Categoria: Guest Assistant
Areas of interest / research:
Commercial law, banking law, the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing, law enforcement, compliance and corporate responsibility, in general and on ESG issues (environmental, social and corporate governance).
Criminal law, criminal procedure and administrative offences
Comparative and private international law
Civil law and civil procedure
Academic Degrees:
Law degree, 2010;
Completion of the academic part of the Master’s Degree in Legal and Criminal Sciences, 2012;
Admitted to the preparation of a Doctorate in Law, in Legal Sciences.
Scientific Research and Co-operation:
Member of international research projects:
Legal Expert and representative of Portugal in the international project “Reducing prison population: advanced tools of justice in Europe”, supported by the European Commission.
Teaching or research activity in other Higher Education Institutions:
Head of Psychology and Law modules at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Lisbon since 2013;
Responsible for the module on “Systems of Government and Electoral Processes – Comparative Perspective“, on the Electoral and Political Law Course of the Students’ Association of the Faculty of Law of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2013.
Member of research centres:
Researcher at the Private Law Research Centre;
Associate of the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences;
Member of the Portuguese Institute of Civil Procedure.
Other Professional Activities:
Chief Legal Counsel / Director of the Legal Department of Banco de Investimento Global, S.A. (BiG), since May 2020;
Legal Counsel at Banco de Portugal, between 2014 and 2020;
Lawyer since 2013;
Trainee journalist at the newspaper “O Independente”, 2006.
Publicações mais relevantes:
- Organiser of the Regimes for the prevention of money laundering and banking compliance (3rd ed.: 2022, 2nd ed.: 2018, 1st ed.: 2017), Lisbon, AAFDL Editora), with texts dedicated to these themes:
- “How do you say “money laundering” in Russian? (отмывание денег?) and “too fast” in Ukrainian? (занадто швидко?)”, 3rd ed, pp. 9-24.
- “These regimes will self-destruct in 5 seconds“, 2nd ed., pp. 9-18;
- “Between a manual for sanctioners and a blank sanctioning code”, 1st ed, pp. 7-12.
- “”It’s not easy being green ” – Some doubts, fears and anxieties about the difficulties in knowing what “ESG” duties are and how they are fulfilled in the financial markets at the end of 2022“, in Revista de Direito Financeiro e dos Mercados de Capitais, no. 14 (2022), pp. 617-634;
- “The protection of children and young people and the guardianship measure of internment as a form of protection of fundamental rights“, in ExtrajudicialProtection of Fundamental Rights, Lisbon: AAFDL Editora, 2022;
- “O Banco de Portugal como defensor dos clientes bancários“, in Revista de Direito Comercial, Liber Amicorum Pedro Pais de Vasconcelos, (co-authored with Inês da Costa Pina and Tomás Gomes da Silva), pp. 783-830, 2022;
- “First concerns and suggestions on the sanctioning rules in the Preliminary Draft of the Banking Code presented for public consultation at the end of 2020“, in Revista de Direito Financeiro e dos Mercados de Capitais, no. 3 (2021), vol. 1, pp. 383-413, 2021;
- “Anti-money laundering duties: where they came from, what they are and how they will evolve (from “4G” to “5G”)“, in Novos Estudos sobre Law Enforcement, Compliance e Direito Penal, Coimbra, Almedina, 2020;
- “Accountability“, in Special Processes, vol. I, Lisbon: AAFDL Editora, 2020
- “Elderly perpetrators and victims of crime“, in Direito e Direitos dos Idosos, Lisbon: AAFDL Editora, 2020;
- “Juvenile offenders and the protection of non-custodial prisoners” in Human Rights and the Prison System, Lisbon: AAFDL Editora, 2019;
- Means of combating corruption in Roman law and today – a return to the future, AAFDL Editora, 2018;
- “What the world needs now is Comparative Law, sweet Comparative Law“, in Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa / Lisbon Law Review, vol. LVIII, 2017/2.
- “”Was the victim asking for it?”–on victim disapproval judgements as grounds for mitigating or suspending sentences“, in Revista Brotéria, vol. 185, 5, nov. 2017;
- “”Corrupção: Denunciare Aqui” – Is everything worth fighting corruption?” in Revista de Concorrência & Regulação, Ano V-VI, N.º 20-21, Coimbra, Almedina, Oct.2014-Mar.2015;
- “The Right to Execution of Sentences and the Constitution: towards an application of Constitutional Criminal Law to procedural rules“, in Studies in honour of Prof. Dr. José Lebre de Freitas, Coimbra Editora, 2013.