Category: Associate Professor
History of Law
History of Judicial Law
History of Legal Thought
History of Civil Procedure Law
History of Constitutionalism
Roman Law
Academic Degrees:
Law degree, 1994;
Master’s Degree in Historical-Legal Sciences, 2002;
Doctorate in Law, 2012.
Member of research centres:
Researcher at IURIS, the Interdisciplinary Research Institute of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon;
Researcher at the Centre for Research in Theory and History of Law at the University of Lisbon (THD-ULisboa);
Member of the Institute for the History of Law and Legal Thought at the University of Lisbon.
Member of the editorial boards of scientific journals:
Co-editor of the periodical e-legal History Review, Studia Legalia Hispanica Rescripta, Iustel, ISSN 1699-5317;
Member of the Editorial Board of the Lisbon University Faculty of Law Journal /Lisbon Law Review (2017-2018)
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Theory and History of Law of the THD Research Centre of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon
Member of international research projects:
- External researcher of the “Savigny” Research Group of the Faculty of Law of the Complutense University of Madrid, available at https://www.ucm.es/grupos/grupo/237;
- Member of the international project Control y responsabilidad de los jueces: una larga experiencia (DER2013-44216), of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Secretaría de Estado de Investigación);
- Member of the international project on jurisprudence(La trascendencia del Tribunal Supremo dentro de la conformación del derecho penal español entre 1870 y 1995), State Research Agency of the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, reference PGC2018-097564-B-100;
- Proyecto 100- Estrategias para concienciar al estudiante de la necesidad de un lenguage jurídico claro e inclusivo“, Complutense University of Madrid.
- “Derecho a entender el Derecho”, within the framework of the Aprendizaje-Servicio Complutense Projects, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain;
- Member of the international project entitled: The state of parties: intellectual roots, ruptures and legal responses in the European framework, State Research Agency of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of Spain, reference PID2021-124531NB-I00.
Coordinator of national research projects:
“Dictionary of the Portuguese Admiralty”, a project agreed between the Navy Academy, the Navy Historical Archive and the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (1.10.2019-1.10.2024);
“Justice and Public Order”, part of the project “Corpus Pombalino, para uma Obra Completa Pombalina (OCP)”, directed by José Eduardo Franco, Pedro Calafate and Viriato Soromenho-Marques, carried out by the Open University, University of Lisbon, in partnership with the European Institute of Cultural Sciences Padre Manuel Antunes, University of Coimbra and the Brazilian Federal Universities of Sergipe, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro;
“Index of handwritten laws from the Pereira e Sousa-Mendonça Cortês Collection of the Lisbon University Faculty of Law Library, 2020″ (available at
http://biblioteca.fd.ulisboa.pt/biblioteca/colecoes/colecao-pereira-e-sousa-mendonca-cortes/ (since 2019);
Legal-archival processing of documentation from the Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs and Justice Fund for the years 1820-1823, established with the National Archives of Torre do Tombo – Directorate-General for Books, Archives and Libraries (2017-2019).
Other professional activities
Lawyer
Jurist at the Court of Auditors (1996-2018)
Principais publicações:
Monographs
Temas de História da Justiça, AAFDL, Lisbon, 2021, total of 567 pages, ISBN 978-972-629-668-3;
Index of handwritten laws from the Pereira e Sousa-Mendonça Cortês Collection of the Lisbon University Faculty of Law Library, AAFDL, Lisbon, 2021, ISBN 978-989-9091-06-1 (http://biblioteca.fd.ulisboa.pt/biblioteca/colecoes/colecao-pereira-e-sousa-mendonca-cortes/ );
História da Justiça, Colectânea de sentenças (séculos XII-XX), AAFDL, Lisbon, 2019, ISBN 978-972-629-333-0;
History of Justice (Historical Texts), AAFDL, Lisbon, 2018, ISBN 978-972-629-257-9;
Colectânea de textos de História do Pensamento Jurídico , 2nd vol., AAFDL, Lisbon, 2018, ISBN 978-972-629-237-1;
Collection of texts on the History of Legal Thought, AAFDL, Lisbon, 2017, ISBN 978-972-629-161-9;
O poder e a Justiça em Portugal no século XIX, AAFDL, Lisbon, 2014, ISBN 5606939007797;
O património cultural subaquático português e o direito do mar: considerações gerais, AAFDL, Lisbon, 2006, ISBN 560-693-900-555-7;
Contributo para um estudo histórico-jurídico das cortes portuguesas entre 1481 e 1641, Almedina, 2005, Coimbra, ISBN 972-40-2417-2.
Collective works:
O Conselho da Guerra de 7 de Dezembro de 1801 (O caso de Júlio César Augusto de Chermont), in A.A.V.V., Olivença na História, Assembleia da República, Comissão de Negócios Estrangeiros e Comunidades Estrangeiras, Lisbon, 2022, pp. 109-135, ISBN 9789725567845;
Old criticisms in times of change: Justice and Vintismo, in Remedios Martín Morán (dir.), Trienio liberal, vintismo, rivoluzione: 1820-1823. España, Portugal e Italia, Editorial Aranzadi, S.A.U., Pamplona, 2021, pp. 501-519, ISBN 978-84-1390-950-9;
A right for all (Some reflections on legal language), in María Dolores Madrid Cruz (dir.), El jurista y el reto de un derecho comprensible para todos, Editorial Reus, Madrid, 2021, pp. 45-60, ISBN 978-84-290-2532-3;
A administração da justiça nos novos territórios ultramarinos portugueses, in Alfredo José Martínez González (dir. y coord), Estudios Juridicos e Historicos sobre navegación en la edad moderna: visiones cruzadas, Editorial Comares, Granada, 2021, pp. 53-80, ISBN 978-84-1369-203-6;
La capitulación de Olivenza y el Consejo de Guerra del 7 de Diciembre de 1801 (El caso de Julio César Augusto de Chermont), in Enrique Álvarez Cora y Victoria Sandoval Parra (ed.), Sedición, rebelión y quimera en la historia jurídicade Europa, Dykinson, Madrid, 2021, pp. 473-508, ISBN9788413771199;
O pretenso tribunal deresgate de captativos (O regimento de 20 de Março de 1461), in Cristina Nogueira da Silva e Margarida Seixas (coord.), Estudios Luso Hispanos de Historia del Derecho, Editorial Dykinson, Madrid, 2021, pp. 189-214, ISBN 978-84-1377-379-7;
The assembly of 23 June 1828, a setback in the history of Portuguese monarchical constitutionalism or an unavoidable inevitability; in Vital Moreira and José Domingues, Dois séculos de constitucionalismo eleitoral em Portugal, 1820-2020: actas da conferência, Universidade Lusíada, Lisboa, 2021, pp. 103-131, ISBN 978-889-640-239-6, available at http://hdl.handle.net/11067/5838 and https://doi.org/10.34628/7360-3n59;
As primeiras tentativas na construção do controlo jurisdicional da constitucionalidade (a solução portuguesa em Oitocentos), in Justiça Constitucional, coordinated by Jorge Miranda, Almedina Brasil; ISBN 9788584934041, 2018, pp. 219-252;
Judicial residences in Portugal in the 19th century: control or myth?, in Control y responsabilidad de los jueces: siglos XVI y XX, Editorial Dykinson, Madrid, 2018, ISBN 978-84-9148-437-0, pp.321-346;
Procedural rigour or a supervisory instrument: the procedural incident of suspicion, in Estudios en homenaje al Profesor José Maria Pérez-Prendes, in e-Slegal History Review, no. 27- May 2018 (extraordinary) Editorial IUSTEL, Madrid, ISSN 1699-5317, RI §420046;
On the eve of the abolition of the death penalty, in Carta de lei de abolição dapena de morte em Portugal (1867-2017), commemorative edition, Assembly of the Republic, Torre do Tombo, Lisbon, 2017, ISBN 978-972-556-687-9, pp. 78-103;
O Direito Administrativo da Magistratura Judiciária, in Tratado de Direito Administrativo, Almedina, Coimbra, 2017, vol. VII, pp. 135-268; ISBN ISBN 9789724064178;
Co-authored with Miguel Morales Payán, España y Portugal¿Caminos paralelos en busca de la independencia judicial?, in Gerichtsverfassung und Verfahren im 19. Jahrhundert, Rechtskultur
Wissenschaft, edited by Martin Löhnig, Ignacio Czeguhn and José Antonio Pérez Juan, Battenberg gietl verlag , ISBN-13: 9783866464315, 2017, pp. 68-99;
Faced with the creation of a new court: the first Presidents of the Supreme Court of Justice, in Figuras do Judiciário, Almedina, Coimbra, 2013, pp.17-52, ISBN 978-972-40-5612-8;
Para uma reflexão sobre o estatuto dos corregedores no ordenamento jurídico português, in Estudos em homenagem ao Professor Martim de Albuquerque, vol. 1, Coimbra editora, Coimbra, 2010, pp. 745-812, ISBN 9720032160374;
Algumas linhas sobre a magistratura portuguesa no século XIX, in O juiz na tradição europeia, Almedina, Coimbra, 2009, pp. 165-202, ISBN 9789724037455;
Breves reflexões sobre o património cultural setecentista, Estudos em homenagem ao Professor André Gonçalves Pereira, Coimbra Editora, Coimbra, 2006, pp. 75-105, ISBN 9720032160220;
Oratória de Cortes: a arenga de 1562, in Estudos em homenagem ao Professor António Marques dos Santos, Vol. 2, Coimbra Editora, Coimbra, 2006, ISBN 9789724026107, pp. 665-964;
Legal status of slaves in Rome, in Studies in honour of Professor Ruy de Albuquerque, Vol.1, Coimbra Editora, Coimbra, 2006, pp. 533-620;
A sucessão régia nas Cortes de Coimbra de 1385, in Revista da Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa, Estudos em Homenagem ao Professor Doutor Raul Ventura, vol. 1, Coimbra Editora, Coimbra, 2003, pp. 807-911, ISBN 9780208703163.
Articles in international scientific journals
Nótulas sobre a história do processo criminal em Portugal: as inquirições devassas (in e-Slegal History Review, no. 34 – June 2021, Editorial IUSTEL, ISSN 1699-5317, RI§423868);
Código esquecido (The Military Penal Code of 1820), in e-Slegal History Review, no. 31- January 2020, Editorial IUSTEL, Madrid, ISSN 1699-5317, RI §422127, available at https://www.iustel.com/v2/revistas/detalle_revista.asp?id_noticia=422127&texto=.
Secrecy, modesty and prudence (from the justice of secrecy to the secrecy of justice), in e-Slegal History Review, no. 30- May 2019, Editorial IUSTEL, Madrid, ISSN 1699-5317, RI §421635, available at https://www.iustel.com/v2/revistas/detalle_revista.asp?id_noticia=421635&texto=
House of Peers. The construction of a “new” court, in Cuadernos de Historia del Derecho, Ediciones Complutense, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, vol. 24 (2017), pp. 137-159, ISSN 1133-7613 and ISSN-e 1988-2541; available at https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/CUHD/article/view/56783/51337
Of residences and other acts of correction in the Manueline Ordinances (in e-Slegal History Review, no. 22- January 2016, Editorial IUSTEL, ISSN 1699-5317, RI§416913), available at https://www.iustel.com/v2/revistas/detalle_revista.asp?id_noticia=416913&texto=
On the latest developments in the teaching of Roman Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, critical review of the texts by Eduardo Vera Cruz Pinto, Curso de Direito Romano (Principia, Cascais, 2009, 480 pages), Apontamentos de Direito Romano, 753 a.C-395 (Principia, Cascais, 2015, 277 pages) and Lições de História do Direito Romano, I Síntese Geral , AAFDL, THD-ULisboa, Lisbon, 2016, 215 pages, in e-Slegal History Review, no. 28- June 2018, Editorial IUSTEL, Madrid, ISSN 1699-5317, RI § 420574;
Around an extraordinary judicial inquiry: the case of the Meda judge, in Cuadernos de História del Derecho – Universidad Complutense de Madrid, vol. 21, Madrid, 2015, pp.113-165, http:/dx.doi.org/105209/ver_CUHD.2014.v21.47719; ISSN 1133-7613 and ISSN-e 1988-2541; available at https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/CUHD/article/view/47719/44676.
A word for the judiciary or the opposition to the decree of absolution of 1844 (in e-Slegal History Review, no. 19- January 2015, Editorial IUSTEL, ISSN 1699-5317, RI§415530); available at https://www.iustel.com/v2/revistas/detalle_revista.asp?id_noticia=415530&d=1
A historical glimpse of the Angra Board of Justice, a glimpse of liberal judicial history, in
Cuadernos de Historia del Derecho, vol. 18, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, 2011, pp. 333-362, ISSN 1133-7613, ISSN-e 1988-2541, available at https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/CUHD/article/view/41521/39609
António Pinheiro: um testemunho jurídico-político na corte quinhentista portuguesa, in Cuadernos de Historia del Derecho, vol. 15, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, 2008, pp. 345-382, ISSN 1133-7613, ISSN-e 1988-2541, available at https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/CUHD/article/view/CUHD0808110345A/19261 .
Articles in national scientific journals
An eighteenth-century “solution” to social vulnerability: the Intendência Geral de Polícia, Lisbon Law Review, thematic issue: Vulnerability (s) and Law, no. I/1, year LXII, Lisbon Law editions, 2021, pp. 341-374, ISSN 0870-3116;
Breves notas sobre as soluções de política sanitária em Portugal nos séculos XVI-XIX, Lisbon Law Review, thematic issue, year LXI, Lisbon Law editions, 2020, pp. 291-320, ISSN 0870-3116;
História da Justiça (Breves considerações acerca doseu objecto e método), in Anuário de História do Direito Português/Legal History Yearbook I, IURIS, Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar, AAFDL Editora, Lisbon, 2020, 1, ISSN 9789726295587, pp. 65-76;
Critical review of the text by Pedro Ortego Gil, Inamobilidad, interinidade e inestabilidad , Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa/ Lisbon Law Review, year LXI, 2020/2, pp. 775-782, ISSN 0870-3116;
Does justice have irresolvable problems?, in Revista Teoria e História do Direito, Research Centre for Theory and History of Law, FCT, FD-UL, Lisbon, special issue, 2018, pp. 127-140; ISSN 2183-7864, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOWjKqeUApw.
On freedom of the press and the short-lived Vintista attempt, in Revista Teoria e História do Direito no. 3, Research Centre for Theory and History of Law, FCT, FD-UL, Lisbon, 2/2017, special issue (2018), pp. 135-156; ISSN 2183-7864, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4incobnHSN8
O recurso à coroa, um exemplo de controlo régio ou a aplicação da recta iustitia, in Revista Teoria e
História do Direito, Centro de Investigação Teoria e História do Direito, no.1, 2016, pp.5-26; ISSN 2183-7864 (http://media.wix.com/ugd/6ac201_5c7904ad72fe459a9e4806987b0bda29.pdf and https://educast.fccn.pt/vod/clips/2dvig10gw2/streaming.html?locale=en);
Critical review of the text by José Sánchez-Arcilla Bernal, Jueces, criminalidad y control social en la ciudad d México a finales del siglo XVIII , Dykinson, S.L., Madrid, 2016, 456 pages, in THD journal 2017-2, pp.191-194; ISSN 2183-7864
Critical review of the text by Pedro Ortego Gil, Estadística y control de la actividad judicial durante el siglo XIX, Dykinson, S.L., Madrid, 2016, 347 pages, in THD magazine 2017-2, pp.195-198; ISSN 2183-7864
The permanence of old vices, under the myth of new times. As opções judiciais de D. Pedro, Duque de Bragança (1832-1834), in Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, vol. LV, n.º1, Coimbra Editora, Coimbra, 2014, pp.129-188, ISSN 0870-3116;
Da antiga à nova magistratura: passos da vida de um magistrado (José Duarte Machado Ferraz), in Revista de História do Direito e Pensamento Político, online publication, vol. 2, Instituto de História e do Pensamento Político, Lisbon, 2011, pp. 43-81, ISSN: 1647-7529;
A sucessão régia nas Cortes de Coimbra de 1385, in Revista da Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa, Estudos em Homenagem ao Professor Doutor Raul Ventura, vol. 1, Coimbra Editora, Coimbra, 2003, pp. 807-911, ISBN 9780208703163.
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