Category: Full Professor

Fields of interest / research:
Civil Law
Comparative Law
Intellectual Property Law
Private International Law
International Commercial Law

Academic Degrees:
Bachelor of Law, 1985;
Master’s Degree in Commercial Law, 1990;
PhD in Legal Sciences, 2000;
Aggregation in Legal Sciences, 2009.

Member of the following research centres:
Research Centre for Private Law

Member of the editorial boards of the following scientific journals:

Revista Internacional de Arbitragem e Conciliação;
Revista de Direito Intelectual;
Revista da Ordem dos Advogados;
Cuadernos de Derecho Transnacional;
Lisbon Law Review;
Revista de Direito Civil Contemporâneo;
La Ley Medición y Arbitraje;
Revista Rede de Direito Digital, Intelectual e Sociedade.

Member of the following international research projects:

The Application of Foreign Law by Judicial and Non-Judicial Authorities, Università degli Studi di Genova/Universidad de Valencia (2010); Intellectual Property and Private International Law, International Law Association (2012);
Evaluation study of national procedural laws and practices in terms of their impact on the free circulation of judgments and on the equivalence and effectiveness of the procedural protection of consumers under EU consumer law, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law (2015);
Data Protection in the Internet, International Academy of Comparative Law (2018);
European Private International Law Act, European Association of Private International Law (2021);
Reforma do Regulamento de Bruxelas Ibis, Max-Planck Institut Luxembourg for Procedural Law (2022).

Teaching or research activities in other institutions of higher education:
Visiting Professor at The Hague Academy of International Law, the University of Paris V, the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Urbino.
In other Portuguese-speaking countries, he has also lectured at the Agostinho Neto, the José Eduardo dos Santos, the Onze de Novembro, the Mandume and the Katyavala Buíla Universities (Angola), at the Eduardo Mondlane, the UniZambeze and the UniSave Universities (Mozambique), at the Federal Universities of Santa Catarina and Paraná and at the University of São Paulo (Brazil), at the School of Law of Bissau (Guinea Bissau), at the Institute of Legal and Social Sciences and the University of Mindelo (Cape Verde), at the Salgãocar College of Law and the Kare College (Goa, India), at the National University Timor Lorosa’e (East Timor) and at the Polytechnic Institute of Macao (China). Adjunct Professor at the University of Macao.

Other professional activities:
Lawyer in Lisbon since 1987;
Legal advisor in the fields of Civil Law, Intellectual Property Law and Private International Law;
Arbitrator in domestic and international arbitrations;
Chair of the Portuguese Intellectual Property Society (since 2013) and the Portuguese Arbitration Association (2019-2023).

Main publications:
Da arbitragem comercial internacional. Direito aplicável ao mérito da causa, Coimbra, Coimbra Editora, 1990;

Comentário à Convenção de Bruxelas, Lisboa, Lex, 1994 (coautor M. Teixeira de Sousa);

Da responsabilidade pré-contratual em Direito Internacional Privado, Coimbra, Almedina, 2001;

Direito Internacional Privado. Ensaios, Coimbra, Almedina, 4 vols., 2002-2018;

Problemática internacional da sociedade da informação, Coimbra, Almedina, 2005;

O Direito Comparado após a Reforma de Bolonha. Relatório, Lisboa, Coimbra Editora;

La propriété intellectuelle en droit international privé, Haia, Martinus Nijhoff, 2009;

Lei da Arbitragem Voluntária Anotada (coautores A. Ribeiro Mendes e outros), 5.ª ed., Coimbra, Almedina, 2021;

Direito Comparado, Coimbra, Almedina, vol. I, 5.ª ed., 2022; vol. II, 2017;

Propriedade intelectual: Estudos vários, Lisboa, AAFDL, 2018;

A tutela internacional da propriedade intelectual, 2.ª ed., Coimbra, Almedina, 2019;

Comparative Law of Obligations, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2021.