Categoria: Assistant Professor
Areas of interest / Research:
Constitutional Law
Administrative Law
Philosophy of Law
Political Science
Fundamental Rights
International Relations
Academic Degrees:
Law Degree, FDUL, 1983;
Master’s Degree in Legal and Political Sciences, FDUL, 1986;
PhD in Legal and Political Sciences, FDUL, 2016.
Other Professional Activities
Lawyer
Chief of Staff to the Governor of Macau (1989-1991)
Secretary of State in the 13th and 14th Constitutional Governments (1995-2002)
Member of the Portuguese Parliament (1999-2019)
Member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2005-2019), Vice-President (2017-2019)
Consultant to the World Bank and other international organisations, including the Aga Khan Development Network and various governments.
Honorary Consul of the Republic of Korea (2020-…)
President of the Brazil Europe Integration Forum (2021-…)
International Teaching Activity:
Professor of Law at the University of Macau, Coordinator
Professor at Eduardo Mondlane University, Moçambique
Publicações mais relevantes:
The Provincial Decisions of the Constitutional Court. Their effects in particular, Lisbon, 1984.
The Processes for Monitoring Constitutionality and Legality by the Constitutional Court, Coimbra, 1986.
Preliminaries to the Study of Political Science (University Manual), Macau, 1992.
Introdução às Decisões de Provimento do Tribunal Constitucional, Lisbon, 1994.
National Referendum. Introduction and Regime, Lisbon, 1998.
The Crime of Money Laundering. Prevention and repression regime, Lisbon, 2004.
Constitution of the Portuguese Republic – Comments and Notes, Lisbon, 2004.
The Principle of the Prohibition of Excess in the shaping and control of legislative acts, Coimbra, 2017.
Studies on Populism: A Panoramic Perspective (coord.), AAFDL, Lisbon, 2020 (participation with the text “Populism: an endemic component of party democracy?”).
Harmonisation and Weighting. A Comparative Perspective on Portugal and Brazil (coord.), AAFDL, Lisbon, 2020 (participation with the text “Prohibition of excess, prohibition of defect and guarantee of the minimum content of collisions of social rights”).
Discretion, Binding, Proportionality, AAFDL, Lisbon, 2021.