Roger Barat i Rubio

Roger is a PhD candidate and teaching assistant in Civil Law at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. His main interests lie in the field of Contract Law and Law of Damages and their intersection with Human Rights Law, as well as the harmonization of Private Law in the European Union and the regulation of new technologies. He is conducting his PhD research on the application of private law remedies in reaction to unlawful discrimination in the context of a contract between two private parties. In May 2021 he was awarded a grant for the Recruitment of New Research Staff by the Catalan Government, which allows him to develop his PhD as a pre-doctoral fellow at the UPF. He teaches Contract Law, Tort Law, and Introduction to Private Law and Business Law. He has also been visiting researcher at King’s College London (2022) and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg (2023).