Miren Ortubay

Miren Ortubay Fuentes (Vitoria, 1958) is a Spanish lawyer and criminologist, as well as a professor at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), specializing in gender-related violence and prisoners' rights.

Biography Ortubay Fuentes graduated in law from the University of Deusto in 1980, and holds a Ph.D. in law from the same university. Her 1994 doctoral thesis was entitled. She holds a diploma in Criminology from the Complutense University of Madrid, and did postgraduate studies in criminology at the university of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium).

After completing her education, Ortubay Fuentes began her career as a lawyer. In 1982, she was the co-founder of Salaketa, the association of support to prisoners, located in Vitoria. From 1995 to 2006, she was legal advisor to the (Ombudsman of the Basque Country) being responsible for the areas of Justice and Equality of women and men.

Ortubay Fuentes is a full professor at UPV/EHU in the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Social Work. She teaches, among others, the subject Violence against Women: Prevention and Intervention.

She is a member of the and collaborates with groups such as and the (ONGD) (ASDHA). Ortubay Fuentes is a member of the Board of Trustees of the .

Ortubay Fuentes, Lohitzune Zuloaga, and Estíbaliz de Miguel have participated together in the study (Experience of Police Detention of Women in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country).

Awards and honours 2019, III Menina Basque Country Awards to people committed to the eradication of gender-based violence in its various manifestations

Selected works Tutela penal de las condiciones de trabajo : un estudio del artículo 311 del Código penal, 2000 Prisión y alternativas en el nuevo Código Penal tras la reforma 2015, 2016 “Ten Years of the “Comprehensive Law against Gender Violence”: Lights and Shadows”, in Revista Ventana Jurídica, Judicial Training School, El Salvador, 2015