Pere Pastor Vilanova

After three years as head of the Andorran Ministry of the Interior he became a trial judge (Batlle) in 1998. He held this position until October 2011, when he became the first judge of Andorran nationality to sit on the Supreme Court of Andorra. In parallel, between 2005 and 2015, he was a member of the Bioethics Committee (DH-BIO)^[3] of the Council of Europe.^[2][4]

In April 2015 he was elected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to be a judge of the European Court of Human Rights. He took office on 1 November 2015.^[5][6] He was elected Section President on 19 September 2022 for a two-year term.^[7] In October 2024, he was elected a judge of the Constitutional Court of the Principality of Andorra by the Consell General (Andorran Parliament). He thus became the first Andorran national to be appointed to the Constitutional Court by the Consell General. He took office on 18 November for a term of eight years. He was appointed Vice-President for a two-year term.

Since 2005, Pere Pastor Vilanova has also been a lecturer at the University of Toulouse-Capitole, a role for which he has been awarded the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques, in particular for the dissemination of Andorran law within the French university system. He has been an elected member of the Board of Directors of Sciences-Po Toulouse since October 2023 and a member of the Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judges to the ECHR since July 2025.^[8]

He is the author of several legal books and articles, notably on human rights, the environment and family and labour law.^[9]