Jorge Godinho is currently an associate professor at ISMAT (Instituto Superior Manuel Teixeira Gomes), Portimão, Algarve, Portugal, where he teaches criminal law. He is also a visiting professor of gaming law and criminal law at the Faculty of Law, University of Macau (China), and a legal consultant.
Jorge holds a PhD in law from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (2006), and a master’s degree in law from the University of Macau (1999). He is a law graduate from the University of Lisbon (1989).
Jorge is very well known for original research that explores and maps uncharted legal waters, and he has a series of firsts.
He published the first monograph in Portugal on the crime of money laundering in 2001 (Do crime de branqueamento de capitais, Almedina, Coimbra).
He produced the first full translation of a major code into English in Macau (Commercial Code, Macau, 2003).
He wrote the first major treatment of Macau law in English (Macau business law and legal system, LexisNexis, Hong Kong, 2007).
He wrote the first major treatment of gaming law in Portuguese language (Direito do jogo, vol. I, Rui Cunha Foundation, Macau, 2016).
In 2019 he published the first history of casino games of chance in Macau (Os casinos de Macau. História do maior mercado de jogos de fortuna ou azar do mundo, Almedina, Coimbra).
Prior to embarking on an academic career, he practiced law in Portugal and Macau, and worked for five years at the Monetary Authority of Macau, the regulator of banking, insurance and financial services.
Jorge focuses his research on two areas: gaming law; and economic and financial criminal law (especially money laundering repression and prevention, corruption and related crimes, confiscation of proceeds of crime).
