Professional Experience

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of Coimbra University, Portugal  (2012 – present)

Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Law of Coimbra University, Portugal (2002-2012)

Training Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Law of Coimbra University, Portugal (2001-2002)

Courses lectured:

Criminal Law III (Bachelor in Law)

Criminal procedure (Bachelor in Law)

International Law (Bachelor in Law)

Constitutional Law I (Bachelor in Law)

Constitutional Law (Master in Law)

 

Part-time dissertation supervisor for students on our Master of Laws in Medical Ethics and Law programme at the University of Hong Kong 

(2020 – present)

 

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of Macau University, China (2018- 2021)

Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Macao, China (2014-2018)

Courses lectured:

  • Comparative Legal Systems (PhD)
  • Research Methodology and Legal Writing (Master of Law in European Union Law, International Law and Comparative Law; Master of Law in International Business Law)
  • Treaty Reforms in the EU (Master of Law in European Union Law, International Law and Comparative Law)
  • Institutional Law of the European Union (Master of Law in European Union Law, International Law and Comparative Law)
  • Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure (Master in Legal Studies in Portuguese language)
  • Civil Law (Master in Legal Studies in Portuguese language)
  • Criminal Law II (Bachelor in Portuguese language)
  • Contract Law (Bachelor in Portuguese language)
  • Family Law (Bachelor in Portuguese language)

Coordinator of the Bachelor in Law in Portuguese Language (2016- 2018) 

 

Lawyer/Of counsel in the law firm Vieira de Almeida & Associados (Health Department), Lisbon (2011-2014)

 

Lawyer/Of counsel in the law firm of JPAB & Associados, Lisbon (2009-2019)

 

Professor of the Faculty of Law of Agostinho Neto University, Luanda, Angola (2004-2006)

Courses lectured:

Criminal Law (Bachelor in Law)

Introduction to Law (Bachelor in Law)

Labor Law (Bachelor in Law)

 

Lecturer at Centro de Estudos e Formação Autárquica CEFA (Centre for Studies and Local Administration Education) (2003-2010)

Courses lectured:

  • European Law
  • Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure
  • Land Law

 

Chairman of the course of Constitutional Law of the Media, in the Journalism Institute of Coimbra University (2002-2004)

Courses lectured:

  • Constitutional Law

 

Additional Selected Professional Activities

From 2002       Researcher of the Institute of Biomedical Law, FDUC

From 2003       Researcher of the Institute of Family Law, FDUC

2003                Appointed as Scientific Secretary and lecturer of the Post-Graduation Equality Between Genders (Centre of Family Law, FDUC)

2008-2014        Appointed as a member of Direction of the Centre of Human Rights, FDUC

Since 2009       Coordinator of the interest group on “reproductive issues” of the European Association of Health Law

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”

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”

2019                 Lecturer in the Master on Social Rights (module dedicated to Health Law), in the University Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique (2nd to 6th December)

2019                 Member of the Editorial Committee of the journal Cadernos Ibero-Americanos de Direito Sanitário

2021                 Online seminar on Digital Governance at Catolica Law School (19 to 23 April)