Francisco José Villar Rojas

Francisco José Villar Rojas is a Professor in the Department of Basic Legal Disciplines at the University of La Laguna, Spain, affiliated with the IUDR institute. He supervises doctoral candidates across three PhD programs: Law, Society and Tourism; Tourism; and Law.

His educational background includes:

• PhD in Law from the University of La Laguna (1991) with thesis 'Privatization and Regulation of Public Services in Great Britain', supervised by Dr. Juan Miguel de la Cuétara Martínez.

His research centers on Administrative Law, Digital Law, Welfare State frameworks, Tourism Law, and Law-Society intersections. As a core member of the Administrative Law (DA) and Law, Digitalization and Welfare State (DERDIGEB) research groups, he investigates digital transformation's impact on regulatory systems and welfare-state evolution, with particular focus on tourism-sector legal frameworks. His work bridges theoretical legal scholarship with practical governance challenges in contemporary European contexts.

Villar Rojas mentors doctoral students through structured supervision in interdisciplinary legal studies, emphasizing empirical analysis of privatization, digital governance, and tourism regulation. His research infrastructure operates through the IUDR institute and the DA/DERDIGEB groups, which facilitate collaborative projects on state administration in digital societies.