Categoria: Associate Professor
Areas of Interest / Research:
Competition Law
International Economic Law
European Union Law
Intellectual Property
Economic Analysis of Law
Academic Degrees:
Law Degree – Portuguese Catholic University Law School – Lisbon (1990)
Master’s Degree in Law (Legal and Community Sciences) Portuguese Catholic University Law School – Lisbon (1998)
PhD in Law (Legal and Community Sciences) University of Lisbon Law School, (2009)
Scientific Research and Co-operation
Member of research centres:
Member of CIDEEFF – Research Centre for European, Economic, Financial and Tax Law (principal investigator of the group “Market Failures in a Globalized Economy: Institutional Approaches” and integrated investigator of the group “Globalisation, Economic Integration and Development: European and Lusophone Perspectives”) (ORCID: 0000-0002-0708-6615).

Member of editorial boards of scientific journals:
Member of the Editorial Board of the Revista de Finanças Públicas e Direito Fiscal.
Member of the Scientific Council of the journal Concorrência e Regulação.
Member of the Peer Review Committee of e-pública.
Research repositories
Social Science Research Network (SSRN): http://ssrn.com/author=358707
edu Profile: https://comparatistas.academia.edu/MiguelMouraESilva
Other Professional Activities:
Member of the Board of Directors of the Competition Authority, appointed by RCM no. 116/2019, for a six-year term, starting on 1 August 2019.
Senior Advisor to the Board of Directors of the Competition Authority, between November 2016 and October 2017.
Director of the Special Unit for the Evaluation of Public Policies at the Competition Authority, between October 2013 and November 2016.
Director of the Competition Authority’s Restrictive Practices Department, from September 2004 to October 2013.
Member of the Competition Council, appointed by Order of H.E. the Prime Minister of 16 December 1998, published in D.R. II.ª Série, of 5 January 1999, having held office until that body was abolished in March 2003.
Lecturer at the Institute of Economic, Financial and Tax Law (IDEFF).
Lecturer at the European Institute (IE).
Most relevant publications:
MOURA E SILVA, Miguel. (2018) Competition law. 2nd edition. Lisbon: AAFDL. (Link to sales site: http://livraria.aafdl.pt/index.php?id_product=723&id_product_attribute=0&rewrite=direito-da-concorrencia-2-edicao&controller=product&id_lang=2).
MOURA E SILVA, Miguel (2014). Restrictive competition practices in Law no. 19/2012: new developments. Revista do Ministério Público, 35(137), 9-45. (Available in electronic version at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2468752).
MOURA E SILVA, Miguel, (2013). Antitrust in Distress: Causes and Consequences of the Financial Crisis. Competition Law Review, 9(2) 119-132. (Available in electronic version at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2376543).
MOURA E SILVA, Miguel. (2011) Anti-cartel enforcement in Portugal: A short chronicle of an uphill struggle. European Competition Law Review, 32(1), 37-41. (Available in electronic version at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2376520).
MOURA E SILVA, Miguel. (2010) O abuso de posição dominante na nova economia. Coimbra: Almedina. (Link to sales site: http://www.almedina.net/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=307&products_id=10280)
MOURA E SILVA, Miguel. (2010). The Sources and Principles of International Economic Law. In J. MIRANDA, A. M. CORDEIRO, E. P. FERREIRA & J. D. NOGUEIRA (Eds.), Estudos em Homenagem ao Prof. Doutor Paulo de Pitta e Cunha (Vol. II, pp. 579-600). Coimbra: Almedina (Available in electronic version at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2398606).
MOURA E SILVA, Miguel (2009). Predatory Pricing under Article 82 and the Recoupment Test: Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night. European Competition Law Review, 30(2), 61-65. (Available in electronic version at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2376525).
MOURA E SILVA, Miguel (2008) Direito da concorrência. A jurisprudential introduction. Coimbra: Almedina. (Link to sales site: http://www.almedina.net/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=5714)
MOURA E SILVA, Miguel (2007). European Union Law. Essential case law. Lisbon: AAFDL. (Link to sales site: http://www.livraria.aafdl.pt/direito-da-unio-europeia/110-direito-da-unio-europeia.html)
MOURA E SILVA, Miguel (2007). Cooperation between NCAs and Sectoral Regulators, in MATEUS, T. MOREIRA (Eds.), Competition Law and Economics, Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer Law International, p. 359. (Available in electronic version http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2378628)
MOURA E SILVA, Miguel (2003). Inovação, Transferência de Tecnologia e Concorrência – Estudo Comparado do Direito da Concorrência dos Estados Unidos e da União Europeia. Coimbra: Almedina. (Link to sales site: http://www.almedina.net/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=2151)