Categoria: Assistant Professor
Areas of interest / Research:
Procedural Law
Civil Law
Criminal Law
Evidence Law
Legal theory
Philosophy of Law
Academic Degrees:
Law Degree (2001)
Master’s Degree in Law – Legal Sciences (2006)
Doctorate in Law – Legal Sciences (2015)
Scientific Research and Co-operation
Member of research centres:
Member of the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences and the Research Centre for Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences.
Member of editorial boards of scientific journals:
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Anatomia do Crime – Revista de Ciências Jurídico-Criminais.
Editor of the Journal of Competition and Regulation
Other Professional Activities:
Lawyer, Consultant and Legal Consultant
Assistant to the Minister for the Presidency and Parliamentary Affairs and to the Secretary of State for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, in the XIX Constitutional Government (2011-2013 and 2014-2015).
Publicações mais relevantes:
The Causal Link in Criminal Liability: Foundation and Limits of the Judgement of Conditionality, Coimbra: Almedina, 2017.
Philosophical and Scientific Assumptions of the Causal Link, Lisbon: AAFDL, 2017.
“Still the (real) effectiveness of the purchase and sale of shares”, in O Direito, 149, 2017, III, pp. 575-600.
“The transferability by death of the right to be constituted as an assistant”, in O Direito, 148, 2016, III, pp. 603-638.
“On a Hybrid Theory of Proof”, in Beweis und Metrik – Festschrift für Roland Wittmann, eds. Lothar Philips und Rainhard Bengez, Bern: Editions Weblaw, 2016, pp. 117-137.
“Models of Proof and Proof of Causality”, in VI Conference on Theory of Law, Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy – Judgement or decision? O problema da realização jurisdicional do direito, ATFD and Instituto Jurídico da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra, 2016, pp. 447-483.
“Os Processos Especiais no Direito Processual Penal Português”, co-authored with David Silva Ramalho, in O Direito, 147, 2015, IV, pp. 823-852.
“Contrastivism for Causation in the Law”, article offered for Prof. Dr Lothar Philipps’s Gedenkschrift, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2015 (under publication).
“Closure and conclusions”, co-authored with Paulo de Sousa Mendes, in Direito Penal Internacional, TPI e a Perspectiva da África de Língua Oficial Portuguesa, Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda, 2015, pp. 241-243.
“About the Probative Value of the Defendant’s Confession”, in Direito da Investigação Criminal e da Prova, Coimbra: Almedina, 2014, pp. 183-222.
“Evidence Models and Proof of Causation”, in Law, Probability & Risk, Vol. 12, Nos. 3-4, September-December 2013, pp. 229-257.
“Proving causation in tort law: some notes”, in Von der Spezifikation zum Schluss: Rhetorisches, topisches und plausibles Schließen in Normen- und Regelsystemen, eds Lothar Philips und Rainhard Bengez, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2013, pp. 97-134.
“As Tetralogias de Antifonte no contexto forense grego do século V a.C.”, article co-authored with Paulo de Sousa Mendes, in Estudos Dedicados ao Professor Doutor Espinosa Gomes da Silva, Vol. II, Lisbon: Universidade Católica Editora, 2013, pp. 255-277.
“Reflexões sobre uma teoria híbrida da prova”, in Studies in Honour of Miguel Galvão Teles, Vol. II, Coimbra: Almedina, 2012, pp. 207-225.
Collaboration with Paulo de Sousa Mendes, in Casos Práticos Resolvidos – Direito Processual Penal, Lisbon: AAFDL, 2011.
“Challenging the “cause-in-fact”/”cause-in-law” dichotomy”, in Jusletter It, 2011.
Memória e Presente de Direito da Família, co-authored with Maria Margarida Silva Pereira, Lisbon: AAFDL, 2010.
A Responsabilidade por danos não patrimoniais do incumprimento das obrigações no direito civil português, Coimbra: Coimbra Editora, 2009.