Miguel Poiares Maduro

Miguel Poiares Maduro
Deputy Minister; Minister for Regional Development
In office 13 April 2013 – 30 October 2015
Prime Minister	Pedro Passos Coelho
Preceded by	Ministerial portfolio established
Succeeded by	Ministerial portfolio merged to President of the Council of Ministers
Personal details
Born	(1967-01-03) 3 January 1967 Coimbra, Portugal
Political party	Social Democratic Party
Alma mater	University of Lisbon European University Institute

Miguel Poiares Maduro (born 3 January 1967) is a Portuguese academic and politician. He was the Portuguese Minister for Regional Development from April 2013 to October 2015. Formerly, he was Director of the Global Governance Program and professor of law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Poiares Maduro was also visiting professor at the Faculty of Law at Yale University in the United States of America.

Career

He was Advocate General at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg from 2003 to 2009.

He has been a Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar of Law at Harvard University, He is Doctor in Law at the European University Institute and won the Purpose Prize Europe for the best PhD thesis at the Institute that year.

He has worked as a lecturer at numerous institutions, including: College of Europe, Catholic University of Lisbon, the New University of Lisbon, School of Economics London, School of Chicago Law School, Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies in Spain, Instituto Ortega y Gasset in Madrid and Institute of European Studies of Macau.

Recognition

In 2010 he was awarded the Gulbenkian Prize for science. He was made a Commander of the Order of St. James of the Sword by the President of the Portuguese Republic for literary, scientific and artistic merit in 2006 and was the first recipient of the Rowe and Maw Prize at the European University Institute.

Bibliography

His published works include: "We the Court – The European Court of Justice and the European Economic Constitution", "The past and Future of EU Law" and "The Plural Constitution – Constitutionalism and the European Union". He was a jurist in several cases of international significance and joined the High Level Group of the European Commission on Media Pluralism and Freedom of Information. He belonged to the Political Committee of candidate Aníbal Cavaco Silva in the 2011 presidential elections.

List of case opinions

• Leppik (2006) C-434/04
• The Rosella or ITWF v Viking Line ABP (2007) C-438/05
• Coleman v Attridge Law (2008) C-303/06
• CGKR v Firma Feryn NV (2008) C-54/07
• Kadi and Al Barakaat International Foundation v Council and Commission (2008) C-402