Categoria: Assistant Professor
Areas of interest/research:
Constitutional Law
Constitutional Justice
Constitutional Law of Cyberspace
Constitutional Media Law
Academic Degrees:
Law Degree, 1998
Masters in Law, Legal and Political Sciences, 2003
Doctorate in Law, Legal and Political Sciences, 2015

Investigação e Cooperação Científicas
Member of research centres:
- Principal Researcher at the Public Law Research Centre (CIDP) of the Institute of Legal and Political Sciences (ICJP) of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, https://www.icjp.pt/cidp/investigadores/3902
- Associate Researcher at the Cyberspace Legal Research Centre (CIJIC), University of Lisbon Law School – http://www.cijic.org/;
Member of international research projects:
- As Principal Investigator of the Public Law Research Centre (CIDP), of the Institute of Legal and Political Sciences (ICJP) of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, Principal Investigator of the Research Project “Constitutional Law of Cyberspace and Cybersecurity”, also integrating, as Principal Investigator, the Research Projects: “Public Governance 4.0.: The New Economic Era and the Redefinition of Public Governance Paradigms” and “Privacy and Data Protection“https://www.icjp.pt/cidp/investigadores/3902.
- Principal Investigator of the Fulbright Specialists Project FSP-P005351_Open Request_FD-ULisboa, approved by the Board of Directors of the Fulbright Commission, to take place between 17 February and 4 March 2020. The project is entitled: “The Cyberspace Law and its implications on the Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection” and is based on the research lines of CIDP – FDUL’s Public Law Research Centre.
Research activity in other Higher Education Institutions:
Collaborating researcher at ICPOL – Research Centre of the Higher Institute of Police Sciences and Internal Security;
Other Professional Activities:
- Lawyer (Professional Licence No. 60262L)
Honours: Best Lawyers 2020 –10th Edition, for
-Telecommunications Law,
-Privacy and Data Security Law and
-Information and Technology Law.
-https://www.bestlawyers.com/current-edition/Portugal
- 30 January 2018 – January 2020
Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon:
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/114771427
- (2011-2016) Former member of the Regulatory Board of the Media Regulatory Authority, appointed by the Portuguese Parliament through Resolution 139/2011 https://dre.pt/application/dir/pdf1sdip/2011/10/20400/0469504695.pdf
Most relevant publications:
I. SCIENTIFIC PAPERS:
Monographs
– (2022a) Constitutional Justice in Times of Emergency, Almedina: Coimbra; in press;
– (2020a) A contribution to the study of euthanasia in Portuguese constitutional law, AAFDL: Lisbon; https://livraria.aafdl.pt/pt/direito-constitucional-e-ciencia-politica/1042-direito-constitucional-e-ciencia-politica-um-contributo-para-o-estudo-da-eutanasia-no-direito-constitucional-portugues-9789726295648.html
– (2016a) Constitution Law and Media Regulation, Almedina: Coimbra: http: //www.almedina.net/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=34594
– (2012a) Unconstitutional Normative Omissions in Portuguese Constitutional Law, Almedina. Coimbra; http://www.almedina.net/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=19162;
Articles
– (2022b) “Independência das Entidades Reguladoras in books”, in O Estado Regulador em Portugal, Evolução e Desempenho, Final Report of the Study prepared for FFMS – Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos; Lourenço, Ana/Brízida Castro, Raquel, et al.; pp. 81; in press;
– (2022c) “Algumas notas proceduais sobre o controlo de constitucionalidade de normas de emergência na ordem jurídico-processual portuguesa: Em especial, a jurisprudência constitucional e administrativa da Pandemia”, in Anais do IX Fórum Jurídico de Lisboa e do XXIV Congresso Internacional de Direito Constitucional, ICJP, CIDP, (IDP) e a Fundação Getúlio Vargas; in press;
– (2022d) “O princípio da garantia do equilíbrio institucional de poderes como limite negativo intangível da Constituição portuguesa de emergência”, in Atas do XIV Encontro de Professores de Direito Público, in press;
– (2021a) “O pecado mortal da Carta de Direitos Digitais”, Opinion article published in CM Jornal, May 2021:
– (2021b) “The President, the Constitutional Court and the so-called “euthanasia law”, in Observatório Almedina, 19 March 2021: https://observatorio.almedina.net/index.php/2021/03/19/o-presidente-o-tribunal-constitucional-e-a-designada-lei-da-eutanasia/?fbclid=IwAR23qLR7d4OzzALpBUgmhuX67hi0CH8ECF4_8oxFE1ekY0fQg31eCtwS6jc
– (2021c) “Elections in a State of Exception?”, in Observatório Almedina, 22 Jan 2021: https://observatorio.almedina.net/index.php/2021/01/22/eleicoes-em-estado-de-excecao/?fbclid=IwAR3APuRAuZ4h7-7liToC8okcVZtAyHVvCuJPY3TLqtriueceqjqgNsEkJiY
– (2020b) “Constitutional Law in times of pandemic: Can the Constitution survive health crises?” in Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, number 1 of 2020 (year LXI), Thematic Issue: Cvid-19 and the Law; issn 0870-3116; pp. 645-679:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hYglOv6WWR7FwmCICDBQYB4_PVk9f0-1/view
– (2020c) “Data protection and legal commerce: CNPD on Venus, STA on Mars”, in Liber Amicorum Professor Doctor Pedro Pais de Vasconcelos, Journal of Commercial Law; ISSN 2183-9824; Available at: https://www.revistadedireitocomercial.com/protecao-de-dados-e-comercio-juridico
– (2019) “Regulating Cyberspace: Constitutional Projections of the New Legal-Public Regulatory Paradigm”, in Guaranteeing Rights and Regulation: Perspectives on Administrative Law; Coord. Carla Amado Gomes, Rute Saraiva, Ricardo Pedro and Fernanda Maçãs; ISBN 978-972-629-346-0; pp. 367-412; https://eds.s.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=8&sid=318448cc-ee7c-4e20-870f-a7c370709b99%40redis&bdata=Jmxhbmc9cHQtcHQmc2l0ZT1lZHMtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=ccul.KOHA.ULISBOA.1012944&db=cat08786a
– (2019) “How to save Democracy from its new owners”, Opinion article published in “Público”, June 2019:
https://www.publico.pt/2019/06/04/politica/opiniao/salvar-democracia-novos-donos-1875166
– (2018a) “Constitutional Reflections for Integrated Regulation: Content, Communications and Competition”, Opinion article published in “Público”, 3 November 2018: https://www.publico.pt/2017/11/08/economia/opiniao/reflexoes-constitucionais-para-uma-regulacao-integrada-conteudos-comunicacoes-e-concorrencia-1791469
– (2018b) “Concentration of Media Companies: Pluralism and Competition”, in Revista de Direito Comercial; ISSN 2183-9824; Available:
https://www.revistadedireitocomercial.com/concentracao-de-empresas-mediaticas-pluralismo-e-concorrencia
– (2018c) “”Ways not to read” the GDPR”, in Cyberlaw By CIJIC, Issue no. 6; September/October 2018; Scientific Journal of the Cyberspace Legal Research Centre of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon; ISSN 2183-729; Available online: https://eds.s.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=3&sid=318448cc-ee7c-4e20-870f-a7c370709b99%40redis&bdata=Jmxhbmc9cHQtcHQmc2l0ZT1lZHMtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=ccul.KOHA.ULISBOA.1332548&db=cat08786a
– (2017a) “New Technologies, Cyberspace and Constitutional Mutations: From the Loss of Algorithmic Innocence to the Legal-Constitutional Relevance of Technological Facts and Norms”, in Nos 40 anos da Constituição, Organised by Jorge Miranda, ICJP/AAFDL: Lisbon; pp. 114-165: https://eds.s.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=4&sid=318448cc-ee7c-4e20-870f-a7c370709b99%40redis&bdata=Jmxhbmc9cHQtcHQmc2l0ZT1lZHMtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=ccul.KOHA.ULISBOA.1630441&db=cat08786a
– (2017b) “Cyberspace and the Constitution”, in Bulletin of the Portuguese Bar Association, July 2017; http://boletim.oa.pt/oa-02/opiniao_raquel-alexandra- brizida-castro
– (2016b) “Constitution and Cyberspace: Arguments for a “Constitutional Law of the Enemy”?”, in Cyberlaw By CIJIC, Journal of the Cyberspace Legal Research Centre of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, no. 1, available online:º 1, available online: https://eds.s.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=5&sid=318448cc-ee7c-4e20-870f-a7c370709b99%40redis&bdata=Jmxhbmc9cHQtcHQmc2l0ZT1lZHMtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=ccul.KOHA.ULISBOA.728913&db=cat08786a
– (2016c)”Da Relevância Constitucional do Modelo Principiológico e do Método Ponderativo para a Delimitação do Perímetro Protetivo dos Direitos e Liberdades Comunicativas”, in Liber Amicorum Manuel Simas Santos, Rei dos Livros: Lisboa; pp. 1101-1127; https://eds.s.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=6&sid=318448cc-ee7c-4e20-870f-a7c370709b99%40redis&bdata=Jmxhbmc9cHQtcHQmc2l0ZT1lZHMtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=ccul.KOHA.ULISBOA.1134059&db=cat08786a
– (2016d) Parecer/ Contributo Individual “Comentários ao projeto de Lei n.º 98/XIII/1.ª, do Grupo Parlamentar do Bloco de Esquerda, que alargga a oferta de serviços de programas na TDT”, available at: http://app.parlamento.pt/webutils/docs/doc.pdf?path=6148523063446f764c324679626d56304c334e706447567a4c31684a53556c4d5a5763765130394e4c7a457951304e44536b51765247396a6457316c626e527663306c7561574e7059585270646d46446232317063334e68627938305a444e694d6d55314d533033596d55794c54526d5a47597459544533595330315954646d4e3251794f47526d596d51756347526d&fich=4d3b2e51-7be2-4fdf-a17a-5a7f7d28dfbd.pdf&Inline=true;
– (2015) “Implicit Norms and Constitutionally Due Norms “ad casum” and the Purported Squaring of the Constitutional Procedural Circle: Recapitulation, Demystification and Attempt at Reconstruction”, in Estudos em Homenagem a Rui Machete, Coimbra Editora: Coimbra; pp. 851-881; http://www.almedina.net/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=29833
– (2014a) “O Estatuto Constitucional dos Media e Exceções ao Princípio da Publicidade da Atuação dos Poderes Públicos”, in Media, Law and Democracy, coordinated by Professors Carlos Blanco de Morais and Maria Luísa Duarte and Master Raquel Alexandra Brízida Castro, Almedina: Coimbra; pp. 67-91. http://www.dgsi.pt/bpgr/bpgr.nsf/305fde3cddf188ab802569660044179b/a9a661885084883880257e030055b246?OpenDocument
– (2013b) – “Justiça versus Comunicação Social ou Vice-versa?”, in Communicating Justice, Rhetoric and Argumentation, E-book November 2013, Centre for Judicial Studies, available at: http://www.cej.mj.pt/cej/recursos/ebooks/outros/Ebook_Comunicar_Justi ca.pdf?id=9&username=guest;
– (2012b) – “Por uma Fiscalização Concreta e Difusa das Omissões Legislativas Inconstitucionais que violam Direitos, Liberdades e Garantias”, in Obra Colectiva de Homenagem ao Professor Doutor Jorge Miranda, Volume III, Coimbra Editora: Coimbra; pp. 471-51. 471-512. https://eds.s.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=12&sid=318448cc-ee7c-4e20-870f-a7c370709b99%40redis&bdata=Jmxhbmc9cHQtcHQmc2l0ZT1lZHMtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=ccul.KOHA.ULISBOA.1082197&db=cat08786a
– (2001) “Contributo para uma Teoria Material das Omissões Legislativas Inconstitucionais” (Contribution to a Material Theory of Unconstitutional Legislative Omissions), Constitutional Law Report for the Master’s Degree Course in Legal and Political Sciences at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Marcelo Rebelo Sousa. Dr Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Lisbon; https://eds.s.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=14&sid=318448cc-ee7c-4e20-870f-a7c370709b99%40redis&bdata=Jmxhbmc9cHQtcHQmc2l0ZT1lZHMtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=ccul.KOHA.ULISBOA.849835&db=cat08786a
– (2000b) “Contributo para o Estudo das Omissões Regulamentares Ilegais” (Contribution to the Study of Illegal Regulatory Omissions), Administrative Law Report for the Master’s Degree Course in Legal and Political Sciences at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Paulo Otero. Dr Paulo Otero, Lisbon; https://eds.s.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=15&sid=318448cc-ee7c-4e20-870f-a7c370709b99%40redis&bdata=Jmxhbmc9cHQtcHQmc2l0ZT1lZHMtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=ccul.KOHA.ULISBOA.916336&db=cat08786a
– (2000a) “The Freedom to Dispose of One’s Own Life: a Contribution to the Study of Euthanasia in Portuguese Constitutional Law”, Report on Fundamental Rights for the Master’s Degree Course in Legal and Political Sciences at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Paulo Otero, Lisbon. Dr Paulo Otero, Lisbon; https://eds.s.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=16&sid=318448cc-ee7c-4e20-870f-a7c370709b99%40redis&bdata=Jmxhbmc9cHQtcHQmc2l0ZT1lZHMtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=ccul.KOHA.ULISBOA.1013890&db=cat08786a
II. ON THE AUTHOR’S WORK:
– (2015) Critical Review by Francisco Fernández Segado in Anuario Iberoamericano de Justicia Constitutional, Centro de Estudios Politicos Y Constitucionales: Madrid, No. 19, January/December; pp. 643 ff: https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/AIJC/issue/view/2225