Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque

Before joining the Court, Albuquerque has served as a judge in various civil and criminal courts in Lisbon, an expert with the Council of Europe’s Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO), an advisor to the Portuguese Ministry of Internal Administration, and an associate professor at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP).[2] From 2006, he served as an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois College of Law.[3]

• Law Degree, Faculty of Law, State University of Lisbon, 1989
• Member of the Portuguese Bar, since 2006
• Judge in the Criminal Court and the Correctional Court of Lisbon and President of the Courts of Nelas, Lagos and the Criminal Instruction Court of Lisbon, 1992-2004
• Master of Law, Faculty of Law, Catholic University of Lisbon, 1994
• Member of the Taskforce for Criminal Procedure Reform of the Ministry of Justice of Germany, 1999
• Doctorate of Law, Faculty of Law, Catholic University of Lisbon, 2003
• Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Catholic University of Lisbon, 2004-2008
• Member of the Taskforce for Penal Reform of the Ministry of Justice of Portugal, 2005-2007
• Invited Professor on criminal law and procedure at the High Military Studies Institute of the Ministry of Defence of Portugal, 2007-2009
• Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Catholic University of Lisbon, 2008-2010
• Associate Professor with tenure, Faculty of Law, Catholic University of Lisbon, 2011-2015
• Full Professor with tenure (professor catedratico), Faculty of Law, Catholic University of Lisbon, since 2015
• Visiting Professor, Illinois College of Law, United States of America, 2006-2007
• Visiting Professor, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, 2006
• Adjunct Professor, Illinois College of Law, United States of America, 2009-2010
• Expert of the GRECO appointed by the Council of Europe, 2009-2010
• Expert of the European Commission study “Crime Repression Costs in Context”, 2007-2009
• Expert of the Parliament for draft legislation on domestic violence (2009) and the fight against corruption (2010)
• Visiting Professor, Paris II-Assas University, since 2017

In January 2016, Albuquerque issued the only dissenting opinion of the seven judges when the Court ruled against Romanian engineer Bogdan Barbulescu who was fired in 2007 after his company discovered that he was using their internet for personal purposes during work hours. Albuquerque detailed in court documents that Barbulescu's personal correspondence during work time was neither prolonged nor damaging to the company he was employed by. He called Barbulescu's dismissal "disproportionate." He warned that unless companies clearly stipulate their Internet usage policy, "Internet surveillance in the workplace runs the risk of being abused by employers acting as a distrustful Big Brother lurking over the shoulders of their employees, as though the latter had sold not only their labor, but also their personal lives to employers."[4]

• Judge of the European Court of Human Rights since 1 April 2011
• Vice-President of Section since 1 September 2018.