Catarina Monteiro Pires

Categoria: Assistant Professor

Areas of interest / research:
Law of Obligations and Contract Law
Commercial Law and Commercial Companies
Banking and Finance Law
General Theory of Civil Law
Arbitration and Litigation

Academic Degrees:
Law Degree, Coimbra University Faculty of Law (2001)
Masters in Law, University of Lisbon Law School (2008)
PhD in Law, University of Lisbon Law School (2016)

Scientific Research and Co-operation

Member of research centres:
Member of the Private Law Research Centre, co-coordinator of the 1st Conference on Commercial Contracts, among other CIDP initiatives.

Teaching or research activity in other Higher Education Institutions:
She was a tutor and trainee assistant at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra.
She was awarded an international scholarship by the Foundation for Science and Technology, with several periods of research at the Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht.

Other Professional Activities:
Legal Consultant
Managing Associate in the arbitration and litigation group of Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva e Associados, where she has practised law since 2004.

Most Relevant Publications:

Monographs
Impossibility of Performance, Almedina, 2016 (in press)

Alienation in Guarantee (Almedina, 2010)

Articles
Limits on the efforts and expenditure required of the debtor to fulfil obligations (2016, in press)

Termination of Contract for Default: perspectives from Portuguese, Brazilian and German law, Revista de Direito Civil Contemporâneo, 2015

Between a corrective model and an informational model in banking and financial law, Cadernos de Direito Privado, No. 44 – 2013

Effects of changed circumstances, O Direito, Year 145, Vol. 1 and 2 – 2013

The restitutionary instalment in value in the termination of the contract for non-performance, Studies in Honour of Miguel Galvão Teles, Vol. 2 – 2012

The extra-procedural enforcement of pledges – the particular cases of share and quota pledges, O Direito, Year 152, 2010

The enforcer’s liability in the new enforcement action: meaning, grounds and limits, Cadernos de Direito Privado, No. 10 – 2005

Some critical considerations on the civil liability of directors towards shareholders in the Portuguese legal system, O Direito, Year 137, 2005