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Faculty of LawAcademy for European Human Rights Protection

Pedro Borges

Pedro Borges is a PhD candidate at KU Leuven, Institute for International Law. His doctoral project delves into the interpretation of the law of international responsibility and the due diligence standard under public international law. In tandem with his PhD, he currently works as a research assistant under the ATHENE-Center (the German National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity) in a multi-university research project on artificial intelligence and data law. 

During his stay at the Academy, Pedro is working on a PhD chapter on doctrines of extraterritorial jurisdiction and attribution of conduct in the case law of the ECtHR, and on a separate chapter on human rights issues entailed by the use of AI decision support systems in government.

Pedro graduated magna cum laude from the LL.M. in International and European Public Law at KU Leuven and is a law graduate from PUC-Rio. During his undergraduate studies in Rio de Janeiro, he co-founded PILLS (the Public International Law Litigation Society) and took part in the Philip C. Jessup Moot Court and the Nuremberg Moot Court. He was also an exchange student at the University of Edinburgh. 

Publications

  • Borges de Carvalho, P.R. (2024). Eingeladener Impuls: "Die Relevanz des EU Data Act für die Rechts- und Informatikwissenschaften". Invited by Dr Annika Selzer. Presented at the Informatik Festival 2024, Privacy and Security at Large Workshop, Hochschule RheinMain, Wiesbaden, Germany, 24 Sep 2024-26 Sep 2024.
  • Borges de Carvalho, P.R. (2023). A Diretiva Europeia de Proteção de Dados em Persecução Penal: a arquitetura legal europeia, a experiência alemã e o futuro da LGPD Penal. Invited by Gilberto Martins de Almeida, Dr Guilherme Magalhães Martins. Presented at the Seminário Brasil-Alemanha de Proteção de Dados Pessoais, Ministério Público do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / IERBB (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
  • Lonergan, P., Borges de Carvalho, P.R. (2023). Interpreting the Good Friday Agreement’s Unity Clause.
  • Borges de Carvalho, P.R. (2023). The EU as a party to the UNCLOS: Issues of competence, mixity and international responsibility. In: A. de Paiva Toledo, L. de Camargo Subtil, T. V. Zanella (Eds.), Direito do Mar: o papel das instituições nos 40 anos da Convenção das Nações Unidas sobre o Direito do Mar, Chapt. 25, (593-612). (Direito do Mar, 6). Belo Horizonte/São Paulo, Brazil: Editora D'Plácido. ISBN: 978-65-5589-626-8.
  • Borges de Carvalho, P.R., Martins de Almeida, G. with Martins de Almeida, G. (joint first author), Borges de Carvalho, P.R. (joint last author) (2022). Corporate Digital Responsibility in Big Tech Governance: Fiduciary Responsibility and Legitimacy of Minority Shareholders' and Investors' Claims in Tech Giants. Nottingham Insolvency and Business Law eJournal (NIBLeJ), 10 (II), Art.No. 7.
  • Borges de Carvalho, P.R., Douglas, A.P. (2020). Mandatory corporate due diligence in Switzerland: the upcoming referendum on the Responsible Business Initiative.
  • Borges de Carvalho, P.R. (2020). Transnational Space Law in the 21st Century: What Laws Govern Data in Outer Space?
  • Borges de Carvalho, P.R. (2020). Of Killer Robots and Dictates of Public Conscience: Why Autonomous Weapons Systems Will Forever Change Warfare and How Ethics Could Serve to Ban Them Under International Law. Leviathan – University of Edinburgh Journal of Politics and International Relations, 10(1), 25-28. 

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