Member of international research projects:
Associate Research Fellow at CISDL – Centre for International Sustainable Development Law.

Teaching or research activity in other Higher Education Institutions:
Lecturer on the course The Public Prosecutor’s Office in Administrative Justice, given by the Centre for Judicial Studies (CEJ) in 2013 and 2014;
Lecturer in Environmental Law on the Environmental Engineering master’s programme at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), 2007 to 2010;
Visiting Research Scholar at Roger Williams University (School of Law), Rhode Island, United States of America, September/October 2004.

Other Professional Activities:
Head of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of State to the Prime Minister, in the XVIII Constitutional Government, 2009 to 2011;
Assistant to the Prime Minister’s Deputy Secretary of State, in the XVII Constitutional Government, 2005 to 2009;
Trainee Lawyer and then Lawyer at the law firm PLMJ & Associados, 2001 to 2005.

Most Relevant Publications:

Environmental Law:
“La necesidad de un mecanismo de control de precios en el mercado europeo de emisiones”, in Iñigo Sanz Rubiales (Coord.), Cambio climático y Unión Europea – Presente y futuro del mercado europeo de emisiones, Tirant lo Blach, Valencia, 2014, pp. 363 ff., on sale here.

Pelos caminhos jurídicos do Ambiente – Verdes Textos I, AAFDL, Lisbon, 2014, on sale here

“Brief considerations on the organised waste market”, in João Miranda / Rui Cunha Marques / Ana Luísa Guimarães / Mark Kirkby (Coord.), Waste Law, Technical Courses Series 4, ICJP-CIDP-ERSAR, Lisbon, 2014, pp. 423 ff.

“A decisão do procedimento de avaliação de impacto ambiental”, in Carla Amado Gomes / Tiago Antunes (Org.), Revisitando a Avaliação de Impacto Ambiental (ICJP – 30 October 2013), e-book available here.

“The “normative adaptation” to climate-related events”, in Rosa Giles Carnero (Coord.), Cambio Climático, Energía y Derecho Internacional: Perspectivas de futuro, Editorial Thomson-Aranzadi, España, 2012, pp. 65 ff., on sale here

” Natural disasters and climate change – in particular, the legal system’s response to extreme meteorological phenomena”, in Carla Amado Gomes (Coord.), Direito(s) das Catástrofes Naturais, Almedina, Coimbra, 2012, pp. 71 ff. (also published, in a reduced and slightly modified version, in Carla Amado Gomes / Rute Gil Saraiva (Coord.), Actas do colóquio Catástrofes Naturais: uma realidade multidimensional, ICJP – 24 October 2012, e-book available here).

“The legal treatment of “pollution””, in Carla Amado Gomes / Tiago Antunes (Org.), Proceedings of the Colloquium on the revision of the Basic Environmental Law, e-book available here

“The legal nature of environmental liability”, in Cadernos O Direito no. 6, 2011, on “Environmental Law Issues”, pp. 137 ff. (also published in Carla Amado Gomes / Tiago Antunes (Org.), Proceedings of the Colloquium “Civil Liability for Environmental Damage”, e-book available here)

“The use of market-based instruments in Environmental Law (a brief European – American comparative perspective)”, in Dário Moura Vicente / Marshall J. Berger (Org.), Direito Comparado – Perspectivas Luso-Americanas vol. II / Comparative Law – Portuguese-American Perspectives vol. II, Coimbra, 2010, pp. 355 ss. (also published in Revista de Direito do Ambiente e Ordenamento do Território, no. 14/15, s/local, s/data, pp. 175 ss.)

“Singularidades de um Regime Ecológico – O regime jurídico da Rede Natura 2000 e, em particular, as deficiências da análise de incidências ambientais”, in Estudos em Homenagem ao Prof. Doutor Sérvulo Correia, Volume IV, Coimbra, 2010, pp. 365 ff. (also published in Carla Amado Gomes (Coord.), Direito e Biodiversidade, Juruá Editora, Curitiba, Brazil, 2010, pp. 177 ff, as well as in Carla Amado Gomes (Org.), No Ano Internacional da Biodiversidade – Contributos para o estudo do Direito da protecção da biodiversidade, e-book available here).

“Como REAgIr ao REAI – reflexões esparsas em torno do nóvel Regime de Exercício da Actividade Industrial”, in Carla Amado Gomes / Tiago Antunes (Org.), O que há de novo no Direito do Ambiente? Actas das Jornadas de Direito do Ambiente – Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa (15 October 2008), Instituto de Ciências Jurídico-Políticas / AAFDL, Lisbon, 2009, pp. 99 ff., on sale here.

Pollutant Emissions Trading in the light of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, AAFDL, Lisbon, 2006, on sale here

“Environment: a right, but also a duty”, in Estudos em Memória do Professor Doutor António Marques dos Santos, Volume II, Coimbra, 2005, pp. 645 ff.

The Environment between Law and Technique, AAFDL, Lisbon, 2003, on sale here

Administrative Law:
“A governação da actividade administrativa de inspecção”, in Pedro Costa Gonçalves / Margarida Olazabal Cabral (Org.), O Governo da Administração Pública, Governance Lab Collection, Almedina, Coimbra, 2013, pp. 273 ff, on sale here

“Streamlining or commoditising? The use of market instruments by the Public Administration – implications and consequences”, in Estudos Jurídicos e Económicos em Homenagem ao Prof. Doutor António de Sousa Franco, Volume III, Coimbra, 2006, pp. 1059 ff.

Administrative Litigation:
“The “Bermuda Triangle” in the new Administrative Litigation”, in Estudos em Homenagem ao Professor Doutor Marcello Caetano, no centenário do seu nascimento, Vol. II, Coimbra, 2006, pp. 711 ff.

“Save the Environment! A Tutela Ambiental Urgente no novo Contencioso Administrativo”, in Revista de Direito do Ambiente e Ordenamento do Território, no. 12, s/local, s/data, pp. 27 ff.

“A “stroll” through the condemnatory powers of the administrative courts (annotation to the STA Judgement – 1st Section, of 22/4/2004, P. 1276/02)”, in Cadernos de Justiça Administrativa, no. 51 (May / June 2005), pp. 26 ff.

Constitutional Law:
“Reflexões constitucionais em tempo de crise económico-financeira”, in Estudos em Homenagem ao Prof. Doutor Jorge Miranda, Volume III, Coimbra, 2012, pp. 727 ff. (also published, in an extended version, in Revista O Direito, Year 143, 2011, V, pp. 1063 ff.).

European Union Law:
“For your health! From the freedom to provide clinical services to the right to reimbursement of non-hospital medical expenses” (annotation to the CJEU ruling of 27 October 2011 in case C-255/09), in Anuário Português de Direito Internacional – 2011, Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros, 2013.

“The environment in the Lisbon Treaty: a sustained relationship” (co-authored with Carla Amado Gomes), in Cadernos O Direito, no. 5, 2010, on “The Lisbon Treaty”, pp. 31 ff. (also published in Nuno Piçarra (Coord.), A União Europeia segundo o Tratado de Lisboa – Aspectos Centrais, Coimbra, 2011, pp. 205 ff.)

Energy Law:
“Guarantees of origin: towards a European market for green certificates?”, in Carla Amado Gomes / Tiago Antunes (Org.), Actas do Colóquio “Ambiente & Energia”, e-book available here.

Political Science:
“Green parties: monochrome parties? – A brief look at green politics and the partisanship of ecology”, in Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, Vol. XLVI – n.º 1, 2005 (published in 2006), pp. 537 ff. (also published in Helena Telino Neves Godinho / Ricardo Arnaldo Malheiros Fiuza (Coord.), Direito Constitucional em homenagem a Jorge Miranda, Del Rey Editora, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2011, pp. 395 ff.)