Miguel Lopes Romão

Categoria: Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest / Research:

History of Law
Philosophy and theory of law
Legislative science
International and European Union law

Academic Degrees:
Law degree, 2000
Masters in Law/Historical-Legal Sciences, 2004
PhD in Law/Historical-Legal Sciences, 2013

Member of research centre:

Principal researcher/seniorresearch fellow at IURIS – Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon.

Member of the editorial boards of scientific journals:

Member since 2010 of the secretariat of the Revista de História do Direito e do Pensamento Político, ISSN 1647-7529, published by the Instituto de História do Direito e do Pensamento Político of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.

Outras Atividades Profissionais:

Jurisconsult
Arbitrator at the Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Centre of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon
Director-General of the Directorate-General for Justice Policy, Ministry of Justice, 2018-2021
Professor at the Coimbra Business School – ISCAC, teaching European Union Law, 2014-2018
Deputy Director-General of the Directorate-General for Justice Policy, Ministry of Justice, 2008
Director-General of the Office for International, European and Cooperation Relations, Ministry of Justice, 2006-2008

Most relevant publications:

Romão, Miguel Lopes and Correia, Pedro Miguel Alves Ribeiro. “Telework and the post-COVID 19 future: the Portuguese Ministry of Justice case study”. Humanities and Innovation, vol. 8, no. 47, 2021;

Romão, M.L. and Correia, P.M.A.R., 2021. “New Eyes for an Old Challenge: How the Portuguese Ministry of Justice is Using Sankey Diagrams to Improve Knowledge on the Judicial System Dynamics”. International Journal for Court Administration, 12(1), 2021, p. 3. DOI: http://doi.org/10.36745/ijca.335;

Chapter Portugal/Länderforschungsberichte, in the collective book “Handbuch zur Geschichte der Konfliktlösung / Handbook on the History of Conflict Resolution”, Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte/Springer, 2021;

Dias, M., Correia, P., Romão, M. (2019). “Technology and Justice: Cyberjustice Model [Version 1.0 Versus 2.0]”. In Encontro de Administração da Justiça: Annals of ENAJUS 2019, ISSN 2674-8401, Brasília, 2019;

A (re)forma da justiça – Gerir a mudança na política de justiça/La (re)forma de la justicia – Gestionar el cambio en la política de justicia, General Secretariat of the Conference of Ministers of Justice of Ibero-American Countries, Madrid, 2016;

Various entries in the collective book Grandes Realizações da História do Direito Português, ed. by António Pedro Barbas Homem, Teoria e História do Direito – Centro de investigação da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, 2015, available at http://media.wix.com/ugd/6ac201_58beb03e908d47f4be9121f859cbf17b.pdf;

Prison and penitentiary science in Portugal, Almedina, Coimbra, 2015;

Preparation of the reportonPortugal in the “Study on paving the way for future policy initiatives in the field of fight against organised crime – effectiveness of specific criminal law measures targeting organised crime“, as a guest national expert, a study contracted by the European Commission/DG Interior to an academic consortium led by Rand Europe and the University of Trento (Italy), November 2013;

Cadeia do Limoeiro – Da punição dos delinquentes à formação dos magistrados (scientific review and co-authorship), E-book, Centre for Judicial Studies, Lisbon, 2013;

New technologies and innovation in justice systems, in “Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa”, vol. LI, no. 1 and 2 (2012), Coimbra Editora, Coimbra, 2012;

Brief notes on legislative evaluation, in “Legislação – Cadernos de Ciência da Legislação”, no. 42/43, January/June 2006, Instituto Nacional de Administração, Oeiras, 2006;

Direito natural e direitos naturais na consagração constitucional, in “Estudos em honra do Professor Doutor Ruy de Albuquerque”, Coimbra Editora, Coimbra, 2006;

Legal framework for combating terrorism: the international, community and Portuguese legal frameworks (with João Tiago Silveira), in Europa – Novas Fronteiras, nos. 16 and 17, Principia/Centro de Informação Europeia Jacques Delors, 2005;

“A Bem do Estado” – Publicity and secrecy in the formation and dissemination of laws (1820-1910), Livraria Almedina, Coimbra, 2005;

A formação do conceito de “ius naturale” pré-cristão, in “Estudos em Homenagem ao Professor Doutor Raúl Ventura”, vol. I, Coimbra Editora, Coimbra, 2003;

The concept of political legitimacy in the Liberal Revolution, in Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, vol. XLII, no. 2 (2001), Coimbra Editora, Coimbra, 2003;

Legística – Perspectivas sobre a Concepção e Redacção de Actos Normativos (with David Duarte, Alexandre Sousa Pinheiro and Tiago Duarte), Livraria Almedina, Coimbra, 2002;

Preparation of a report on Portugal in the study “The seizure and confiscation of the proceeds of crime in the European Union Member States: what works, what does not and what is promising“, as a guest national expert, a study contracted by the European Commission to the Transcrime Centre of the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento, Italy, 2002.