Gonçalo de Almeida Ribeiro is a professor at Católica School of Law in Lisbon and the Director of the Católica Research Centre for the Future of Law. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law. A former Justice (2016-25) and Vice-President (2023-25) of the Constitutional Court of Portugal, Professor Almeida Ribeiro has a law degree from the Nova School of Law (2006), and LL.M. (2007) and S.J.D. (2012) degrees from the Harvard Law School. As a graduate student at Harvard he won the Mancini Prize and the HKSG Dean’s Award for Excellence in Student Teaching. He is the author of The Decline of Private Law (Hart Publishing, 2019), Fundamental Rights (UCP Press, 2025), and O Constitucionalismo na Pós-Modernidade (2025). He has published dozens of pieces and has given hundreds of talks, notably in the fields of constitutional law, legal philosophy, comparative jurisprudence, and political theory.
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