Bio
Founding partner of SÉRVULO, since 1999, and Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, José Manuel Sérvulo Correia developed his legal practice in the areas of Public Law, Litigation and Arbitration. He is a founding member of the European Public Law Group. In 2015 he received the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Athens. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the European School of Law and Governance. He was appointed Full Professor in 2006. He received his Doctorate in Law from the University of Lisbon in 1987. In 1968 he completed the Complementary Course in Economic Political Sciences (equivalent to a master's degree), at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, an institution where he also graduated in 1959. He has been a member of the panel of arbitrators at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (The Hague) since 2005. He was an ad hoc judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), between 2011 and 2014. He was a member of the Superior Council of the Order of Lawyers, between 2005 and 2007. He headed the legal department and was a legal consultant to the management of the Entreposto business group, from 1979 to 1995. He was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, having participated in the respective Plenary and in the Committees on Social Questions and on Population, Refugees and Migration, between 1977 and 1979. From 1976 to 1979 he was a member of the National Assembly, Vice-President of the Parliamentary Group and President of the Parliamentary Health and Social Security Committee. In 1976, he was Secretary of State for Emigration, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, during the VI Provisional Government. He was a lawyer in the legal department of the Bank of Portugal between 1972 and 1976, and in 1979. He joined the Bar in 1962.
