Category: Associate Professor
Areas of interest / Research:
History of Economic Analysis
International Economics
International Environmental Law
International Economic Law
International Public Law
Academic Degrees:
Law degree, 1992;
Master’s Degree in Legal and Economic Sciences, 2001;
PhD in International Economic Law, 2011.
Scientific Research and Co-operation
Member of research centres:
Member of CIDEFF – Research Centre for European, Economic, Financial and Tax Law.
Member of the editorial boards of scientific journals:
Direito & Política (Diário de Bordo Editores).
Other Professional Activities:
Participation in national and international conferences (Maputo, Vienna, Brasilia, Recife, São Paulo);
Lecturer in specialisation and postgraduate courses (administrative law of the sea, international public procurement, economic globalisation and international organisations, European studies).
Most Relevant Publications:
The World Trade Organisation and Regional Economic Blocs, in Cadernos PROLAM/Universidade de São Paulo, year 3-vol. 2, 2004, pp. 89-142;
National Report Portugal, in WTO and Direct Taxation, Michael Lang, Judith Herdin and Ines Hofbauer ed., Linde Verlag Wien, Vienna, 2005, pp. 561-610;
The GATT/WTO System: Historical Introduction and Fundamental Principles, Almedina, Coimbra, 2005 (730 pp.);
The principle of non-discrimination in the GATT/WTO system, in Fórum de Direito Tributário magazine, year 4, no. 24, November/December 2006, pp. 33-147;
International Trade and Development: The European Communities Case – Conditions for the Granting of Tariff Preferences to Developing Countries, in Estudos em Homenagem ao Professor Doutor Paulo de Pitta e Cunha, Vol. I, Almedina, 2010, pp. 1139-1189;
The World Trade Organisation and Natural Resources, in In the International Year of Forests, coordinated by Carla Amado Gomes and Rute Saraiva, Institute of Legal and Political Sciences, University of Lisbon Law School, 2012, pp. 69-149;
Direito, Política e Economia: História, Conceptualização e Dimensão da Globalização, in Direito & Política, No. 2, January – March 2013, pp. 56-76;
Protection or Protectionism? The World Trade Organisation and the Precautionary Principle, in Estudos em Homenagem ao Prof. Doutor Alberto Xavier, Volume III, Almedina, 2013, pp. 205-277;
The Jurisdictional Function in the GATT/WTO System [PhD Thesis], Almedina, 2013;
Anything Under the Sun? Security Issues in the World Trade Organisation Agreement on Public Procurement, in Novas Fronteiras da Contratação Pública, IDEFF Academic Handbooks, Coordinators Eduardo Paz Ferreira and Nuno Cunha Rodrigues, Coimbra Editora, 2014, pp. 205-277.