Security and Defence: Ethical and Legal Challenges in the Face of Current Conflicts

Dr. Juan Cayón Peña was born in 1968, in Madrid. He has done French Language and Civilization (Sorbonne, Paris, 1988), Law Degree (UPCO, Madrid 1991), Diploma in Legal Practice (UPCO, Madrid) 1992, Law Ph. D. Law Philosophy, Morals, and Politics (UPCO, Madrid 1998) and was Rector of Nebrija University from 2014 to 2020.

Dr. Cayón is a corresponding academic at the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation, the Puerto Rico Academy of Arts and Sciences, the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Academy of Military Arts and Sciences. He is also a member of the Spanish chapter of the Pugwash Movement (Nobel Peace Prize 1995).

Throughout his teaching career, which began in 1993, he has taught in a panoply of subjects and courses that cover all his specialty areas. Dr. Cayón has been appointed as a visiting professor at different foreign universities. During this time. he has been a collaborating professor in the Management of the Ministry of Justice and of the Training and Improvement Division of the National Police, as well as a lecturer at other prestigious Universities such as the Sorbonne University in Paris, the University of Buenos Aires, the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia), the Pontificia Universidad Catoìlica de Chile (Chile), and the Higher Center for National Defense Studies CESEDEN (Spain). He has directed several doctoral works and published 17 book chapters in indexed publishers such as Aranzadi Thompson-Reuters, Cambridge Scholar Publishing or Springer, as well as quite a few research articles in different journals.

1. Outer space's legal framework, challenges, and policies.- 2. Arms Control in Outer Space - New Challenges for space security and sustainability.- 3. Cybersecurity in the second decade of the 21st century.- 4. Cybercompliance: A legal but also ethical concept that allows to reduce the current high risks of corporations.- 5. Criminal law in the face of internet risks: cybercrime.- 6. Human rights, big data and artificial intelligence: elements of a complex algorithm.- 7. The challenge of disinformation for national security.- 8. Why do ethical and legal problems occur in conflict situations -a perspective of  socio- developmental psychology.- 9. Conflict and territory: a legal and metalegal approach. The case of Spain.- 10. Ethical considerations in the area of operations.- 11. Challenges facing the resolution of the pandemic and the global response capacity. EU countries/China/USA.- 12. Axiological, economic and legal challenges for the functioning of the energy union in the context of energy security of the European Union.- 13. Freedom of Speech in Times of Crisis.