Associate Professor Marco de Benito holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European Civil Procedure at IE University, where he teaches comparative civil procedure and international arbitration. He also fosters reflection and debate on private law and legal history through the Jean Monnet Module in European Private Law.
He has authored monographs on arbitration agreements (his views having been mirrored by the Spanish Supreme Court) and European justice systems (criticizing the bureaucratization of Spanish civil justice). Some of his publications can be accessed on his Academia webpage. He serves as co-editor-in-chief of Arbitraje, one the leading academic journal on arbitration in Spanish. He is a member of the International Association of Procedural Law, the ICC Institute of World Business Law, and the Procedural Law Board of the Spanish Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation.
Founder of Estudio de Benito, he is often appointed as arbitrator in international matters.
• Founder, Estudio de Benito, 2019 - Present
• Associate Professor of Comparative Civil Procedure and International Arbitration, IE University, 2020 - Present
• Jean Monnet Chair of European Civil Procedure, IE University, 2019 - Present
• Assistant Professor of Comparative Civil Procedure, International Arbitration, Contracts and European Legal History, IE University, 2011 - 2020
• Doctor of Law, Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid, 2010
• Visiting Scholar, Yale Law School, 2008 - 2009
• Guest Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, 2007 - 2008
• Bachelor of Laws, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2000
• De Benito, M., “Back in Focus: Case Overload and Case Selection Standards in the Spanish Supreme Court”, Bravo, P. (coord.), Overburdened Supreme Courts. Transplanting Solutions?, Springer, 2021
• de Benito, M., “Court Management in Spain: Towards a Bureaucratization of Civil Justice,” Jeuland, E., Gestion du tribunal: Pour un principe de coordination en matière de gestion du tribunal, Sorbonne-IRJS, 2020
• de Benito, M., Justicia o burocracia, Civitas, 2017 (foreword by Taruffo, M.).
Wauters, B., de Benito, M., A History of Law in Europe, Edward Elgar, 2017 and 2018 / Historia del derecho en Europa, Aranzadi, 2013
• de Benito, M., El convenio arbitral: su eficacia obligatoria (foreword by Fernández-Armesto, J.), Civitas, 2010
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