Category: Full Professor

Areas of interest / research:

Academic Degrees:

Scientific Research and Co-operation:
Member of the International Association of Procedural Law;
Honorary member of the Brazilian Institute of Procedural Law.

Member of research centres:
Private Law Research Centre (CIDP).

Member of editorial boards of scientific journals:
Member of the Editorial Board of Cadernos de Direito Privado;
Member of the magazine Ius Dictum and of the Advisory Board of the Revista da Ordem dos Advogados.

Other activities:
Chairman of the Board of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (between 2005 and 2007);
Member of the Management Board of the Centre for Judicial Studies (between 1994 and 2008);
President of the Commission Internationale de l’Etat Civil (during the 2004/2005 biennium);
President of the Portuguese Section of the International Commission on Civil Status (from 1996 to 2013);
Member of the General Council of the University of Lisbon (from 2010 to 2012, and was again elected to the same position in 2021);
Member of the Civil Procedure Review Commission (in 2010 and 2011);
Coordinator of the Working Group on the revision of the inventory process and civil procedural legislation (2018).