Francisco Martinez Rivas

Prof. Francisco Martinez Rivas holds the rank of Professor at the Universidad de Murcia's Faculty of Law, within the Department of Legal History and Criminal and Criminological Sciences. His research focuses on criminal law and criminological sciences, with historical and comparative perspectives.

He completed his doctorate at Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia in 2010, supervised by Dr. Francisco de la Torre Olid and Dr. Javier Carrascosa González. His dissertation, La prueba del derecho extranjero en la jurisprudencia española (Evidence of Foreign Law in Spanish Jurisprudence), examines legal procedures for foreign law application in courts.

His scholarly work intersects criminal justice, international law, and judicial practices, emphasizing evidentiary challenges in multinational cases.