Luís Miguel Poiares Pessoa Maduro (born 3 January 1967) is a Portuguese

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and

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. He was the Portuguese Minister for Regional Development from April 2013 to October 2015 in the

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, led by

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. Previously, he was director of the School of Transnational Governance and professor of law at the

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, Italy. Poiares Maduro was also visiting professor at the faculty of

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in the

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Career

Poiares Maduro was an Advocate General at the

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in Luxembourg from 7 October 2003 to 6 October 2009. He has been a Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar of Law at

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, 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:

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, Catholic University of Lisbon, the

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, 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. Maduro belonged to the Political Committee of candidate

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in the 2011 presidential elections. Between 2012 and 2013, Poiares Maduro served as member of the

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’s High Level Group on Media Freedom and Pluralism, an advisory panel set up by European Commissioner

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and chaired by

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. From 13 April 2013 to 30 October 2015, Maduro was Minister for Regional Development in the centre-right Portuguese government of

. In 2016, Poiraes Maduro was elected as chairman of the

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Governance Committee and its independent Review Committee; his co-chairman is

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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

Bibliography

*''We the Court – The European Court of Justice and the European Economic Constitution'' *''The Plural Constitution – Constitutionalism and the European Union'' *(with L Azoulai) ''The Past and Future of EU law - The Classics of EU law revisited on the 50th Anniversary of the Rome Treaty'' (2010)

List of case opinions

*'' Commission v Netherlands'' (2006
C‑282/04
(opinion that golden shares in KPN NV and TPG NV contravened free movement of capital: adopted) *'' Ahokainen and Leppik'' (2006
C-434/04
*'' FENIN v Commission'' (2006
C-205/03 P
*''

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'' (2007
C-307/05
(opinion against fixed term workers being able to claim equal pay: rejected by ECJ) *''

The Rosella ''International Transport Workers' Federation v Viking Line ABP'' (2007C-438/05is an EU law case of the European Court of Justice, in which it was held that there is a positive right to strike, but the exercise of that right could infringe a bu ...

'' or '' ITWF v Viking Line ABP'' (2007
C-438/05
(opinion against the trade union's right to strike: adopted) *'' Coleman v Attridge Law'' (2008) C-303/06 (opinion in favour of a right to claim discrimination, associated to disabled child: adopted) *'' Cartesio Oktató és Szolgáltató bt'' (2008
C-210/06
(opinion in favour of corporations being able to shift member states to evade social regulation: rejected) *'' CGKR v Firma Feryn NV'' (2008) C-54/07 (opinion in favour of public statement that a business would not hire Moroccan immigrants was direct discrimination: adopted) *'' Kadi and Al Barakaat International Foundation v Council and Commission'' (2008
C-402
(opinion in favour of EU law principles overriding a UN Security Council resolution: adopted)

References

External links

List of opinions by AG Maduro between 2003 and 2009 at the CJEU
{{DEFAULTSORT:Maduro, Miguel Poiares 1967 births Advocates general of the European Court of Justice Living people Academic staff of the Catholic University of Portugal Portuguese officials of the European Union Academic staff of NOVA University Lisbon