Manuel García Muñoz

Manuel García Muñoz serves as Professor in the Department of Private Law at Pablo de Olavide University, specializing in Labor and Social Security Law. He leads the research group Citizenship in Business: Fundamental Rights in the Workplace and was formerly affiliated with the Labor Law Section of the Faculty of Economics and Civil Sciences.

He earned his PhD from Pablo de Olavide University in 2005 with the thesis Unitary representation in Spain, a form of trade union organization, supervised by Dr. Manuel Ramón Alarcón Caracuel. His academic profile falls under the PAIDI Area of Social and Legal Sciences and the Doctoral Program on Welfare State and Social Rights.

His research examines Labor Law and Social Security Law through the lens of workplace fundamental rights, with emphasis on Spanish trade union structures and corporate citizenship frameworks. Key focus areas include labor representation models, business-employee rights interfaces, and social security systems within evolving workplace dynamics.

The Citizenship in Business research group investigates practical implementations of constitutional rights in corporate environments, analyzing legal frameworks governing employee representation and social dialogue mechanisms in Spanish business contexts.