Maite Parejo Sousa is the partner in charge of the Economic Crime practice group.
She specialises in advising on corporate criminal litigation, compliance and complex investigations into economic crimes.
She holds a PhD in Law from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and specialises in national and international criminal law and human rights. Furthermore, she is a lecturer at Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, co-chair of the Human Rights Observatory of the Madrid Bar Association and member of the Steering Committee of the Second National Human Rights Plan.
She has extensive experience in the field of criminal law, providing legal advice to individuals, public institutions, organisations and companies on economic crimes and human rights violations. She has also participated in proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), in United Nations protection mechanisms, and in cases involving universal jurisdiction.
Her research has focused on the analysis of accountability for international crimes and the field of Human Rights and Business. She is the author of various publications on these subjects and regularly participates in academic and specialist forums at national and international level.
She has served as Secretary General (2013–2016) and Vice-President of the Spanish Association for Human Rights (2016–2019), is a member of the Working Group on Migration and Torture established by the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) (2019–2022) and a member of the Advisory Council for the Second National Human Rights Plan, drawn up within the Secretariat of State for Relations with Parliament, Ministry of the Presidency (2022–2023). She has been a member of the Peer Review of the Caro Dispute Board Rules, the Caro Construction Dispute Board Rules Project, and the OADHAC Regional Arbitration Centre (2023), and has served as a member of the Advisory Board of the National Mechanism on Torture, attached to the Ombudsman (Defensor del Pueblo) (2017–2025).
She speaks Spanish, English and French.
Recent publications:
- Génesis, desarrollo y evolución del Derecho Penal Internacional. Tirant lo Blanch. 2026.
- La aplicación del Derecho Penal Internacional en las jurisdicciones nacionales: el principio de jurisdicción universal. Revista de Jueces por la Democracia. 2026.
- La defensa de los derechos ante la Corte Internacional de Justicia. Curso de Derechos Fundamentales. El constitucionalismo de los derechos y su construcción jurisprudencial. Editors: Alfonso De Julios-Campuzano, José Ramón Cossío Díaz and Jordan C. Sosa. Ed. Tirant Lo Blanch. 2026.
- Sostenibilidad empresarial y derechos humanos: de la autorregulación a la diligencia debida obligatoria. El derecho que transforma la empresa. Atelier. 2026.