María Cruz Díaz de Terán Velasco

María Cruz Díaz de Terán Velasco is a Spanish jurist born in 1977 in Alcoy, Spain. She earned her PhD in Law from the University of Navarra in 2002 with the thesis Law and new eugenics: a study from the law 35/88 of assisted reproduction techniques, supervised by Dr. Angela Aparisi Miralles. Currently serving as a Full Professor of "Theory and Philosophy of Law" at the Faculty of Law, University of Navarra, she also holds visiting professorships in Italy, Latin America, and the United States.

• Member of the Spanish Society of Legal and Political Philosophy
• Member of the Spanish Association of Bioethics and Medical Ethics
• Member of the Institute of Human Rights (University of Navarra)
• Member of the Centro di Studi Giuridici Di-con-Per-donne (Rome)
• Member of GENOVIFEM

Her research focuses on human rights, women's studies, biolegal aspects, public role of religion, and law-justice relations, with particular emphasis on bioethics and intercultural legal theory. Her work has been supported by the Government of Navarra through a scholarship during her academic development at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in 2011.

As a pioneer in legal education innovations, she has implemented clicker technology for classroom engagement and developed cross-cutting competencies in legal problem analysis. Since 2020, she coordinates RedWinn, a project strengthening women's impact in innovation ecosystems under the Ibero-American Science and Technology for Development Program (CYTED Program).