Category: Assistant Professor
Areas of interest / Research:
Law of Obligations and Contract Law;
Consumer Law;
Alternative Dispute Resolution;
Arbitration;
Commercial Law.
Academic Degrees:
Licentiate Degree (1998)
Master’s Degree (2007)
Doctorate (2018)
Scientific Research and Co-operation:
Technical advisor at the Faculty of Law of Bissau (2000/2001)
Lecturer on the III Master’s Course in Legal Business Sciences at the Huambo Faculty of Law, Angola (2019)

Member of research centres:
Private Law Research Centre (CIDP)
Other Professional Activities:
Lawyer;
Legal Consultant;
Arbitrator in several arbitrations.
Most relevant publications:
The pledge of shares, 2007;
The partner’s right to exoneration in the Commercial Companies Code, 2008;
Complementary legislation on contract law, 2018;
Civil settlements in judicial and extrajudicial litigation, 2018;
“Revisiting the remedy, ope legis, of the lack of judicial personality and the “virtual” summons of the defendant, maxime in articles 10/5 and 78/3 of the CPTA”, Julgar Magazine, no. 36, 2018, 65-97;
“The transaction in the French Civil Code: from the antecedents to the recent reform of 2016”, in Civil Code – Fiftieth Anniversary Book, Vol. II, 2019, 849-888;
Practical cases of property rights, Almedina, Coimbra (co-authored), 2020;
Contract Law – Practical cases, 2020;
“Temporary (noisy) works in the home in times of pandemic? Revisiting neighbourly relations, abuse of rights and collision of rights”, RDC year 5, no. 3-4, 2020, 583-622;
“Caução, comentários aos artigos 623.º a 626.º”, Civil Code Comentado II – Das obrigações em geral (coordinated by António Menezes Cordeiro), 2021, 724-735;
“Novação, comentários aos artigos 857.º a 862.º”, Civil Code Commentary II – Obligations in general (coordinated by António Menezes Cordeiro), 2021, 1174-1190;
“Entidades de Resolução Alternativa de Litígios de Consumo (por uma acesso à mediação, conciliação e arbitragem de consumo com custos para as partes)”, International Journal of Arbitration and Conciliation, no. 17, 2022, 175-236;
Alternative resolution of consumer disputes (legislation, arbitration centre regulations), 2022.