Member of international research projects:

The Balance of Copyright, International Academy of Comparative Law (2010);

The Application of Foreign Law by Judicial and Non-Judicial Authorities, Università degli Studi di Genova/Universidad de Valencia (2010);

Intellectual Property and Private International Law, International Law Association (2012);

Evaluation study of national procedural laws and practices in terms of their impact on the free circulation of judgments and on the equivalence and effectiveness of the procedural protection of consumers under EU consumer law, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law (2015);
Data Protection in the Internet, International Academy of Comparative Law (2018);

European Private International Law Act, European Association of Private International Law (2021);

Reform ofthe Brussels Ibis Regulation, Max-Planck Institut Luxembourg for Procedural Law (2022).

Teaching or research activity in other Higher Education Institutions:

He has been a Visiting Professor at the Hague Academy of International Law, the University of Paris V, the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Urbino;

In other Portuguese-speaking countries, he has also taught at the Universities of Agostinho Neto, José Eduardo dos Santos, Onze de Novembro, Mandume and Katyavala Buíla (Angola), the University of Eduardo Mondlane, UniZambeze and UniSave (Mozambique), the Federal Universities of Santa Catarina and Paraná and the University of São Paulo (Brazil), the Bissau Faculty of Law (Guinea-Bissau), the Institute of Legal and Social Sciences and the University of Mindelo (Cape Verde), Salgãocar College of Law and Kare College (Goa, India), the Timor Lorosa’e National University (East Timor) and the Macau Polytechnic Institute (China). He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Macau.

Other professional activities:

Lawyer in Lisbon since 1987;

Jurisconsult in the areas of Civil Law, Intellectual Property Law and Private International Law;

Arbitrator in domestic and international arbitrations;

President of the Portuguese Intellectual Property Law Association (since 2013) and the Portuguese Arbitration Association (2019-2023).

Most relevant publications:

International commercial arbitration. Law applicable to the merits of the case, Coimbra, Coimbra Editora, 1990;

Commentary on the Brussels Convention, Lisbon, Lex, 1994 (co-author M. Teixeira de Sousa);

Pre-contractual liability in Private International Law, Coimbra, Almedina, 2001;

Private International Law. Essays, Coimbra, Almedina, 4 vols., 2002-2018;

International problems of the information society, Coimbra, Almedina, 2005;

Comparative Law after the Bologna Reform. Report, Lisbon, Coimbra Editora;

Intellectual Property in Private International Law, The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 2009;

Lei da Arbitragem Voluntária Anotada (co-authors A. Ribeiro Mendes and others), 5th edition, Coimbra, Almedina, 2021;

Comparative Law, Coimbra, Almedina, vol. I, 5th ed., 2022; vol. II, 2017;

Intellectual property: Various studies, Lisbon, AAFDL, 2018;

The international protection of intellectual property, 2nd edition, Coimbra, Almedina, 2019;

Comparative Law of Obligations, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2021.