On September 22, 2021, CIJ researcher João Vieira dos Santos completed his Law PhD at the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto.
The jury of the PhD exams entitled "Regulation of FinTech Entrepreneurial Financing - In particular Crowdfunding and Initial Coin Offerings" was composed by Manuel António de Castro Portugal Carneiro da Frada (Full Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto), president of the jury, by João Salvador Velez Pacheco de Amorim (Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto and CIJ researcher), as supervisor, by Pedro António Pimenta da Costa Gonçalves (Associate Professor with Aggregation of the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra), by Diogo Pereira Duarte (Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon), by Pedro Canastra Azevedo Maia (Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra) by Maria Elisabete Gomes Ramos (Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra) and by Maria Raquel de Almeida Graça Silva Guimarães (Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto and CIJ researcher).