Margarida Seixas

Category: Assistant Teacher

Areas of interest / research:

Scientific Research and Co-operation

Member of research centres:

IURIS – Institute for Interdisciplinary Research – FDUL;

CEI – Centre for Intercultural Studies of ISCAP, Polytechnic Institute of Porto

IELT – Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition, FCSH/New University of Lisbon

Member of the editorial boards of scientific journals:

IP – Interpretatio Prudentium- Roman Law and Romanist Tradition in Review

Publicações mais relevantes:

História do Direito Português – Aulasao Curso de 2021/2022 – I parte, Lisbon, AAFDL, 2022.

Support Materials. Dissertations and Theses at FDUL, Lisbon, AAFDL Editora, 2020 – 2nd edition in 2022 (revised and expanded).

History of Labour Law in Portugal, vol. I – A Law under construction, Lisbon, AAFDL, 2021.

Textos de História do Direito Português, with Ana Caldeira Fouto, Filipe Arede Nunes, Francisco Rocha, Jorge Silva Santos and Míriam Afonso Brigas, Lisbon, THD- IP/AAFDL Edições, 2018.

Person and Labour in Portuguese Law (1750-1878): slave, freedman and servant, Lisbon, AAFDL/Lisbon Law Editions, 2016.

“Cem anos depois: juristas e trabalho” I and II parts, International Journal of Labour Law, year I, 2021, nos. 1 and 2, available at https://idt.fdulisboa.pt/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/26.pdf. and https://idt.fdulisboa.pt/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/RIDT2_13.pdf.

“From abolitions to abolition. An enlightenment journey in 19th century Portugal”, in Seixas, Margarida, and Rodrigues, Cristina (org.), Da escravidão ao trabalho digno. On the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Portugal and the 100th anniversary of the creation of the ILO, Lisbon, Gabinete de Estratégia e Planeamento (GEP), 2021, pp. 211-226, available at

http://www.gep.mtsss.gov.pt/documents/10182/55251/cst21.pdf/efc4977f-cb1c-459d-bf9b-d7d43c8bf6fb.

“Free labour in the texts of the Second Peninsular Scholasticism: Portuguese manuscripts at the end of the 16th century”, in Silva, Cristina Nogueira da, and Seixas, Margarida (org.), Estudios Luso-Hispanos de Historia del Derecho II, Madrid, Editorial Dykinson, 2021, pp. 239-263, https://e-archivo.uc3m.es/handle/10016/32002.

“Free labour and slave labour in the work of Francisco Suarez”, Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, vol. 75, no. 2(The Iberian Peace School: Natural Law and Human Dignity, eds. Pedro Calafate and Álvaro Balsas), July 2019, pp. 1165-1194, available at https://doi.org/10.17990/RPF/2019_75_2_1165.

“First Employment Contract Law in Portugal: Law no. 1 952 of 10 March 1937”, in Varela, Laura Beck, and Solla Sastre, María Julia (coord.), Estudios Luso-Hispanos de Historia del Derecho, Madrid, Editorial Dykinson / Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2018, pp. 481-513; URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10016/27751.

“Regulating labour, avoiding oppression: Portuguese law between the metropolis and the overseas provinces in the second half of the 19th century”, RJUAM – Revista Juridica de la UAM, no. 33, 2016, pp. 251-268; available at https://repositorio.uam.es/handle/10486/679749.

“Slavery, Intercultural Traffic and Labour in Portuguese Law (1750-1878)”, in Sarmento, Clara (coord.), In Permanent Transit: Discourses and Maps of the Intercultural Experience, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012, pp. 145-158, https://www.worldcat.org/pt/title/810414773.

“Slave Women’s Children in the Portuguese Empire: Legal Status and its Enforcement”, in Sarmento, Clara (org.), Women in the Portuguese Colonial Empire: The Theatre of Shadows, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, pp. 63-80, https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/9781847187185.[/vc_column_text]