Marina Echebarría Sáenz

Marina Echebarría Sáenz (San Sebastián, 1970), more commonly known as Marina Sáez, is a Spanish jurist, University professor of Commercial Law at the University of Valladolid and LGBT activist. In 2020 she became the first trans woman full professor in Spain.

Career Born as Joseba Aitor Echebarría Sáenz, she studied Law at the University of Deusto and obtained a doctorate from the University of Valladolid with a thesis entitled The franchise contract: delimitation and content of internal relations. She is the director of the commercial law department at the Faculty of Law of the University of Valladolid, where she has been a tenured professor. Since 2020, she has been accredited as a full professor, making her the first openly trans woman to achieve accreditation to a professorship in Spain.

She is the author and/or coordinator of eight books, more than sixty articles in scientific journals and book chapters, has participated in eleven research projects, eleven agreements and in a multitude of conferences, courses and seminars on various legal topics. As an activist for LGBT+ rights, particularly for the rights of the trans community, she has collaborated in the drafting of several regional laws on gender identity, and was part as an expert of the working group that achieved the approval of law 3/2007 on the registration rectification of the mention relating to the sex of persons. She has collaborated in numerous national and international forums on identity matters.

In September 2022, she was appointed Secretary of LGBTIQ+ Rights and Freedoms of Sumar Movement.

Works 1995 – El contrato de franquicia: definición y conflictos en las relaciones internas. McGraw-Hill Interamericana de España. (The franchise contract: definition and conflicts in internal relations.) 2001 – El comercio electrónico. Edisofer. (E-commerce.) 2011 – La aplicación privada del derecho de la competencia. Lex Nova. (The private application of competition law.) 2011 – Private Enforcement of Competition Law.