Categoria: Associate Professor
Areas of interest / research:
Administrative Law
Constitutional Law
Global, International and Transnational Law
Media Law
Public Sanctions Law (including Criminal Law)
Public Governance
Academic Degrees:
Degree in Law, specialising in Legal Sciences, from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, in 2001.
Master’s Degree in Legal and Political Sciences, specialising in Administrative Law, from the University of Lisbon Law School, in 2007.
PhD in Legal and Political Sciences, specialising in Administrative Law, from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, in 2014.
Scientific Research and Co-operation:
Alternate member of the “Board of Directors” of the European Public Law Organisation
Member of the “Transnational Administrative Law” Network (coordinated by Prof Jean-Bérnard Auby)
Member of the Board of Directors of the Project “The Influence of the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights on Domestic Law”, in collaboration with the University of Malaga (Spain)
Member of research centres:
Member of the Public Law Research Centre;
Member of the Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences Research Centre;
Member of the Institute of Legal and Political Sciences of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon;
Member of the Institute of European Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon;
Founding member of the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon;
Member of the editorial boards of scientific journals:
Peer reviewer for “Anatomia do Crime – Revista de Ciências Jurídico-Criminais”.
Peer reviewer for the “Revista de Direito Administrativo” of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (Rio de Janeiro – Brazil).
Other Professional Activities:
Lawyer
Jurisconsult
Advisor to the Vice-President of the European Parliament (2004-2005)
Assistant to the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs in the 17th Constitutional Government (2005-2007)
Member of the National Electoral Commission (2006-2007)
Advisor to the Office of Judges of the Constitutional Court (2007-2014)
Secretary of State for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers in the XXI Constitutional Government (2015-2017)
Publicações mais relevantes:
Reflexões sobre a Reforma da Tutela Cautelar Administrativa, Almedina, Coimbra, 2005, in http://www.almedina.net/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1396
Sociedade Aberta e Dissenso – Contributo para a compreensão contemporânea do princípio do pluralismo político, in “Estudos de Homenagem ao Professor André Gonçalves Pereira”, Editora Coimbra, Coimbra, 2006, in http://www.wook.pt/ficha/homenagem-ao-prof-doutor-andre-goncalves-pereira/a/id/185315
The Sanctioning Powers of ERC – Entidade Reguladora para a Comunicação Social, in “Direito Sancionatório das Entidades Reguladoras”, Coimbra Editora, 2009, in http://www.almedina.net/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=8813
Null or voidable act?–A jus-fundamentalidade do direito de audiência prévia e do direito à fundamentação, in “Cadernos de Justiça Administrativa”, no. 78, November/December, 2009, 17-32, in http://www.livrariajuridica.com/ins_product.aspx?MENU_LEFT_ID_CLASSE=640&MENU_TOP_ID_CLASSE=0&SUB_NAV_ID_CLASS=659&SUB_NAV_ID_OBJ=29136
European Administrative Procedural Law – Dynamic convergence in the European Area of Administrative Justice, Coimbra Editora / Wolters Kluwer Group, Coimbra, 2011, in http://www.wook.pt/ficha/direito-processual-administrativo-europeu/a/id/10892804
The Jurisdictional Control of the Internal Democracy of Political Parties – The Constitutional Court between the principle of minimum intervention and full jurisdiction litigation, in “Constitutional Court – 35th Anniversary of the 1976 Constitution”, Volume II, Coimbra Editora / Wolters Kluwer Group, 2012, in http://www.wook.pt/ficha/35-aniversario-da-constituicao-de-1976/a/id/12641560
Precarious judgements of constitutionality – The Constitutional Court faced with the crisis of the European social model and the regression of fundamental rights, in “Estudos em Homenagem ao Prof. Doutor Jorge Miranda), Volume II, Coimbra Editora, Coimbra, 2012, 849-896, in http://www.almedina.net/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=20400
Declaration of Unconstitutionality with General Compulsory Force (and others), in “Enciclopédia da Constituição Portuguesa” (org. Bacelar Gouveia/Francisco Pereira Coutinho), Quid Iuris, Lisbon, 2013, in https://www.quidjuris.pt/Default.aspx?Tag=BOOK&Id=969.
Public Sanctions Law as an (imperfect) bisector between Criminal Law and Administrative Law – On the subject of constitutional jurisprudence, in “Concorrência & Regulação”, 14 (2013), in http://www.almedina.net/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=24430
The Transnational Dimension of Administrative Law – A cosmopolitan vision of legal-administrative situations, AAFDL Editora, Lisbon, 2014, in http://www.livraria.aafdl.pt/
The Electronic Administrative Procedure, in “Comentários ao Novo Código do Procedimento Administrativo”, AAFDL Editora, Lisbon, 2015 (1st edition), pp. 273-302 (with 2nd edition, 2015, 3rd edition, 2016, and 4th edition, Volume I, 2018), in http://livraria.aafdl.pt/index.php?id_product=715&id_product_attribute=0&rewrite=comentarios-ao-novo-codigo-do-procedimento-administrativo-volume-i-4-edicao&controller=product&id_lang=
Electronic administration and automation: Contributions to a reformulation of the general theory of administrative actions, in “Studies in Honour of Rui Machete”, Almedina, 2015, in https://www.almedina.net/product_info.php?products_id=29833
Principle of changeability of administrative structures: extinction, merger and organisational restructuring, in “Administrative Organisation: New Actors, New Models”, Volume I, AAFDL, Lisbon, 2018, in http://livraria.aafdl.pt/index.php?id_product=740&id_product_attribute=0&rewrite=organizacao-administrativa-novos-actores-novos-modelos-volume-i&controller=product&id_lang=2
Misericórdias and conflict of jurisdictions: challenging the decisions of religious associations, in “Revista da Ordem dos Advogados”, III-IVA (Jul-Dec 2018)
The Fundamental Right to Happiness, in “Estudos de Homenagem ao Conselheiro Sousa Ribeiro”, Almedina, Coimbra, 2019, in https://bibliografia.bnportugal.gov.pt/bnp/bnp.exe/registo?2031849
The Sanction of Loss of Suitability of Directors of Regulated Companies, in “Estudos em Homenagem ao Prof. Doutor Germano Marques da Silva”, Volume III, UCP Editora, Lisbon, 2020, in https://www.uceditora.ucp.pt/pt/estudos-em-homenagem/2103-homenagem-profgermano-marques-da-silva-voliii.html
Treatise on Public Governance, Volume I, AAFDL Editora, Lisbon, 2021, in https://livraria.aafdl.pt/pt/direito-administrativo/1232-direito-administrativo-tratado-de-governacao-publica-volume-i-9789726297208.html
Political Science – Study Guide, Volume I, AAFDL Editora, Lisbon, 2021, in https://livraria.aafdl.pt/pt/direito-constitucional-e-ciencia-politica/1214-direito-constitucional-e-ciencia-politica-ciencia-politica-guia-de-estudo-9789726297185.html