Diogo Costa Gonçalves

Category: Associate Professor

Areas of interest / research:
Civil law
Commercial Law
Arbitration

Academic Degrees:
Law Degree, (2003);
Master’s Degree in Law, (2008);
Doctorate in Law, (2014).

Scientific research and co-operation

Member of research centres:
Member of the Private Law Research Centre (CIDP).

Member of editorial boards of scientific journals:
Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Company Law
Member of the editorial board of the Lisbon Law Review

Other professional activities:
Jurisconsult
Arbitrator in several arbitrations

Most relevant publications:
Person and Personality – Ontological foundation of guardianship, 2008.

Merger, demerger and transformation of commercial companies – The legal position of the partners and the delimitation of the statuo viæ, 2008.

“A ação ut singuli (de responsabilidade civil) e a relação do Direito Cooperativo com o Direito das Sociedades Comerciais”, RDS I (2009) 4, 885-922 (co-authored with Manuel Carneiro da Frada).

CSC anotado (António Menezes Cordeiro), 2nd ed., 2011, 97-129.

“The governance of private limited companies – Brief reflections on the conclusion of business between the manager and the company”, O Governo das Organizações-A vocação universal do corporate governance (Paulo Câmara), 2011, 95-123.

“The impediment to the exercise of voting rights as a generic prohibition on acting in conflict”, RDS III (2011) 3, 657-712 (co-authored with Pedro de Albuquerque).

Corporate Governance Code Annotated (Paulo Câmara), 2012 (1.4 Quorum).

“The co-option of directors by the board of directors – Some reflections”, The appointment of directors (Paulo Câmara), 2015, 89-106, also published in DSR VI (2014) 3-4, 543-561.

Legal person and commercial companies – Problematic dimension and systematic coordinates of legal-private personification, 2015.

“The loss of public company status(delisting of shares) and the protection of minority shareholders” RDS VII (2015) 1, 55-85 (co-authored with Manuel Carneiro da Frada).