be in charge of opening this Thursday the XXX Human Rights Courses (DDHH) of San Sebastián, through a conference he will give at the Aldapeta María Ikastetxea school.
The event will begin at seven in the evening in the auditorium of this educational center. Álvaro García Ortiz, Attorney General of the State between 2022 and 2025 and an expert in the environment at the Fiscalía of the Superior Court of Justice of Galicia (in 2005 he brought the prosecution in the "Caso Prestige"), will deliver a presentation titled "The transformation of Justice".
These XXX Human Rights Courses of San Sebastián are promoted by the Faculty of Law of Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (EHU), in collaboration with the City Council.
The talk, set up as a dialogue with Professor Juan Soroeta Liceras, will focus on analyzing whether Spanish justice needs a transformation and on defining its foundations and its frontiers.
"After a brief reference to the evolution of the Spanish judicial and political system, with an allusion to some of its protagonists, he will propose an approach to the model of constitutional justice; some of the challenges derived from digitalization, new forms of access to information, and the growing complexity of the contemporary legal environment will be examined," the organizers said in a statement.
The intervention will also address the role of the Public Prosecution Service in this scenario and the challenges posed by current demands for the protection of fundamental rights.
Likewise, reference will be made to the speaker’s personal trajectory in the procedure that concluded with his conviction by the Supreme Court, "as a starting point for reflection on the mechanisms of judicial control and on the operation of the rule of law".
The goal of this session, according to the organization, is to offer "a legal and institutional approach to the changes that affect justice and to the conditions under which such changes can be developed without detriment to the constitutional principles and the protection of human rights", with free access until the available capacity is filled.