Full Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. Responsible for the subjects of Introduction to the Study of Law, Family Law and Civil Procedural Law.
Has published several books, articles and jurisprudential notes, some of them abroad. He has also contributed to legislative commentaries published abroad.
He was a Fellow at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München between 1983 and 1986 and between April and September 1997; President of the Board of Directors of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon between 2005 and 2007; member of the Management Board of the Centre for Judicial Studies between 1994 and 2008; President of the Commission Internationale de l'Etat Civil during the 2004/2005 biennium; President of the Portuguese Section of the International Commission on Civil Status from 1996 to 2013, and member of the General Council of the University of Lisbon from 2010 to 2012.
Librarian Professor at the Faculty of Law of Lisbon between 2011 and 2014, having started a new term in 2017. He is currently a member of the Editorial Board ofCadernos de Direito Privado andRevista da Ordem dos Advogados.