Miren Ortubay Fuentes

Miren Ortubay Fuentes, born in Vitoria in 1958, is a Spanish lawyer, criminologist and full professor at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), where she teaches in the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Social Work and specializes in gender-related violence and prisoners' rights. She graduated in law from the University of Deusto in 1980 and holds a doctorate there; her 1994 thesis was on labour relations and criminal protection. She also holds a diploma in criminology from the Complutense University of Madrid and studied criminology at Louvain-la-Neuve. She began as a practising lawyer, co-founded the prisoner support association Salaketa in 1982, and from 1995 to 2006 was legal advisor to the Ararteko, the Ombudsman of the Basque Country, for justice and equality. Her publications include a study of Article 311 of the Spanish Criminal Code and a work on prison and alternatives after the 2015 reform. She received the III Menina Basque Country Award in 2019.