MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
PROF. DR. DÁRIO MOURA VICENTE

The Private Law Research Centre, founded in 2014 and chaired until 2023 by Professor António Menezes Cordeiro, is a private research and development institution, established as an autonomous unit without legal personality of the Institute for Private Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.

 

The Centre's main objective is the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge in the field of Private Law. Its activity is predominantly developed along two fundamental axes: the individual and collective research carried out by its members and expressed in scientific articles, monographs and comments on legislation and case law; and the organization of courses, seminars, conferences and workshops on current themes in private law, to which other university lecturers and national and foreign renowned specialists are also associated.

 

The Centre privileges freedom of research and thought in its activity and is guided by the aim of making a relevant contribution to the progress of scientific knowledge of Private Law, from national, European and international sources, and of promoting legal culture, especially in Portugal and in other Portuguese-speaking countries. Its activity is based on the principles of merit, equal opportunities and transparency.

 

In this website, the Centre publicises its activities in the two abovementioned axes. It identifies the Research Lines currently pursued by the Centre and, whenever possible, makes available the main publications produced within the scope of those lines of research; it also publicises the knowledge dissemination activities organised by the Centre, with emphasis on the postgraduate courses and intensive courses taught therein.

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ORGANISATION OF THE CENTRE

Board of Directors

 

Chairman
Prof. Dr. Dário Moura Vicente


Vice-President
Prof. Dr. Ana Perestrelo de Oliveira


Members
Prof. Dr. Isabel Alexandre

Prof. Dr. Diogo Costa Gonçalves

Prof. Dr. Rui Soares Pereira

 

Scientific Council

It is constituted by all the PhDs in Law integrated in the Centre as its researchers.

 

External Advisory Board

It is constituted by personalities of recognized scientific merit in the legal field invited by the Board of Directors.

 

The External Advisory Committee has the following composition in the 2023-26 term of office:

BURKHARD HESS
Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law
ELEONORA ROSATI
Full Professor at Stockholm University
ILARIA PRETELLI
Legal counsel at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law
Judith Martins-Costa
President of the Culturalistic Studies Institute
MARIE-ÉLODIE ANCEL
Professor at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas
OTÁVIO RODRIGUES JÚNIOR
Associate Professor at the Law School of the University of São Paulo (USP)
PAULO MOTA PINTO
Full Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra
Pedro de Miguel Asensio
Full Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM)
PILAR PERALES VISCASILLAS
Full Professor at the Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M)
Stefan Grundmann
Professor at the European University Institute and at the Humboldt University of Berlin
PRESIDENT EMERITUS

The Board of Directors of the Centre decided to award Professor António Menezes Cordeiro the honorary title of President Emeritus of CIDP. The full content of the deliberation can be consulted here.

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Integrated Institutes
Instituto dos Valores Mobiliários
IVM
Instituto de Direito do Trabalho
IDT
Associação para o Estudo do Direito do Consumo
IDC
Centro de Direito Marítimo e dos Transportes
CDMT
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Collaboration and Cooperation
CMVM PROTOCOL
FDUL/CIDP

CIDP + CMVM   2018

 

The University of Lisbon School of Law (FDUL) and CIDP have signed a collaboration protocol with the portuguese Stock Market Comission (CMVM). This protocol aims to promote joint formative offers, participation in seminars and other technical-scientific events, as well as the access to CMVM’s official data and internships to LLM and PhD students. The signature of this new protocol took place on the fringe of the I Crowdfunding Seminar, jointly organized by CMVM, the University of Lisbon School of Law (FDUL) and CIDP, during which the future of capital collaborative funding and loan was discussed.

NEW REGIME APPLICABLE TO ADULT’S LEGAL INCAPACITIES

CIDP + GOVERNMENT OF THE PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC   2017

 

Study of legislative policy concerning the new regime applicable to adult’s legal incapacities. CIDP’s contribution substancialized in a Project of a Bill establishing the legal figure of the “maior acompanhado” (adult’s guardian) and suggests changes to portuguese Civil Code as well as to portuguese Civil Procedure Code. Moreover, this legislative reform proposal advocates the modernization of the legal incapacities regime, specially regarding its articulation with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

 

“Da situação jurídica do maior acompanhado – Estudo de política legislativa relativo a um novo regime das denominadas incapacidade dos maiores”

FINTECH - Financial Technology Challenges

CIDP + EUROPEAN COMISSION + PORTUGUESE SECRETARY OF STATE OF INDUSTRY   2017

 

CIDP’s researchers have contributed to the legal study and to the spreading of FinTech – Financial Technology Challenges. This phenomenon – which have been studied only from the technological and economic perspectives before – is analysed from a legal perspective from now on. CIDP organized scientific seminars and the publishing of a collective book [fazer link para este livro no separador PUBLICAÇÕES>OBRAS COLETIVAS], intervened in European Comission’s public consultation on this issue, promoted a specialization workshop about the challenges  brought up by FinTech and integrated a work group to create a regulation framework for the regulation of these FinTech phenomenons.

 

Collective book on Almedina Online

“FinTech – Desafios da Tecnologia Financeira”, Diogo Pereira Duarte – LinkedIn Pulse

“CAPITALIZAR” PROGRAM

CIDP + PORTUGUESE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE   2017

 

CIDP has intervened in the process of public discussion about a set of legislative measures proposed by the Government, integrated in the “Capitalizar” Program. A group of 19 researchers from CIDP have presented, in a collective book, their comments on five legislative proposals: (i) the amendment to Portuguese Commercial Companies Code and Portuguese Insolvency Code; (i) the conversion of credits into capital regime; (iii) the corporate recovery mediator; (iv) the appropriation of the collateral regime; (v) the extrajudicial corporate recovery legal regime (RERE).

 

“Governo adota novo pacote legislativo do Programa Capitalizar”

Deliberations

Available soon.