Professor of Administrative Law, European Law and International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.

Masters Degree of Law 1966, LLM Public Law and Economic Law 1968, PhD 1985, Professor of Law 1986, Full Professor ("Catedrático") since 1998.

Jean Monnet Chair in European Constitutional and Administrative Law, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence of the Lisbon University.

Subject groups: Administrative Law, European Law, Human Rights Law, European Constitutional Law, European Administrative Law, European Competition Law, State Aid Law, International Law, National and International Property Law, International Investment Law, National and International Public and Private Arbitration, Regional and Urban Planning Law, National, International and European Environmental Law, Energy Law, Global Law.

Fausto de Quadros has held visiting Professorships at Universities in France (namely the Robert Schumann University, Strasbourg), Germany (including the Academy of Administrative Sciences, Speyer), and the United States and has participated on a number of academic juries in Universities of France, Brasil, Macao, Canada and Portugal. He regularly advises governments and corporations on matters of European Law, Administrative Law and International Law. He advised Austria and Poland on the preparation of their respective accessions to the Council of Europe and to the European Union. He has acted as consultant for the OECD in relation to Public Administration reform of a number of member States.

He has participated in numerous International Conferences and Symposiums principally on European Law and Public Law and has been a member of various European and Internationals scientific advisory panels on the preparation of the Treaties of Maastricht, Amsterdam, Nice, the European Constitutional Treaty and the Treaty of Lisbon.

Fausto de Quadros has been involved in the writing of some of the most relevant laws on the implementation and consolidation of democracy in Portugal, since 1974. He has given hearings to the Portuguese Parliament in all the revisions of the Portuguese Constitution since 1974. Further, he has been invited to parliamentary Committee hearings of the Legal Affairs and Constitutional Affairs Committees of the European Parliament.

He is invited regularly to arbitrate in national and trasnational proceedings, both in Portugal and abroad. He was ad hoc arbitrator of "Mercosul" ("Mercado Comum do Sul") by appointment of the Brazilian Government. In 2009 he was appointed by the Portuguese Government as Arbitrator to be the European Union Representative in the Appellate Body of the WTO.
He has been a member of the Portuguese Bar since 1974, and has been a practicing lawyer for the European Court of Human Rights and of the European Court of Justice since 1986.

Fausto de Quadros is a member of a number of scientific associations in European and Latin American countries. He is the official representative of the Portuguese Government on the High Council of the European University Institute, in Florence and the Consulting Committee of the Academy of European Law, in Trier.
 

Contacts

E-mail: fquadros@fd.ul.pt

Mailing: Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon
Alameda da Universidade, Cidade Universitária
1649 - 014 Lisboa
Portugal

Some of his next publications:

- New Trends of Public and Private Arbitration.

- « Global Law, Plural Constitutionalism and Global Administrative Law ».

- « A relevância perante o contencioso administrativo nacional do acto administrativo comunitário e do acto administrativo nacional contrário ao Direito da União Europeia » ( « The relevance in the national administrative courts of the European Union’s administrative act and of the national administrative act that violates European Union Law » ). 

 - « Vinte e cinco anos de aplicação do Direito da União Europeia em Portugal “ ( « Twenty five years of enforcement of European Union Law in Portugal »).

Some of his more recent publications:

- « Der Einfluss des Grungesetzes auf die portuguesische Verfassung aus der Sicht eines portugiesischen Verfassugsrechtlers » (« A Portuguese Constitutionalist’s view of the Influence of German Fondamental Law on the Portuguese Constitution »), Peter Häberle (Editor), Jahrbuch des öffentlichen Rechts, Bd. 58 (2010).

- « The European Constitution and National Constitutions – A Complementary Relationship », A. D’Souza and C. D’Souza (Editors), Civil Law Studies – An Indian Perspective, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.
- Droit de l'Union européenne – Droit constitutionnel et administratif de l’Union européenne («European Union Law – Constitutional and Admiinistrative Law of the European Union»), Brussels, Bruylant, 2008.

- « L'effet de la supranationalité dans la séparation horizontale des pouvoirs », H. Bauer and A. D'Atena (Editors), The impact of supranationality on the separation of powers, SIPE 2, Trilingue Edition, Brussels, Bruylant, 2007.

- Contencioso da União Europeia ("Litigation under European Law"), co-author with Ana Martins, Coimbra, Almedina, 2nd. Edition, 2007.

- "A europeização do Contencioso Administrativo" ("The Europeanisation of Public Law Litigation"), Essays Marcello Caetano, Coimbra, Coimbra Editora, 2006.

- Les scénarios pour sortir de l'impasse du Traité constitutionnel européen("The scenarios to overcome the impasse of the European Constitutional Treaty"), Europe's challenges in a globalised world, Global Jean Monnet Conference, 8th ECSA World Conference, Brussels, 23 and 24 November 2006, www.ec.europe/education/programmes/ajm/organisation/globalised_world/index_en.html

- "Constituição europeia e Constituições nacionais" ("The European Constitution and national constitutions"), O Direito, 2005/IV-V.

- A responsabilidade civil extracontratual da Administração Pública("The State's Non-contractual Liability"), Director, Coimbra, Almedina, 2nd. Edition, 2004.

- "Einige Gedanken zum Inhalt und zu den Werten der europäischen Verfassung" ("Thoughts on the content and values of the European Constitution"), Essays Peter Badura, 2004.

His major publications include:
 
- Direito da União Europeia, ("European Union Law"). Coimbra, Almedina, 2004.

- A nova dimensão do Direito Administrativo - O Direito Administrativo português numa perspectiva comunitária ("The new dimension of Public Law - Portuguese Public Law from a European perspective"), Coimbra, Almedina, 1999.

- A protecção da propriedade privada pelo Direito Internacional Público ("The Protection of Private Property by International Law"), Coimbra, Almedina, 1998, (which contains a summary in English).

- "Das Subsidiaritätsprinzip im EG-Recht nach Maastricht" ("The Principle of Subsidiarity in EU-Law after Maastricht"), Tomuschat, Kötz and von Maydell (Editors), Europäische Integration und nationale Rechtskulturen, Cologne, 1994.

- O princípio da subsidiariedade no Direito Comunitário após o Tratado da União Europeia ("The Principle of Subsidiarity in European Law after the Treaty of the European Union"), Coimbra, Almedina, 1995.

- Manual de Direito Internacional Público ("Manual of International Public Law"),co-author with André Gonçalves Pereira, 3rd. Edition, Coimbra, Almedina, 1993, reprint, 2008.

- Direito das Comunidades Europeias e Direito Internacional Público - Contributo para o estudo da natureza jurídica do Direito Comunitário Europeu, dissertação de doutoramento («European Communities Law and International Public Law - A contribution to the study of the Legal Nature of European Union Law"), (thesis), Coimbra, Almedina, 1984.