The Professor of Criminal Law at the University of the Basque Country Carlos Romeo Casabona He passed away today in Bilbao. The criminal lawyer was closely linked to the University of La Laguna, having served as dean of its Faculty of Law between 1991 and 1994 and as founder and director of the institution's Center for Criminological Studies. In fact, in 2006 the University Senate awarded him an honorary doctorate from this academic institution.
The doctor, who also holds a doctorate in Medicine from the University of Zaragoza, where he was appointed emeritus professor, managed to link his two fields of study as director of the Interuniversity Chair of Law and Human Genome of the BBVA Foundation-Provincial Council of Vizcaya.
As a researcher, he specialized in the application of criminal law in diverse fields such as criminal dangerousness, new information and communication technologies, biomedicine, genetics, and biotechnology. Throughout his long and fruitful academic career, he collaborated as an expert with institutions such as the Ministries of Justice and Health, UNESCO, the World Health Organization, the Council of Europe, and the European Commission, among others.
Romeo Casabona, with six recognized six-year research periods, directed numerous research projects funded by the European Commission, the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO), the Government of the Canary Islands, the Basque Government, and the University of the Basque Country. With the Council of Europe, he participated in the project 'Le Medecin et les Droits de l'Homme' (CEDAM, Padua, 1990), and was director and main speaker at the XXII Colloquium on European Law on "The Criminal and Civil Liability of Professionals" (La Laguna, 1992).
The rector, Francisco García, has expressed his regret over this loss and highlighted the brilliance of the criminal lawyer, who was much loved and appreciated at the Faculty of Law of this university.
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