Professor in Private Law | European Commission Consultant

IT Law | European Private Law | Housing

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Cristina Argelich Comelles (Lleida, 1990) is Professor in Private Law, accredited as Associate Professor, at the Complutense University of Madrid and European Commission Consultant on AI contracting and data. She holds a PhD in Law with honours on ‘Compulsory housing lease’ (University of Lleida, 2017). She was awarded the Ferrer Eguizábal Prize on legal challenges of artificial intelligence (2024), the IX Research Prize of the Zaragoza Housing Chair (2024), the IX Prize of the Revista Crítica de Derecho Inmobiliario (2020), and the First Arquímedes Prize of the Spanish Ministry of Education (2013). She has been awarded 1 six-year research period (2014-2019). She is a member of the European Law Institute (2022-).

Her expertise and research focuses on Housing, IT Law and European Private Law. She has more than 100 publications, 40% of which in Q1, and the monographs ‘Ley por el derecho a la vivienda’ and ‘La expropiación temporal del uso de viviendas’, more than 50 invited keynotes at academic conferences, as well as three-month postdoctoral research stays at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (2025), the Sapienza Università di Roma (2024), UNIDROIT (2022) and The University of Manchester (2017). She has conducted several media interviews, the Spanish report for the European Commission on ‘Novel forms of contracting in the digital economy’ (2024) and on ‘Supporting the evaluation of the Free Flow of Non-Personal Data Regulation, Open Data Directive and Data Governance Act’ (2025), the report ‘La expropiación temporal del uso de viviendas vacías en la Comunidad Valenciana’ for the Valencian Regional Department of Housing (2022), and participation in the report 'La propiedad Privada en España' of the Instituto de Estudios Económicos (2021).