Justice

She is an associate researcher at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences, where she also got her PhD in Comparative Politics with a thesis on the risks of regulatory capture in Portugal. She is an international consultant for several non-governmental organisations and a corresponding researcher for the European Commission in the field of corruption and good governance. She researches and publishes in international peer-reviewed scientific journals on the following topics: corruption control policies, regulation of political ethics and non-majority entities.

Last updated: November 2022

Lawyer. He has been a columnist and lawyer for the «Público» newspaper since its foundation and was the jurist responsible for the first conviction of the Portuguese State for violation of Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects freedom of expression. Since then, he has been defending journalists convicted by the Portuguese courts at the European Court of Human Rights. He was part of the Council of Europe's expert group on the Rights of Internet Users. He has a Bachelor's degree in Law from the University of Lisbon and a postgraduate degree from the Institute of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Coimbra School of Law.

Last updated: November 2023

He was born in Lisbon in 1975. He has a Bachelor’s degree from the School of Communication and Media Studies, he worked on Canal Q, owned by Produções Fictícias, and is currently a scriptwriter and works on the RTP3 programme Last One Out Turns Off the Light. He is in charge of Communication at Cinema São Jorge and was a Communication Consultant at Booktailors. He works as a freelance illustrator and writes books as if there were no tomorrow.

Assistant Professor at Nova University Lisbon. Her research focuses on institutional change in the European Union and coalition governments, subjects on which she has published articles in journals such as the European Journal of Public Policy, West European Politics and Party Politics. She has written "Coalition Government and Party Mandate: How coalition agreements constrain ministerial action" (Routledge, 2012) and "Changing rules of delegation: A contest of Power for comitology" (with A. Héritier, C. Bisschoff and C-F. Bergström, Oxford University Press, 2012). Her article "Explaining the European Parliament's Right to Appoint and Invest the Commission: Interstitial institutional change", published in West European Politics in 2007, was awarded the Vincent Wright Memorial Prize and the Gulbenkian Prize for the Internationalisation of Social Sciences. Among other subjects, she teaches Comparative Political Systems and European Union Institutions.

Last updated: May 2014

President of the European Association of Law & Economics. He is a Professor of Law at George Mason University in the United States and holds the Chair in Research Innovation at Católica Global Law School.
He has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Nova University Lisbon, holds a Master's degree in Economics and Law (LL.M.) from the University of London and a PhD in Economics from the University of York, UK.
He joined the Executive Board of the American Society for Comparative Law (2021-2023), after having chaired the Spanish Association of Law and Economics between 2017 and 2021. He has taught at Texas A&M University (2015-2018), the University of Illinois (2007-2015), Nova University Lisbon (2001-2007) and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (1998-2001).
He was awarded the Julián Marías prize by the government of the Autonomous Community of Madrid in 2010. He has written more than 150 scientific articles published in international journals.
He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos between 2014 and 2016 and has been a member of its Board of Trustees since 2018.

Last updated: January 2024

Full professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Lisbon School of Medicine and obstetrician and gynaecologist at Santa Maria Hospital. He was the first elected president of the National Council for Ethics in Life Sciences (2009-2015), he is coordinator of three projects on sexual and reproductive health in the European Union (2003-2010) and was elected vice-president of the Bioethics department of the Council of Europe (2018-2019). He has published very widely on bioethics issues.

She was born in Angola on 10 June 1957. She got her PhD in Law (Constitutional Law) at the University of Lisbon School of Law. She is an ombudswoman and professor at the Nova School of Law in Lisbon, with aggregation in legal and political sciences.
She has devoted her teaching and research career to the areas of constitutional law. She also teaches subjects such as comparative public law, fundamental rights and constitutional justice.
She was a judge in the Constitutional Court between April 2007 and July 2016, an institution of which she was vice-president between October 2012 and July 2016.
A member of several international scientific associations (including the Ibero-American Institute of Constitutional Law and the International Association of Constitutional Law), she has written a number of various works on her area of expertise since 1984.

Last updated: September 2024

He has been a journalist since 1988 in the fields of the environment, science and data journalism. He is the author of the books "Sobre a Terra", an environmental guide, and "Nós no Mundo", about sustainability.

Last updated: January 2017

He is 46 years old, has a Bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences from Universidade Lusófona and has been a journalist since 1999. He worked in the newsrooms at the Euronotícias, Independente, Expresso and Sol newspapers. He was editorial director and deputy director of the i newspaper between March 2012 and May 2015. He has been the chief editor at the Observador since September 2015 and regularly comments on Justice issues on SIC, TVI and RTP. He received the Economic Journalism Prize from the University Nova/Santander in 2017.

Last updated: August 2021

He is a researcher at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences. He got his PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence in July 2002, with a thesis on corruption control policies. He is an international consultant and corresponding researcher for the European Commission in this field. He researches and publishes in international peer-reviewed scientific journals on the following topics: corruption control policies, perceptions, attitudes and practices of corruption, regulation of political ethics, quality of local democracy, regional integration, cross-border cooperation and comparative politics in general.
He co-founded and chaired Transparência e Integridade – Associação Cívica (TIAC), the Portuguese representative of Transparency International. He has published dozens of articles in international journals and has written books such as "Corrupção", published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

Last updated: November 2022