Categoria: Associate Professor with Aggregation

Areas of interest / research:

Property Rights
Cultural Property
Animal Rights
Declaratory Civil Procedure Law
Evidentiary Law
Judicial Activism

Academic Degrees:

Degree in Law, Legal Sciences (1983).
Master’s Degree in Legal Sciences (1994).
Doctorate in Civil Law (2007).
Aggregation in Civil Law (2020).

Scientific Research and Co-operation

-Principal Researcher at the Private Law Research Centre (CIDP) of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.

– Principal Investigator of the Research Project “Law, Culture, Heritage and Cultural Goods”, submitted to the CIDP on 30 September 2023.

ORCID: 0000-0002-5100-0364;

Science and Vitae: ID AD12-D11C-D756

FCT: J904143

– Co-operation activities in Angola (Luanda and Huambo), Mozambique (Maputo, Beira and Maxixe) and Brazil (Recife, Rio, Fortaleza, Floriano, Vitória and João Pessoa).

– Vice President of the Brazilian Law Institute between 2011 and 2014

-President of the Brazilian Law Institute since February 2024.

Member of the editorial boards of scientific journals:

Member of the Editorial Board of the Brazilian Journal of Environmental Law: Doctrine and Jurisprudence, under the coordination of Professor Celso António Pacheco Fiorillo, ISSN 1807-9962.

–Member of the Editorial Board of Revista do Instituto do Direito Brasileiro (RIDB), under the coordination of Professor Fernando Araújo, ISSN 2182-7567.

–Evaluatorof articles, in accordance with the peer review process, for publication in the Journal of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, at the request of the Journal’s Committee, in accordance with the respective Stylebook and Report Model.

Other Professional Activities

– Representative of the Deputy Prime Minister, Professor Carlos da Mota Pinto, on the Interministerial Commission for Youth of the IX Constitutional Government (1984-1985).

– Lawyer in the International Department of Banco Pinto e Sotto Mayor (1984-1985), under the chairmanship of Dr Loureiro Borges on the Management Board.

– Member of Parliament elected for the Lisbon constituency in October 1985 and re-elected in July 1987, having served for more than 6 years in the Assembly of the Republic (1985-1991).

– Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of State to the Minister for Culture in the 15th Constitutional Government (2002-2004).

– Member of the Oceans Strategic Commission, chaired by Dr Tiago Pitta e Cunha, representing the Ministry of Culture (2003-2004), whose work culminated in the publication of the respective Oceans Report in 2004, with the inclusion of a text by him.

– Assistant to the Minister of Justice in the XVI Constitutional Government (2004).

– Member of the Superior Council of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, elected by the Assembly of the Republic in December 2009, under the terms of Resolution no. 119/2009, published in Series I of the Diário da República on 29 December 2009.

– Member of the Superior Council of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, re-elected by the Assembly of the Republic, on a single list, this time as the first nominee, under the terms of Assembly of the Republic Resolution 135/2011, published in the I Series of the Diário da República of 24 October 2011.

Most relevant publications

1. books

– O Regime e a Natureza dos Direitos dos Recursos Geológicos dos Particulares, Lex, Lisbon, 1994.

– The Discovery of Underwater Cultural Property, Petrony, Lisbon, 2008.

– Administrative Real Rights: Fiction or Reality?, AAFDL, Lisbon, 2019.

–Current Issues in Evidence Law, AAFDL, Lisbon, 2020.

– Property Rights and Movable Cultural Property, Principia, Cascais, 2020.

– Studies in Civil Law and Civil Procedural Law, AAFDL, Lisbon, 2021.

– Property Rights Manual, 3rd edition, AAFDL, Lisbon, 2022.

–Study on Animal Rights, AAFDL, Lisbon, 2023.

2. Magazine articles

– “O Ónus da Prova na Responsabilidade do Produtor” in Revista da Associação Académica da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, no. 22, 1998, pp. 413-449.

– “Agrarian Law” in Enciclopédia Verbo Luso-Brasileira de Cultura, Edição Século XXI, Vol. IX, 1999, pp.477-480.

“Public Domain and Private Domain: Myths and Shadows” in O Direito, no. 141, IV, 2009, pp. 815-852.

– “The Animal: Thing or Tertium Genus” in O Direito, no. 141, V, 2009, pp. 1071-1104.

– “Cultural Property: Possession Not Worth Title?” in O Direito, no. 142, V, 2010, pp. 885-930.

– “Shooting Pigeons: Unjustified Violence: An Annotation to the STA Judgement of 23.9.2010” in Cadernos de Justiça Administrativa, no. 87, 2011, pp. 29-41.

– “O Artigo 5º do Código de Registo Predial e a Compra e Venda Imobiliária” in O Direito, no. 143, V, 2011, pp. 965-991.

– “The Payment of the Premium in the Insurance Contract Law” in Cadernos de Direito Privado, no. 39, July/September, 2012, pp. 3-19.

– “Questões Relativas à Reforma do Código de Processo Civil” . in O Direito, no. 144, III, 2012, pp. 569- 598.

– “Design of the “new” Code of Civil Procedure” in O Direito, Year 145, IV, 2013, pp. 797-816.

– “The Reform of the Civil Code in the Field of Property Law” in O Direito, Year 146, II, 2014, pp. 311-324.

– “The Mixed System of Valuing Evidence” in O Direito, Year 146, III, 2014, pp. 555-582.

– “The Civil Regime of Private Waters” in Revista de Direito e de Estudos Sociais, Year LVI, No. 1-3, 2015, pp. 47-66.

– “Discovery of Evidence in Arbitration, Especially Testimonial, Expert and Documentary Evidence” in Revista de Direito e de Estudos Sociais, Year LVI, No. 4, 2015, pp. 29-67.

– “Temas de Prova: Pedra Angular do “Novo” CPC?” in O Direito, Year 148, Vol. I, 2016, pp. 53-76.

– “The Right of Preference over Cultural Property” in Revista de Direito Civil, Year I, No. 3, 2016, pp. 577-610.

– “Emerging Issues of Underwater Cultural Heritage” in O Direito, Year 149, Vol. I , 2017, pp. 65-89.

– “Emerging Issues in Underwater Cultural Heritage” in Al-Madan, Series II, no. 21, July 2017, pp. 56-66.

–“ Article 1316 of the Civil Code and the Acquisitive TertiumGenus: In Particular, Usucaption and Registration” in O Direito, Year 149, Vol. III, 2017, pp. 547-573.

– “Co-operation: Novelty or Bane of the Increase in the Judge’s Powers?” in O Direito, Year 151, Vol. I, 2019, pp. 55-64.

– “The Macron Report and the Problem of Restitution of Cultural Property in Times of COVID” in O Direito, Year 152, Vol. IV, 2020, pp. 695-705.

– “Civil Judicial Activism and Civil Procedure” in International Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Studies (IJRHSS), Volume 8, No. 3, 2021, pp. pp. 12-32.

– “Animal Issues: Vulnerabilities and Challenges” in Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, no. 1, Volume I, 2021, pp. 553-564.

– “Contemporary Challenges Relating to the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage: A Consideration of Portuguese and Brazilian Law, in Journal of Liberal Arts and Humanities (JLAH) Vol. 2. Nº 11, 2021, pp. 1-9.

– “Timesharing or Real Rights of Periodic Occupation: From Consumption Property to Reality” in International Journal of Humanities and Social Science (IJHSS), Vol. 11, No. 9, 2021, pp. 102-110.

– “From Premium to Deductible Payments and Related Concepts” in Journal of Liberal Arts and Humanities (JLAH) Vol. 2. Nº 12, 2021, pp. 30-44.

-“Direito Real de Habitação Periódica: Do Bem de Consumo à Realidade” in O Direito, Year 153, Vol. IV, 2021, pp. 675-689.

– “The Public Domain and the Private Domain: Myths and Shadows” in International Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Science (IJAHSS), Vol. 3, No. 2, 2022, pp. 40-58.

– “Do Prémio ao Pagamento da Franquia e Figuras Afinsas”, in Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, no. 2, 2022, pp. 309-325.

– “Digital Transition in Law Teaching”, in Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, no. 2, 2022, pp. 819-827.

– “Preference or Pre-Emption Right for Cultural Objects” in Journal of Politics and Law (JPL) of Canadian Centre of Science and Education, Vol 15, nº 2, 2022, pp. 32-49.

– “O Princípio da Cooperação Defronte da Proposta de Revisão do CPC” (Proposed Law no. 92/XIV/2ª) in O Direito, Year 154, Vol. II, 2022, pp. 253-270.

– “The Principle of Co-operation: Between Mystification and Decline” in Revista Brasileira de Direito Processual (RBDPro), Year 30, No. 118, 2022, pp. 15-28.

– “Short-Term Rental and the Condominium” in International Journal of Social Science Humanity and Management Research (IJSSHMR), Vol. 2, No. 2, 2023, pp. 90-105.

– “Diffusion of Cultural Heritage: Portuguese Experience”, in O Direito, Year 155, Vol. II, 2023, pp. 205-217.

– “The Mais Habitação Programme: Local Accommodation” in Revista de Direito Civil, Year 8, no. 2, 2023, pp. 201-214.

– “Local Accommodation and Condominium” in Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, no. 1, Volume II, 2023, pp. 1379-1406.

-The Right to Enjoy Cultural Goods” in O Direito, Year 155, Vol. IV, 2023, pp. 623-642.

– “The Guarantees of the Process, the Principles and Digital Evidence” in Civil Law Magazine, Year 8, No. 4, 2023, pp. 753-763.

-“Property and the Public Domain” in JULGAR, no. 51, 2023, pp. 105-119.

– “Argument of the doctoral thesis of Geovana Mendes Baía, “Instructional Powers of the Judge and Procedural Business in Matters of Evidence” in Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, no. 2, 2023, pp. 851-858.

– “Proof and Truth: Antagonism or Difficulty?” in Revista Jurídica Portucalense, UPT, no. 35, 2024, pp. 1-21.