Teresa Picontó-Novales is a Professor (Catedrática) of Philosophy of Law and researcher in Sociology of Law at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. She has specialised in the Sociology of Family Law; Rights, Welfare and Social Policies about children, gender and family. She has taught at the International Master’s on Sociology of Law in the Oñati International Institute for Sociology of Law (“Family Law and Family Policies”) and in several PhD programmes in Latin-American Universities. She has done research visits at the Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy), the Oxford University (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies) and at the European University Institute of Firenze (Italy). She has published numerous books; articles and books collaborations. Among them: La Protección de la Infancia: Aspectos sociales y jurídicos, Zaragoza, Egido Editorial, 1996; "Family Law and Family Policy in Spain", en  Mavis Maclean and J. Kurczewski (eds.) Family Law and Family Policy in the New Europe, Dartmouth Publishing/Oñati International Series in Law and Society, 1997, p.109-127; “The application of Spanish Child Welfare Law”, International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family (1998) vol. 12, p. 180-201, “Cohabitation in Spain”, en M. Maclean, Law and Family Values, Oxford, Hart, 2005. She also has coordinated with  Encarna Bodelón,:Transformaciones del Estado y del Derecho contemporáneos. Nuevas perspectivas de la investigación socio-jurídica, Dykinson/IISJ de Oñati, Madrid, 1998.