Legal and Political Research

From its inception, one of the areas of investigation of the Institute of Educational and Social Studies has been the analysis of fundamental legal content in the right to education.

The area is led by the belief that this right ought to serve as the general framework for organization of the systems of education and training in Europe. As much the content of law as the reflection considering freedoms are always present in the approximation of educational reality.

Objectives

This area of investigation of the Institute is specialized in legal and political analyses of education and organized around the Center of Legal-Political Studies for Education. The results of finished works of lawyers in the Center can serve as a constitutional and legal point of reference for educational administration, social commentators and decision makers in public policy in regards to education and training.

Reports, courses and seminars

• • Miguel Ángel Sancho Gargallo presented “The Right to Education as a Framework for Educational Policies” at the International School Choice and Reform Conference in Lisbon, January 2019.  Full paper here.
  • Miguel Ángel Sancho Gargallo presented “Education and Society. Freedom of Education: Challenges” at the Independent Foundation’s 5th National Meeting of Civil Society “Freedom of Education in the 21st Century: Challenges” Full paper here.
  • “Reflections on the Autonomy of Public Schools.” Miguel Ángel Sancho Gargallo. Aragonese Journal of Public Administration, Issue 47-48, 2016.
  • Book: The autonomy of the public school by Miguel Angel Sancho, president of the Foundation. December 2015.
  • Edition of the book: Educational system and territorial decentralization. Following the corresponding project in collaboration with the Universidad Complutense. 2015.
  • Society and Education participated in the 4th annual conference “International School Choice & Reform” in February in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Miguel Ángel Sancho presented the report: “Is the new Spanish education law an opportunity for school choice in the public system?” (Abstract).
  • How regional governments face the issue of school autonomy. Miguel Ángel Sancho Gargallo. Revista de Educación edition 366. October to December of 2014.
  • Autonomía y liderazgo en la LOMCE. Miguel Ángel Sancho Gargallo. Published in  El Cronista del Estado Social y Democrático de Derecho, 46th edition, June 2014.
  • Society and Education participated in the 3rd annual conference “International School Choice & Reform” in January 2014 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Miguel Ángel Sancho presented the report “Public school autonomy: a comparative view of education in England, Holland and Sweden (Abstract).”
  • Society and Education participated in the “Second World Conference on the Right to Education” organized by the European Association for Educational Law and Policies (ELA) in Brussels. Miguel Angel Sancho presented a report on School Leadership in Spain.
  • Society and Education participated in the 2nd annual conference on “International School Choice and Academic Reform” in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in January of 2013. Miguel Angel Sancho presented “Regional Decentralization versus School Autonomy.”
  • Judicial-constitutional bases for the interpretation and expansion of the right to religious freedom in Spain. Effects of legislative dispositions about strategies for cooperation and intercultural dialogue.
  • Presentation of the diagnostic report “The place of religion in state-funded educational institutions” in the 2010 Bruges Conference organized by the European Law Association: Religion, Beliefs, Philosophical Convictions and Education: from passive tolerance to active appreciation of diversity.
  • ELA Annual Conference from the 20th-21st of November 2009: Commercialization and Competition in Education. Presentations about Competition in Education in Spain by Miguel Angel Sancho and Competition in higher education in Spain by Rafael Caballero.
  • Inaugural “International School Choice and Reform” academic conference at Nova Southeastern University Fort-Lauderdale, Florida. January 2012. Presentation about “Organizational Structure in State-Run Schools: Autonomy and Pluralism in the Education System.”
  • The right to education and freedom of awareness. Seminar for the 60th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights in collaboration with the Institute of Human Rights and Foundacion Garrigues.
  • The autonomy of educational centers in the European context. Summer course in El Escorial 2008 (UCM and Department of Education of the Community of Madrid).
  • Equality in Educational Opportunities. International Conference organized by ELA Potsdam 2007.
  • “Autonomy and decentralisation in the new legal Framework of the Spanish education system.” Presented in the International Seminar on the Decentralization of Education and Autonomy of Schools. Lisbon, 2007.
  • Participation in the International Symposium on school and social justice. Reality or illusion? Organized by OIDEL. Lisbon, 2007.
  • Educational policy for social cohesion. Summer course in El Escorial 2007. (UCM and the Department of Education of the Community of Madrid).
  • Applications of the constitutional principle of solidarity for the integration of the Spanish education system. II Legal-Political Meetings on Education 2007. The Department of Education of Castilla y Leon.
  • Legal Bases for the Schooling of the student body in the Spanish Education System. I  II Legal-Political Meetings on Education 2005. The Department of Education of both Castilla y Leon.
  • 1st and 2nd Legal seminars on the policy development of the Law of Education (LOE): Observations of the Judicial-Constitutional character. 2005-2006.
  • Liberty, Equality and Pluralism in Education. Summer course in El Escorial 2003 (UCM and the Department of Education of the Community of Madrid).