Miguel Poiares Maduro is Professor and Director of the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute and Visiting Professor at Yale Law School. He was Advocate General at the European Court of Justice (October 2003 – October 2009).
He has taught at many other institutions in a visiting capacity, including the Centro de Estudios Constitucionales Madrid), Chicago Law School and London School of Economics. Until October of 2003 he was a Professor at the Law school of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa with whom he still collaborates. He is also an external Professor at the College of Europe. He is a Doctor of Laws by the European University Institute (Florence) and was the first winner of the Rowe and Maw Prize and winner of the Prize Obiettivo Europa (for the best Ph.D. thesis at the EUI). He has been Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar at Harvard Law School. He is Co-Director of the Academy of International Trade Law (Macao). He co-edited with Joseph Weiler the Special Book Review Issue of the European Law Journal. He is co-editor with Francis Snyder of the Hart Publishers Series Studies in European Law and Integration. He belongs to the editorial or advisory board of several law journals, including the European Law Journal and the Common Market Law Review. He is the author of We the Court – The European Court of Justice and the European Economic Constitution (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 1997).
He has published articles, in several languages, on issues of EU law, constitutional law, human rights law and international economic law. He has been honoured by the President of the Portuguese Republic with the Order of Sant’Iago da Espada for literary, scientific and artistic merit. He was awarded the Gulbenkian Science Prize 2010, in recognition of outstanding work in the field of law