Category: Assistant Professor

Areas of interest / Research:
– Public International Law;
– Law of the Sea;
– Fundamental Rights.

Academic Degrees:
Law Degree from the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University;
Master’s Degree in International Legal Sciences from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon;
PhD in International Law (Law of the Sea) from the Faculty of Law of the University of Hamburg.

Member of research centres:
Integrated Researcher at LPL – Lisbon Public Law Research Centre

Member of editorial boards of scientific journals:
Portuguese Yearbook of the Law of the Sea

Most relevant publications:
Articles in specialised and peer-reviewed journals:
– Making sense of Portugal’s baselines around the archipelagos of Madeira and the Azores, in: The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (2025);
– The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction by sea and the inevitable tension between mare liberum and mare securum, in: Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa – Lisbon Law Review (2025);
– O conceito jusconstitucional de domínio público marítimo e os poderes dominiais na jurisprudência do Tribunal Constitucional, in: Boletim da Faculdade de Direito, University of Coimbra Law School, Volume 1-2023 (2025);
– What next for Japan and the Republic of Korea in the East China Sea: The Law of the Sea Perspective (with Makoto Seta), in: International Law Studies, vol. 103 (2024);
– Strengthening environmental impact assessment obligations for deep seabed-mining beyond national jurisdiction (with Tracy Shimmield), in: The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, Special Issue (2024).

Book chapters:
– The expansion of the ‘constitution for the oceans’ by the High Seas Treaty, in: Cambridge Handbook on the Law of the Sea, edited by Carlos Esposito, Nilufer Oral and Tara Davenport, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2025 (in press);
– Belligerent and non-belligerent activities at sea: is the law of naval warfare in crisis?, in: Law of Armed Conflict Manual: A Portuguese Perspective, edited by José Alberto Azeredo Lopes and Hermínio Teodoro Maio, Almedina, Coimbra, 2025.