Filipe Brito Bastos

Filipe Brito Bastos holds a PhD in Law from the European University Institute in Florence, having defended his doctoral thesis in 2018 under the supervision of Professor Deirdre Curtin.

From 2018 to 2020, he conducted research and taught at the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam, where he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance.

He is currently assistant professor at NOVA School of Law, where he has taught European Administrative Law, Administrative Law, Administrative Justice, Regulatory Administrative Law, and Constitutional Law.

He is director of NOVA PEARL – NOVA Platform for European Administrative and Regulatory Law. His current research focuses on European (Administrative) Regulatory Law, with a special emphasis on the administrative regulation of the digital sector.

In addition to numerous publications on (domestic) Administrative Law, particularly in the field of Public Domain Law – including a co-authored commentary on the Legal Framework for Public Real Estate Assets published by Almedina – he has published articles in internationally peer-reviewed journals specializing in European (Public) Law. Notable publications include contributions to the Common Market Law Review, European Public Law, European Constitutional Law Review, European Journal of Risk Regulation, Review of European Administrative Law, and the German Law Journal.

He is the author of the book Judging Composite Decision-Making: The Transformation of European Administrative Law (Hart, 2024). The book, the result of a research line developed over 10 years, examines the concept of composite administrative procedures, which exist in sectors ranging from banking supervision to pharmaceutical regulation. In such procedures, national and European public entities jointly make decisions, complicating the task of determining which level – national or European – is responsible for ensuring individual protections.

At the request of the European Parliament and a European agency, he has also conducted studies, individually or in coauthorship, on issues of European Administrative Law, particularly on relations between national and European entities in regulatory procedures.