LAWYERS

Born in Lisbon, graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon.

She gained a Master’s (LLM) degree in law from the same university in June 2000, with a final grade of 18/20. Her dissertation, which has been published, dealt with an aspect of contract law: The concept of benefit and the recipient of consideration, Editora Almedina, Coimbra, 2001. She has been accepted for a doctorate by Lisbon University, taking as her subject: The theory of difference in civil liability: the legal provisions, shortcomings and virtues.

She has lectured since 1993 at the Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon, and she has also been seconded to the Faculty of Law in Guinea-Bissau. Her subject areas have included Commercial Law, the Law of Obligations, Introduction to Legal Studies and General Theory of Civil Law. She also holds office on the boards of the Lisbon Law Faculty.

She has contributed as lecturer to various postgraduate courses and conferences.

Several publications, mainly in the areas of transport law, international commercial law, civil law commercial law and administrative law, like:

Relationships between port operators, transporters and recipients of merchandise, in Bissau Faculty of Law Bulletin, n.º 5, Bissau-Lisbon, 1998, 227-245, Subjective statuses in voluntary representation, particularly legally relevant knowledge or lack of knowledge, in Magazine of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, Coimbra Editora, Coimbra, 1998, Concept of provision and destination of counterpart, Almedina, Coimbra, 2001, The obligation to receive merchandise in the Vienna Convention on the International Purchase and Sale of Goods, in Studies in Tribute to Dr. Isabel de Magalhães Collaço, Almedina, Coimbra, 2002, Vol. II, 339-392. Co-written with Pedro de Albuquerque, Civil Liability of Regulating Authorities and Supervision of Loss incurred by Economic Agents and Investors in the course of Taxation or Investigation, co-written with in Regulation and Competition – Perspectives and Limits on the Protection of Competition, Coordinated by Ruy de Albuquerque and António Menezes Cordeiro, Almedina, Coimbra, 2005, 203-248 and O Direito, Year 136 (2004), V. I, Almedina, Coimbra, 89-130. Co-written with Pedro de Albuquerque, The “golden shares” of the Portuguese State in Privatized companies: Limits to their Admissibility, Coimbra Editora, Coimbra, 2006, The corporate regime of the State as a shareholder, in The reform of the Commercial Companies Code, Days in Tribute to Dr. Rául Ventura, Almedina, Coimbra, 2007, 259-267. Co-written with Pedro Múrias, On the concept and extension of reciprocal obligations, in Studies in Tribute to Dr. José de Oliveira Ascensão, vol. I, Almedina, Coimbra, 2008, 379-430. Co-written with Pedro Múrias, Provisions of property: de reddere transfer of risks and obligations, Private Law Volumes, n.º 23 (2008), 3-17. Co-written with Pedro Múrias, Obligations of means, obligations of result and costs of provision, in Studies in memory of Dr. Paulo Cunha, in the press. Co-written with Pedro Múrias, Rights of lien and the meaning of exception and default, in Law and Social Studies Magazine (RDES), 2009.