Marco Ribeiro Henriques

Head of Advocacy at RESHAPE and National Coordinator of the RESCALED project funded by the Porticus foundation. He is a jurist and researcher in the field of public law, namely prison studies, social integration and innovation in the area of social reintegration in small-scale detention systems, integrated as a non-doctoral researcher at CEDIS – the Centre for Research and Development on Law and Society of NOVA School of Law. With prison labour as the focus of his analysis, he participates in international and national R&D projects and is currently the national lead of the WISH EU project funded by the European Union. He holds a degree and a Master's in Law and is currently a PhD candidate in the field of public law at NOVA School of Law, NOVA University of Lisbon, where he is developing a thesis on the question “Prison labour in light of the principle of human dignity: From conceptual disagreement to the necessary legality”. He currently presides over the Board of the General Assembly of the Human Rights Observatory, of which he has also been an associate member since its foundation. He was also coordinator of the Group of Jurists of the Portuguese Section of Amnesty International. He is the author and co-author of various scientific publications, having had several works published in Portugal and abroad in the areas of human rights, prison labour, the law of inclusion and social reintegration. In recent years, he has collaborated as a guest assistant professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu and the Miguel Torga Higher Institute in the disciplinary areas of social inclusion law, labour law and introduction to law, where he had the opportunity to co-supervise master's dissertations, research works and projects.