Category:
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon
Areas of interest / research:
Constitutional law
Fundamental rights
Portuguese-speaking public law
Municipal law
Academic Degrees:
Master’s Degree in Legal and Political Sciences (1998);
PhD in Legal and Political Sciences (Constitutional Law) (2006).
Scientific Research and Co-operation
Constitutional law
Comparative public law in Portuguese-speaking countries
Comparative political systems: Brazil and Portugal
Research centres:
Researcher at the Public Law Research Centre of the Institute of Legal and Political Sciences of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (CIDP).
Member of the editorial boards of scientific journals:
Revista da Escola Superior da Procuradoria Geral do Estado de São Paulo-ESPGE-SP (São Paulo).
Fundamental Rights & Justice – Journal of the Postgraduate Master’s and Doctorate Programme in Law at PUCRS (Porto Alegre).
Journal of the Centre for Legal Studies of the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Pernambuco (Recife).
Current Issues in Local Law (Braga).
Other Professional Activities:
Participation in the jury of the competition for entry into the initial training of magistrates (Centre for Judicial Studies, October 2012).
Legal advice on the process of approving the Statutes of the University of Lisbon, as part of the merger (2013).
Member of the Board of the Institute of Legal and Political Sciences of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (2011/2014).
Most Relevant Publications:
Constitutional Statute of Television Activity, Coimbra, Coimbra Editora, 1998.
A estruturação do sistema de direitos, liberdades e garantias na Constituição portuguesa, 2 volumes: I – Roots and context; II – The dogmatic construction, Coimbra, Almedina, 2006.
“Direito das Autarquias Locais”, in Paulo Otero / Pedro Gonçalves (coords.),Tratado de Direito Administrativo Especial, vol. IV, Coimbra, Almedina, 2010, pp. 11-299.
Fundamental Rights – General Introduction, 2nd ed., Cascais, Principia, 2011 (reprint 2015).
The Discourse of Rights, Coimbra, Coimbra Editora, 2011.
Elements of Lusophone Public Law, Coimbra, Coimbra Editora, 2011.
Human Rights in Africa (coord.), Coimbra, Coimbra Editora, 2011.
O novo constitucionalismo angolano, e-book, Lisbon, Instituto de Ciências Jurídico-Políticas da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, 2013.
The System of Fundamental Rights in the Basic Law of the Macau Special Administrative Region, Macau, Legal and Judicial Training Centre, 2013.
Jornadas de Direito Municipal Comparado Lusófono (coordinator), Lisbon, AAFDL, 2014.
Municipal Law – Contents and teaching methods, Lisbon, AAFDL, 2014.
澳門特別行政區基本法中基本權利的制度 [Chinese version of The System of Fundamental Rights in the Basic Law of the Macau Special Administrative Region], Macau, Legal and Judicial Training Centre, 2015.
Studies on constitutionalism in the Portuguese-speaking world (coord.), Lisbon, AAFDL, 2015.
Rolão Preto, Obras Completas (organisation, preface and introduction), 2 volumes, Lisbon, Colibri, 2015.
II Jornadas de Direito Municipal Comparado Lusófono (co-coordinator), Lisbon, AAFDL, 2016.
Constitutional Law Lessons, vol. I, 3rd ed., Lisbon, AAFDL, 2017.
Constitutional Law Lessons, vol. II, 3rd edition, Lisbon, AAFDL, 2018.
Studies on constitutionalism in the Portuguese-speaking world, vol. II – Brazil and Portugal, Lisbon, AAFDL, 2018.
A decade of local government reforms, Lisbon, AAFDL, 2018.
Member of international research projects:
Portuguese co-coordinator of the OLA-Portugal Team(Observatory on Local Autonomy), in the development of the project La gouvernance locale dans l’Union européenne: vers un modèle de citoyenneté locale européenne?, led by the University of Lille and within the framework of the Council of the Regions of the European Union (January 2009 – October 2012).
Principal investigator of the project Institutionalisation of Local Power in the New Portuguese-Speaking Countries, being developed by the Public Law Research Centre of the Institute of Legal and Political Sciences (2013/…).
Teaching or research activity in other Higher Education Institutions
Teaching Fundamental Rights on the GNR Infantry and Cavalry degree courses in 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 (at the Military Academy in Amadora).
Teaching module I of the Constitutional Law subject on the III Masters Course in Legal and Political Sciences, in October 2007 (at the Faculty of Law of the Agostinho Neto University, in Luanda).
Teaching module I of the Postgraduate Course in Public Policies and Local Governance, in August 2010 (at the Faculty of Law of Agostinho Neto University, in Luanda).
Module I of the 2nd Postgraduate Course in Public Policies and Local Governance, in July 2011 (at the Faculty of Law of Agostinho Neto University, in Luanda).
Teaching module I of the Local Administration Law subject on the Masters Course in Governance and Public Management, in August 2011 (at the Agostinho Neto University Faculty of Law, in Luanda).
Teaching module II of the Local Administration Law subject on the Masters Course in Governance and Public Management, in December 2011 (at the Agostinho Neto University Faculty of Law, in Luanda).
Teaching module IV of the Constitutional Law subject on the 2nd Postgraduate Course leading to a Master’s Degree, in February 2012 (at the Faculty of Law of Mandume University, in Lubango).
Teaching module I of the Constitutional Law subject on the Master’s Course in Legal and Political Sciences, in April/May 2012 (at the Faculty of Law of the José Eduardo dos Santos University, in Huambo).