Category: Full Professor
Areas of interest / research:
Administrative Law
Public Procurement Law
European Law
Health Law
Food law
Academic Degrees:
Law Degree, UCP, (17 marks), 1985;
Master’s Degree in Legal and Political Sciences, FDL, (18 marks), 1990;
PhD in Legal and Political Sciences, FDL, (Distinction and Praise), 1996;
Aggregation in Legal and Political Sciences, FDL, 2007.
Scientific Research and Co-operation
Member of research centres:
Public Law Research Centre (CIDP)
Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence FDL/UL
Member of the editorial boards of scientific journals:
Cadernos de Justiça Administrativa, CEJUR
Public Contracts Journal, CEDIPRE
Member of international research projects:
Societas Iuris Publici Europaei (SIPE)
PLAN- Procurement Law Academic Network
Ibero-American Health Law Network
Teaching or research activity in other Higher Education Institutions:
Visiting Professor at the Portuguese Catholic University
Other professional activities:
Member, as an individual expert, of the European Commission’s Public Procurement Expert Group (Brussels, since 2012).
Consultancy (advisory activity in the areas of Administrative Law/Public Procurement/Health and Food Law)
Publicações Mais Relevantes:
– Requiem for the Administrative Contract, Almedina, Coimbra, 1990.
– The Escape to Private Law, Almedina, Coimbra, 1996.
– Responsabilidade por danos de concessionários, in La Responsabilidad Patrimonial de los Poderes Públicos, coord. JOSÉ LUIS LÓPEZ-MUNIZ and ANTONIO CALONGE VELÁZQUEZ, Marcial Pons, Madrid, 1999, pp.419 and following.
– Public Contract: Concept and Limits, in La contratación pública en el horizonte de la integración europea, INAP, Madrid, 2004, pp.31 and following.
– European Public Procurement Law. Um Olhar Português, Almedina, Coimbra, 2006.
– Food Safety and Consumer Protection of Genetically Modified Organisms, Almedina, Coimbra, 2008.
–Public Procurement Law Course.Towards SustainablePublic Procurement , Almedina, Coimbra, 2012, reprinted 2014.
– Food Law/Introduction to Food Law, AAFDL, Lisbon, 2013.
– Health Law, UCP ed., Lisbon, 2014, reprinted 2015.
– Funcionarios públicos/personal funcionarial de la Administración Pública, in Diccionario Internacional de Derecho del Trabajo y de la Seguridad Social, coord. GRAU/THOMÉ/SCHWARZ, Tirant Lo Blanch, Valencia, 2014, pp.975 and following.