Lawyer specialist inFamily Law and Private International Law

PERSONAL DETAILS

Name: Esther Susin Carrasco
Place of Birth: Barcelona
Professional Address: Calle San Quirze No. 55, 2nd Floor, Sabadell
D.N.I.: 35065262-Z
Email: advocada@esthersusin.com
Office Telephone: +34 93 727 20 47
Fax: +34 93 725 50 11
Website: www.esthersusin.com
Cell Phone: +34 610 38 41 09
Bar Sabadell, License Number: 2.000 (1998)

Higher Education

Bachelor of Law from UNED in 1995.
Graduate in Languages: English, French, German, and Italian in 1985.
Initiation to diplomatic career in 1990 at the University of Perpignan.
Studied Community Law and the Maastricht Treaty at King’s College London in 1992.
Completed a post-degree program at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB) from 2009 to 2011, earning a Master’s degree in International Family Law.
Pursued another post-degree program at UAB from 2011 to 2012, focusing on a Master’s degree in European Integration. The thesis topic was the relationship between The Hague Convention of 1980 (articles 13(a) and 13(b)) and Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003.
Engaged in continuing education in Family Law at the School of European Law in Trier, Germany, attending sessions in 2006, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015.
Completed equality training courses at the European Law School of Trier in 2017.
Participated in TRACHILD, a training program for legal counsels representing children in criminal, civil-law, and administrative proceedings before the court, organised by the General Council of the Spanish Law in Madrid on October 30, 2017.
Participated in the online course «The Challenges of the European Union: An Expert and Institutional Perspective» in July 2021, organised by CIDOB, the European Commission, and the European Parliament.
Attended a series of online conferences on Law 17/2020, which modifies Law 5/2008, focusing on women’s rights to eradicate gender and domestic violence. The conferences were organised by the Institut Català de les Dones in 2021.
Participated in a seminar on economic violence in partner or ex-partner relationships organised by the ECOVIO project on September 15, 2021.
Attended the AEAFA Family Law conferences in Seville (online) on October 7th and 8th, 2021.
Participated in the Critical Theory Seminar organised by the Gregorio Peces-Barba Human Rights Institute at the University Carlos III of Madrid in October 2021. Also attended the International Congress on «Women and (In)Equal Opportunities: Feminist Analysis of the Impact of Structural Injustices and Conjunctural Tensions.»
Presented at the conference on «International Child Abduction and Regulation 2019/1111» held on December 1, 2021, as part of the Jean Monnet Chair on Family Law and Inheritance in the European Union (European Commission under the Erasmus program).

CONTINUED TRAINING

IAFL’s European Chapter Meeting took place in Venice, Italy between Wednesday 1st and Sunday 5th February 2023.
Second online conference on Taxation in Family and Inheritance Law, organized by Libertas Ediciones from February 15 to March 8, 2023.
First Congress of the Catalan Observatory of Justice in Gender Violence: feminist justice and sexual freedom (50/4/1/2023) on March 27, 2023, organized by the Center d’Estudis Jurídics i Formació Especialitzada.
Seminar “EU Anti-Discrimination Law in Practice” in Organized by ERA, Academy of European Law in Barcelona on April 20-21, 2023.
Annual meeting of the Association of Catalan Lawyers (SCAF) on May 19, 2023.
V Family Law Conference Valencia 2023 AEAFA-ICAV, held on July 6-7, 2023.
American and Canadian Chapter of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL), held in Santiago de Chile from September 6-10, 2023. Topics in International Family Law and comparative law.
XX Family Law Conference of the Association of catalan Lawyers (SCAF) “Sempre Guarda Compartida”, held in Barcelona on November 23-24, 2023.

Professional Background

Worked as an interpreter in English, French, and German in the automobile industry and gaming sector from 1984 to 1997.
Established a self-employed international law firm, E. Susin Gabinet Juridic Internacional, in 1998. The firm specialises in Family Law, both domestically and internationally, with a focus on child abduction cases and child support.
Worked for Women Advice, promoting women’s empowerment, at various municipalities from 2001 to 2013 (Ayuntamiento de Barberá del Vallés, Ayuntamiento de La Llagosta, Palafolls, Malgrat de Mar and Ayuntamiento de Santa Coloma de Gramanet).
Independent Expert for the European Commission (2012): Fields: Justice, Liberty, and Security Citizenship.
Associated Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (2016): Post-degree in Technology and Engineering Management.