CIDP - Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado

Fernando de Araújo

Full Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (FDUL). With Aggregation (2007) and Doctorate (1998) in Legal-Economic Sciences, Master's Degree in Historical-Legal Sciences (1990) and Degree in Law from the Portuguese Catholic University (1982), he has supervised numerous Master's and Doctorate theses,as well as Post-Doctoral internships in Portugal and Brazil. Lecturer and guest speaker at Faculties in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia, he participates in Conferences regularly and has published in the areas of Economic Analysis of Law, Philosophy of Law, History of Law, Law of Obligations, Contracts, Civil Law, Environmental Economics, Bioethics and Animal Law. He was a founding member of several institutes at the University of Lisbon and also of the Research Centre for Private Law, where hewas responsible for the Bioethics Law section. He chaired the Assessment and Accreditation Committees of Law Schools and Courses in Portugal (A3ES – Higher Education Assessment and Accreditation Agency) (2011-2016) and the FDUL Institute of Brazilian Law; he directed the Revista do Instituto do Direito Brasileiro, he was a member of the Ethics Committees of the Faculty of Medicine (2005-2007) and the Faculty of Pharmacy (2010-2017), was Deputy to the Office of the Minister of the Presidency (1990-95) and Advisor to the Office of the Secretary of State for National Defense ( 1995) and Advisor to the Board of Directors of the Securities Market Commission (1998).Between 2004 and 2005, he chaired the Scientific Council of the Centre for the Study of Animal Rights and also collaborated with the Centre for Biomedical Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra. His book "A Hora dos Direitos dos Animais" (2003) drove a change in legal thinking and stimulated the national debate in relation to animal issues. Two years after the release of this work, he wrote an article titled “Os recentes desenvolvimentos da Lei Portuguesa no domínio dos direitos dos animais” which was published in the Journal of Animal Law,whose editorial board he also integrates.He is Director of theRevista Jurídica Luso-Brasileira and co-coordinates Almedina's "Applied Ethics" collection.He has extensive experience in Arbitration, being an Arbitrator in tax and commercial cases, as well as a Legal Consultant and Advisor.

Filipa Lemos Caldas

Degree in Law, from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (2011); completedthe curricular part of the Master's Degree in Law, area of specialization in Administrative Law, Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (2013). Member of the Research Centre for Private Law; Member of the Portuguese Institute of Civil Procedure. Research areas: Administrative law and administrative litigation; Civil law and civil procedure; Constitutional right; Arbitration. Guest lecturer at FDUL.

Filipa Lira de Almeida

Graduated in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (2019) and Master's student in Law and Legal Science, she is a Guest Lecturer inthe Legal Sciences group at the same Faculty and a researcher at the Research Centre for Private Law since 2019.

Filipa Santos Rocha

She has been a GuestLecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon since 2022. She completed her degree in Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (2021) and the curricular part of the Scientific Master's Degree in Commercial Law. She was admitted to the PhD in Commercial Law in 2023 and is currently developingher thesis on the topic of"The management skills of the general assembly in commercial companies".

Filipe Afonso Henriques Rocha

Law Degree from the University of Lisbon Faculty of Law (2020), currently attending the Master of Science in Civil Law.Advanced Postgraduate Studies in CorporateGovernance and Finance at CIDP (2020). Previously held academic positions, namely as Tutor.Has published articles in the fields of Securities Law, Capital Markets and M&A. Since 2022, Guest Lecturer of the Legal Sciences Group of University of Lisbon Faculty of Law, and Researcher at CIDP. Lawyer, focusing his practice in the areas of Banking, Finance and Capital Markets.

Francisco Mendes Correia

Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon and an Invited Professor in the Law and Business Master’s at the Portuguese Catholic University. Francisco earned his Doctoral Degree in 2015 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, where he teaches since 2006. Francisco is also a Post-Graduate in European Union Law at King’s College London. He is a member of Governance Lab and a researcher at theResearch Centre for Private Law (CIDP). His main research areas are Banking Law, Financial Law, Private Law, Insolvency Law, and European Union Private Law.

Francisco Rodrigues Rocha

Holds a Degree in Law (2010), a Master's Degree in Law (2014; Insurance Law) and a PhDin Law (2021; Roman Law). He is an Invited GuestLecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.He is a researcher at CIDP – Research Centre for Private Law and IVRIS – Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, and is part of RIIDJ – International Network of Researchers in Law and Justice.He is a Lawyer (2014), Member of the Board of Directors of the Portuguese Section of AIDA (2018), Vice-President of IDC – Association for the Study of Consumer Law (2014), Member of the Editorial Committee of theRevista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa (2020), Member of the Editorial Committee ofInterpretatio Prudentium – Direito romano e tradição romanista em revista (2016) and Deputy Director of theRevista de Direito Financeiro e dos Mercados de Capitais (2021).His areas of research are Roman Law and Romanistic Tradition, History of Law, Maritime and Port Law, Insurance Law, Banking Law, Transport Law, Commercial and Company Law, Data Protection Law and Consumer Law.