Conferences and Seminars
PRESENTATIONS
2006 Lecturer in the Human Rights Summer Course, (Centre of Human Rights, FDUC). Seminar: “Right to a Fair Trial and to a Due Process”
Since 2007 Lecturer in the Post-Graduation Course in European Jurisprudence about Human Rights, (Centre of Human Rights, FDUC). Seminar: “Art. 2.º ECHR”
Since 2007 Lecturer in the Post-Graduation in Human Rights (Centre of Human Rights, FDUC). Seminar: “The juridical status of the embryo”
2008 Lecturer in the Summer Course “Fighting Terrorism within Human Rights Law” (Centre of Human Rights, FDUC). Seminar: “Terrorism and the ECHR”
2009 Participation on the discussion panel of the IX Congress of Red Latinoamericana de Reproducción Asistida, Cancun, México
2009 Lecturer in the Ius Gentium summer course “Health and Human Rights in the 21st Century”. Seminars: “Pharmaceutical Patents, Public Health and Compulsory Licenses in Developing Countries” and “Juridical Status of the Unborn”
2009 Lecturer in the Summer University/Faculté d’´Été “Introduction to Health Law and Bioethics in Europe”, organized by the European Summer School Health Law and Bioethics, Toulouse (France). Seminar: “Reproductive rights”
2010 Lecturer in the course “Management for Hospital Executives – A question of Modernity”. Seminar: “Civil and Criminal Liability of Health Institutions. What need to change?” - Centre of Biomedical Simulation of the Hospitals of Coimbra University
2010 11th National Congress of Bioethics / 3rd Luso-Brazilian Forum of Bioethics, organized by the Portuguesa Association of Bioethics, Oporto. Intervention as a moderator in the panel: “Advance Medical Directives: What Kind of Law”?
2011 Lecturer in the course in the training course for physiologists from APFertilidade network. Seminar: “Legislation ruling Medically Assisted Reproduction”
Since 2011 Lecturer in the integrated master of the course of medicine. Seminar: “Criminal Responsibility of Physicians”
2011 Lecturer in the post-graduation in Fundamental Rights IGC-Coimbra and IBCCRIM-São Paulo/Brazil. Seminars: “Biomedicine and Fundamental Rights
2011 Lecturer in the curse “Organization and Management of Health Care Services”, Faculty of Medical Sciences of Nova University of Lisbon. Seminar: of the class “Adverse Event: Juridical Perspective”
2011 Lecturer in the course “Clinical Medicine – The Doctor, the Person and the Patient”, Master Course Integrated in Medicine, Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon University
2012 Lecturer in the Master in Health and Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon University. Seminar: “Medical Liability in Wrongful Birth and Wrongful Life Actions”
2012 Lecturer in the V Course of Post-Graduation in Bioethical Law – 2012, Faculty of Law of Lisbon University. Seminar: “Surrogacy Contracts”
2012 Lecturer in the 2nd Brief Course of Post-Graduation on Law and Reproductive Medicine, Faculty of Law of Coimbra University. Seminar: “Surrogate Motherhood”
2013 Lecturer of the seminar “10 Pre(Concepts) about Medical Liability”, open session to health professional, organized by VdA, Porto
2013 Lecturer of the seminar “Informed Consent and Registry in the Clinical File”, Escala-Braga Hospital, Braga
2013 Lecturer of the seminar “Medical Liability and Registry of the Information at the Patient’s Clinical File”, S. João Hospital, Porto
2013 Lecturer of the seminar “Everything You Wanted to Know About Medical Liability (But Were Afraid to Ask)”, IdealMed Hospital, Coimbra
2013 Lecturer in the post-graduation in Fundamental Rights IGC-Coimbra and IBCCRIM-São Paulo/Brazil. Seminars: “The Constitucionalization of New Fundamental Rights”, “Fundamental Rights in the Field of Biomedicine” e “The Rights to Life and to Personal Integrity”
2014 Seminar in the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, University of Hong Kong: “Wrongful Actions: The Rights and Wrongs of Wrongful Birth and Wrongful Life Actions” (2th march 2014)
2015 Seminar on medical liability in the workshop organised by Almedina Editor. Title “Responsabilidade Médica: Quando o Direito se Encontra com a Medicina”/”Medical Liability: When Law and Medicine Meet” (20th May 2015)
2015 Participation in the seminar “Law and Innovation in China and Macau”, with the presentation: “New Trends in Medical Liability in China and Macau”, Macau University, Macau (3rd November 2015)
2015 Invited Speaker in Hospital Conde de S. Januário, Macau, to give a seminar about informed consent and medical liability (9th November 2015)
2015 International Conference Consumer Policy in China: New Trends and Challenges, Macao University, Macao, China. Presentation: “Off-label Prescription in China: What can Chinese Consumers expect from the Law?” (16th December 2015)
2015 10th International Law Conferences (ILCO), Bangkok (Thailand). Presentation: “How can Asian countries deal with medical liability and patient compensation?” (21st December 2015)
2016 Seminar on Medical Liability, Centre of Juridical and Judiciary Training, Macao. Presentation: New Challenges on Medical Liability (17th June 2016)
PRESENTATIONS IN CONFERENCES AS A SPEAKER
April 2001 – Women’s Rights for the New Millennium, FDUC. Presentation: “Affirmative Action”
17th to 20th September 2003 –III Congress Latin American of Medical Law, Murcia University (Murcia, Spain). Presentation: “Surrogate Motherhood”
24th October 2003 – The Juridical Protection of Animals, FDUC. Presentation: “Of Dignity and Sensibility: Dog’s Fights and the Approximation between Men and Beast”
24th February 2004: First Journeys about Domestic Violence, Murcia University, Spain. Presentation: “Domestic Violence: Another Form of Subordination”
2nd and 3rd April 2004: Luso-Brazilian Congress of Bioethics, Ponta Delgada, Azores. Presentation: “Reproductive Rights: Some Ethical Questions”
12th and 13th October 2004: Seminars of the Course of Ethics, Faculty of Law of Catholic University, Luanda, Angola. Presentation: “Ethical Questions on Reproductive Rights”
5th, 6th, and 7th May 2005: I International Congress on Women, Gender and Labour Resources, Goiânia, Brasil. Presentation: “The Hand that moves the Crumble: Affirmative Action to the Improvement of the Women’s Status”
21st July 2005: Colloquium on Ethical Questions, organized by the Faculty of Law of Lusíada University, Luanda, Angola. Presentation: “Ethical Questions on Reproductive Rights
25th November 2005: Opening Colloquium of the 16 Days of Activism against the Gender Violence: For Women Health, for World Health, no more Violence, organized by MPLA and OMA, in Luanda, Angola. Presentation: “Daughters of a Minor God: The Hidden Violence against Women inside the Family”
8th the August 2006: 16th World Conference on Medical Law, Toulouse, France. Presentation: “Embryo’s Dignity: The Status and Juridical Protection Of The In Vitro Embryo”
27th March: Kennedy Institute for Ethics, Georgetown, Washington D.C., EUA, Presentation: “The Destiny of Spare Embryos”
21st/23rd June 2007: V Congress Latin-American of Medical Law, Oporto. Presentations: “Art. 6.º of Law 23/2006 and the Access to the Techniques of Assisted Reproduction” and “Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis and the Baby-Remedy Procedure”
6th October 2007: Faculty of Law, Firenze University. Presentation: “Too Far Away From Anything Else” – Where Can you go in the Field of Assisted Reproduction?”
27th October 2007: Conference about Reproductive Technologies, Sociology Institute, Oporto University. Presentation: “The Embryos of King Salomon – Resolution of Parental Conflicts About the Destiny of Spare Embryos”
3rd November 2007: Faculty of Economics, Coimbra University. Presentation: “The Equality Principle and its application to Gender Relations”
5th and 6th June 2008: VI Latin-American Congress of Medical Law, Quito, Equator. Presentation: “The Decision about the Destiny of Surplus Embryos” and “Constitutional Legitimacy of DNA Exams – The Decision n.º 155/2007 of the Portuguese Constitutional Court”
6th November 2008: Centre of Human Rights, Galway, Ireland. Presentation: “Too Far Away From Anything Else” – Where Can you go in the Field of Assisted Reproduction?”
10th December 2008: Conference on Medicine and Human Rights, Centre of Biomedical Law and Centre Ius Gentium, FDUC, Coimbra. Presentation: “The contract of gametes donation”
18th March 2009: Seminar “Family, Consciousness, Secularism and Religion”, Centre of Family Law and Centre Ius Gentium, FDUC, Coimbra. Presentation: “Reproductive Rights: Homosexuality, Celibacy and Parentality”
25th April 2009: Taller Latino Latinoamericao de Bioética, Cancun, México. Intervention in the panel about Bioethic and Values Enlightment
7th July 2009: Summer University, Toulouse, France. Presentation: “Reproductive Rights: In the Border Line of Human Reproduction”
10th July 2009: Education Project for University Students, Coimbra, Ius Gentium and Helsínquia Project. Presentation: “Gender and Human Rights”
28th September 2009: Forensic Medicine Seminar: “Right to Access Information and Confidentiality in the Forensic Medicine Institutes”, Cáceres, Spain. Presentation: “Right to Information and Institutes of Forensic Medicine”
15th October 2009: Conference organized by the European Association of Health Law: “Learning Lessons and Making Differences: Improving the Future of Health Law in Europe”, Edinburgh, Scotland. Presentation: “Genetic Engineering: Playing with Genes or Playing God?”
25th February 2010: Communication and Liberties, FDUC, Coimbra. Presentation: “Freedom of Press and Camera Proceeding”
22nd September 2010: Faculty of Law of Oradea University, Romania. Presentation: “Reproductive Rights: Are They Rights at All? The Juridical Status of in Vitro Embryos”
8th October 2010: 4th Portuguese Congress of Reproductive Medicine, by the Portuguese Society of Reproductive Medicine, Lisbon. Presentation: “Aspectos Legais da Doação de Gâmetas - Gametes Make the World Go ‘Round” /“Legal Aspects of Gamete Donation - Gametes Make the World Go ‘Round”
10th November 2010: VII Latin American Congress of Medical Law, Santiago do Chile, Chile. Presentation: “Poder sobre el Cuerpo, Poder sobre la Vida” / “Power Over Body, Power Over Life”
10th November 2010: VII Latin American Congress of Medical Law,, Santiago do Chile, Chile. Presentation: “Contratos de donación de gametos: ¿Dádiva de vida o venta de material genético?” / “Gamete Donation Contracts: Donation of Life or Selling of Genetic Material?”
11th November 2010: VII Latin American Congress of Medical Law, Santiago do Chile, Chile. Presentation: “Criminal Medical Liability, Leges Artis and Informed Consent” (“La Responsabilidad Criminal Medica - Leges Artis y Consentimiento Informado”)
25th March 2011: 2nd Journeys of the Gynaecology and Obstetrician Service of the Hospital Centre of the Middle Tejo; Torres Novas. Intervention: “Patient Rights and Clinical Body Obligations”
5th May 2011: XIV National Meeting of APEO – Obstetric Nurses: Challenges and Opportunities. Presentation: “Legal and Ethical Questions in ART”,
12th July 2011: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine: Updated or outdated?, FDUC, Coimbra. Presentation: “Juridical Status of Human Embryos and Foetus at the Oviedo Convention”
14th July 2011: International Congress of Medical law and Forensic Medicine, San Jose de Costa Rica, Costa Rica. Presentation: “Criminal Liability, Informed Consent and Refusal to Medical Treatment” (“Responsabilidad Criminal, Consentimiento Informado y Rechazo De Tratamiento”
15th July 2011: Symposium In Vitro Fertilisation. Scientific Evidences, International Guides and the Best World Practices, San Jose de Costa Rica, Costa Rica. Presentation: “Assisted Reproduction: Two Models of Regulation: Portugal v. Spain” (“Reproducción Asistida - Dos Modelos de Reglamentación: Portugal v. España”)
15th September 2011: 19th World IAFS Meeting and 5th MAFS Meeting, Madeira, Portugal. Presentation: “To Act or Not to Act, That is the Question: Informed Consent in a Criminal Perspective”
12th March 2012: Panel on Legal-Political Options, Surrogacy Motherhood: Yes or No? Colloquium on Political and Juridical Options, Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Lisbon. Presentation: “Surrogate Motherhood”
28th and 29th September 2012: X International Journey of Prenatal Diagnosis, Viana do Castelo, Portugal. Presentation: “Medical Liability and Prenatal Diagnosis”
9th 2012: 2nd Ethics Symposium, Luz Hospital, Lisbon, Portugal. Presentation: “Wrongful Action in Pregnancy”
25th January 2013: 7th Journeys on the Critical Patient, Medical Centre of Lisbon North. Presentation: “Medical Liability in Intensive Care”
7th June 2013: Course of Advanced Formation – Data Base on DNA Profiles in Portugal, Balances and Future Prospective, Lisbon. Intervention: “Law 5/2008: Constitutional Parameters and Legal Solutions”
1st July 2013: École Européenne d’Été de Droit de la Santé et Ethique Biomédicale: Aspect Légaux et Éthiques su Commencement de la Vie / European Summer Course of Health Law and Medical Ethics, Toulouse, France. Presentation: “The Right to Reproduce as a Fundamental Right”
12th July 2013: Ius Gentium Summer Course, Coimbra, Portugal. Presentation: “Human Rights in the Context of Medical Law”
27th September 2013: 2nd National Seminar of Biolaw (The Right to Health in a Time of Crisis”, Faculty of Law, Oporto University, Oporto. Presentation: “Organization and Functioning of the Health Care System: Drugs Policy”
11th October 2013: IV European Conference on Health Law (European Health Law & Patient Safety), Coimbra. Presentation: “Is there Anything Wrong with Wrongful Birth and Wrongful Life?”
24th October 2013: Law Faculty of Ljubljana University. Presentation: “Medical Liability: The Particular Case of Wrong Actions”
14th November 2013: 3rd Symposium of Ethics in Hospital da Luz, Lisboa, Portugal. Presentation: "La mort semble moins terrible quand on est fatigué”
18th December 2013: Journeys of Reflection: Liability in Health Care, Instituto de Ciências Jurídico-Políticas, FDUL, Lisbon. Presentation: “Medical Liability in Prenatal Diagnosis"”
3rd March 2014: The Medical Error, Rui da Cunha Foundation, Macao. Presentation: “Everything what you always wanted to know about medical liability”
25th April 2014: Sino-French Symposium on Health Law and Bioethics, Guangzhou, China. Presentation: “Health care: the right to say yes and the right to say no”
16th May 2014: Keynote Speaker in the Sino-Luso International Medical Forum (Series 18: Medical Errors in Surgery & Simulation Training) May 14/17, 2014, Beijing, China, PRC. Presentation: “Medical Indemnity. Payment Compensation (What can go Wrong in Medical-Chirurgical Intervention?”
19th May 2014: Symposium on Medical Errors (Portuguese Session), Macau. Presentation: “Retalhos da vida de um médico em Macau”/ “Pieces of a doctor’s life in Macau”
9th June 2014: 3rd Annual International Conference on Law, Regulations and Public Policy (LRPP 2014), Bangkok, Thailand. Presentation: “When Life is not Life”
22th to 24th Agosto: 20th Conference of the World Association of Medical Law, Bali. Presentations: “Does Criminal And Civil Liability Of Hospitals And Doctors Jeopardize The Movement Of Patient Safety?”; “Medical Malpractice: In The Court Or Outside The Court? (Alternative Mechanism To Solve Medical Malpractice Disputes)”; “European Convention of Human Rights & Biomedicine”
14th and 15th November 2014: IX Congreso Latinoamericano de Derecho Médico / IX Latin American Congress of Medical Law, Lima, Peru. Presentations:
“Cuestiones Éticas en la Reproducción Asistida / Ethical Questions in Assisted Reproduction”, “Derecho Médico y Derecho del Consumidor: Retos y Perspectivas / Medical Law and Consumer Law: Challenges and Perspectives”,
“El Acto Médico visto desde los Tribunales de Justicia / The Medical Act seen by Judicial Courts”
“El Final de la Letra del Médico: Problemas Suscitados con la Historia Clínica Electrónica / The End of Doctors Handwriting: Problems Raised by the Electronic Clinical File”,
22th November 2014: Seminar on Law in Economic and Social Development, Faculty of Law of Macau University. Presentation: “Progresso, Paz e Felicidade: A Nova Trilogia dos Direitos Fundamentais” / “Progress, Peace and Happyness: The New Trilogy of Fundamental Rights”
2nd December 2014: A Prova em Processo Penal / The Evidence in the Criminal Procedure, Rui Cunha Foundation, Macao. Presentation: “A Prova em Processo Penal: Is CSI for Real? / The Evidence in the Criminal Procedure: Is CSI for Real?”
26th January 2015: Seminar - Doctor-patient relationship in a juridical perspective, Macau Faculty of Law, Macao. Presentation: “Informed consent and respect for patient's rights”
22th to 24th April 2015: The Third Conference on “Cross-Strait Four Regions’ Health Law and Bioethics”, Macau University, Macau. Presentation: “Is the no-fault system a healthy remedy for medical malpractice?”
29th October 2015: 8th International Conference on the Law and Sexuality, Macau University, Macau. Presentation: “Sexo, Moralidade e Género: Uma Trilogia Diabólica? (Os Crimes Sexuais no Código Penal de Macau e a Relação entre a Tutela Penal da Autodeterminação Sexual e a Suposta Tutela da Moralidade” / “Sex, Morality and Gender: A Diabolic Trilogy? (Sex Crimes in the Macanese Criminal Code and the Relationship between the Criminal Protection of Sexual Self-Determination and the Supposed Protection of Morality)
19th November 2015: Seminar “Desafios ao Direito Penal na Sociedade do Séc. XXI / Challenges to Criminal Law in the XXI Century Society”, University Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique. Presentation: “Crónica de uma morte adiada: quando a medicina desafia o direito penal /”Chronicle of a postponed death: when medicine challenges the criminal law”
25th January 2016 - EU Centres Asia Pacific Researcher Workshop – Asia and the European Union: Cooperation between Communities of Shared Values and Goals, Macao University, Macao. Presentation: “Off-Label Drug Uses: Can European Law be a Model to China?”
20th April 2016: Conference on Medical Liability and Patient’s Rights, FLL, Macau University. Macao University, Macao. Presentation: Electronic Health Records: A Reckless Risk or a Wise Medical Helper? (20th April)
19th and 20th May 2016: Asian Perspectives on Legal Globalisation – 13th Asian Law Institute Conference, Beijing, China. Presentation: “Is Off-label Prescription on or Off the Law in China?”
21st and 22nd May 2016: Chinese-European Health Law Conference. Beijing, China. Presentation: “Reproductive rights: Futile whims or fundamental rights?”
3rd July 2016: Seminário sobre a Revisão do Código Penal – Crimes contra a Liberdade e Autodeterminação Sexual / Seminar on the Revision of the Criminal Code – Crimes against Sexual Freedom and Sexual Self-Determination, Centre of Juridical and Judiciary Training, Macao. Presentation: “Sobre o Bem Jurídico Protegido nos Crimes Sexuais” / About the Juridical Value Protected by Sex Crimes”
7th to 10th July 2016 - The European Conference on Politics, Economics & Law, ecpel2016, Brighton, UK. Presentation: “Patients’ rights and medical liability within off-label prescription” (9th July 2016)
8 to 12 August 2016 - 22nd Conference of the World Association of Medical Law, Los Angeles, US. Presentations: “Informed Consent in Multilingual and Multicultural Countries”; “Are Electronic Health Records Promoting Patient’s Safety?”; “Off-Label Promotion and Off-Label Prescription in Europe”
26th to 27th September 2016: "Healthcare in Europe - a safe haven?", Innsbruck, Austria. Presentation: “Does Cybermedicine require a new and specific standard of care?"
17th October 2016: “Drugs and Medical Devices”, Macao University, Macao. “Money Makes the World Go Around: In Favour of Economically Motivated Off-Label Prescription (In Exceptional Cases)”
26th October 2016: Seminário sobre “Direitos da Criança e da Mulher” / “Seminar on the Rights of Children and Women”, Macao University. Presentation: “No Início Era o Verbo (Da Tutela Jurídica Pré-Natal no Ordenamento da RAEM)” / “In the Beginning was the Word (About Prenatal Protection in the Legal Order of Macao SAR”
27th and 28th October 2016: “Nona Conferência Internacional sobre As Reformas Jurídicas de Macau no Contexto Global – O Direito, a Sexualidade e a Família” / “Ninth International Conference on Macau Legal Reforms”. Presentation: “Reprodução: Com Sexo e sem Sexo” / “Reproduction with and without Sex”
24th to 26th November 2916: “AABHL 2016 – Bioethics and Health Law at the Intersections”, Melbourne, Australia. Presentation: “The Scope of Reproductive Responsibility and Reproductive Duties”
7th December 2016 – “Second International Conference – Consumer Policy in China: New Trends and Challenges”. Presentation: “Lost in Information: Patient’s Informed Consent in Multilingual and Multicultural Countries”
16th and 17th March 2017 – “Debatendo a Procriação Medicamente Assistida / Discussing Medically Assisted Reproduction”, Faculty of Law of Oporto University. Presentation: “Surrogacy Contracts”.
1st and May 2017 – 5th Annual International Conference on Health & Medical Sciences, 1-4 May 2017, Athens, Greece. Presentation: “Oocyte Cryopreservation for Fertility Preservation – The Legal Approach”.
5th and 6th June 2017 – 6th LRPP 2017, Singapore. “How dangerous is your pill? Drugs, Innovation and Safety”.
21th to 24th June 2017 – Conference Law and Society. Presentation: “Sons of a Minor God: Use of Reproductive Techniques by Single People and Gay Couples”
29th and 30th June 2017 - Consumer Policy in a Comparative Perspective: New Challenges in Chinese, European, and International Law. Presentation: New and Better Drugs – Should we Change the Approval Procedure Model for Pharmaceutical Products?
10th to 13th June 2017 - 23rd Annual World Congress on Medical Law, Baku, Azerbaijan. Presentations: “Cybermedicine: The Standard of Care for the XXI Century” ; “Are 50’s the 30’s in the 21st Century? Oocyte Cryopreservation for Fertility Maintenance” ; “Lost in Culturation: Informed Consent in China from a Western Perspective”
18th and 19th September 2017 - Compensation Schemes & Beyond in Case of Medical Malpractice, University of Warsaw, Poland. Presentation: “Wrongful birth and wrongful life: the rights and wrongs for doctors”
4th and 5th October 2017 - 6th French-Chinese Symposium E-Medicine and E-Pharmacy, Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, Toulouse, France. Presentation: "The doctor wants to be your friend" - The standard of care for doctor-patient communication in health”
16th and 17th October 2017 - II Conference on Medical Law “Asian Perspectives on Bioethics, Medical Ethics & Medical Law”, University of Macau, Macau. Presentation: “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (Adverse Events Reporting System as a Mechanism to Punish Doctors – The Chinese and Macanese Solutions)”
21th and 22th October 2017 - ACLM 2017 Annual Scientific Meeting – The Law and Ethics of Therapeutics, Australian College of Legal Medicine, Perth, Australia. Presentation: “Off-label prescription and the best standard of care: do they go together?”
25th to 27th October 2017 - 18th Asian Bioethics Conference, Asian Bioethics Association, Seoul, Korea. Presentation: “The challenges of patient’s informed consent in multilingual and multicultural countries”
26th and 27th October 2017 - Webcongresso Internacional de Direito Sanitário / Web Congress of Health Law, Aldis (Associação Lusófona de Direiito da Saúde). Presentation: “Regime dos contratos de gestação na ordem jurídica portuguesa” (“Legal Framework of Surrogacy Contracts in the Portuguese Legal System)”
27th November 2017 – 60 Years after the Treaties of Rome: What is the Future for the European Union?, University of Macau. Presentation. “No Unlicensed Drugs Please, We are European”.
4th December 2017 – “The status of the embryo in the light of the European Convention on Human Rights”, Seminar of the Research Circle on International and Economic Law, FLL, UMAC.
15th and 16th December 2017 - 2017 Asian Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Taiwan. Presentation: - "Patient’s informed consent – a proposal from Criminal law".
15th March 2018 – Os Filhos da Ciência / The Sons of Science, Fundação Rui Cunha /Rui Cunha Foundation, Macau. Presentation: “Os Filhos da Ciência – Sobre o Projecto de Lei de Reprodução Medicamente Assistida” / “The Sons of Science – About the Project to Regulate Medically Assisted Reproduction”
10th May 2018 - Saúde, Novas Tecnologias e Responsabilidade: Perspectivas Conteporâneas / Health, New Technologies and Responsibility: Contemporary Responsibilities, Faculty of Law of Coimbra University, Coimbra, Portugal. Presentation: “Responsabilidade Civil e Reprodução / Civil Responsibility and Reproduction”
22nd to 25th August 2018 - 32nd European conference on Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care in Lisbon, Portugal. Presentation: “What’s wrong with gene editing? Probably many things, but…”
3th to 6th September 2018 - 24th Annual Congress of the World Association for Medical Law. Tel Aviv, Israel. Presentation: “Is there an Alternative Medical Liability for Alternative Medicine?”
17th and 18th September 2019 - International Conference Feminism In Law, Philosophy and Religion, Warsaw University, Poland. Presentation: “Never too old nor too single to have kids. Women’s reproductive rights and reproductive techniques” (video presentation)
27th September 2018 – Workshop “Genetics and the Law”, University of Macau, Macau. Presentation: “Russian Roulette or Procreative Beneficence: What works in Genetics?”
15th to 17th October 2018 - III Coimbra International Conference On Human Rights: a Transdisciplinary approach, Coimbra University, Portugal. Presentation: “Genetic Makeup Of Offspring: Genetic Lottery Or Genetic Planning?”, in Symposium: 18 - Genetics And Law: A Brave New World For Human Rights Doctrine.
29th November to 1st December - 2018 ALSA Conference: ‘Law in the Asian Century’, Bond University, Australia. Presentation: Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Framework of the Right to Health
3st December 2018 – Workshop “Liability in Healthcare”, University of Macau, Faculty of Law. Presentation: Medical Liability in Traditional Chinese Medicine
13th December 2018 - Workshop “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 70 Years On”. University of Macau, Faculty of Law. Presentation: Right to Health.
7th February 2019 - Invited lecturer at Bergamo University (Università degli studi di Bergamo). Seminar: "Case C-29/17: Off-Label Prescription, Right to Health and European Law".
7th to 9th March 2019 - 3rd International Conference on End of Life Law, Ethics, Policy, and Practice, Ghent, Belgium. Presentation: “Primum non nocere: medical liability in end of life scenarios”.
15th May 2019 - “Genetic Engineering: The Future of Medicine in the Great Bay Area?”, Fundação Rui Cunha, Macau. Presentation: “Gene editing: The Future of Medicine”.
1st June 2019 - Law in Society Asia 2019 (Washington DC, US). Presentation: “How human dignity became the bogeyman in the gene editing discussion“.
12th June 2019 –16th Asian Law Institute (ASLI) Annual Conference, Singapore. Presentation: “Patient’s Informed Consent: The Chinese and Macanese Experiences”
6, 7 and 8th August 1919 – “Gene Editing and Human Dignity, a Complicated Relationship”, at 5th WCML 201, Tokyo, Japan
19th October 2019 – “‘I beg your pardon?’ – Communication challenges in multilingual and multicultural healthcare settings”, at AMLPM Scientific Meeting 2019, Macau, China.
24th October 2019 – “Rise and Fall of Surrogacy Arrangements in Portugal”, at Gessus Project, Final Conference – Surrogacy in Spain, Barcelona, Spain.
11th November 2019 – participation in the workshop “Health and New Technologies”, at the Faculty of Law of the University of Macau. Presentation: “Fertility rhymes liability: How reproductive and prenatal technology has encouraged a new type of litigation”.
22th November 2019 – Participation in the I Colóquio Internacional PMA: Perspectivas Técnicas, Éticas, Sociais e Legais /I International Colloquiumon ART. Presentation: "E tudo o Tribunal Constitucional levou? (Breve) História dos contratos de gestação em Portugal" / “Gone with the Wind? (Brief) Story of surrogacy contracts in Portugal”, Lisbon.
From 10 August to 13 August 2020 - Sodime First International On-Line Medical Congress. Title: Medical Law and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Consequences Today and After. Presentation: “The unbearable lightness of quarantines – legal framework of quarantines within COVID-19”
From 3 August to 5 September 2020 – Online conference ‘Eternal Women’. Presentation: “In Search of Lost Fertility (Ethical-Legal Framework for Oocyte Cryopreservation as a Method of Preserving Female Fertility)”
From 30 September to 2 October 2020 - Living Will, Living Well? Advance Directives Across Asia (Webinar), organized by the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, The University of Hong Kong, in collaboration with The Law Society of Hong Kong, Ethox Centre, University of Oxford, the United Kingdom, Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, University of Oxford, the United Kingdom
Presentation: ‘Advance Directives in Macao SAR: Not Legally Recognised, but….’
3 December 2020 – Participation in the conference ‘Looking Forward/Looking Back: Law, Ethics, Policy in the Age of COVID-190, organized by Australasian Association of Bioethics & Health Law (AABHL), with the presentation ‘Big brother is watching you: wearable devices to detect COVIDー19 infections’
4 December 2020 - Scientific-practical conference "Problems of inadequate provision of medical care (expert legal issues), Moscow (webinar). Presentation: ‘Do we need a new standard of care for cybermedicine?’
7 December 2020 – participation in the seminar ‘How is COVID-19 changing the law?’, University of Macau, with the presentation ‘BIG Brother knows you are sick: how wearable health devices to track infections are challenging the law’.
8 January 2021 – International Medical Congress, Turkey (via zoom). Presentation: ‘Peekaboo,where are you? Brief considerations on digital contact tracing and citizen surveillance’.
25 March 2021 – speaker at the International conference ‘Public health responsibility in the Portuguese-speaking world: doing justice during and beyond Covid's emergency’, organised by the Faculty of Law of Coimbra University (via zoom).
Presentation: ‘Macao Experience Against Covid: From Good to Bad’.
14 May 2021 – Participation in the workshop ‘A Step Forward to Remove the Existing Barriers to Cross-border Telehealth in the EU’, organized by the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union, with the presentation ‘Medical liability and standard of care in telemedicine’
10 June 2021 – Juris Diversitas 7th General Conference: The Dark Side of the Law. Presentation: ‘One App a Day Keeps the Virus Away. Digital Contact Tracing as a Tool to Handle the Pandemic’ (virtual conference).
24 June 2021 – 7th Congress Law in the Lusophone World, organized by the Faculty of Law of the University of Minho. Presentation: ‘Who sued the stork? Court decisions on (new) reproductive disputes’ (virtual conference).
8 July 2021 - Workshop on Proximity and Location Data, organised by the Panelfit Project. Presentation: ‘Keep the distance and stay away: The Portuguese contact tracing app Stayaway COVID’ (virtual conference).
4 September 2021– International congress on Pharmaceutical and Pharmacy Law, Turkey. Presentation: ‘New, safe, and effective COVID-19 vaccines. Are we looking for a unicorn?’ (virtual conference).
16 September 2021- Transformative effects of Covid-19 on Globalisation & Law. Presentation: 'Digital governance and the pandemic: Not with technology or not without technology?’ (virtual conference).
8 October 2021 - ALSA Conference: Law, Technology and Change Friday. Presentation: ‘Smile, you are on camera’: Facial recognition technology in criminal investigations in Europe’ (virtual conference).
20 October 2021- I Congresso Internacional de Direito Sanitário e IV Seminário de Pesquisadores em Direito Sanitário. Presentation: ‘Era uma vez uma vacina nova, eficaz e perfeitamente segura’ (virtual conference).
27 October 2011– seminar on Artificial Intelligence to the Post Doc in democratization and Human Rights, organized by the Centre of Human Rights, Coimbra University (Webinar, via Zoom).
9 November 2021– seminar on the European AI Draft Act to the Institute of Technology Law, at the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University School of Law, in Taiwan (Webinar, via Zoom).
24 November 2021– Talk on the seminar on privacy in the digital age., organised by ELSA Title: ‘Há vida para além do RGPD?’ / ‘Is there life beyond the GDPR’? (zoom)
25 November 2021 – Participation in the seminar Telemedicine and Smart Medicine in the Post-Covid Age, organised by the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University School of Law and the Digital Governance and Legal Innovation Centre at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. Presentation: ‘Cybermedicine: How to be a cyberdoctor and avoid cyberliability (The EU scenario)’. (zoom)
25 November 2021 - 7-th all-Russian Congress on Medical Law with international participation. Russia, Moscow, organized by National Institute of Medical Law with the participation of the Medical Law Chair, Sechenov University. Presentation: ‘Wearable health devices, so trendy (and legally controversial) in the COVID-19 season’ (zoom)
27 November 2021 – Participation in the Webinar Academy on Medical Law, organised by ELSA. Presentation: ‘I will sue the stork (Litigation in the reproductive field)’ (zoom)
3 December 2021- 2021 National Technology Law Conference, organised by the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, School of Law. Presentation: ‘The European GDPR: Is it too Much?’ (virtual conference)
6 Decembre 2021 - Scientific and Practical Conference with International Participation: Medical Education During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Vectors of Digital Transformation. Presentation: ‘Medical Health Devices: From Medical Care to Medical Control’ (virtual conference)
17 February 2022 – Webinar organized by the Privacy and Data Protection Centre, from Universidade Europeia / European University. Presentation: ‘Lex IA. Breves Notas sobre a Proposta de Regulamento da União Europeia sobre Inteligência Artificial’ / ‘Lex IA. Brief Notes on the Proposal for a European Union Regulation on Artificial Intelligence’
18 March 2022- Seminar Medicina Digital e E-Health /Seminar Digital Medicine and E-health, organized by group Luz Saúde. Presentation: ‘Inteligência Artificial na Prestação de Cuidados Médicos: O Bom, o Mau e o Desconhecido / Artificial Intelligence: The Good, the Bad and the Unknown’.
11 April 2022 – Webinar Facial Recognition in Healthcare: Legal Challenges, organized by RAILS- Robotics & AI Law Society. Presentation: Facial Recognition in Healthcare: Doctor, Take a Look at Me’.
20 to 22 April 2022- Conference of the European Association of Health Law, at Ghent University, Belgium. Presentation: ‘My Doctor, the Algorithm, Made a Mistake’.
26 May 2022 – Conference ‘Sociedade de Informação III: Brasil – Portugal’ / ‘Information Society III: Brazil-Portugal’. Presentation: ‘Proposta de Regulamento da UE Sobre Inteligência Artificial’ /’Draft Proposal of the EU on Artificial Intelligence’ (via zoom).
30 May 2022 – Lecture on medical liability and artificial intelligence ('Doctor algorithm will see you now: Medical liability within AI') in the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University School of Law, Taiwan (via zoom).
9 June 2022 – Conference: ‘The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence for Law in Europe: Values, Rights and Regulation in the European Legal Space’, organised jointly by the French Embassy and Institute in Hungary, and the Institute for Legal Studies, Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest. Presentation: ‘Facial recognition technology in healthcare: legal challenges’ (via zoom)
20-21 June 2022 – First Symposium on Geriatronics, organised by TUM University (Technical University of Munich) and RAILS (Robotic and AI Law Society). Presentation: ‘Health Data and Personal Care Robots’
30 June 2022 – XV Encuentro Interautonómico sobre Protección Jurídica del Paciente: de la innovación en salud a la salud de la innovación, Santander, Spain. Presentation: ‘I’m not Dr House, I’m an algorithm’: Medical liability and standard of care in an AI world’.