Categoria: Guest Assistant
Area of interest / research:
Constitutional Law
Political Science
Fundamental Rights
Administrative Law
Environmental Law
Law and the Science of Legislation
Member of research centres:
Public Law Research Centre
Other activities:
Member of the Portuguese Parliament (since 2011)
Member of the State Secrecy Supervisory Body (since 2022)
Member of the Commission for Access to Administrative Documents (2012-2020)
Member of the General Council and Pedagogical Council of the Centre for Judicial Studies (2012-2016)
President of the Lumiar Parish Council and inherent member of the Lisbon Municipal Assembly (2013-2021)
Member of the Lisbon Municipal Toponymy Commission (since 2014-2021)
Member of the General Council of the SPGL – Greater Lisbon Teachers’ Union (2015-2019)
Member of the Council of Representatives of the Lisbon School of Health Technologies of the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon (2016-2020)
Member of the Council of Representatives of the Lisbon School of Health Technology of the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon (2016-2020)
Member of the Archives Section of the National Culture Council representing CADA (2018-2020)
Member of the Alvalade Parish Council, Lisbon (2011-2013)
Member of the technical-scientific group of the Advisory Council of the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality (2008-2011)
Assistant to the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs (2009-2011)
Deputy Director of the Legal Centre of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (2008-2009)
Alternate representative of the Portuguese Republic on the Board of Directors of the European Institute for Gender Equality (2007-2011)
Member of the Citizenship Education Forum (2006-2008)Assistant to the Secretary of State for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (2005-2007)
Member of the Pedagogical Council, Board of Directors and Assembly of Representatives of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, between 1999 and 2003 and member of the Assembly of the University of Lisbon (1999-2001)

Publicações mais relevantes:
A 26.ª Hora – The inclusion of the subject of Religion and Morals in the Curricular Organisation of Basic Education: brief commentary – Revista da Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa, vol. XLIII nº 2 (2002)
O meu deputado : personalização e proporcionalidade na eleição da Assembleia da República, in Revista da Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa. vol XLIV, no. 1-2 (2003)
Debating Societies: The globalisation of an Anglo-Saxon model – Polifonia Magazine no. 7 (2004)
A Trojan horse in contractual litigation: Suspension of the contract in the context of provisional measures – Commentary on the STA judgement of 11.12.2002 in Cadernos de Justiça Administrativa, no. 49 (January/February 2005)
O novo regime de impugnação de normas in Velhas e Novas Andanças do Contencioso Administrativo – Estudos sobre a reforma do processo administrativo, Lisbon, 2005
Identification signs and religious symbolism in public schools – A look at recent developments in European case law – Studies in Memory of Prof. António Marques dos Santos, Coimbra, 2005
The open clause of fundamental rights and the material limits of constitutional revision – Studies in Memory of Prof. Sousa Franco, Coimbra, 2006
The European Union and the Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Member States (co-authored with Maria Luísa Duarte), Lisbon, 2006
Provisional governments – Lisbon Law School Magazine vol. XLVI no. 1 (2006)
The republican principle – Lisbon Law School Magazine vol. XLVIII no. 1 and 2 (2007)
O novo regime jurídico do licenciamento ambiental, in O que há de novo no Direito do Ambiente?, Lisbon 2009
Looking for the limit of the four lines – Commentary on the STA Judgement of 10.09.2008 – Cadernos de Justiça Administrativa, no. 83 (September/October 2010)
The Rules of Procedure of the Council of Ministers: Analysis of its recent evolution, in Estudos em Homenagem ao Professor Jorge Miranda, vol. III, Coimbra, 2012
The crisis, the Troika and urgent alternatives (co-authored with Alexandre Abreu, Hugo Mendes, João Rodrigues, José Guilherme Gusmão, Nuno Serra, Nuno Teles and Ricardo Paes Mamede), Lisbon, 2013
The Troika and Portugal, two years later in A Troika – Year II: An evaluation of 66 citizens, Coimbra, 2013
Recent developments in animal legislation in Portugal: a brief legislative chronicle, in Animals: Duties and Rights, Lisbon, 2015
Lumiar in the administrative evolution of the city of Lisbon in Atas das XII Jornadas Histórico-Culturais do Lumiar, Lisbon, 2015
Legal protection for seniors in Portuguese law: from constitutional protection to the guidelines of the social protection system, in Management of organisations and Entrepreneurship in the Social Economy, Lisbon, 2017
Breve notas sobre a toponímia da Freguesia do Lumiar, in Atas das XIII Jornadas Histórico-Culturais do Lumiar, Lisbon, 2017
Notes on heraldry in Lisbon: the coats of arms of the capital’s parishes, in Atas das XIV Jornadas Histórico-Culturais do Lumiar, Lisbon, 2019
Lisbon’s parliamentary representation in the history of Portuguese constitutionalism: the electoral system and the capital’s constituencies, in Atas das XV Jornadas Histórico-Culturais do Lumiar, Lisbon, 2019
The subjective scope of application of the Law on Access to Administrative Documents, in O Acesso à Informação Administrativa (coord. Tiago Fidalgo de Freitas / Pedro Delgado Alves), Lisbon, 2021