Gonçalo de Almeida Ribeiro elected Vice-President of the Constitutional Court

Gonçalo de Almeida Ribeiro, professor at the Faculty of Law - Lisbon School of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa and a Consulting Judge of the Constitutional Court since 2016, was elected Vice-President of the Constitutional Court on April 26.

At 39 years of age, the professor was chosen to succeed Pedro Machete, also a professor at the Faculty of Law and in office since February 2021.

For the Presidency of the Constitutional Court, the judges elected José João Abrantes, whose mandate will end in 2025.

Gonçalo de Almeida Ribeiro is also member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and obtained his LL.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard Law School. His doctoral dissertation was awarded the Mancini Prize in 2012 and was later published in a reduced and enhanced version by Hart Publishing under the title The Decline of Private Law: A Philosophical History of Liberal Legalism (2019). His research is primarily in the fields of Constitutional Theory, the philosophy of law, the history of legal thought, and comparative law.