Category: Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest / Research:
International Human Rights Law
Asylum and Immigration Law
Public International Law
European Union Law
Fundamental Rights
Constitutional Law
Academic Degrees:
Law degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra in 2004;
Postgraduate Diploma in Children’s Law, Coimbra University Law School, 2005
PhD, with distinction and unanimous praise, in Law, specialising in Public Law, with the thesis “The Derived Protection of Fundamental Immigration Rights”, from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2016
Member of international research projects:
National Rapporteur for the GLOBALCIT project on access to nationality, coordinated by the European Institute in Florence and the Schumann Centre for Advanced Studies.
National Rapporteur for various studies for the European Commission and Parliament, mainly on the transposition of Directives on asylum, immigration, nationality, children’s rights and hate speech.
Teaching at other institutions:
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Universidade de Coimbra, Instituto Universitário Militar, Academia Militar, Centro de Estudos Judiciários, Rede Europeia de Formação Judicial, ISCTE-IUL, Autonoma Academy, Instituto Diplomático,
Other Professional Activities:
Human Rights Consultant for the United Nations, 2023 (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights)
Member of the Coordination Committee of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture from 2018 to 2020
Deputy of the Ombudsman’s Office from 2018 to 2020
Advisor to the Office of Judges of the Constitutional Court from 2010 to 2018
Member of the General Council of the Centre for Judicial Studies, elected by the Assembly of the Republic, from 2020 to 2022
Member of the Parliamentary Supervisory Board of the Criminal Information Exchange Platform, desde 2022
Most Relevant Publications:
Monographs
Migration Law in Portugal, International Encyclopaedia of Laws, Wolters Kluwer Law, 2023
Portugal, Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT), Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies in collaboration with Edinburgh University Law School, European University Institute, Florence, 2009 (with Nuno Piçarra) – republished and updated in 2020
The Ombudsman in Portuguese-speaking Countries, Institute of Legal and Political Sciences/Centre for Research in Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon, 2021
Immigration and Human Rights, Petrony, 2017 (1st edition), 2021 (2nd edition)
Compilation and Updating Books (National)
Studies in Immigration and Asylum Law, Petrony, 2021
Organisation of Collective Works
AA.VV., Human Rights and the Rule of Law – protection in the international and European framework, Maria Luísa Duarte, Ana Rita Gil and Tiago Fidalgo de Freitas (eds.) AAFDL Editora, 2022
AV.VV., Views on Migration, Citizenship and Human Rights – In History and in the 21st Century, Teresa Beleza, Cristina Nogueira da Silva, Ana Rita Gil and Emellin de Oliveira (eds.), Petrony, 2020
Book Chapters (International)
“Public International Law in the face of migratory flows in the 21st century – the need for a new paradigm?”, in AA.VV., Legal Challenges in the International and European Management of Migratory Flows, José Martín y Pérez de Nanclares & Daniel González Herrera (eds), Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2023, pp. 25-48
“The implementation of the Temporary Protection Directive in 2022 in Portugal to Persons Fleeing the War in Ukraine”, in AA.VV., The Temporary Protection Directive: Central Themes, Problem Issues and Implementation in Selected Member States, Sandra Mantu, Karin Zwaan and Tineke Strik (eds), Ipskamp Printing, Enschede, 2023, pp. 71-88
“La diffusion et la réception du modèle portugais du Provedor de Justiça dans les pays lusophones”, in AA.VV., Études de Droit Constitutionnel lusophone, Damien Connil, Dimitri Löhrer (coord.), Institut Francophone pour la Justice et la Démocratie, 2023, pp. 85-124
“In search of a substantial perspective on the concept of ‘suspension of fundamental rights’”, Dialogues in Homage to the 80th Anniversary of J. J. Gomes Canotilho, Ana Cláudia Nascimento Gomes, Bruno Albergaria and Mariana Rodrigues Canotilho (coord.), Editora Fórum/Belo Horizonte-Brazil, 2021, pp. 631-646
“Detention of Unaccompanied Migrant Children in Portugal”, AA.VV., Rights of Unaccompanied Minors – Perspectives and Case Studies of Migrant Children, Yvonne Vissing, Sofia Leitao (ed.), Springer, 2021, pp. 201-227
“Exceptional States and Covid 19 – Portugal”, AA.VV., Exceptional States and Covid-19 – XVIII Report on Human Rights, Federacion Iberoamericana de Ombudsman, Guillermo Escobar (ed.), Universidad de Alcalá, 2021, pp. 249-261
“Gender Violence – Portugal”, AA.VV., XVII Informe Sobre Derechos Humanos, Federacion Iberoamericana de Ombudsman, Guillermo Escobar (org.), Universidad de Alcalá, 2019 (with Cristina Sá Costa). pp. 409-434
Book Chapters (National)
“Human Rights in “massive” migratory flows: from the migratory crisis of 2015 to the crisis of displaced persons in Ukraine in 2022″, AA.VV., Compendium of Human Rights, Human Rights Commission of the Portuguese Bar Association 2020-2022 (ed.), Portuguese Bar Association, 2022, pp. 13-28
“The role of the European Ombudsman: from guaranteeing good administration to defending fundamental rights, democracy and a “Union of Law” in the European Union”, AA.VV., Human Rights and the Rule of Law – protection in the international and European framework, Maria Luísa Duarte, Ana Rita Gil and Tiago Fidalgo de Freitas (eds.) AAFDL, 2022, pp. 361-406
“The extrajudicial protection of migrants’ right to freedom”, AA.VV., Extrajudicial Protection of Fundamental Rights, Carla Amado Gomes & Ana F. Neves (coord.), AAFDL Editora, 2022, pp. 109-136
“Separating the waters: state of emergency and state of calamity – a reinforcement of their different constitutional relevance”, AA.VV., Católica Talks. Law in Times of Pandemic, Universidade Católica Editora, 2022, p. 77-110
“Non-Governmental Organisations and National Human Rights Institutions”, AA.VV., Global Legal Order of the 21st Century – Subjects and Actors on the International Stage, Maria Luísa Duarte, Rui Tavares Lanceiro, Francisco de Abreu Duarte (eds.), AAFDL, 2020, pp. 69-87
“Asylum in a state of emergency”, in AA.VV., Direito Administrativo de Necessidade e de Excepção, Carla Amado Gomes, Ricardo Pedro (eds.), AAFDL, 2020, pp. 413-448
“International Refugee Law – Topics of Change”, in AA.VV., International Law and the Use of Force in the 21st Century, Maria Luísa Duarte, Rui Tavares Lanceiro (coord.), AAFDL Editora, 2018, pp. 253-297
Periodical Publications (International)
“International protection revisited: the European Union’s solutions to the “refugee crisis” of the Ukrainian War”, Revista Euro Latinoamericana de Análisis Social y Político, Vol. 4, no.7, Julio-Diciembre 2023, pp. 76-104
“The direct and indirect (par ricochet) protection of migrants in the light of the European Convention on Human Rights: brief notes on the evolution of the Strasbourg court’s case-law”, Human(ities) and Rights – Global Network Journal, vol. 3, 2021, issue 1, pp. 119-145 (with Susana Almeida)
Periodical Publications (National)
“Judicial Relief in War Times? Ukraine vs. Russia (2022) before the International Court of Justice”, e-pública – Public Law Journal, vol. 10, no. 1, May 2023, pp. 5-25.
“International Protection Revisited: The European Union’s Solutions for the Protection of Displaced Persons from the Ukrainian War in a Context of ‘Multiple Crises and Refugees’”, International Relations, no. 75, September 2022, pp. 45-62.
“Query procedures in the European Union: a challenge or a guarantee to the European rule of law?”, e-pública – Public Law Journal, vol. 9, no. 1, April 2022, pp. 5-25
“O Caso Neves Caratão Pinto c. Portugal” – (mais) um olhar do Tribunal Europeu dos Direitos Humanos sobre a aplicação de medidas de promoção e protecção de a crianças em perigo”, Lisbon University Faculty of Law Journal, Year LXII, no. 2, 2021, pp. 765-790
“The Cases of Petrescu and Badulescu v. Portugal – Revisiting ECtHR Jurisprudence on Conditions of Detention and Treatment of Prisoners in Prisons“, Revista do CEJ, 2021-I, pp. 129-156
“Derogation Clauses of International Human Rights Instruments: protecting rights at the maximum possible extent in times of crisis“, Católica Law Review, vol. V, no. 1, Jan. 2021, pp. 11-42
“Dublin Regulation and the risk of subjection to inhuman and degrading treatment in the Member State responsible“, Cadernos de Justiça Administrativa, no. 139, 2020, pp. 24-49