João Serras de Sousa

Categoria: Guest Assistant

Areas of interest:

Civil Law
Commercial Law
Company Law

Academic Degrees:
Law Degree (2015);

Completion of Master’s programme in Legal Sciences (2016);

Doctoral student in Legal Sciences (Specialising in Legal and Business Sciences)

Member of research centres:

CIDP – Private Law Research Centre

IDC – Association for the Study of Consumer Law

Other Professional Activities:

Advogado (PLMJ)

Publicações Mais Relevantes:

“The obligation not to assign credit in Portuguese law: brief reflections on its regime”, in Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, vol. 54, nos. 1-2, 2013, pp. 303-354 (co-authored with Ricardo Neves);

“Attachment of term deposits as attachment of credit rights”, in Estudos de Execução e insolvência (Org. Rui Pinto), 2016, pp. 72-105;

“A cross default in a confrontation with the Law on General Contractual Clauses: a question of validity”, in Revista de Direito Civil, year I, no. 2, 2016, pp. 451-479;

“The treatment of tax credits and the realisation of the aims of the reform”, in Revista de Direito das Sociedades, year IX, no. 1, 2017, pp. 72-105 (co-authored with Inês Palma Ramalho);

Annotated Civil Code (Coord. Ana Prata), Almedina, Coimbra, 2017 (annotation of articles 1207 to 1230 – works contract);

“Guarantees in rem and modification of the object of the guarantee: the pledge of universalities as a dynamic phenomenon”, in Civil Code – Fiftieth Anniversary Book, vol. II, 2019, pp. 19-75