João Rodrigues

João Rodrigues was a Portuguese national and a senior member of the Legal Service of the European Parliament.  He studied law at the University of Lisbon (Portugal), and European Law and Studies at the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, and the University of Nancy (France). After a short spell in the Legal Department of the Portuguese Civil Aviation Authority, he joined the EU institutions as a lawyer-linguist in the European Court of Justice. Mr. Rodrigues entered the Legal Service of the European Parliament in 2004, where he works in the areas of energy, telecommunications, environment, public health, and food safety. His job is to provide legal advice during the legislative decision-making procedure and also to defend, before the EU courts, legislation adopted by the European Parliament – mostly together with the Council. He has participated in several conferences and been invited to present different subjects of EU law at the European Institute of Public Administration and the Academy of European Law.

While at Yale, Mr. Rodrigues researched the role of the precautionary principle in risk regulation, notably in the area of chemicals and genetically-modified organisms.