Investigação e Cooperação Científicas

Member of research centres:
Member of the Private Law Research Centre
Member of the Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences Research Centre
Member of the Board of the Portuguese Association of Theory of Law, Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
Member of the Portuguese Logic Society
Member of the Scientific Council of the Centre for Latin American Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Studies at the Georg-August University of Göttingen (Germany)
Member of the Scientific Council of the Eduardo Correia Institute (Brazil)

Member of the editorial boards of scientific journals:
Permanent contributor to Anatomia do Crime – Revista de Ciências Jurídico-Criminais.
Permanent contributor to Revista Portuguesa de Ciência Criminal
Permanent contributor to Goltdammer’s Archiv für Strafrecht (Germany)
Member of the International Advisory Board of Zeitschrift für Internationale Strafrechtsdogmatik (Germany)
Member of the Advisory Board of Quaestio facti – Revista Internacional sobre Raciocínio Probatório (Spain)
Member of the Editorial Board of Revista do Instituto de Ciências Penais (Brazil)
Coeditor of the March 2013 special issue of Law, Probability & Risk (United States of America)

Other Professional Activities:
Legal consultant

Most Relevant Publications:

Monographs:

• Sponsorships, Scandals and Punishable Facts, Almedina, Coimbra, 2020;
• Complex Causality and Criminal Evidence, Marcial Pons, São Paulo, 2019;
• Complex Causality and Criminal Evidence, 1st reprint, Almedina, Coimbra, 2018 (1st ed., 2018);
• Lições de Direito Processual Penal, 9th reprint, Almedina, Coimbra, 2021 (1st ed., 2013);
• Intrinsically Guilty Behaviour as a Necessary Condition for the Imputation of the Penalty, Coimbra Editora, Coimbra, 2007;
• On the Surrender Capacity of the Idea of Risk Reduction – Contribution to a Critique of the Modern Theory of Objective Imputation in Criminal Law, AAFDL, Lisbon, 2007;
• Is Environmental Criminal Law Worthwhile?, 1st reprint, AAFDL, Lisbon, 2004 (1st ed., 2000).

(Co)Organisation of Collective Works:

• Collaboração Premiada – Perspetiva Comparada, Tirant lo blanch, São Paulo, 2020;
• New Challenges for Criminal Evidence, Almedina, Coimbra, 2020;
• New Studies on Law Enforcement, Compliance and Criminal Law, Almedina, Coimbra, 2020;
• Theoretical and Practical Criminal Evidence, Almedina, Coimbra, 2019;
• Studies on Law Enforcement, Compliance and Criminal Law, 2nd edition, Almedina, Coimbra, 2018 (1st ed., 2018);
• The Past and the Future in Aníbal Bruno’s Theory of Crime, Marcial Pons, São Paulo, 2017;
• Eichmann in Jerusalem – 50 Years Later, Marcial Pons, São Paulo, 2017;
• Eichmann in Jerusalem – 50 Years After: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 2012;
• International Criminal Law, ICC and the Perspective of Portuguese-Speaking Africa, INCM, Lisbon, 2015.

Some articles:

• “Das Gut und die Güter in der philosophischen Tradition und in der zeitgenössischen Ethik”, Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, Vol. 108, No. 2 (2022), in press;
• “Um novo paradigma moralista na definição material de crime”, in: AA.VV., Doutor Augusto Silva Dias – In Memoriam (org.: Catarina Abegão Alves et al.), Vol. I, AAFDL, Lisbon, 2022, pp. 157-181;
• “Digital privacy put to the test in criminal proceedings”, International Journal on Evidential Legal Reasoning – Quaestio facti, Vol. 1, No. 2 (2021), pp. 225-250;
• “O comportamento errado posterior de terceiro ou da vítima”, in: AA.VV., Livro em Memória do Professor Doutor João Curado Neves (org.: Maria Fernanda Palma et al.), AAFDL, Lisbon, 2020, pp. 79-106;
• “The standard of proof and probabilities: A proposal for interpretation inspired by comparative law”, in: AA.VV., Fundamentals of Evidence Law in Criminal Matters (eds: Kai Ambos and Ezequiel Malarino), Tirant lo Blanch, São Paulo, 2020, pp. 95-115;
• “TFEU Article 325: The Fight Against Fraud”, in: AA.VV., Treaty of Lisbon – Article-by-Article Commentary on the European Union Treaties (eds: Manuel Lopes Porto and Gonçalo Anastácio), Almedina, Coimbra, 2020, pp. 1267-1274;
• “Beweismaß und Wahrscheinlichkeit: eine rechtsvergleichende Betrachtung”, Goltdammer’s Archiv für Strafrecht, Vol. 166, No. 6 (2019), pp. 369-384;
• “Causality (563)”, in: AA.VV., Estudos do Cinquentenário do Código Civil (scientific coord.: António Menezes Cordeiro), Vol. II, Almedina, Coimbra, 2019, pp. 585-614;
• “El estándar de prueba y las probabilidades: una propuesta de interpretación inspirada en el derecho comparado”, in: AA.VV., Fundamentos de Derecho Probatorio en Materia Penal (eds.: Kai Ambos and Ezequiel Malarino), Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2019, pp. 127-155;
• “Processo equitativo e público”, in: AA.VV., Commentary on the European Convention on Human Rights and the Additional Protocols (ed.: Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque), Vol. II, Almedina, Coimbra, 2019, pp. 1056-1066;
• “Über die philosophischen Wurzeln der Trennung zwischen Unrecht und Schuld”, in: AA.VV., Festschrift für Jürgen Wolter zum 70. Geburtstag am 7. September 2013 (ed.: Hans Hilger et al.), 2nd edition, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 2019 (1st ed., 2013), pp. 271-290;
• “Über den nicht wissenschaftlichen Charakter der Rechtsdogmatik in Kelsens Denken”, Rechtstheorie, Vol. 49, No. 1 (2018), pp. 1-13;
• “Representation of Legal Knowledge and Expert Systems in Law”, in: AA.VV., Logic and Computation – Essays in Honour of Amílcar Sernadas (eds.: Carlos Caleiro et al.), College Publications, London, 2017, pp. 23-35;
• “Die Finanzmarktaufsicht und der Transfer von Informationen aus dem Verwaltungsverfahren in das Strafverfahren”, Goltdammer’s Archiv für Strafrecht, Vol. 163, No. 6 (2016), pp. 380-392;
• “Von der Schamkultur zur Schuldkultur”, in: AA.VV., Beweis und Metrik – Festschrift für Roland Wittmann (eds: Lothar Philipps and Rainhard Bengez), Weblaw, Bern, 2016, pp. 47- 67;
• “A Semantic Model for Causation in Criminal Law and the Need of Logico-Legal Criteria for the Attribution of Causation” (co-authored with José Carmo), Law, Probability & Risk, No^. 3/4 (2013), pp. 207-228;
• “Sind die Erfahrungssätze maßgeblich für die strafrechtliche Beweiswürdigung? Ein besonderes Augenmerk auf den Beweis der Kausalität”, in: AA.VV., Rhetorisches, topisches, plausibles Schließen – mit Beispielen aus der Welt der Normen und des Rechts (eds: Lothar Philipps and Rainhard Bengez), Nomos, München, 2013, pp. 88-100;
• “Hatten die Stoiker eine normative Ethik?”, Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, Vol. 98, No. 2 (2012), pp. 169-184;
• “Über das Fehlen des Pflichtbegriffs bei den Griechen”, Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, Vol. 97, No. 1 (2011), pp. 33-43.
• “Was dürfen wir vom Kriterium der Risikoverringerung erwarten?”, Goltdammer’s Archiv für Strafrecht, Vol. 158, No. 2 (2011), pp. 557-577;
• “How to deal with transnational market abuse? – The Citigroup Case”, Revista de Concorrência e Regulação, No. 2 (2010), pp. 253-261.