María Eugenia R. Palop
Member of European Parliament
In office 2 July 2019 – 16 July 2024
Constituency	Spain
Personal details
Born	(1970-03-09)9 March 1970 (age 55) Llerena, Spain
Citizenship	Spanish
Political party	Movimiento Sumar (since 2023)
Other political affiliations	Independent(linked toPodemos from 2019 to 2023)
Occupation	Jurist,professor,columnist

María Eugenia Rodríguez Palop (Spanish pronunciation:[maɾja.ewˈxenjaroˈðɾiɣeθpaˈlop]; born 1970) is a Spanish jurist, professor ofPhilosophy of Law at theCharles III University of Madrid (UC3M), specializing inhuman rights.

Born on 9 March 1970 inLlerena, a town in theprovince of Badajoz,^[1] she obtained a degree in Law at theComillas Pontifical University in 1993, later obtaining a PhD in the same field at the UC3M in 2000.^[2]

A professor ofPhilosophy of Law at theCharles III University of Madrid (UC3M),^[3] specialized inhuman rights,^[4] she has also worked a researcher at the Institute of Genre Studies and the Institute of Human Rights "Bartolomé de les Casas" in the UC3M.^[5] Self-described as "feminist" and "ecologist",^[5] she was one of the 60 scholars signataries of a manifesto claiming for a reform of theSpanish Constitution aiming to promote a "federal political project" in June 2018.^[6]

In March, following the announcement of the resignation ofPablo Bustinduy to run as leader of theUnidas Podemos candidacy to the2019 European Parliament election in Spain, Podemos and Bustinduy presented Rodríguez Palop as his replacement.^[7] Rodríguez Palop, described then by Bustinduy as a "political and moral mainstay",^[8] had previously provided advisory services to the Podemos parliamentary group in theCongress of Deputies.^[9]

• Rodríguez Palop, María Eugenia (2002).La nueva generación de derechos humanos. Origen y justificación. Madrid: Dykinson.^[10][11]
• Rodríguez Palop, María Eugenia (2011).Claves para entender los nuevos derechos humanos. Madrid: Catarata.^[12]
• Rodríguez Palop, María Eugenia (2019).Revolución feminista y políticas de lo común frente a la extrema derecha. Icaria.^[13]

• Barranco Avilés, María del Carmen (2003). "Rodríguez Palop, María Eugenia: La nueva generación de derechos humanos. Origen y justificación".Anuario de Filosofía del Derecho. Madrid:Ministry of Justice &Boletín Oficial del Estado & Sociedad Española de Filosofía Jurídica y Política:399–402.ISSN 0518-0872.
• Haro García, Diego (2013)."María Eugenia Rodríguez Palop. Claves para entender los nuevos derechos humanos".Revista Derechos y Libertades (28). Getafe:219–226.
• Rey Pérez, José Luis (2002). "María Eugenia Rodríguez Palop la nueva generación de derechos humanos. Origen y justificación".Revista Derechos y Libertades.7 (11):681–687.

• Academic staff of the Charles III University of Madrid
• Spanish jurists
• 1970 births
• Living people
• MEPs for Spain 2019–2024
• Comillas Pontifical University alumni

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