Category: Associate Professor
Areas of interest / research:
Public International Law
Constitutional Law
Fundamental Rights
Academic Degrees:
Law Degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, in July 1991.
Master of Laws in Legal and Political Sciences from the same Faculty, on 21 December 1995.
PhD in Law in Legal and Political Sciences from the same Faculty, 7 March 2003.
Teaching or research activity in other Higher Education Institutions:
Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, Ius Gentium Conimbrigae Institute of the Faculty of Law of Coimbra, Faculty of Law of the Agostinho Neto University of Angola, North American Scholar Ship.
Other Professional Activities:
Consultancy for public and private organisations.
Most relevant publications:
Ius Cogens in International Law, Lisbon, 1997;
Public International Law – Concept and Sources, Vol. I, Lisbon, 1998;
O Poder Público Bélico em Direito Internacional – O Uso da Força pela Nações Unidas em especial, Coimbra, 2003;
Public International Law, Vol. II(Subjects and Responsibility), Coimbra, 2004;
The Rights of Assembly and Demonstration in Portuguese Law, Coimbra, 2006;
Popular Sovereignty in Constitutional Law, in Perspectivas Constitucionais – Nos 20 anos da Constituição de 1976 (coord. Jorge Miranda), Vol. I, Coimbra, 1996, pp. 481-513;
Os Limites Materiais e a Revisão de 1989 – A relevância do Direito Costumeiro, in Perspectivas Constitucionais – Nos 20 anos da Constituição de 1976 (coord. Jorge Miranda), Vol. III, Coimbra, 1998, pp. 67-115;
A vigência dos Tratados da Guarda entre Portugal e Espanha relativas à delimitação de espaços marítimos, in Homenagem ao Prof. Doutor André Gonçalves Pereira, Coimbra, 2006, pp. 643-668;
Fundamental Rights and Judicial Control of Constitutionality in Classical Athens, in Estudos em Homenagem ao Prof. Doutor Gomes Canotilho (coords. F. Correia/J. Machado/J. Loureiro), Coimbra, 2012, Vol. III, pp. 97-122;
Current state of International Law on its relations with Municipal Law, in Basic principles of international public law – Monism & Dualism (ed. M. Novakovic), Belgrade, 2013, pp. 34-60.