CIDP - Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado

Ricardo Bernardes

Graduate (2009) and Masters (2014) in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, and he has been a Guest Lecturer at the same Faculty since 2011, lecturing in the subjects of Introduction to the Study of Law, Civil Procedural Law III and Commercial Law. He has published papers in the fields of Civil Law, Transport Law, Fundamental Rights and Theory of Law and has collaborated as a Teacher / Trainer in several Municipal Police Training Courses, promoted by the Portuguese Directorate-General of Local Authorities and in postgraduate Courses at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon in the fields of Labour and Social Security Law and Transport Law. He was a Legal Counsel at ARAC – Portuguese Car and Truck Rental Association, member of the Pedagogical Council of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon and coordinator of the Tutoring Service of the same Faculty. He is currently Councillor of the Municipal Council of Montijo responsible for Social Action, Youth, Construction Works under direct administration of the Municipality, Energy, Public Transport, Municipal Inspection, Fees and Licenses and Administrative Offenses and Tax Enforcement.

Rui de Mascarenhas Ataíde

With a degree in Law (1982), a Master's (1999) and a Doctorate (2013) in Legal-Civil Sciences from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (FDUL), he is Professor at FDUL, where, since 1992, he has been teaching Introduction to the Study of Law, Law of Obligations, Family Law, Law of Succession, Rights in Rem, Contract Law I and II in the Undergraduate Course. In the Master's Degree Course in Law and Legal Practice, he is responsible for the subjects of Registrations and Notarial Services and Civil Liability Law, and in the Master's Degree Courses in Law and Legal Science and Doctorate, he is co-responsible for the subject of Civil Law (Civil Liability) with Professor Luís Menezes Leitão. In the Doctorate Course, he also coordinated the subject of Introduction to Private Law. He cooperated with the Bissau Faculty of Law and with the Mandume Ya Ndemufayo University Faculty of Law (Lubango). He is a guest speaker on Postgraduate Courses, Legal Conferences and Congresses organised by FDUL, FDUC, Centro de Estudos Judiciários and Almedina. He also practiced law in the office of Professor José Dias Marques. He is the author of several monographs, scientific articles, notes and lessons, namely, Private contract law in the face of the present pandemic crisis. Some problems, in particular temporary economic impossibility, RFDUL (Lisbon Law Review), Número Temático: COVID-19 e o Direito, Ano LXI, 2020, N. º 1, pp. 675-709, Institutionalised arbitration of Consumer Law disputes: notes on the scope of application of Law No. 144/2015 of 08 September (Mechanisms of Extrajudicial Resolution of Consumer Disputes) (co-authored with Inês Sítima Craveiro), International Journal of Arbitration and Conciliation - Year XIII - 2020, pp. 37-86, "Unfair terms in the insurance contract" Civil Law Magazine, Year V (2020), 1, pp. 115-125, "Criteria for ascertaining negligent fault" (co-authored with Inês Sítima Craveiro), O Direito Magazine, Year 152, II (2020), pp. 343-355, Os deveres no tráfego, Estudos Comemorativos dos 50 Anos do Código Civil, Lisbon, 2019, Código das Sociedades Comerciais Anotado (coordination of Professor Doctor António Menezes Cordeiro), 3rd edition (collaboration with Professor António Menezes Cordeiro in the annotation to articles 172 to 174 and 242 - A to 242. Civil Liability for Breach of Duties in Traffic (2015, to be reprinted in 2019), Civil Liability of Supervisory Authorities and Financial Regulation (2017), "The substantive effects of the Land Registry", ROA, Ano 77 - Vol. I/II - Jan./Jun. 2017, The sale of consumer goods (2017), Land Registry Studies (2017), Possession and Detention (2015), Causation and objective imputation in the theory of civil liability (2010), The liability of the "represented" in tolled representation (2008). He has been President of the Board of the IDC/Association for the Study of Consumer Law at FDUL since July 2014.

Rui Pinto

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, hecooperated as a Professorwith 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)andOs Processos Especiais, 2 vols. (2020/2021)in co-coordination with Ana Alves. He was also co-author ofCódigo 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 recentI Congresso de Direito do Arrendamento (coord. Luís Menezes Leitão, 2019) and theV 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.

Rui Soares Pereira

Graduated (2001), Master (2006) and Doctor (2015), he is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon and Guest Assistant Professor at the Military Academy. He has taught Criminal Law, Criminal Procedural Law and Administrative Offenses Law at these institutions, along with other subjects, such as Obligations Law, Civil Procedural Law, Arbitration Law, Commercial Law and Family Law. He conducts research, gives conferences and has written on topics of Private Law, Criminal Law, Procedural Law, Evidence Law and also on topics related to Regulation Law and the use of new technologies and autonomous systems.Author, among others, of the following publications:Direito Sancionatório dos Valores Mobiliários,co-authored with Joana Costa Lopes; Prova, Verdade e Processo, Processo Penal,co-authored with João Gouveia de Caires; Direito das Contra-Ordenações,co-authored with Augusto Silva Dias; Sobre os Pareceres do Conselho Consultivo da PGR,co-authored with Inês Sítima Craveiro; Sobre a Validade de Procedimentos Administrativos Prévios ao Inquérito e de Fases Administrativas - Preliminares no Processo Penal, co-authored withAugusto Silva Dias; O Nexo de Causalidade na Responsabilidade Delitual: Fundamento e Limites do Juízo de Condicionalidade, Pressupostos Filosóficos e Científicos do Nexo de Causalidade, Memória e Presente de Direito da Família, co-authored withMargarida Silva Pereira,and A Responsabilidade por danos não patrimoniais do incumprimento das obrigações no direito civil português.He has participated in the coordination of collective worksin the field ofProbation Law (Prova Penal Teórica e Práticaand Novos Desafios da Prova Penal, 2 volumes),Regulation Law (Law Enforcement, Compliance e Responsabilidade Empresarial, which includes several volumes)andthe relationship between Law and Autonomous Systems (Legal Aspects of Autonomous Systems: A Comparative Approach). Jurisconsult, legal expert, arbitrator and lawyer. He was a lawyer and consultant at the PLMJ Law Firm, deputy to the Minister of the Presidency and Parliamentary Affairs and to the Secretary of State for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, in the XIX Constitutional Government, and a Fellow at the Foundation for Science and Technology. He is an associate of the IDPCC anda researcher at the CIDPCC, member of the EditorialBoard and Peer Reviewer of the journalAnatomia do Crime, editor in the area of Evidence Law for the Revista de Concorrência e Regulação and Peer Reviewer of the Revista da FDUL. Member of the ATFD and the Portuguese Philosophy Society, the Portuguese Arbitration Association, member of the Portuguese-German Association of Jurists and member of the Association of Catholic Jurists.

Researchers

Ricardo Bernardes

Rui de Mascarenhas Ataíde

Rui Pinto

Rui Soares Pereira