Dr Faustino García de la Torre García

Dr Faustino García de la Torre García is a Lecturer in Criminal Law at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences of Toledo. His research focuses on the relationship between criminal law and fundamental rights, with particular attention to the constitutional foundations of criminalisation, positive state obligations of criminal protection, and the limits of state intervention in democratic legal systems. He has carried out several research stays in Germany, amounting to more than two years in total, at the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg, the Institute for International Peace and Security Law of the University of Cologne, and the Faculty of Law of Humboldt University of Berlin.

In recent years, his work has centred especially on the legal and criminal-law implications of neuroscience and neurotechnologies, including neurorights, cognitive liberty, mental privacy, brain data, and the emerging concept of neurocrimes. He is also currently developing a research line in the field of international peace and security law, focusing on the Responsibility to Protect. Email: Faustino.GarciaTorre@uclm.es