Category: Professor
Fields of interest / research:
Administrative Law
Public Procurement Law
European Law
Health Law
Food Law
Academic Degrees:
Bachelor of Law, UCP, (17 points), 1985;
Master’s in Legal and Political Sciences, FDL, (18 points), 1990;
PhD in Legal and Political Sciences, FDL (Distinction and Praise), 1996;
Aggregation in Legal and Political Sciences, FDL, 2007.
Academic Research and Cooperation
Member of the following research centres:
Centre for Research in Public Law (CIDP)
Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence FDL/UL
Member of the editorial board of the following scientific journals:
Notebooks of Administrative Justice, CEJUR
Journal of Public Contracts, CEDIPRE
Member of the following international research projects:
Societas Iuris Publici Europaei (SIPE)
PLAN- Procurement Law Academic Network
Iberian-American Network of Sanitary Law
Teaching or research duties in other institutions of higher education:
Visiting Professor at the Portuguese Catholic University
Other Professional Activities:
Member, as an individual expert, of the European Commission’s Public Procurement Expert Group (Brussels, since 2012).
Consultancy (in the fields of Administrative Law/Public Procurement/Health and Food Law)
Key Publications:
– Requiem pelo Contrato Administrativo, Almedina, Coimbra, 1990.
– A Fuga para o Direito Privado, Almedina, Coimbra, 1996.
– Responsabilidade por danos de concessionários, in La Responsabilidad Patrimonial de los Poderes Públicos, coord. JOSÉ LUIS LÓPEZ-MUNIZ e ANTONIO CALONGE VELÁZQUEZ, Marcial Pons, Madrid, 1999, pp.419 et seq.
– Contrato Público: Conceito e Limites, in La contratación pública en el horizonte de la integración europea, INAP, Madrid, 2004, pp.31 et seq.
– Direito Europeu dos Contratos Públicos. Um Olhar Português, Almedina, Coimbra, 2006.
– Segurança Alimentar e Proteção do Consumidor de Organismos Geneticamente Modificados, Almedina, Coimbra, 2008.
–Curso de Direito dos Contratos Públicos. Por uma Contratação Pública Sustentável, Almedina, Coimbra, 2012, reprint 2014.
– Direito da Alimentação/Introduction to Food Law, AAFDL, Lisbon, 2013.
– Direito da Saúde, UCP ed., Lisbon, 2014, reprint 2015.
– Funcionarios públicos/personal funcionarial de la Administración Pública, in Diccionario Internacional de Derecho del Trabajo y de la Seguridad Social, coord. by GRAU/THOMÉ/SCHWARZ, Tirant Lo Blanch, Valencia, 2014, pp.975 et seq.
