Lorena Bachmaier Winter is Full Professor at the Complutense University in Madrid, in criminal and civil procedure, and arbitration since 1996. In this capacity, she also teaches in the summer law school of Saint Louis University since 2004. She has written extensively in the area of her expertise, being the author of five books and more than a hundred scientific articles on civil and criminal procedure law. She works regularly as an international legal expert with different international organizations in legal reforms in Eastern European countries as Ukraine, Georgia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Latvia, Russia, Armenia, Moldova and also in Central Asia. She was appointed chair of the special committee on Transnational Organized Crime of the Council of Europe in 2013-2014. Prof Bachmaier is a member of the most relevant international academic associations, as AIDP and the IACL, and member of the editorial board of numerous law reviews. She has also extensive experience as visiting professor or researcher in foreign institutes and universities as the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, or the Universities of Berkeley, Harvard and Stanford (USA). Her research is focused on comparative criminal procedure, human rights and procedure, international judicial cooperation, and the EU process of legal harmonization in the process of establishing the AFJS.