Category: Associate Professor
Areas of interest / research:
Administrative Law
Administrative Litigation Law
Constitutional Law
European Law
Animal Law
Environmental Law
International Environmental Law
Renewable Energy Law
Cultural Heritage Law
Academic Degrees:
Degree in Law, in Legal and Political Sciences, from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (1993).
Master of Laws from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, in Legal and Political Sciences (1998)
PhD in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, in Legal and Political Sciences (2007)
Member of research centres:
Senior Researcher at the Public Law Research Centre (CIDP-LPL).
Teaching or research activity in other Higher Education Institutions:
Catholic University Law School (Porto School)
New University of Lisbon Faculty of Law
Cape Verde Institute of Social and Legal Sciences (Praia, Cape Verde)
University of Mindelo Law School (São Vicente, Cape Verde)
Eduardo Mondlane University Faculty of Law (Maputo, Mozambique)
Unizambeze Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (Beira, Mozambique)
Agostinho Neto Law School (Luanda, Angola)
11 de Novembro University Law School (Cabinda, Angola)
Eduardo dos Santos University Law School (Huambo, Angola)
Escola Superior da Magistratura Tocantinense (Palmas, Brazil)
Escola Superior de Magistratura de Pernambuco (Recife, Brazil)
Fundação Escola Superior do Ministério Público do Distrito Federal e Territórios (Brasília, Brazil)
Institute of Legal and Political Sciences
Higher Technical Institute
Naval Academy
Member of editorial boards of scientific journals:
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Cadernos de Justiça Administrativa
Ad hoc advisor to the journal Fundamental Rights and Justice – Journal of the Postgraduate, Master’s and Doctoral Programme in Law at PUCRS
External evaluator of the journal Direito Ambiental e Sociedade, Journal of the stricto sensu postgraduate programme in Law – Academic Master’s in Environmental Law and Society at the University of Caxias do Sul, RGS
Member of international research projects:
Member of the OLA network – Observatory on Local Autonomy (http://www.ola-europe.com/)
Most relevant publications:
1. Author
The constitutional nature of the Treaty on European Union, Lisbon, 1997
Parliamentary immunities in Portuguese law, Coimbra, 1998
Contribution to the study of the material operations of the Public Administration and their judicial control, Coimbra, 1999 (Master’s dissertation)
Evidence prevention in environmental law. In particular, environmental authorising acts, Coimbra, 2000
Three studies in Education Law, Lisbon, 2002
Textos dispersos de Direito do Ambiente, I, Lisbon, 2005 (reprint 2008)
Risk and modification of the authorising act implementing environmental protection duties, Coimbra, 2007 (doctoral dissertation)
Textos dispersos de Direito do Ambiente (e matérias relacionadas), II, Lisbon, 2008
Textos dispersos de Direito do Património Cultural e do Urbanismo, Lisbon, 2008
Scattered texts on Administrative Litigation Law, Lisbon, 2009
Scattered texts on Non-contractual civil liability of public entities, Lisbon, 2010
Scattered texts on Environmental Law, III, Lisbon, 2010
Scattered texts on Constitutional Law, Lisbon, 2011
Scattered texts on Administrative Law, Lisbon, 2013
Scattered texts on Environmental Law, IV, Lisbon, 2014
International Environmental Law: a thematic approach, Lisbon, 2018
Introduction to Environmental Law, 6th edition, Lisbon, 2023 (co-authored with Hong Cheng Leong)
New texts on the civil liability law of public entities – by fact of administrative function, Lisbon, 2019
2. Coordination:
Law and Biodiversity, Curitiba, 2010
Law(s) of natural disasters, Coimbra, 2012
Ecological compensation, environmental services and biodiversity protection, Lisbon, 2014, available at http://www.icjp.pt/publicacoes/1/4424
Law(s) of technological risk(s), Lisbon, 2014
Themes of Lusophone Environmental Law, Lisbon, 2020, available at: https://www.icjp.pt/publicacoes/pub/1/22453/view
3. Co-Coordinator:
Law of Culture and Cultural Heritage, Lisbon, 2011 (with José Luís Bonifácio Ramos)
Animal (Law), Coimbra, 2016 (with Maria Luísa Duarte)
Administrative organisation: new players, new models, Lisbon, 2018 (with Ana Neves and Tiago Serrão)
The prevention of corruption and other challenges to good governance in public administration, ICJP digital book, Lisbon, 2018, available at www.icjp.pt / Publicações digitais (with Ana Neves)
Sustainability and energy: an Ibero-Brazilian dialogue, Proceedings of the Colloquium held in Rio de Janeiro on 24 and 25 August 2017, Rio de Janeiro, 2018 – available at www.pge.rj.gov.br/Ebooks (with Anderson Schreiber and Nathalie Giordano)
Studies on inspection activity, Lisbon, 2018 (with Ana F. Neves)
Human rights and the prison system, Lisbon, 2019 (with Ana F. Neves)
Secrets in Law, Lisbon, 2019 (with Ana F. Neves and Pedro Lomba)
Guarantee of fundamental rights and regulation – Perspectives on Administrative Law, Lisbon, 2020 (reprinted in 2024) (with Ricardo Pedro, Rute Saraiva and Fernanda Maçãs)
Administrative law of necessity and exception, Lisbon, 2020 (with Ricardo Pedro)
Comentários à legislação procedual administrativa, 5th edition, revised and expanded, Lisbon, 2020 (with Ana F. Neves and Tiago Serrão)
Extrajudicial protection of fundamental rights, Lisbon, 2022 (with Ana F. Neves)
O Regime de Responsabilidade civil extracontratual do Estado – Comentários à luz da jurisprudência, 3rd edition, Lisbon, 2022 (with Ricardo Pedro and Tiago Serrão)
Comentários ao Código do Procedimento Administrativo, I e II, 6th edition, revised and updated, Lisbon, 2023 (with Ana F. Neves and Tiago Serrão)
In the name of transparency in Administrative Law: a Portuguese-Brazilian dialogue, Coimbra, 2023 (with Ricardo Pedro and Eurico Bitencourt Neto)
Treatise on Environmental Law, Vol. I (2021), II (2022) and III (2023) (CIDP-LPL/ICJP editions), available at https://lisbonpubliclaw.pt/en/livros/ (with Heloísa Oliveira)
