Manuel António De Castro Portugal Carne

Biography

Manuel António de Castro Portugal Carneiro da Frada  Personal Details: • Date of Birth: 23 January, 1962 • Civil Status: Married • Address: Resident at Rua Álvaro Gomes, 85-2 Dto. / 4150-064 Porto • Second Address: Rua Ventura Abrantes, no. 7 – 4º C / 1750 Lisbon • Office: Campo Grande, 28-9ºC / 1700-093 Lisbon Professional Career • Vice-chairman of The Board of the General Meeting of Banco Comercial Português, SA, since 16 January 2008  • Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto since 19 September 2006; • Professor at the Faculty of Law of Lisbon since 19 September 2006. Teacher at the said Faculty since 1985 to the present; • Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Universidade Católica. Teacher at the said Faculty since 1990. • Main areas of specialisation and teaching: contracts, civil liability, law theory, Commercial law, company law. • Grant holder and researcher, e.g. in the Institute of Civil Law and Civil Procedure of the Faculty of Law of Munich, in the Faculty of Law of the University of Bologna and in Columbia University (New York); • Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto; • Member of the Ethics Committee of the University of Porto; • Author of numerous speeches in debates and conferences on topics of civil law, commercial law, company law and legal theory; • Legal advisor since 1989, having prepared numerous legal studies and opinions in the areas of civil law, commercial law, company law and securities law, as well as intervening as a specialist in Portuguese law abroad; • Participant, as author or collaborator, in various works of legislative reform in the area of civil and commercial law, at the request of official bodies (e.g. Ministry of Public Works, Ministry of Trade and Tourism and the Ministry of the Presidency / Secretary of State of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers; • Legal advisor of the Secretary of State of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (Ministry of the Presidency) in 1993 and 1994; • Executive Secretary General of the Association Henri Capitant in Portugal; • Member of the Scientific Society of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa; • Member of the Centre of Law and Economy of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa; • Effective member of the Portuguese Fiscal Association since June 2007; • Member of the Portuguese Association of Intellectual Law (APDI); • Arbitrator of the Centre of Arbitration of the Portuguese Association of Intellectual Law; • Founding member of the Portuguese Corporate Governance Institute; • Member of the League of Friends of the Upper Douro Wine-growing Region. Academic Training • Secondary education in the German College (Porto); • Degree in Law from the Universidade Católica / Porto in 1984; • Professional lawyer’s licence obtained in 1986, after an internship as lawyer; • Masters in Legal-Civil Sciences from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra (degree obtained on 20 January 1992, with the public defence of the dissertation “Contract and Duties of Protection

Research Interest

contracts civil liability law theory Commercial law   company law.