Categoria:
Associate Professor
Areas of interest / research:
Civil Procedural Law
International Civil Procedure Law
Labour procedural law
Constitutional Law
Banking Law
Academic degrees:
Law degree (FDUL, 1989)
Master’s Degree in Legal Sciences (FDUL, 1994)
PhD in Legal Sciences, specialising in Civil Procedural Law (FDUL, 2012)
Scientific research and co-operation:
Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of Eduardo Mondlane University (Maputo/Mozambique), under a co-operation protocol with FDUL (1996-1997).
Member of research centres:
Private Law Research Centre of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.
Member of editorial boards of scientific journals:
Member of the Editorial Board of the Lisbon University Faculty of Law Journal (1997-2014).
Other professional activities:
Advisor to the Office of the Governor of Macau (1997-1998)
Advisor to the Office of the Judges of the Constitutional Court (1999-2010)
Technical advisor to the Bank of Portugal
Publicações mais relevantes:
“The franchising contract”, in O Direito, year 123, 1991, II – III, pages 319-383;
Illicit evidence in civil proceedings, Coimbra, Almedina, 1998;
“Problemas recentes da uniformização da jurisprudência em processo civil”, in Revista da Ordem dos Advogados, Year 60, January 2000, pp. 103-163;
“Sul nuovo Codice di Procedura Civile di Macao”, in Rivista di Diritto Processuale, Anno LV (Seconda serie) – (2000) – N. 2, pp. 382-403;
“Princípios gerais do processo do trabalho”, in Estudos do Instituto de Direito do Trabalho, vol. III, Coimbra, Almedina, 2002, pp. 389-442, and in Estudos em homenagem ao Prof. Doutor Raúl Ventura, vol. II, Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, 2003, pp. 849-897;
“Res judicata in Portuguese constitutional jurisprudence”, in Estudos em homenagem ao Conselheiro José Manuel Cardoso da Costa, Coimbra, Coimbra Editora, 2003, pp. 11-77;
“The constitutional or legal rule or principle violated as an element of the subject matter of appeals for concrete review of constitutionality or legality”, in Jurisprudência Constitucional, no. 6, 2005, pp. 28-48;
(co-authored with Ana Diniz) – “O Regulamento (CE) n.º 1060/2009 e o problema da qualidade e da necessidade das notações de risco: o caso particular da dívida soberana”, in Revista do Ministério Público, no. 127, 2011, pp. 119-177, and no. 128, pp. 9-82;
“The pre-trial phase and the new means of proof in the 2013 Code of Civil Procedure”, in Revista do Ministério Público, no. 134, 2013, pp. 9-42;
(co-authored with José Lebre de Freitas) Código de Processo Civil anotado, vol. I, 4th edition, Coimbra, Almedina, 2018;
Modification of res judicata due to changed circumstances, Coimbra, Almedina, 2018;
(co-authored with José Lebre de Freitas) Annotated Code of Civil Procedure, vol. II, 4th edition, reprinted, Coimbra, Almedina, 2019;
“Relations between the Convention and international civil procedural law”, in Commentary on the European Convention on Human Rights and Additional Protocols, ed. Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque, vol. I, Lisbon, Universidade Católica Editora, 2019, pp. 432-454;
“(341st to 351st), in Código Civil comentado, I (Parte Geral), coord. António Menezes Cordeiro, Almedina, 2020, pp. 982-1027;
“Hearings at a distance in civil proceedings and the principle of publicising hearings”, in RFDUL/LLR, LXI (2020) I, pp. 261-289;
“The immunities of the European Union from the courts of the Member States”, in Cadernos Jurídicos do Banco de Portugal, 2, 2020, pp. 95-119 (https://www.bportugal.pt/publications/banco-de-portugal/all/8556);
Direito procedual civil internacional I: projeto científico e pedagógico, Lisbon, AAFDL Editora, 2021;
“Foreign judgments and immunities from jurisdiction: the relevance of immunities from jurisdiction in the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments”, in Prof. Doutor Augusto Silva Dias – In Memoriam, vol. II, AAFDL Editora, Lisbon, 2022, pp. 769-790;
(co-authored with José Lebre de Freitas and Armindo Ribeiro Mendes) Código de Processo Civil anotado, vol. III, 3rd ed., Coimbra, Almedina, 2022.