Education
Law Degree (1993), Master’s Degree (LLM) (2000) and Doctorate (PhD) (2013), Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.
Career
Member of the Portuguese Bar Association since 1995.
Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, lecturing in the following Graduate subjects: General Civil Law Theory, Law of Obligations, Commercial Law, and Law of Contracts I and II.
Member of faculty bodies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.
Lecturer in numerous Postgraduate Courses and at conferences and seminars and is joint coordinator of the Advanced Postgraduate Course in Commercial Litigation at the Centre for Private Law Research of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.
Publications
Is the author and co-author of various publications, in particular the following:
- “Subjective statuses in voluntary representation, particularly legally relevant knowledge or lack of knowledge”, in Magazine of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, Coimbra Editora, Coimbra, 1998; (portuguese title: Os estados subjectivos na representação voluntária. Em especial o conhecimento ou desconhecimento juridicamente relevante)
- “The Concept of Provision and the Destination of Counterpart”, Almedina, Coimbra, 2001; (portuguese title: Conceito de prestação e destino da contraprestação)
- “Civil Liability of Regulating Authorities and Supervision of Loss incurred by Economic Agents and Investors in the course of Taxation or Investigation” (2005; co-written with Pedro de Albuquerque; (portuguese title: A responsabilidade civil das autoridades reguladoras e de supervisão por danos causados a agentes económicos e investidores no exercício de actividades de fiscalização ou investigação)
- “The “golden shares” owned by the Portuguese State in Privatized companies: Limits to their Admissibility” (2006; Co-written with Pedro de Albuquerque); (portuguese title: As “Golden Shares” do Estado Português em empresas privatizadas)
- “The corporate regime of the State as a shareholder”, in “The reform of the Commercial Companies Code”, 2007; (portuguese title: O regime societário do Estado enquanto accionista)
- “On the concept and extension of reciprocal obligations” (2008; Co-written with Pedro Múrias); (portuguese title: Sobre o conceito e extensão de sinalagma)
- “Provisions of property: de reddere transfer of risks and obligations” (2008; Co-written with Pedro Múrias); (portuguese title: Prestações de coisa: transferência do risco e obrigações de reddere)
- “Rights of lien and the meaning of exception and default” (2009; Co-written with Pedro Múrias); (portuguese title: Os direitos de retenção e o sentido da excepção de não cumprimento)
- “Primary Obligations and the obligation to pay compensation” (2011; Co-written with Pedro Múrias); (portuguese title: Obrigação primária e obrigação de indemnizar)
- “Obligations of means, obligations of result and costs of provision” (2012; Co-written with Pedro Múrias); (portuguese title: Obrigações de meios, obrigações de resultado e custos da prestação)
- “Responding to the public consultation on the draft legislative proposal for the extrajudicial regime for the recovery of companies. Comments to articles 6 to 17 of the project: contents, form, deposit, effect and breach of the restructuring agreement”Companies’ Law Review”, Year IX (2017), no. 1, Almedina, 177-185; (portuguese title: Resposta à consulta pública relativa ao projeto de proposta de lei que aprova o regime extrajudicial de recuperação de empresas)
- “On compensation of negative interests in the event of contract termination due to breach to compensation for expenditure rendered useless in contractual liability”, in Colóquio de direito civil de Santo Tirso; portuguese title: Da indemnização do interesse negativo em caso de resolução do contrato por incumprimento à indemnização de despesas inutilizadas na responsabilidade contratual)
- “The Civil Code 50 years later: assessment and perspectives”, Almedina, 2017, 155-198; (portuguese title: O código civil 50 anos depois: balanço e perspetivas)
- “The Compensation for expenditure rendered useless in liability of obligations”(ready for publication); (portuguese title: A indemnização de despesas inutilizadas na responsabilidade obrigacional)
Languages
Portuguese, German, English, French, Italian, Spanish