Judge at the European Court of Human Rights
Election by an absolute majority (on the first ballot) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on 25 January 2011. Sworn in on 1 April 2011. Mandate expired on 31 March 2020. However, Judge Albuquerque continued to perform his duties in some pending cases in which he was part of the judicial panel until 25 May 2021, the date on which he delivered his last ruling in the Big Brother Watch v. United Kingdom case.
Focal Point of the network of supreme and constitutional courts outside of Europe
Judge Albuquerque established institutional relations with African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Constitutional Court of South Africa, Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa, Constitutional Court of Angola, Supreme Court of Angola, Superior Court of Brazil, Federal Supreme Court of Brazil, Supreme Court of China, Supreme Court of India, Supreme Court of Israel, Supreme Court of Japan, Constitutional Court of Jordan, Constitutional Court of South Korea, Supreme Court of Mozambique.
From January 2016 to March 2020.
Vice-president of section IV of the ECHR
Election by Section IV judges
September 2018 to April 2019
President of the ECHR Committee on the Rules of the Court
Election by Committee members
October 2018 to March 2020
Ad Hoc Judge before the ECHR
Appointment by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania
Since 2016
Member of the ECHR Grand Chamber panel
(composed by five judges) which selects the cases for the Grand Chamber. Appointment by the President of the Court.
First mandate from June to December 2012Second mandate from June to December 2016
Founder and President of the Criminal Law Group of the ECHR
Election by Group members
January 2014 to March 2020
European Judicial Training Network Expert
2023 THEMIS Competition Grand Final, Bucharest, Romania
December 2023
Speaker at several Supreme and Constitutional Courts, namely at:
- Angola, Constitutional Court, 3 Mai 2019
- Brazil, Federal Supreme Court, 21 August 2019
- Brazil, Superior Court of Justice, 25 August 2016, 11 April 2024France, Court of Cassation, 8 June 2017
- Israel, Supreme Court, 20 January 2019
- Italy, Court of Cassation, 3 March 2017, 22 Mai 2017, 26 October 2018, 21 March 2025
- Mozambique, Supreme Court, 21 August 2017
- Poland, Supreme Court, 8 November 2022
- Portugal, Constitutional Court, 18 April 2017, 10 December 2018
- Spain, Supreme Court, 29 October 2018
- Ukraine, Constitutional Court, 13 June 2019, 30 October 2025
- Ukraine, Supreme Court, 29 October 2021
Lawyer
Admitted to the Portuguese Bar (CED.48028L)
Since 2009
Judge
In several Portuguese courts, including the Criminal Court of Lisbon, the Correctional Court of Lisbon, the Criminal Instruction Court of Lisbon
From 1992 to 2004
Judge supervisor of junior judges from Angola, Cabo Verde and Mozambique
In the framework of international judicial cooperation between the Ministries of Justice of these countries and the Ministry of Justice of Portugal