The School of Law the addition of six new PhDs at the 2025/26 graduation ceremony

The School of Law at the University of Navarra has six new PhDs following the graduation ceremony for the 2025–26 academic year, held last Friday, June 5, in the classroom of Central Building. The new class consists of Celia Pinedo Pardo, Jenny Lorena Ojeda Chamba, Eduardo Ortega Noguero, Verónica Guadalupe Cors Muñoz, José Gilberto Solís Jiménez, and Ángela Atienza Pérez.

The ceremony, presided over by president María Iraburu, brought together 157 new doctoral graduates from 23 countries and four continents, who had defended their dissertations within the framework 15 Schools across a wide range of research fields and disciplines. Iraburu highlighted the transformative value of doctorate: "True researchers are inquisitive and demanding, and slow to judge, because they know that truth is something to be yearned for and sought with effort, not a possession to be acquired or a weapon to be wielded."

Celia Pinedo Pardo, a Ph.D. graduate of the School of Law, delivered a speech on behalf of the entire graduating class. In her speech slow thinking and silence as defining characteristics of work researcher of a culture of immediacy: "Cultivating silence, thinking, studying, discerning… In the midst of the age of artificial intelligence, these seem to be countercultural acts."

The class patron, Ana Sánchez-Ostiz, a professor at the School of Architecture, reflected on the process of achieving goals: "Just as a skyscraper isn't built from the top down, neither is a thesis . It doesn't begin with a brilliant answer or a degree scroll, but with quiet hours of work, reading, essay error."