IV Seminario Int. en Cultura de la Legalidad y Lucha contra la Corrupción

The 4th International Seminar on the Culture of Legality and the Fight against Corruption: Analysis of the State Anti-Corruption Plan (2025) is conceived as a high-level academic meeting devoted to the critical, interdisciplinary, and practice-oriented analysis of the new institutional strategies for public integrity promoted in Spain within the framework of the State Anti-Corruption Plan approved by the Government in the summer of 2025.

This Plan, structured around five pillars and fifteen measures, constitutes a strategic roadmap aimed at strengthening the prevention, investigation, and sanctioning of corrupt practices, while advancing toward a more ethical, transparent, and resilient public administration in the face of one of the most serious threats to contemporary democracy. Among its most significant measures is the creation of an Independent Public Integrity Agency, conceived as a central body for the oversight, prevention, and prosecution of corruption within the General State Administration.

The seminar is organized around thematic panels that combine theoretical reflection, specialized academic contributions, and direct institutional participation.

PROGRAM

9:45 a.m. Reception

9:55 a.m. Opening remarks

10:00 a.m. Panel 1. Voices in the Culture of Legality
Prof. Dr. Álvaro Núñez (University of Murcia)
Prof. Dr. Fernando A. Vázquez-Portomeñe (University of Santiago de Compostela)
Mr. Joan-Antoni Llinares (Former Director of the Agency for the Prevention and Fight against Fraud and Corruption of the Valencian Community, 2017–2024)

Chair: Yolanda Gómez (UC3M)

11:30 a.m. Coffee break

12:00 p.m. Panel 2. Public Integrity Agencies in Comparative Perspective
Ms. Marta Blázquez (Deputy Director of the Andalusian Anti-Fraud Office)
Prof. Dr. Luís Macedo Pinto de Sousa (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Dr. Lorenzo Segato (RE-ACT, Italy)
Mr. Richard Martínez (Former member of the SCPC and the AFA, France)
Prof. Dr. Manuel Villoria (President of the Independent Whistleblower Protection Authority)

Chair: Isabel Wences (UCM)

2:15 p.m. Lunch break

3:45 p.m. Panel 3. Prior Appointment under Debate
Dr. Andrea Bravo (HayDerecho Foundation)
Dr. Germán J. Arenas (HayDerecho Foundation)
Prof. and lawyer Diego Gómez (University of Vigo)

Chair: David García (UC3M)

5:30 p.m. Conclusions and closing

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Directors: Yolanda Gómez (UC3M) and José María Sauca (UC3M)
Secretary: David García (UC3M)

Funding

State Network on the Culture of Legality and the Fight against Corruption [3]. Grant RED2022-134265-T funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the State Research Agency (MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033).

Interuniversity Program on the Culture of Legality (4Trust-CM, ref. PHS-2024/PH-HUM-65), funded by the Community of Madrid under the 2024 call for R&D programs in Human and Social Processes.

In collaboration with

HayDerecho Foundation
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