Professor María de la Concepción Chamorro Domínguez

Mª de la Concepción Chamorro Domínguez is Associate Professor of Commercial Law (Profesora Titular) at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid, Spain). She graduated in Law from Universidad San Pablo CEU/Universidad Complutense and obtained her PhD with honours (“Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado”) at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid), where she began her academic career in 1999. She has undertaken several long-term research stays at the Institut für Handels- und Wirtschaftsrecht of the University of Bonn (Germany), funded through scholarships awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and “La Caixa” Foundation, and has also completed a research stay at Wake Forest University (Winston Salem, USA).

Her main research interests lie in Company Law, Securities and Financial Markets Law, and Competition Law. She is currently working on the connections between Company Law and sustainability requirements and led the research project PID2020-113852RB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (“Legal implications of sustainability requirements for listed companies as a basis for developing an applicable model for SMEs”) from 2021 to 2024. Additionally, she investigates the impact of digitization – including the use of artificial intelligence technologies – on the regulation of capital companies.

She is Executive Director of the Revista de Derecho del Mercado de Valores and a member of the editorial board of Revista La Ley Mercantil. She serves as a mentoring professor in the Department of Private Law (Mentoring Faculty Program), is Vice-President of the Research Ethics Committee of Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, and Director of the Master’s Degree in International Accounting and Finance Management at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.

She is the author of two monographs (Redeemable Shares of Publicly Traded Companies, 2007, 607 pages; Competing Public Takeover Bids, 2011, 472 pages) and numerous articles and book chapters on Company Law, Securities and Financial Markets Law, Commercial Contracts, Insolvency Law, and Competition Law.