José Vida Fernández
Professor José Vida Fernández
Professor of Administrative Law at Carlos III University in Madrid, Director of the Master's Degree in Telecommunications Law, Data Protection, Audiovisual Media and the Information Society, and member of the Pascual Madoz Institute for Land, Urban Planning and the Environment.
He holds a law degree with honours from the University of Granada and a European Doctorate from the University of Bologna (Italy). His research focuses on issues related to telecommunications and digital sector law, as well as health and pharmaceutical law, on which he has published more than fifty articles and chapters in collective books, as well as several books, including most recently the Treaty on Telecommunications Law, Aranzadi, 2025, and the Treaty on Pharmaceutical Law, Aranzadi. He has undertaken numerous research stays at prestigious centres such as the Scuola di Specializzazione in Studi sull'Amministrazione Pubblica, SPISA (Bologna); Institute of Advanced Studies (Indiana University); and Boalt Hall (Berkeley Law, UCLA).
His outreach activities include numerous courses and lectures at universities and institutions in Spain and abroad, including Maurer Law School (Indiana University), Universidad del Externado (Colombia), Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina), and Universidad de Valparaíso (Chile). In his teaching career, he has received two international awards for a published course (Courseware Award) and another individual award for his teaching career (Educator Award for OpenCourseWare Excellence), both from the Open Education Consortium (Massachusetts, USA).