Luís Miguel Pestana de Vasconcelos

Integrated Researcher

Counsellor Judge of the Court of Auditors (June 2021).
Full Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Porto (July 2017). 
Bachelor’s Degree Universidade Católica, Porto, July 1990 
Master’s in Legal and Business Sciences from Faculdade de Direito da Universdade de Coimbra (With Distinction, 18 out of 20, unanimously), June 1998. 
PhD in Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Porto (the jury unanimously decided that it should be left in record "the high level of the dissertation and the examinations"), July 2006.
 
Habilitation at the Faculty of Law, University of Porto, July 2015 (unanimously approved). 
President of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Law, University of Porto (2014-2019). 
Director of the Faculty of Law, University of Porto (2014-2019). 
Member of the Board of Directors of the University of Porto (2014-2019). 
Member of the Senate of the University of Porto (2014-2019). 
Director of the Journal of the Faculty of Law, University of Porto.
 
Participation in multiple academic juries at Portuguese and foreign universities. 
Teaching at Portuguese and foreign universities. 
Speaker and lecturer at various organisations and universities, both national and international. 
External specialist in international PhDs. 
Supervision of numerous master’s and doctoral dissertations.
 
Member of editorial and scientific boards of national and international journals. 
Member of various international associations of jurists and Law Professors.
 
Course leader and lecturer in different subjects in the areas of contract law, commercial law, corporate law, insolvency and corporate recovery law, banking law, securities law, contract law, and tax law.
 
Organisation and/or scientific direction of multiple national and international congresses and lectures. 
Coordinator of several collective works at the national and international levels.
 
Recipient of several research grants awarded by the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst and the Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht.
 
Author of numerous articles, book chapters, and other studies, in prestigious journals and other publications, in Portuguese, English, German, Italian, French, and Spanish. 
Author of several books, among which the following stand out:

• “Dos contratos de cessão financeira (factoring)”, Boletim da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra, Studia Iuridica, Coimbra Editora/Universidade de Coimbra, n.º 43, 1999, págs. 472.
• “O contrato de franquia (franchising)”, Almedina, Coimbra, 2000, págs. 168;  2.ª edição, Almedina, Coimbra, 2010, págs. 198.
• “A cessão de créditos em garantia e a insolvência. Em particular sobre a posição do cessionário na insolvência do cedente”, Coimbra Editora, Coimbra, 2007, págs. 1080. (Dissertação de doutoramento)
• "Direito das garantias", 4.ª ed., Almedina, Coimbra, 2023, págs. 760 (obra incluída na bibliografia dos exames do Centro de estudos judiciários).
• "Recuperação de empresas: o Processo especial de revitalização", Almedina, Coimbra, 2017, págs. 175.
• "Direito bancário", 4.ª ed., Almedina, Coimbra, 2022, págs. 596.
• "Direito das obrigações", vol. I, 2.ª ed., 2020, atualização e ampliação da obra de J. Ribeiro de Faria, com Rute Teixeira Pedro.
• "Direito das obrigações", vol. II, 2.ª ed., 2023, atualização e ampliação da obra de J. Ribeiro de Faria, com Rute Teixeira Pedro.

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