Having started teaching in 1989 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, where he graduated, Rui Pinto obtained his Master's degree in 1995, and, in 2008, he completed his PhD, becoming a Professor at that Faculty. Since then, he has taught Declarative, Executive, Appeals and Insolvency Civil Procedural Law. Previously he had taught Real Rights, Commercial Law and Obligations Law. At the service of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, he cooperated as a Professor with institutions in Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique.
He has written and published several monographs and articles on Real Rights and Civil Procedural Law, such as: Direitos Reais de Moçambique (2012), Manual da Execução e Despejo (2013), Notas ao Código de Processo Civil (2 volumes) (2015), O Recurso Civil. Uma teoria geral (2017), Novos Estudos de Processo Civil (2017), and, more recently, A Ação Executiva (2018), Código de Processo Civil anotado, 2 vols. (2018), Procedimento Extrajudicial Pré Executivo anotado, 2ª ed., (2019) with Helena Tomaz, Manual do Recurso Civil, vol. I. (2020) and Os Processos Especiais, 2 vols. (2020/2021) in co-coordination with Ana Alves. He was also co-author of Código de Processo Civil anotado, vols. 1st and 2nd, with Lebre de Freitas, until 2008, and one of the co-authors of the Código Civil anotado, vol. II, (2017), directed by Ana Prata. He has also written about lease.
Furthermore, Rui Pinto has published articles on civil procedure, leasing and insolvency in prestigious legal magazines, such as Revista da Ordem dos Advogados, Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, Julgar OnLine, as well as written for collective works such as the recent I Congresso de Direito do Arrendamento (coord. Luís Menezes Leitão, 2019) and the V Congresso da Insolvência (coord. Catarina Serra, 2019).
Rui Pinto also designed and executed several training activities and conferences on Civil Procedure, most of them with the Bar Association and the CEJ. He is frequently invited to participate in lectures, seminars and conferences on civil proceedings, leasing, insolvency and condominiums. Since 2011, Rui Pinto has collaborated with several law firms, producing legal opinions and consultations, and has participated in arbitrations on pharmaceutical patent disputes.
He is currently an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.