Rui Medeiros
{{Short description|Portuguese lawyer and politician (born 1963)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Rui Medeiros
| honorific-suffix =
| office = Minister of Administrative Modernisation
| image =
| term_start = 30 October 2015
| term_end = 26 November 2015
| predecessor = Alberto Martins (as Minister of State Reform and Public Administration)
| successor = Maria Manuel Leitão Marques
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|8|17}}
| birth_place = Lisbon, Portugal
| party = Independent
| profession = Lawyer, Professor
| primeminister = Pedro Passos Coelho
}}
Rui Pedro Costa Melo Medeiros (born 17 August 1963) is a Portuguese lawyer, university professor, and politician. He briefly served as Minister of Administrative Modernisation in 2015, in the XX Constitutional Government of Portugal.
Early life and education
Medeiros was born in Lisbon on 17 August 1963. He earned a bachelor's degree (1987), master's degree (1991), and doctorate (1999) in Law from the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Portugal. His doctoral thesis focused on Constitutional Law and was titled A decisão de inconstitucionalidade (The decision of unconstitutionality).{{Cite journal |last= |first= |date=2024 |title=Rui Medeiros - Curriculum Vitae |url=https://www.acif-ccim.pt/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/cv_professor-doutor-rui-medeiros.pdf |journal=Centro de Arbitragem da ACIF-CCIM}}
Academic career
Medeiros is a professor at the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Portugal. He previously served there as assistant and associate professor. He was the director of the Faculty of Law between 2002 and 2005.{{Cite web |last=Governo de Portugal |first= |title=Rui Medeiros |url=https://www.historico.portugal.gov.pt/pt/o-governo/arquivo-historico/governos-constitucionais/gc20/os-ministerios/mma/conheca-a-equipa/ministro/rui-medeiros.aspx |access-date=2025-04-09 |website=www.historico.portugal.gov.pt |language=pt}}
He teaches courses in Introduction to Law and Constitutional law.
Legal career
Medeiros specializes in Constitutional Law and Administrative Law and practices as a lawyer in these areas. He is an associate of the law firm Sérvulo & Associados, where he was managing partner between 2006 and 2011.
Political career
In 2015, Medeiros briefly served as Minister of Administrative Modernisation in the XX Constitutional Government of Portugal, led by Pedro Passos Coelho.{{Cite web|URL=http://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/economia/politica/eleicoes/legislativas/detalhe/quem_e_rui_medeiros.html|title=Quem é Rui Medeiros, o novo ministro da Modernização Administrativa|access-date=2025-04-09}}