Category: Associate Professor with tenure
Areas of interest / research:
European Union law
European Union Litigation Law
Public International Law
Fundamental Rights
Rule of law – standards of protection and implications for the models of separation and distribution of powers
Academic degrees
Law degree, 1985
Master’s Degree in Legal and Political Sciences, 1990
Doctorate in Legal and Political Sciences, 1997
Aggregation in Legal and Political Sciences, 2007
Member of Research Centres:
Senior Researcher at the Public Law Research Centre (CIDP).
Other professional activities:
Legal consultant in the areas of European Union Law and Public International Law
Lawyer and agent for the Portuguese Republic in proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union
Publicações mais relevantes:
The Theory of Implied Powers and the Delimitation of Competences between the European Union and the Member States, Lisbon, Lex, 1997 (doctoral dissertation).
União Europeia e Direitos Fundamentais – no espaço da internormatividade , Lisbon, AAFDL, 2006.
Studies on the Treaty of Lisbon, Coimbra, Almedina, 2010.
“Justice constititionnelle, justice ordinaire, justice supranagtionnale: à qui revient la protection des droits fondamentaux en Europe?”, in Annuaire Internationale de Justice Constitutionnelle (XX.e Table ronde internationale des 17 et 18 septembre 2004, Aix-en-Provence, XX, 2004, pp. 325-334.
“The Court of Justice of the European Union and the indirect control of Security Council decisions. On the relevant criteria of practical conciliation between the fight against international terrorism and the protection of fundamental rights”, Themis, Revista da Faculdade de Direito da UNL, ano XIII, n.ºs 24-25, 2013, p. 49-76.
“European Union, national identity and linguistic equality”, in Estudos em Homenagem ao Professor Doutor Jorge Miranda, Coimbra Editora, 2012, vol. V, pp. 383-406.
Direito Internacional Público e ordem jurídica global do século XXI, Lisbon, AAFDL, 2016.
European Union Litigation Law , Lisbon, AAFDL, 2017
European Union Law. Lessons learnt, Lisbon, AAFDL, 2021
“European Union and the rule of law – notes on an unequal debate”, in Human Rights and the Rule of Law, Lisbon, AAFDL, 2022
Co-coordinator of three collective works on Public International Law: International Law and the use of force in the 21st century (2018); Global legal order in the 21st century. Subjects and actors on the international stage (2020); Human Rights and the Rule of Law – protection in the international and European framework (2022).