Pedro Caeiro

Pedro Caeiro (b. 1967, Coimbra, Portugal) is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra, specializing in criminal law, European and international criminal law, and judicial cooperation in criminal matters. He holds an LL.M. (1995) and a Ph.D. (2008).
Since its inception in 2012 until October 2024, he has been a member of the European Commission’s Expert Group on Criminal Policy (JUSTEXPERT). He is also a founding member, Portugal’s contact point, and a management committee member of the European Criminal Law Academic Network (ECLAN).
Pedro is actively engaged in several academic and scientific organizations, including the European Criminal Policy Initiative (ECPI), the Criminal Justice Network, and the Portuguese branch of the Association Internationale de Droit Pénal (AIDP-PT). He serves as an associate editor for Brill Research Perspectives in Transnational Crime and sits on the editorial boards of the New Journal of European Criminal Law, the European Criminal Law Review, and the Brill European Justice Series. Additionally, he is a co-editor of the Elgar Encyclopedia of Crime and Criminal Justice.
As a legal expert, Pedro has authored more than seventy legal opinions for private and public entities in criminal cases. He has served as a consultant for the Organization of American States and the governments of Portugal, Cape Verde, and Angola, contributing to legislative drafting on topics such as custodial sentence enforcement, juvenile justice, drug trafficking, and corruption. He has also been responsible for transposing various European and international legal instruments into Portuguese law, including those on terrorism, money laundering, and restrictive measures.
Currently, Pedro coordinates the Ministry of Justice’s working group tasked with transposing the EU’s confiscation directive 2024/1260 into Portuguese law.