patrícia galvão teles curriculum vitae

PATRÍCIA GALVÃO TELES
CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal Information
Born on the 29.09.1970 in Lisbon, Portugal
Married, with 2 children
Portuguese nationality
Portuguese (mother tongue). Fluent in English, French and Spanish. Very good
understanding of Italian
Academic Degrees
2002
PhD in International Law from the Institut Universitaire des Hautes Etudes
Internationales, Geneva, Switzerland, with a thesis on “East Timor and
international law: a contribution to the study of how the international legal
order deals with the violations infringed upon it” (Thesis Supervisors: Georges
Abi-Saab and Lucius Caflisch/Marcelo Kohen. External Examiner: Bruno Simma)
1995
Masters in International Law from the same Institut with a thesis on
“Obligations erga omnes in international law”
1993
Law Degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, Portugal
Professional Experience and Positions
Current Position Senior Legal Consultant on International Law at the Legal Department
of the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (since 2015)
Since 2016
Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA)
2015-2008 Legal Adviser at the Portuguese Permanent Representation to the European
Union in Brussels
Responsible for: legal and institutional issues, particularly with regard to the
implementation of the Treaty of Lisbon; infringement proceedings against the
Portuguese Republic; Working Groups on the European Court of Justice,
Fundamental Rights, Human Rights, United Nations, Public International Law,
International Criminal Court, Law of the Sea, Data Protection and Industrial
Property (Patent and Trademark)
2008-2001 Legal Consultant on International Law at the Legal Department of the
Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Coordinator, in the Legal Department, for International Law matters.
Responsible for preparing the Portuguese position in international legal
meetings (2008-2004)
Member of the Portuguese Delegation to the Sixth Committee (Legal Affairs)
of the United Nations General Assembly (2007-2002), including during the
International Law Week and the discussion of the International Law
Commission Report. Responsible for preparing the Portuguese comments to
the annual ILC Report
Member of the Portuguese Delegation to the CAHDI/Council of Europe
Working Group on International Law (2008-2004)
Member of the Portuguese Delegation to the Assembly of State Parties of the
International Criminal Court, the Princeton Process Meetings and the Working
Group on the Crime of Aggression (2008-2006)
Member of the Portuguese Delegation to the COJUR and COJUR ICC/Council of
the European Union Working Groups on International Law and the
International Criminal Court (2008-2003)
Responsible for legal opinions in the most diverse matters: relationship
between International Law, EU Law and Domestic Law; Privileges and
Immunities of Diplomatic Agents, States, International Organizations and EU
Agencies; Law of the Sea; Human Rights; International Humanitarian Law;
Nationality; Law of Treaties; Provisional Application of Treaties; etc.
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Negotiated and drafted international conventions (multilateral and bilateral,
e.g. UN Convention of Jurisdiction Immunities of States and their Property and
Headquarters Agreements with the Portuguese State), and prepared domestic
ratification processes in Portugal of several conventions (e.g. Vienna
Convention on the Law of Treaties of 1969)
Participated in dispute settlement negotiations and mediations involving the
Portuguese State within European and International institutions (e.g. Expert
mediation in a dispute between the European Maritime Security Agency and
the Portuguese Republic)
2007
Chair of COJUR ICC and Vice-Chair of COJUR (Council of the European Union
Working Groups on International Law and the International Criminal Court)
during the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union. Coordinator, in the
Legal Department of the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for matters
related to the Portuguese Presidency of the EU
2004
Member of the Portuguese Delegation in the International Court of Justice
Case on the Legality of the Use of Force (Serbia and Montenegro vs. Portugal)
2002-1999 Member of the Portuguese Delegation to the United Nations Commission on
Human Rights, including during the Portuguese Presidency of the European
Union in 2000
1999
Member of the Portuguese Electoral Observation Mission to the East Timorese
Popular Consultation organized by the United Nations, following the New York
Agreement of May 1999 between Portugal and Indonesia
1997-1995 Legal Adviser to the Secretary of State for National Defence
1995
Assistant to the Portuguese Delegation during the oral hearings in the
International Court of Justice Case concerning East Timor (Portugal vs.
Australia)
Academic and Research Experience
Current Positions Auxiliary Professor of International Law and EU Law at the Autonomous
University of Lisbon at the Law and International Relations
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Departments (since 2002). Teaching currently Undergraduate Courses
on “Public International Law” and “EU Law”, Master Courses on
“Trends in International Law” and “Just War in International Law” and a
Post-Graduate Course on “International Law in Ibero-America”
Guest Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law of the Nova
University of Lisbon (since 2015). Teaching currently a Master Course
on “International Humanitarian Law” and an Undergraduate Course on
“International Criminal Law”
2013
Director of Studies of the English Session during the Public International Law
Summer Session of The Hague Academy of International Law. Member of the
Diploma Jury, together with Professor James Crawford (University of
Cambridge), Yves Daudet (Secretary-General of the Academy and Emeritus
Professor of University Paris I) and Samantha Besson (Fribourg University)
Since 2009 Researcher and Member of the Scientific Council of Observare (Research
Centre for External Relations of the Autonomous University of Lisbon).
Registered researcher at the Portuguese National Research Council
Member of the Editorial Board and Referee of Janus.Net, Online Journal on
International Relations
Co-responsible for an on-going research project on “International Criminal
Justice”
Participant in two other on-going international research projects: “Economic
Spaces, Security Spaces” (on the topic “Sovereignty in the XXI Century”) and
“Institutional Security in the African Region” (on the topic “Responsibility to
Protect in the African Union, United Nations and European Union”)
2008-2002 Professor in the Masters “War and Peace Studies in the New International
Relations” at the Autonomous University of Lisbon (teaching “Just War in
International Law” and “Human Rights”)
Professor at the Undergraduate Law and International Relations Degrees at
the Autonomous University of Lisbon (teaching “Public International Law”,
“Private International Law”, “Introduction to Law”, “Human Rights and
International Humanitarian Law”)
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Member of the Board of the Observatory for External Relations of the
Autonomous University of Lisbon and Co-coordinator of the research project
“Vertices of the Portuguese Foreign Policy”
Coordinator, for the Legal Area, of a Course for preparing Access to the
Diplomatic Service, organized by the Autonomous University of Lisbon and
responsible for teaching “Public International Law”
Professor at the Masters “New frontiers of Law” at ISCTE/Institute of the
University of Lisbon (teaching “Globalization and International Law”)
Professor at the “Course for Promotion to the Rank of Officer at the
Portuguese Air Force” and at the “Joint Major Staff Course at the Institute for
Higher Military Studies” (teaching “International Law and the Use of Force”
and “Human Rights and International humanitarian Law”)
Professor at the Masters in “Social Service” at ISCTE/Institute of the University
of Lisbon (teaching “Human Rights and Social Service”)
SInce 2006 Supervisor and Jury of Masters and PhD theses and the Autonomous
University of Lisbon, ISCTE/Institute of the University of Lisbon and Faculty of
Law of the Catholic University of Oporto. Jury of the Competition for the
Training Course for Judges at the Centre for Judiciary Studies
Since 1997 Regular speaker in conferences, courses and panels of the International Law
Association, United Nations, Portuguese Society of International Law,
Portuguese Diplomatic Institute, Institute for National Defence, Military
Institutes, several Portuguese and foreign Universities, National Parliament,
Ministry of Justice, Portuguese Red Cross, Civil Protection Authority,
Gulbenkian Foundation, etc.
Subjects mostly dealt with in such conferences, courses and panels:
International Law; United Nations; Human Rights and Fundamental Rights;
International Humanitarian Law; East Timor; International Law-Making; Use of
Force; Globalization and International Law; Law of Treaties; State Responsibility
1997-1996 Professor of International Law at the International Relations Department of the
Autonomous University of Lisbon
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Other relevant Academic and Training Experience
2015-2014 Member of the Scientific Committee of the book J. GRIGNON (Ed.), “Hommage
à Jean Pictet”/”Tribute to Jean Pictet”, Éditions Yvon Blais/Schulthess, 2016
2013
Jury Member of the written pleadings in the Brazilian Competition on the
Inter-American Human Rights System
2012
Jury Member in the Regional Moot Court Competition in International
Humanitarian Law organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross
Delegation in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
2012-2011 TAIEX (EU Training Instrument for Enlargement Countries) Lecturer in Croatia,
Serbia and The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, on the new
Institutional Structure of the European Union after the Treaty of Lisbon
Since 2002 Member of the Committee for the Jean Pictet Competition – Training and
Simulations in International Humanitarian Law. Organization of sessions,
selection of teams, elaboration of the simulation cases and jury in several
English and French sessions, including in the Finals Jury
1998
Participant in the International Law Commission Seminar in Geneva
1995 Assistant of the Institut de Droit International in the organization of the Lisbon
Session
1995/1993 Participant in the Public International Law Session of The Hague Academy for
International Law
Current Memberships and Affiliations
Member of the Portuguese Society of International Law (SPDI)
Member of the International Law Association (ILA). Member of the ILA Committee on
“International Law and Sea Level Rise”
Member of the American Society of International Law (ASIL)
Member of the Luso-Hispano-American Institute for International Law (ILHADI)
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Founder and President of the Institute for the Promotion of International Humanitarian
Law and Human Rights (INDIHDH)
Academic Scholarships
Programme Praxis XXI of the Portuguese Government
Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal)
Orient Foundation (Portugal)
Graduate Institute of International Studies (Switzerland)
Consultancy Experience
2004
Consultancy for the Law Firm PLMJ (António Maria Pereira, Sáragga Leal,
Oliveira Martins, Júdice & Associados)
2002-1999 Consultancy for the Law Firm Miguel Galvão Teles, João Soares da Silva &
Associados
1999
Consultancy for UNICEF on the on the Convention of the Rights of the Child
1999-1997 Consultancy for the Portuguese Red Cross
1995
Consultancy for the Law Firm Frère Cholmeley
1994
Consultancy for the European Commission, with field Missions to Zambia and
Malawi for the legal revision of the translation of the COMESA (Common
Market for Eastern and Southern Africa) and PTA (Preferential Trade Area)
Treaties
1994
Freelance translation of legal texts for the European Commission
Publications
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 “O contributo das Nações Unidas e da Comissão do Direito internacional para a
formação do direito internacional: breve balanço por ocasião do 70º aniversário da
Organização das Nações Unidas” (The contribution of the United Nations and of the
International Law Commission for the formation of International Law: Brief
overview on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the United Nations
Organization), Themis (forthcoming)
 “The work of the International Law Commission (ILC) in the present quinquennium
(2012-2016) and possible future topics: How to remain relevant in the 21st
century”, Anuário de Direito Internacional 2014-2015 (International Law Yearbook
2014-2015) (forthcoming)
 “Responsibility of States: A “containment strategy” for turning the ILC Draft
Articles into a Convention”, Anuário de Direito Internacional 2014-2015
(International Law Yearbook 2014-2015) (forthcoming)
 “A Responsabilidade Internacional do Estado por Factos Ilícitos: o longo caminho
para uma Convenção?” (State Responsibility for Internationally Wrongful Acts: The
long road for a Convention?), in Questões de Responsabilidade Internacional – Atas
da Conferência na Universidade do Minho (Questions of International
Responsibility – Proceedings of the Conference at Minho University) (forthcoming)
 “Comitologia” (Comitology), Enciclopédia da União Europeia (Encyclopaedia of the
European Union) (forthcoming)
 “A regulação jurídica da violência: o legado da Primeira Guerra Mundial (Law and
violence: the legacy of the First World War)”, Second International Congress of
Observare – World War and International Relations: 100 years after 1914,
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, July 2014 (forthcoming)
 “Segurança Ambiental e Ordem Internacional - O Direito Internacional em
constante tensão e inovação (Environmental Security and the International Legal
Order – International Law in constant tension and innovation)”, Inaugural Lecture
at the IV Portuguese-Spanish Encounter of Public International Law and
International Relations Professors, Seville, June 2014, in P. A. Fernández Sánchez
et al, Seguridad medioambiental y orden internacional: IV Encuentro Luso-Español
de Profesores de Derecho Internacional Público y Relaciones Internacionales,
Atelier, Barcelona (2015) 17-39
 “The International Criminal Court and the evolution of the idea of combating
impunity: an assessment 15 years after the Rome Conference”, Janus.Net 5/2
(2014-2015)
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 “As sanções e as relações entre as ordens jurídicas internacional e europeia
(Sanctions and the relationship between the International and European Legal
Orders)”, Boletim da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra, LXXXVIII-II
(2012) 881-898
 “As relações entre a ordem jurídica internacional e a ordem jurídica
europeia/comunitária: o caso das sanções/medidas restritivas” (The relationships
between the International and European/Community Legal Orders: the case of
Sanctions/Restrictive Measures), in Estudos em Homenagem a Miguel Galvão Teles
– Vol. I, Almedina, Coimbra, 2012
 “Comentário ao Artigo 24º do Tratado de Funcionamento da União Europeia
(Iniciativa de Cidadania)” (Commentary to Article 24º of the Treaty on the
Functioning of the European Union – Citizens Initiative), in M. Lopes Porto e G.
Anastácio, Tratado de Lisboa – Anotado e Comentado, Almedina, Coimbra, 2012
 “A Aliança das Civilizações: a sua criação” (The Alliance of Civilizations: its
creation), Janus 2009
 “Globalização e novas fronteiras do Direito Internacional (Globalization and the
new frontiers of International Law) ”, in M. E. Gonçalves and P. Guibentif, Novos
Territórios do Direito – Europeização, Globalização e Transformação da Regulação
Jurídica, Principia, Estoril (2008) 99-114
 “O fim do projeto constitucional e a pausa para reflexão” (The end of the
European constitutional
project and the pause for reflection) and
“Multinacionais e Direitos Humanos” (Multinationals and Human Rights) (coauthor), Janus 2008
 Política Externa Europeia? Consequências para Portugal (European External
Policy? Consequences for Portugal), Ediual, Lisboa, 2007 (co-author)
 “O que mudou no direito internacional (1997-2007)” (What has changed in
International Law), Janus 2007
 “A PESC nos Tratados: Antecedentes e Evolução” (The CFSP in the Treaties:
Origins and Evolution), “Os instrumentos e Atores da PESC” (The instruments and
actors of CFSP), “A PESC nos debates da Convenção Europeia” (The CFSP in the
debates of the European Convention), “O que prevê a Constituição Europeia sobre
a PESC” (What does the European Constitution contain about CFSP), Janus 2006
 “Alice no País das Maravilhas ou breve história de um processo no Tribunal
Internacional de Justiça: Sérvia e Montenegro c. Portugal e outros Membros da
NATO sobre a Legalidade do Uso da Força (Alice in Wonderland or a brief history
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of a proceeding before the International Court of Justice: Serbia and Montenegro
v. Portugal and other NATO members on the Legality of the Use of Force)”,
Revista “Negócios Estrangeiros”, 8 (2005) 31-40 (co-author)
 “Intervenção humanitária e legítima defesa preventiva: as novas guerras
justas?” (Humanitarian intervention and preventive self-defense: the new just
wars?), Janus 2005
 “Portugal e o Tribunal Internacional de Justiça” (Portugal and the International
Court of Justice), “Portugal e a Resolução Pacífica de Conflitos” (Portugal and
the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes) and “Portugal e os Direitos Humanos”
(Portugal and Human Rights) (co-author), Janus 2004
 “A ordem jurídica internacional em transição? Multilateralismo vs.
unilateralismo e a intervenção militar no Iraque”, (The international legal order
in transition: multilateralism vs. unilateralism and the military intervention in
Iraq) in A. Menezes Cordeiro et al (eds.), Estudos em Homenagem ao Professor
Doutor Inocêncio Galvão Telles, Vol. IV, Almedina, Coimbra, 2003
 “A ONU e o combate ao Terrorismo” (The UN and the fight against Terrorism),
“Terrorismo e Direitos Humanos” (Terrorism and Human Rights), “A intervenção
estrangeira no Afeganistão e o Direito Internacional” (Foreign intervention in
Afghanistan and International Law) e “As Nações Unidas e a Questão Palestiniana”
(The United Nations and the Palestinian Question), Janus 2003
 “Tratados internacionais e política externa (1996-2001)” (International Treaties
and Foreign Policy (1996-2001) (co-author) e “Timor-Leste e Direitos Humanos”
(East Timor and Human Rights) (co-author), Janus 2002
 “Autodeterminação em Timor-Leste: Dos Acordos de Nova Iorque à consulta
popular de 30 de Agosto de 1999 (Self-Determination in East Timor: From the
New York Agreements to the Popular Consultation of 30 August 1999)”,
Documentação e Direito Comparado - Boletim do Ministério da Justiça 79/80
(1999) 381-454
 “De Nuremberga a Roma: a repressão internacional dos crimes de guerra e dos
crimes contra a humanidade” (From Nuremberg to Rome: the international
repression of war crimes and crimes against humanity) (co-author) e “A Reforma
das Nações Unidas” (The United Nations Reform) (co-author), Janus 1999-2000
 “Portugal: Política de Defesa e Política Externa” (Portugal: Defence Policy and
External Policy) (co-author) e “Portugal e o controlo e a redução do armamento”
(Portugal and arms control and reduction) (co-author), Janus 1998 (Special
Supplement on the Armed Forces)
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 “Tratados internacionais e política externa (1986-1996)” (International Treaties
and External Policy 1986-1996) (co-author) e “Controlo internacional do respeito
pelos Direitos Humanos em Portugal” (International Control of respect for Human
Rights in Portugal) (co-author), Janus 1998
 I. Brownlie, Princípios de Direito Internacional Público (Principles of Public
International Law), Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, 1998 (translation in coauthorship)
 “O estatuto jurídico de Timor-Leste: um case study sobre as relações entre os
conceitos de autodeterminação e soberania (The legal status of East Timor: a case
study on the relationship between the concepts of self-determination and
sovereignty)”, Política Internacional 15/16 (1997) 193-248.
 “The interaction between treaty and custom in international law”, O Direito 129
(1997) 269-311
 “Obligations erga omnes in international law”, Revista Jurídica da Associação
Académica da Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa 20 (1996) 73-137
 Author of several entries for Verbo, Pólis and Luso-Brasileira Encyclopaedias on, for
example, Geneva Conventions, Geneva Conferences, War, United Nations, East
Timor, Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights, European Court of State
Immunities, Permanent Court of Arbitration, NATO, NGOs and European
Parliament
Prizes
Honorary Mention in the Latin Union/Foundation for Science and Technology Translation
Prize for the translation in co-authorship of I. Brownlie, Princípios de Direito Internacional
Público (Principles of Public International Law), Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa,
1998
Honorary Mention in the Aristides Sousa Mendes Prize of the Portuguese Diplomats
Association for “O estatuto jurídico de Timor-Leste: um case study sobre as relações entre
os conceitos de autodeterminação e soberania (The legal status of East Timor: a case
study on the relationship between the concepts of self-determination and sovereignty)”,
Política Internacional 15/16 (1997) 193-248
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