Category: Associate Professor
Areas of interest / research:
Constitutional Law
Fundamental Rights
Administrative Law
Public Procurement
Academic Degrees:
Law degree, in 2005.
Doctorate in Law, 2015.
Scientific Research and Co-operation
Member of research centres:
Member of the Board of the Institute of Legal and Political Sciences of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.
Senior researcher at the Public Law Research Centre (CIDP) of the Institute of Legal and Political Sciences of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.
Member of the Public Contracts Group of the Institute of Legal and Political Sciences of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.
Teaching or research activity in other Higher Education Institutions:
Guest lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University.
Trainer at the National Institute of Administration.
Trainer at the Institute of Management and Public Administration.
Trainer at the Centre for Judicial Studies.
Other Professional Activities:
Lawyer and legal adviser to public and private organisations.
Arbitrator at the Administrative Arbitration Centre.
Arbitrator for the CNA – National Construction Arbitration Centre.
Member of the drafting teams of structuring legislative projects in the area of Public Law in Portugal and other Portuguese-speaking countries.
Coordinator of the Commission for the Study of Constitutional and Administrative Law of the Lisbon Regional Council of the Portuguese Bar Association.
Founder of the Administrative Law Journal
Most Relevant Publications:
– Os Parâmetros de Controlo da Privatização Administrativa – Instrumentos de Fiscalização Judicial da Decisão Jurídico-Pública de Privatização, Almedina, 2009
– Public Procurement Issues, I, Coimbra Editora, 2011 (co-authored by João Amaral)
– “The (Exceptional) Adoption of Direct Award for Artistic Reasons for the Preparation of Architectural Projects”, in Revista de Contratos Públicos, no. 10, 2014
– “The Non-Binding Nature of Ordinary Judges to Constitutional Court Decisions on Restricting the Effects of Declarations of Unconstitutionality with General Binding Force (on the subject of the STA ruling of 20 November 2014)”, in O Direito, Year 147, no. 2, 2015
– “The Persistence of Doubts about the Scope of Causes for Non-Award in Public Procurement Procedures (Annotation to the Supreme Administrative Court Ruling of 20 March 2014)”, in Cadernos de Justiça Administrativa, no. 109, 2015
– “Notes on the Phenomenon of the Change of Circumstances in the Course of the Pre-Contractual Procedure”, in Revista do Centro de Estudos Judiciários, 2015-I
– “Breve Nota sobre uma Inovação na Jurisprudência Constitucional Portuguesa: Entre o Fortalecimento da Tutela dos Direitos, Liberdades e Garantias com Recurso ao Princípio da Igualdade e o Reconhecimento da Garantia de um Mínimo Existencial”, in Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, 2015
– “Redress in Public Procurement Law: Positive Contractual Interest or Negative Contractual Interest and Loss of Chance”, in O Direito, Year 147, no. 4, 2015
– Presidential Powers over the Formation and Subsistence of the Government, Coimbra Editora, 2016
– Comments on the Draft Revision of the Public Contracts Code, Lisbon, 2016 (co-authored by João Amaral)
– “A Prohibição de Participação Privada numa Entidade Adjudicária Seleccionada ao abrigo de uma Relação In House (Anotação ao Acórdão do TJUE de 19-06-2014 – SUCH)”, in Portuguese Yearbook of International Law, 2014-2015 Edition, MNE, 2016
– “Evidence in the New CPA”, in C. Gomes / A. Neves / T. Serrão (org.), Comentários ao Novo Código do Procedimento Administrativo, 3rd edition, AAFDL, 2016
– “The Right to Good Administration as a Driver for Reforming Public Procurement Legislation (The Portuguese Experience)”, in Interesse Público, Year 18, no. 99, 2016
– “Changes in the Scope of Application of the Public Procurement Regime in the Light of the Preliminary Draft Revision of the Public Contracts Code”, in M. J. Estorninho / A. G. Martins (coord.), Proceedings of the Conference “The Revision of the Public Contracts Code”, Institute of Legal and Political Sciences, 2016
– “Financial Rebalancing, Unforeseen Case and Fait du Prince: Autonomy between Different Mechanisms for Protecting the Position of the Administration’s Co-Contractors”, in Studies in Honour of Mário Esteves de Oliveira, Almedina, 2017
– “A Revisão do Código dos Contratos Públicos: Avanço ou Retrocesso na Promoção da Concorrência?”, in Cadernos de Justiça Administrativa, 2017
– Law and Sentence – Separation of Legislative and Judicial Powers in Portuguese Constitutionalism, AAFDL, 2017
– “In House and Interadministrative Contracting after the Revision of the CCP”, in C. Gomes / R. Pedro / T. Serrão / M. Caldeira (org.), Comentários à Revisão do Código dos Contratos Públicos, AAFDL, 2017 (later re-edited with adaptations, under the title “A Contratação In House e Interadministrativa”, in Revista de Direito Público da Economia, Year 17, no. 67, 2019)
– “Separation of Legislative and Judicial Powers: the Difficult Strategy of the Portuguese Constitution for its Harmonisation with the Democratic Principle”, in A. Martins / A. Leão / B. Mac Crorie / P. Martins (coord.), in X Encontro de Professores de Direito Público, Institute of Legal and Political Sciences, 2017
– “Constitution and Crisis: Evaluation of the Constitutional System”, in C. Blanco de Morais; Gilmar F. Mendes (org.), IV Luso-Brazilian Seminar on Constitutional Law – Constitution and Crisis: the Constitution in the Context of Political and Economic Crises, IDP, 2017
– “From Hobbes to Pufendorf – The Construction of the Characters of the Modern Legal Concept of Sovereignty”, in Revista Fides, no. 16, 2017
– “Restricting the Effects of Invalidity Judgements in Administrative Courts”, in Revista de Direito Administrativo, no. 2, 2018
– “Public Law Organisations”, in C. Gomes / A. Neves / T. Serrão (org.), Administrative Organisation: New Actors, New Models, II, AAFDL, 2018
– The Constitution and Public Administration: Problems of Constitutionality of the Fundamental Laws of Portuguese Administrative Law (joint coord. with Luís Alves), AAFDL, 2018
– “The Reform of the Abnormally Low Price Regime: Notes on the Dualist Legislative Strategy in the Revision of the CCP”, in O Direito, Year 151, no. 1, 2019
– “The Expansion of the Public Law Regime of Public Administration Contracts”, in O Direito Administrativo nos 30 Anos da Constituição Brasileira de 1988: um Diálogo Luso-Brasileiro, ed. by C. Gomes / A. Neves / E. Neto / F. Motta, Institute of Legal and Political Sciences, 2019
– Studies on Public Contracts, AAFDL, 2019
– “The Right to Access “Progressively Free” Higher Education and the Problems in the Respective Forms of Financing”, in Gilmar F. Mendes / C. Blanco de Morais / César C. Campos (eds.), Reform of the Welfare State in the Context of Globalisation, IDP / ICJP, 2019
– The Disciplinary Regime for Workers in Public Service, Lawyers and Judicial Magistrates (joint coord. with Luís Alves), AAFDL, 2020
– “Impossibility of Enforcing an Annulment Judgement in Pre-Contractual Litigation and Determining the Amount of Compensation Due”, in Miguel Raimundo (coord.), Public Contracts Law Days, AAFDL / ICJP, 2020
– “Exceptional Public Procurement Measures in Response to the Pandemic Caused by Covid-19”, in Covid-19 and the Law, Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2020
– “On the Distinction Between Analysis and Evaluation of Proposals and the Limitation of the Functions Attributed to an Award Criterion”, in Revista de Contratos Públicos, no. 23, 2020
– “The Constitutional Principle of Local Autonomy and the Inapplicability of the Legal Regime of Public-Private Partnerships to the Municipal Scope”, in Revista de Direito Administrativo, no. 8, 2020
– Public Procurement Law, 2 vols., AAFDL, 2020