Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque
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Succeeded byAna Maria Guerra Martins
Born5 October 1966
Beira, Mozambique
Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque | |
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| Judge of the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Portugal | |
| In office 1 April 2011 – 31 March 2020 | |
| Succeeded by | Ana Maria Guerra Martins |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 5 October 1966 Beira, Mozambique |
Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque (born 5 October 1966) is a Portuguese judge born in Beira, Mozambique and was the judge of the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Portugal from April 2011 to March 2020.[1]
- Law Degree, Faculty of Law, State University of Lisbon, 1989
- Master of Law, Faculty of Law, Catholic University of Lisbon, 1994
- Doctorate of Law, Faculty of Law, Catholic University of Lisbon, 2003
- Habilitation (tenure), Faculty of Law, Catholic University of Lisbon, 2011
Academic career
- Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Catholic University of Lisbon, 2004-2008
- Invited Professor on criminal law and procedure at the High Military Studies Institute of the Ministry of Defence of Portugal, 2007-2009
- Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Catholic University of Lisbon, 2008-2010
- Associate Professor with tenure, Faculty of Law, Catholic University of Lisbon, 2011-2015
- Full Professor with tenure (professor catedratico), Faculty of Law, Catholic University of Lisbon, since 2015
- Visiting Professor, Illinois College of Law, United States of America, 2006-2007
- Visiting Professor, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, 2006
- Adjunct Professor, Illinois College of Law, United States of America, 2009-2010
- Visiting Professor, Paris II-Assas University, since 2017
- Visiting Professor, Kharkiv University, Ukraine, since 2020
- Visiting Professor, Florence University, Italy, since 2021
Other professional experience
- Expert of the GRECO appointed by the Council of Europe, 2009-2010
- Expert of the European Commission study “Crime Repression Costs in Context”, 2007-2009
- Expert of the Portuguese Parliament for draft legislation on domestic violence (2009) and the fight against corruption (2010)
- Member of Amnesty International-Portugal since 1989 and member of the National Administration Board of Amnesty International-Portugal from April 2008 to his election as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights in January 2011.[2]
Juridical career
- Judge in various civil and criminal courts, 1992-2004
- Member of the Taskforce for Criminal Procedure Reform of the Ministry of Justice of Germany, 1999
- Member of the Taskforce for Penal Reform of the Ministry of Justice of Portugal, 2005-2007
- Lawyer, since 2006
Judge at the European Court of Human Rights
- Judge at the European Court of Human Rights, elected with an absolute majority (on the first ballot) by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on 25 January 2011. Sworn in on 1 April 2011. Mandate expired on 31 March 2020.
- Focal Point of the ECHR network of international, supreme and constitutional courts outside of Europe, appointed by the President of the ECHR. In this capacity, he established institutional relations with the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa, the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court of Angola, the Superior Court of Brazil, the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil, the Supreme Court of China, the Supreme Court of India, the Supreme Court of Israel, the Supreme Court of Japan, the Constitutional Court of Jordan, the Constitutional Court of South Korea and the Supreme Court of Mozambique, from January 2016 to March 2020.
- Vice-president of section IV of the ECHR, from September 2018 to April 2019.
- President of the ECHR Committee on the Rules of the Court, from October 2018 to March 2020.
- Ad Hoc Judge before the ECHR appointed by the Republic of Lithuania, since 2016.
- Member of the ECHR Grand Chamber panel (composed by five judges) which selects the cases that are reviewed by the Grand Chamber, from June to December 2012 and again from June to December 2016.
- Founder and President of the Criminal Law Group of the ECHR, from January 2014 to March 2020.
- He seated in two cases where Amnesty International was either the applicant (CASE OF BIG BROTHER WATCH AND OTHERS v. THE UNITED KINGDOM),[3] or a third party ( CASE OF HIRSI JAMAA AND OTHERS v. ITALY).[4]
