Outras Atividades Profissionais:

Researcher at the Research Centre of the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (CIDPCC-IDPCC-FDUL);

Member of the Superior Council of the Judiciary;

Member of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), which operates within the Council of Europe;

Member of the Commission for Equality against Racial Discrimination (CICDR), which operates under the Presidency of the Council of Ministers;

Lawyer

Member of the Advisory Board of the Unit for Penal Reform;

Legal Adviser to the Deputy Secretary for Justice of the 17th Constitutional Government;

Most Relevant Publications:

“Again, Fraud and Forgery! Critical review of jurisprudence and doctrine in the light of the criterion of the normative-social unity of the crime”, Homenagem ao Professor Doutor Germano Marques da Silva, I, Católica Editora, 2020, pp. 1025-1082(full text);

“Domestic violence and interpersonal violence: contributions from a legal perspective to the rationalisation of means of prevention and protection”, Anatomia do Crime – Revista de Ciências Jurídico-Criminais, 10, 2019, pp. 31-68 (peer review)(full text);

“Sensibility & Good Sense: A (brief) interpretative journey of the legal type of domestic violence in the light of its social type and judicial approaches”,Domesticand genderviolenceandfemale genitalmutilation, CEJ, 2019, pp. 9-97 (full text);

“Ne bis in idem”, Commentary on the European Convention on Human Rights and the Additional Protocols, ed. Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque, Lisbon, Universidade Católica Editora, 2019, pp. 2543-2515 (full text);

“Penal clause and compulsory pecuniary sanction: coercive sanctions or true “private penalties?””, Civil Code. Livro do Cinquentenário, volume 1, Estudos em Homenagem ao Prof. Doutor Fernando Pessoa Jorge, ed. António Menezes Cordeiro, Coimbra, Almeida, 2019, pp. 635-676, ISBN: 978-972-40-7856-4(full text);

“Brave New World: Human dignity and the Welfare State within the tensions between the right to family and the child’s best interest”, A dignidade da pessoa humana na justiça constitucional, eds Jorge Reis Novais, Tiago Fidalgo Freitas, Coimbra, Almedina, 2018, pp. 143-176, ISBN 978-972-40-7415-3(full text);

“The Educational Guardianship Law – past, present and future(s)”, Lei tutelar educativa, Lisbon, Centre for Judicial Studies, 2018, pp. 53-54, e-book, ISBN 978-989-8908-29-2(full text);

“Prostitution: feminism and capitalism in the legalisation v. incrimination debate”, Revista Faces de Eva. Estudos sobre a Mulher, 35, Edições Colibri, 2016, pp. 93-113, ISSN 0874 – 6885 (peer review)(full text);

Ne (Idem) bis in idem: prohibition of double punishment and double judgement as a contribution to the rationality of public punitive power, Lisbon, AAFDL, 2016, Vol. 1, ISBN: 97-897-26290773, Vol. 2, ISBN: 97-897-26290797(link);

“Paedophilia. Repercussões das Novas Formas de Criminalidade na Teoria Geral da Infracção”, 2003, Almedina;(http://www.almedina.net/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1611)

“The Conflict of Criminal Laws – Nature and Function of International Criminal Law”, 2008, Coimbra Editora;(http://www.almedina.net/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=6661)

“Direito Penal da Comunicação Social: As especificidades da legislação parao sector“, in O Direito Sancionatório das Entidades Reguladoras, 2009, Coimbra Editora(link);

“Arrependido: A Colaboração do Co-Arguido na Investigação Criminal” 2nd Criminal Investigation Congress, Scientific co-ordination by Maria Fernanda Palma, Augusto Silva Dias and Paulo de Sousa Mendes, Almedina, 2010;(full text)

“Secrecy or Publicity: The Temptation of Kafka in Portuguese Criminal Investigation“, Revista do Ministério Público, 124, 2010;
(full text)

“A Tutela Penal da Liberdade Sexual”, Portuguese Journal of Criminal Science, 21, 2012,(full text);

“Direito Penal Europeu: do Corpus Juris aos métodos de integração europeia”, Direito Penal Económico e Financeiro, Scientific co-ordination by Maria Fernanda Palma, Augusto Silva Dias and Paulo de Sousa Mendes, Coimbra, 2012 (full text);

“Right to health – Right to medical information – Medical confidentiality – Public interest: criteria guiding the judgement of practical agreement”, Anatomy of Crime, Journal of Legal and Criminal Sciences, no. 0 (inaugural issue), 2014(link);

Current Teaching Activity at FDUL:

Criminal Law; Special Criminal Law; Determination of the Measure of the Penalty; Criminology; Comparative Law; Jurisprudence Studies.