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Marta Lívia Dakovic dos Santos Silva. Concluiu o(a) Licenciatura em Direito [Law] em 2004/11/01 pelo(a) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro Regional do Porto, Doktor (PhD) em Direito em 2017/08/01 pelo(a) Universidade de Osnabruck e Postgraduate Certificate em Behavioral Economics: Nudging to Shape Decisions executive education program em 2021/06/30 pelo(a) University of Chicago Booth School of Business. É Investigador Auxiliar (carreira) no(a) Universidade do Minho - JusGov. Publicou 10 artigos em revistas especializadas. Possui 7 capítulo(s) de livros e 1 livro(s). Organizou 17 evento(s). Participou em 8 evento(s). Recebeu 13 prémio(s) e/ou homenagens. Participa e/ou participou como Investigador em 1 projeto(s), Investigador responsável em 5 projeto(s) e Outra em 4 projeto(s). Atua na(s) área(s) de Ciências Sociais com ênfase em Direito.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Marta Lívia Dakovic dos Santos Silva

Citation names

  • Santos Silva, Marta

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
EF10-0062-56F6
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6527-8327

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Law

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
German Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Elementary (A2)
Slovenian Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2)
Italian Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2021/02/01 - 2021/06/30
Concluded
Behavioral Economics: Nudging to Shape Decisions executive education program (Postgraduate Certificate)
University of Chicago Booth School of Business, United States
2005/10/01 - 2017/08/01
Concluded
Direito (Doktor (PhD))
Major in Direito comparado, Direito Privado Europeu
Universidade de Osnabruck, Germany
"The Draft Common Frame of Reference as a 'toolbox' for European judges. A solution for the pure economic loss problem from a comparative perspective" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Cum laude
2007/04/01 - 2007/04/30
Concluded
Diplôme de droit comparé, premier cycle [Comparative Law certificate, first cycle] (Especialização pós-licenciatura)
Major in Direito comparado [Comparative Law]
Université de Strasbourg, France
17/20
2004/09/01 - 2005/11/30
Concluded
Curso de Mestrado em Ciências Jurídico-Políticas [LL.M. in Legal-Political Sciences] (Curso de mestrado (conclusão do curso de especialização))
Major in Ciências Jurídico-Políticas [Legal Political Sciences]
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro Regional do Porto, Portugal
16/20
1999/09/01 - 2004/11/01
Concluded
Direito [Law] (Licenciatura)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro Regional do Porto, Portugal
16/20
2003/01/01 - 2003/07/31
Concluded
Specialisation in Environmental Law (Especialização pós-licenciatura)
Major in Environmental Law
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro Regional do Porto, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2021/12/01 - Current Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Universidade do Minho - JusGov, Portugal
2018/02/11 - 2022/02/28 Visiting Researcher (Research) Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid, Belgium
Consumer Competition Market, Belgium
2012/10/01 - 2015/09/01 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade de Bremen - Centre of European Law and Politics, Germany
2007/10/01 - 2009/08/01 Contracted Researcher (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2005/08/01 - 2007/09/30 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universität Osnabrück Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaften, Germany
European Legal Studies Institute, Germany

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2017/11/01 - 2021/11/30 Lecturer (University Teacher) Universidade de Maastricht, Netherlands
2017/11/01 - 2021/11/01 Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade de Maastricht, Netherlands
2009/09/01 - 2015/01/01 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade Portucalense Infante Dom Henrique, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2015/09/01 - 2017/05/01 Jurisconsultora [Legal Advisor] Milieu Law and Policy Consulting, Belgium
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/09/01 - 2024/03/24 Legal-by-Design digital disruption in the circular economy: An exploratory research project
FBR_OC2_58
Principal investigator
Ongoing

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/09/01 - Current Adding Impact to a White Paper on Digital Product Passports with video animation
03
Principal investigator
Universidade do Minho - JusGov, Portugal
Ongoing
2016/03/01 - 2016/05 Consultancy services for completeness and compliance assessment in the field of EU Public Procurement Law
2016/S 125-222903
Deputy Project Manager and Quality Assurance Reviewer
Milieu Law and Policy Consulting, Belgium
Submitted

Other

Designation Funders
2023/10/09 - Current The carbon footprint of digital product passports
01
Principal investigator
Universidade do Minho - JusGov, Portugal
Ongoing
2023/10/01 - Current Observatório da Sustentabilidade [Sustainability Observatory]
02
Principal investigator
Universidade do Minho - JusGov, Portugal
Ongoing
2023/09/01 - Current Exploring the Intersection of Green Claims, Digital Product Passports and AI Law: Enhancing Consumer Protection in Sustainable Product Purchases
04
Principal investigator
Universidade do Minho - JusGov, Portugal
Ongoing
2021/12/01 - Current Guiding Principles and Model Rules on Algorithmic Contracts
00
Assessor
Ongoing
2023/10/01 - 2023/12/31 DigiPass4Bat
101147993 - GAP
Researcher
Not funded
2016/09/01 - 2016/12/29 Residential Prosumers in the European Energy Union
JUST/2015/CONS/FW/CO06/0127
Deputy Project Manager, Quality assurance reviewer of country reports and country contributor
Milieu Law and Policy Consulting, Belgium
Submitted
2016/09/01 - 2016/12/29 The exploratory study of consumer issues in the sharing economy
CHAFEA/2015/02
Co-drafter of the EU legal analysis and the EU cross-analysis, quality assurance of country reports
Milieu Law and Policy Consulting, Belgium
Submitted
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Silva, Marta. The Draft Common Frame of Reference as a "Toolbox" for Domestic Courts. A Solution to the Pure Economic Loss Problem from a Comparative Perspective. Netherlands: Springer International Publishing. 2017.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Santos Silva, Marta. "Preface: Forging a Path to Environmental Sustainability in European Private Law". In The Routledge Handbook on Private Law and Sustainability. 2024.
  2. Santos Silva, Marta. "Epilogue: A Marble World and Humans Shaking Hands". In The Routledge Handbook on Private Law and Sustainability. 2024.
  3. Silva, Marta; Cortat Simonetti Goncalves, Luisa. "Nudging Consumers Towards Sustainable Practices Regarding Plastics in a Post-COVID Europe". In Coronavirus and the Law in Europe, edited by Hondius, Ewoud; Santos Silva, Marta; Nicolussi, Andrea; Salvador Coderch, Pablo; Wendehorst, Christiane; Zoll, Fryderyk. Intersentia, 2020.
    Published
  4. Santos Silva, Marta. "‘Buenas practicas de los modelos arrendaticios alemán, austríaco y suizo’ {‘Good practises in the German, Austrian and Swiss tenancy law systems’}". In Reformando las tenencias de la vivienda. Un hogar para tod@s. 2018.
  5. Santos Silva, Marta. "‘Breves Notas Sobre o Mecanismo de Controlo Incidental das Cláusulas Contratuais Gerais’ {‘Brief Considerations on the Mechanism of Incidental Control of Standard Terms’}". In Temas de Direito dos Contratos. Volume II da coleção “Estudos selecionados do Instituto Jurídico Portucalense” {Topics on Contract Law. Volume II of the series “Selected studies of the Portucalense Institute for Legal Research”}. 2016.
  6. Santos Silva, Marta. "Sobre a (In)admissibilidade das Ações por “Vida Indevida” (Wrongful Life Actions) na Jurisprudência e na Doutrina. O Arrêt Perruche e o caso André Martins’ {‘On the (In)admissibility of the Wrongful Life Actions in Case Law and Legal Scholarship. The Arrêt Perruche and the André Martins Case'}". In Direitos de Personalidade e sua Tutela. Volume I da coleção “Estudos selecionados do Instituto Jurídico Portucalense” {Personality Rights and their Protection. Volume I of the series “Selected studies of the Portucalense Institute for Legal Research”}. 2013.
  7. Santos Silva, Marta. "O Trust no Quadro Comum de Referência para o Direito Privado Europeu e as suas Raízes Históricas no Direito Romano’ {‘The Trust in the Draft Common Frame of Reference for Private Law and its Historical Roots in Roman Law’}". In O Sistema Contratual Romano: De Roma ao Direito Actual {The Roman Contractual System: From Rome to Current Law}. 2010.
Edited book
  1. Varia. Routledge Handbook on Private Law and Sustainability. 2024.
    In press • Editor
  2. Silva, Marta. Coronavirus and the Law in Europe. Intersentia. 2020.
    Published • Editor
  3. Varia. Direitos de Personalidade e sua Tutela. Volume I da coleção “Estudos selecionados do Instituto Jurídico Portucalense” {Personality Rights and their Protection. Volume I of the series “Selected studies of the Portucalense Institute for Legal Research. 2013.
    Published • Assistant staff
  4. Varia. Christian von Bar (ed.) / Study Group on a European Civil Code, Principles of European Law on Non-Contractual Liability Arising out of Damage Caused to Another. 2009.
    Assistant staff
  5. Varia. Principles, Definitions and Model Rules of European Private Law. Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR), Full edition. 2009.
    Assistant staff
  6. Varia. Principles of European Law on Sales (PEL S). 2008.
Encyclopedia entry
  1. Santos Silva, Marta; García-Micó, Tomàs Gabriel. "COVID-19 and Contract Law". In Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, 2023.
Journal article
  1. Santos Silva, Marta. "Greening the Consumer Rights Directive with “sludge”". EuCML (2024):
  2. Santos Silva, Marta. "Nudging and Other Behaviourally Based Policies as Enablers for Environmental Sustainability". Laws 11 1 (2022): 9.
    Open access • Published
  3. Santos Silva, Marta; Ramalho, Ana. "‘I Know it When I See It’: On Academic Plagiarism, and How to Assess it'". Higher Education for the Future 7 2 (2022):
  4. Silva, Marta; Fairgrieve, Duncan; Machnikowski, Piotr; Borghetti, Jean-Sebastien; Keirse, Anne; del Olmo Garcia, Pedro; Rajneri, Eleonora; et al. "Relevance of risk-benefit for assessing defectiveness of a product. A comparative study of thirteen European legal systems". European Review of Private Law 2021 1 (2021):
    In press
  5. Borghetti, Jean-Sebastien; Fairgrieve, Duncan; Goldberg, Richard; Howells, Geraint; Machnikowski, Piotr; Rajneri, Eleonora; Rott, Peter; et al. "Procurement of Covid-19 vaccines: why were legal liabilities transferred to the public sector?". InDret, Revista para el Análisis del Derecho 2 (2021):
  6. Cortat Simonetti Goncalves, Luisa; Bussinger, Elda Coelho de Azevedo; Santos Silva, Marta. "Transaction and conduct adjustment terms and the Samarco case: An analysis from the perspective of International Theories of Corporate Social Responsibility". Revista da AJURIS 149 (2020):
  7. Santos Silva, Marta. "Breves considerações sobre a sustentabilidade económica no mercado de arrendamento residencial alemão e alternativas no contexto da economia colaborativa’ {‘Brief considerations on the affordability in the German residential tenancy market and alternatives in the sharing economy context’}". Revista Eletrónica de Direito (RED) 3 (2017):
  8. Schmid, Christoph ; Dinse, Jason; Santos Silva, Marta. "‘Rumo a um Direito Comum do Arrendamento Urbano Europeu? O Impacto do Tribunal Europeu dos Direitos Humanos no Direito do Arrendamento’ {‘Towards a Common Law of European Tenancy Law? The Impact of the European Court of Human Rights in Tenancy Law’}". Boletim da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra 89 1 (2013): 395-424.
  9. Santos Silva. "The Compensation of Pure Economic Loss under Portuguese Tort Law.". Internationale Juristenvereinigung Osnabrück 16 10 (2009): 52-62.
  10. Santos Silva, Marta. "Cour de Cassation, Comm. pourvoi No. 03-19370 du avril 2005 - Schadenersatzanspruch des einfachen Lizenznehmers für entgangenen Gewinn gegenüber einem nicht vertraglich verbundenen Konkurrenten. Portuguese case note". European Review of Private Law 14 5/6 (2006):
    Published
Manual
  1. Varia. Essential Concepts of Sustainable Consumption and Production in the Law: An A-to-Z Guide. 2025.
    Accepted
Newsletter article
  1. Enes, G.; Santos Silva, Marta. "Interview to Viriato Soromenho Marques", Newsletter of the European Law Institute Portuguese hub, 2024
Online resource
  1. Santos Silva, Marta. Nutri-Score as a Nudging Technique to Enhance Healthier Food Choices. 2021. https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/blog/2021/03/nutri-score-nudging-technique enhance-healthier-food-choices.
  2. Santos Silva, Marta. Planned obsolescence and consumer protection. 2019. https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/blog/2019/04/planned-obsolescence-and-consumer-protection.
  3. Santos Silva, Marta. Tenant’s Rights Brochure for Luxembourg. 2014.
Report
  1. Psaila, Emma; Fiorentini, Sara; Santos Silva, Marta; Gomez, Ana. 2017. Exploratory study of consumer issues in online peer-to-peer platform markets. Task 5 report - Legal analysis report.
  2. Santos Silva, Marta. 2017. Comparative legal analysis of the national frameworks for residential prosumers in the EU28, Norway and Iceland.
  3. Santos Silva, Marta. 2015. Comparative legal analysis of the national frameworks for residential prosumers in the EU28, Norway and Iceland.
  4. Santos Silva, Marta. 2014. ‘Intra-comparison report for Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland’.
  5. Santos Silva, Marta. 2014. National Report for Luxembourg.
Translation
  1. Santos Silva, Marta. Direito do Enriquecimento sem Causa’, from the original in English ‘Unjustified Enrichment’ in Study Group on a European Civil Code, Christian von Bar, Stephen Swann (eds), Principles of European Law on Unjustified Enrichment (PEL Unj. Enr.). 2010.
  2. Santos Silva, Marta. ‘Responsabilidade civil extracontratual por danos causados a terceiros’, from the original in English ‘Non-Contractual Liability Arising out of Damage Caused to Another’, Study Group on a European Civil Code, Christian von Bar (ed), Principles of European Law on Non-Contractual Liability Arising out of Damage Caused to Another (PEL Liab. Dam.). 2009.
Working paper
  1. Santos Silva, Marta. 2024. "Proposal of an ELI Innovation Paper, “Guidelines for Good Green Nudging”".

Artistic / Performance

Program / Show
  1. Baptista, Vanessa. 2023. "O que são nudges verdes? De que forma o direito privado pode contribuir para a sustentabilidade?". RUM: UMinho I&D.
  2. Carvalho, Jorge Morais. 2021. "Nudging and consumer sustainable practices in the context of a plastics-based economy". NOVA Consumer Podcast.

Other

Other output
  1. Newsletter of the European Law Institute Portuguese Hub. An online publication to inform about the members and the activities of the Hub. 2024. Enes, G.; Santos Silva, Marta.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/04/30 Presentation A implementação do passaporte digital de produtos: desafios jurídicos [The implementation of the digital product passport: legal challenges]. Inaugural seminar of the series of seminars Sustentabilidade para todos [Sustainability for All] Invited speaker. Seminário Eco-design e passaportes digitais de produtos. Desafios para o Direito e para as empresas [Workshop Eco-design and digital product passports. Challenges for the Law and for companies]
Associação Empresarial Portuguesa (Porto, Portugal)
2024/03/12 International Seminar New Challenges for Consumer protection: The subscription economy and stealth marketing. JusGov /Law School at the University of Minho, Braga - Discussant. International Seminar New Challenges for Consumer protection: The subscription economy and stealth marketing
Universidade do Minho - JusGov (Porto, Portugal)
2024/01/10 Lecture Green friction in EU Consumer Law, Faculty of Economics and Management at the University of Zagreb, upon invitation of Ivan Tot, Zagreb (Croatia) - Invited lecturer
University of Zagreb (Zagreb, Croatia)
2023/11/23 Presentation Nudging consumers towards environmentally-sustainable practices – Invited speaker. Sostenibilitat i noves tecnologies en el dret privat a Catalunya [Sustainability and New technologies in Catalan Private Law
Orgs Rosa Barceló Compte, Rosa M. Garcia Teruel and Tomàs Gabriel García-Micó (with the assistance of Enrique Peruga Pérez), Universitat de Barcelona, Spain (Barcelona, Spain)
2023/10/20 Presentation, O paternalismo no nudge e o seu impacto na liberdade decisória dos cidadãos [The paternalismo in the nudge and its impact in the decision freedom of citizens] – Invited speaker. Conference Ideologia e Direito [Ideology and the Law]
Orgs João Sérgio Ribeiro, Andreia Barbosa, scientific coord. Mário Monte, Teresa Coelho Moreira,¿Eva Sónia Moreira, Carlos Abreu Amorim, Pedro Froufe, João Sérgio Ribeiro, Law School at the University of Minho, Braga (Braga, Portugal)
2023/09/06 Communication Advancing the sufficiency paradigm with digital product passports in the panel 3C: Responsible Sourcing & Innovation at the World Resources Forum ¿23 Rethinking Value Resources for Planetary Wellbeing (Scientific Committee Chairs Patrick Wäger, Empa and Sonia Valdivia, WRFA), World Resources Forum Association, Geneva, online participation) - Accepted Speaker.
(Geneva, Switzerland)
2023/07/06 Communication Digital Product Passport: a game changer for Sustainable Production? at the panel C05: Digitalisation and production passports in the circular economy, SCORAI-ERSCP-WUR Conference (SCP23): Transforming Consumption-Production Systems Toward Just and Sustainable Futures, SCORAI (Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative)/ERSCP/ Wageningen University and Research, online participation – Accepted speaker
(Wageningen, Netherlands)
2023/07/06 Communication Sustainable by design. Fair and transparent implementation of the eco-score through digital product passports at the panel C05: Digitalisation and production passports in the circular economy, SCORAI-ERSCP-WUR Conference (SCP23): Transforming Consumption-Production Systems Toward Just and Sustainable Futures, SCORAI (Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative)/ERSCP/ Wageningen University and Research, online participation - Accepted speaker.
(Wageningen, Netherlands)
2023/06/26 Keynote ‘Fostering Environmental sustainability: is the Law enough?’, La Sostenibilitat en la docência del dret, org. Albert Ruda González & Albert Lladó Martínez, Universitat de Girona, Girona (Spain), online participation, upon invitation of Alberto Ruda - Guest keynote speaker.
(Girona, Spain)
2023/03/15 Communication Nudges as enablers of environmental sustainability, Dialogic Workshop Sustainability and Resilience, Reflexive interactions between junior and senior researchers, scient. coord. Joana Covelo de Abreu and Marta Santos SiIva, JusGov/Escola de Direito da Universidade do Minho, Braga - Speaker. Dialogic Workshop Sustainability and Resilience, Reflexive interactions between junior and senior researchers
(Braga, Portugal)
2022/04/27 Presentation Sustainable Consumption and Production: Aiming at More with Less’ at the webinar following the ELI’s Response to the European Commission’s Public Consultation on the Sustainable Consumption of Goods – Promoting the Right to Repair and Reuse - Guest speaker.
2021/11/26 Communication ‘Green Nudges as an Alternative Regulatory Approach to Sustainability’ at the Ius Commune Workshop on Environmental Law 2021: Coherence of regulatory and implementation approaches serving societal transitions towards sustainability, organised by Marleen van Rijswijk, Anoeska Buijze and Nicola Harvey, Ius Commune Research School Annual Conference 2021 - Accepted speaker.
2021/04/22 Communication ‘Nutri Score as a nudging technique to enhance healthier food choice’, at the panel Sustainable consumption of food, water and energy at the Consumer Conference, organised by Jorge Morais de Carvalho (NOVA Consumer Lab from the NOVA University, Lisbon, Portugal) – Invited speaker.
2021/04/08 Lecture ‘Nudging and other behaviourally-based policies as enablers for environmental sustainability’, inaugural session of the seminar series on Environmental Sustainability and the Green Deal: Values Innovation and Regulation. A Global Debate organised by Alberto De Franceschi and William Boyde, ELI Environmental Law SIG, discussant: Yuval Feldman - Invited speaker.
2021/03/26 Communication ‘Nutriscore as a nudge to steer sustainable consumer choice’ at the Research seminar KU Leuven/CCM - Invited speaker.
2020/12/08 Presentation at webinar ‘Contrariar o efeito Black Friday com tecnonudges’ {‘Counteracting the “Black Friday effect” with tecnonudges’}, Porto School of Law of Portuguese Catholic University (org.). Media coverage: UCP’s website – Invited speaker.
2020/11/17 Presentation at Webinar ‘Nudges and the plastic economy in the COVID-19 context’, co-presented with Luísa Cortat Simonetti Gonçalves, webinar series ‘Direito dos Contratos, do Consumo e COVID-19’ [Contract and Consumer Law and COVID-19], JusGov: Research Centre for Justice and Governance (org.), Braga (Portugal) - Invited panellist.
2020/09/12 Online lecture ‘Hypernudging for Sustainability?’ at Café IA, co-presented with Gunes Acar, Católica Research Centre Webinar for the Future of Law, Lisbon School of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University – Invited lecturer.
2020/09/11 Presentation ‘Coronavirus and the Law in Europe – Book Launch’, panel at the 2020 Online ELI Annual Conference, co-presented with Ewoud Hondius, Pablo Salvador Coderch, Christiane Wendehorst, Andrea Nicolussi and Fryderyk Zoll, European Law Institute – Invited speaker.
2019/11/29 Communication ‘Freedom of Contract and Paternalism in the Digital Economy’ at the Ius Commune Conference 2019, Workshop: Contract Law 2020, KU Leuven, Leuven - Accepted speaker.
2018/12/07 Communication ‘Planned obsolescence and consumer protection’ at the Value-less Data Symposium, Panel Economic Value of Data, Faculty of Law at Maastricht University - Guest speaker.
2017/10/19 Presentation ’A new labor ecosystem in the sharing economy: a platform for growth?’, International conference Reshaping Work in the Sharing Economy, Leiden University / University of Amsterdam / Eduworks and Share NL – Selected panelist
2015/09/01 Panel ‘Towards a European Role in Tenancy Law and Housing Policy’, TENLAW project closing conference, Metropolitan Research Institute, Budapest – Invited pannelist.
2013/09/01 Presentation ‘Public Renting Through Agencies in Luxembourg’, International Conference Emerging Private Rental Sector in Accession and Transition Countries: Is there an Option for Social Rental Agencies? Metropolitan Research Institute, Budapest – Invited panelist
2013/04/01 Presentation ‘Capacity for regulatory framework of housing’, Housing Forum Europe and Central Asia, Habitat for Humanity, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, UNDP and UN Habitat (orgs), United Nations, Geneva – Invited panelist.
2009/02/01 Presentation The trust within the Common Frame of Reference and its historical roots, The Roman Contractual System: From Rome to Current Law, XIth International Congress and XIVth International Iberic-American Congress of Roman Law, Faculty of Law at the University of Lisbon – Invited panellist.
Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Direito (Lisboa, Portugal)
2009/02/01 Presentation ‘The trust within the Common Frame of Reference and its historical roots’, The Roman Contractual System: From Rome to Current Law, XIth International Congress and XIVth International Iberic-American Congress of Roman Law, Faculty of Law at the University of Lisbon – Invited panellist.

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2024/05/21 - Current 'The Challenges of Sustainability for Law', annual conference of the ELI Portuguese Hub (2024/05/21)
Conference (Co-organisor)
Universität Wien European Law Institute, Austria
2024/02/19 - Current Apresentação do relatório intercalar do European Law Institute sobre proteção do consumidor e decisões contratuais algorítmicas [Webinar on the interim report of the European Law Institute on consumer protection and algorithmic contractual decisions] by Professor Teresa Rodrigues de las Heras Ballell (2024/02/19)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
Universität Wien European Law Institute, Austria
2023/11/24 - Current Workshop IA e responsabilidade civil [AI and civil liability], JusGov/Law School at the University of Minho, Braga (2023/11/24)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Direito, Portugal
2023/06/29 - Current Speeddating e Mesa Redonda para Investigadores em Sustentabilidade [Speeddating and Roundtable Discussion for researchers on sustainability studies] (2023/06/29)
Round table (Co-organisor)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Direito, Portugal
2020/01/24 - Current Consumer and data privacy: the digital revolution of legal, social and economic interaction, international and interdisciplinary symposium at the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University, funded by the University Fund Limburg, the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University, the Maastricht Working on Europe research agenda from Studio Europa (2020/01/24)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
Universidade de Maastricht, Netherlands
2018/12/07 - Current Value-less data: Legal, ethical, economic, and technological lessons for a robust data economy, Interdisciplinary symposium at the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University (2018/12/07)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
Universidade de Maastricht, Netherlands
2018/11/30 - Current Workshop Contract Law and Consumer Protection: Circular Economy and Servitisation (2018/11/30)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
2018/07/10 - Current Led Talks III: Summer Masterclass on Ethics, Research and the GDPR (2018/07/10)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
2018/04/19 - Current Led Talks II: Speed Dating and Roundtable on Big Data, Legal Analytics and Trustworthy Computation (2018/04/19)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
2017/11/30 - Current Led Talks I: Think Tank meeting, interdisciplinary community-launch event organized upon invitation of the Dean of the Faculty of Law, co-organized by the Faculty of Law and the Institute of Data Science (IDS) at Maastricht University (2017/11/30)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
Universidade de Maastricht, Netherlands
2016/10/12 - Current Workshop Living with a brain disorder. Taking control of your life, organised on behalf of the European Parliament, ENVI Committee overall project value 19,600 EUR, Member of the organisation committee and co-author of workshop proceedings available in open access (2016/10/12)
Conference (Co-organisor)
Milieu Law and Policy Consulting, Belgium
2016/07/14 - Current Workshop on “EU options for improving access to medicines” organised on behalf of the European Parliament, ENVI Committee overall project value 27,250 EUR, member of the organisation committee and co-author of workshop proceedings (2016/07/14)
Conference (Co-organisor)
Milieu Law and Policy Consulting, Belgium
2011/11/02 - Current Trauma e Direito [Trauma and the Law], interdisciplinary symposium organized at the University Portucalense Infante D. Henrique with A-CAM (Associação de Cidadãos Auto-Mobilizados) (2011/11/02)
Congress (Co-organisor)
Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique, Portugal
2011/02/01 - Current New tendencies in Financial Law. The impact of trust’, part of the cycle of conferences Law, Economy and Culture – New Paradigms for the Society of the Future (2011/02/01)
Conference (Co-organisor)
Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique, Portugal
2023/10/09 - 2023/10/10 Legal-by-Design digital disruption in the circular economy: An exploratory research project, IR Marta Santos Silva, Co-IR Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui and Co-IR Berte-Elen Konow, high-level international workshop funded by the Fund for Bilateral Relations – FBR – Open Call #2, EEA Financial Mechanism 2014-2021), nr. FBR_OC2_58 (2023/10/09 - 2023/10/10)
Congress (Co-organisor)
2023/09/14 - 2023/09/14 International Seminar Current Challenges on Platform Regulation in Japan and Beyond, Speaker Kunihiro Nakata, Discussant Tomàs Gabriel García-Micó, Chairs: Marta Santos Silva and Sónia Moreira, JusGov/Law School at the University of Minho, Braga (2023/09/14)
Round table (Co-organisor)
2023/03/15 - 2023/03/16 Dialogic Workshop Sustainability and Resilience: Reflexive interactions between junior and senior researchers, JusGov/Law School at the University of Minho (2023/03/15 - 2023/03/16)
Round table (Co-organisor)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Direito, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/02/19 - Current Webinar on the interim report of the European Law Institute on consumer protection and algorithmic contractual decisions [Apresentação do relatório intercalar do European Law Institute sobre proteção do consumidor e decisões contratuais algorítmicas] by Professor Teresa Rodrigues de las Heras Ballell, moderator.
Seminar
Universität Wien European Law Institute, Austria
2023/11/20 - Current Workshop IA e responsabilidade civil, coord. científica Sónia Moreira e Marta Santos Silva, JusGov/Escola de Direito da Universidade do Minho, Braga - Chair
Seminar
Universidade do Minho Escola de Direito, Portugal
2023/10/09 - Current Panel Digital Product Passports at the High-Level International Workshop Legal-by-Design, Digital Disruption in the Circular Economy: An exploratory research project, Braga - Moderator.
Congress
Universidade do Minho Escola de Direito, Portugal
2023/09/14 - Current International Seminar Current Challenges on Platform Regulation in Japan and Beyond, Speaker Kunihiro Nakata, Discussant Tomàs Gabriel García-Micó, scientific coord. Marta Santos Silva and Sónia Moreira, JusGov/Escola de Direito da Universidade do Minho, Braga - Moderator.
Workshop
Universidade do Minho - JusGov, Portugal
2023/01/18 - Current Second High-Level Expert Group Meeting on Nudges as Enablers of Sustainable Living, org. European Law Institute. Guest speakers: Avishalom Tor, Anne-Lise Sibony, Antonios Karampatzos, Susanne Augenhofer – Invited Chair.
Other
2022/09/14 - Current Panel Consumer Empowerment – perception, information, ecolabelling, consumer’s rights, servitising, at the Workshop on Building a Legal System for a Circular Economy: Identifying Problems and Legal Solutions, Instituto de Ciências Jurídico-Políticas (ICJP) and Centro de Investigação de Direito Público (CJDP), Faculty of Law at the University of Lisbon, Heloísa Oliveira (org.), within the project ‘Ecodesign, ecolabelling and the consumer’s role: an interdisciplinary approach for circularity EXPL/DIR-DCP/1333/2021’ - Invited Chair
2017/09/05 - Current Workshop ‘Promoviert – und dann? Karrierewege in universitären und außeruiversitären Arbeitsfeldern’ [PhD - and then? Career paths in university and non-university fields of work], organized by Elke Bertke and Sabine Mehlmann, PhD/Postdoc Career Center (ZePrOs) – Invited panelist.
2017/09/05 - Current Workshop ‘Promoviert – und dann? Karrierewege in universitären und außeruiversitären Arbeitsfeldern’ [PhD - and then? Career paths in university and non-university fields of work], organized by Elke Bertke and Sabine Mehlmann, PhD/Postdoc Career Center (ZePrOs) – Invited panelist.
Round table

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role
Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2022/07/05 Robótica Quirúrgica y Derecho de Daños, Faculty of Law at University Pompeo Fabra, Carlos Gómez (promotor, UPF) - Pleader
(Thesis) Main arguer
Tomàs García Micó (PhD)
2021/02/02 La protection des transports de merchandises par mer en droit ivoirien: sécurité de la merchandise et sûreté de la navigation, Faculty of Law at Maastricht University, M. G. Faure (promotor, Maastricht University) and Jean-Claude Dakouri (co-promotor, University FHB d'Abidjan) Member of the Jury
(Thesis) Arguer
Aka Yapo Firmin (PhD)
2020/11/12 The principle of free admissibility of local authorities under the law of Benin and the law of France, Abasse Olossoumare, Faculty of Law at Maastricht University, M. G. Faure (promotor, Maastricht University) and A. D. Lawogni Akogou (co-promotor, University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin) – Member of the Jury
(Thesis) Arguer
Abasse Olossoumare (PhD)
2020/06/11 Legal remedies against the plastic pollution of the oceans: an analysis of the attempts from public international law and private initiatives to face the plastic soup’, Luísa Cortat Simonetti Gonçalves Coutinho, Faculty of Law at Maastricht University, M. G. Faure (promotor, Maastricht University) and Adriano Sant’Ana Pedra (Vitória Law School, Brazil) – Member of the Jury.
(Thesis) Arguer
Luísa Cortat Simonetti Gonçalves Coutinho (PhD)

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2024/01/01 - Current International Research Network on Sustainable Fashion Consumption Member
2023/12/01 - Current Future Earth - Knowledge Action Network on Systems of Sustainable Consumption Member
2023/09/27 - Current Founding Member and Co-Chair (with Graça Enes) of the ELI Portuguese Hub
2021/12/01 - Current Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI) Member
2009/01/01 - Current Society of European Contract Law (SECOLA)
2009/01/01 - Current European Law Institute Fellow. Member of the Sustainability and Environmental Law Special Interest Group (SIG), the Digital Law SIG and the Global Private Law SIG. Elected member of the ELI Council

Committee member

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization
2023/09/01 - Current Member of the Funding Committee (
2021/09/08 - Current Member of the Membership Committee of the European Law Institute
2021 - Current The Transformation of Private Law Journal “Transformacje Prawa Prywatnego” (The Transformation of Private Law) – member of the Editorial Board, quarterly, Editora Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, indexada em ERIH Plus, PBN/POL-Index e CEJSH (https://journals.law.uj.edu.pl/TPP).
2020 - Current Member of the coordinating group for Comparative Contract Law.
2009/01/01 - 2021/12/01 Member of the Scientific Board of CIJ (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Justice)
Member
2015 - 2016 University of Bremen, Faculty of Law/Centre of European Law and Politics – Appointed representative of the researchers (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeitern) at the Faculty Doctoral Board.
2009 - 2012 Secretary-General of the Portucalense Institute for Legal Research
2009 - 2010 Coordination of the Bachelor of Laws

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2017 - Current European Commission – Appointed member of the Expert Group on Liability and New Technologies (E03592) Appointed Expert having provided the EC with expertise on the applicability of the Product Liability Directive to traditional products, new technologies and new societal challenges (Product Liability Directive formation).

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/11/22 - Current Open lecture Slow Fashion: Seguindo as tendências preservando o ambiente [Slow Fashion: following fashion while preserving the environment], Law School at the University of Minho, Braga, 22 November 2023 – Invited lecturer. (Ensino secundário)
2023/07/12 - Current Lecture Green sludge: adding friction to consumer contracts for promoting environmental sustainability at the Summer School Critical Topics in Environmental Law in Comparative Perspective. Sustainability Transition, the Role of Information, and the Challenges of the New Silk Road, dir. Barbara Pozzo, Interuniversity Research Centre for Comparative Law, coord. Valentina Jacometti, Dipartimento di diritto, economia e cultura, Università degli studi dell Insubria (Como, Chiostro di Sant Abbondio - Guest lecturer. (Postgraduate Certificate)
2022/11/26 - Current Open lecture Slowfashionistas: Less is Cool Law School at the University of Minho, Braga - Invited lecturer.
2021/05/03 - Current Lecture ‘Nudging as an alternative regulatory tool in European private legal system in a comparative perspective’, Faculty of Law of the University Sacro Cuore of Milan, upon invitation of Prof. Dr. Andrea Nicolussi - Invited lecturer.
2019/03/04 - Current Lecture ‘Hypernudging and consumer protection’, Centre for Persuasive Communication at Ghent University – Invited speaker.
2018/10/24 - Current Lecture at the M-EPLI talks session ‘The Eyes are the Mirror of the Sold: How Recognition Technologies impact Consumers’ decision making and their protection’ - Invited lecturer.
2016 - Current Public speaking training for executives, Milieu Law & Policy Consulting, in the capacity of coordinator and lecturer
2015/04/01 - Current Lecture ‘TENLAW: EU-project and dissemination of interim results’, Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana - Invited lecturer.
2015/04/01 - Current Lecture ‘Brief Considerations on the Europeanisation of Private Law and of Non-Contractual Obligations in Particular. The DCFR and the PEL. Liab. Dam.’, Faculty of Law at University of Ljubljana - Invited lecturer.
2011/07/01 - Current Lecture ‘A critical vision of pure economic loss under the perspective of the Spanish law of civil liability’, in the framework of the course ‘Derecho Civil’ of the study program in technical foreign languages (Fachspezifische Fremdsprachenausbildung), Faculty of Law at Osnabrück University, in the framework of an Erasmus+ partnership - Invited lecturer.
2010/08/01 - Current Lecture ‘Compensation for pure economic law in Portugal’, Internationale Juristenvereinigung Osnabrück (IJVO), European Legal Studies Institute, Osnabrück (Germany) – Invited lecturer.
2009/11/02 - Current Lecture The works of the Study Group on a European Civil Code, Lisbon School of Law at Portuguese Catholic University, Lisbon, organized by Maria Da Graça Trigo - Invited lecture. (Curso de mestrado (conclusão do curso de especialização)) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Direito, Portugal
2009/11/02 - Current Lecture ‘The works of the Study Group on a European Civil Code’, Lisbon School of Law at Portuguese Catholic University, Lisbon, organized by Maria Da Graça Trigo - Invited lecture.
2024/01/01 - 2024/02/29 European Contract Law LL.M. in European and Transglobal Business Law (Mestrado) Universidade do Minho Escola de Direito, Portugal
2017/11/01 - 2021/02/28 Comparative Contract Law (Bachelor)
2019 - 2021 International Business Law
2019 - 2021 Corporate Social Responsibility
2017 - 2021 International Commercial Law
2018 - 2019 Moot Trial Training, within the Jean Monet Module Intellectual Property in the Digital Single Market
2017 - 2019 Skills: Academic Writing
2013 - 2016 Comparative Civil and Commercial Law’ seminar at the joint BSc Comparative and European Law at the Hanse Law School, in the capacity of coordinator and lecturer.
2013 - 2014 Introduction to Portuguese Private Law and Terminology’ key qualification, program ForstA at the BSc in Law at Bremen University, in the capacity of coordinator and lecturer.
2011 - 2012 Direitos Reais [Property Law] at the BSc in Law, at Portucalense Infante D. Henrique University (Porto), in the capacity of tutor.
2011 - 2012 Teoria Geral do Direito Civil I [General Theory of Civil Law I] at the BSc in Law for Solicitors, at Portucalense Infante D. Henrique University (Porto), in the capacity of tutor.
2011 - 2012 Teoria Geral do Direito Civil II [General Theory of Civil Law II] at the BSc in Law for Solicitors, at Portucalense Infante D. Henrique University (Porto), in the capacity of tutor.
2009 - 2012 Direito do Trabalho [Labour Law] at the BSc in Law for Solicitors, at Portucalense Infante D. Henrique University (Porto), in the capacity of course coordinator and tutor.
2009 - 2012 Direito Internacional Penal [International Criminal Law] at the BSc in Law, at Portucalense Infante D. Henrique University (Porto), in the capacity of course coordinator and lecturer.
2009 - 2011 Direito Internacional Público [International Public Law] at the BSc in Law, at Portucalense Infante D. Henrique University, in the capacity of tutor.
2009 - 2010 Direitos de Autor [Copyright Law] at the BSc in Law, at Portucalense Infante D. Henrique University (Porto), in the capacity of course coordinator and lecturer

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization Funding entity
2023/12/12 - Current Prémios UMinho de Iniciação na Investigação Científica 2023 [Prizes UMinho for early career researchers], delivered on 12 December 2023. Assessed, as a substitute for a nominated member of the jury.
2017 - Current Member of the selection committee analyzing applications of prospective students at Maastricht University, Faculty of Law
2020 - 2021 Appointed member of the Colloquium Doctum Commission for 2020-2021 at Maastricht University, Faculty of Law
2009 - 2012 Coordination of the assessment jury of the access to the Law School.

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2024/01/30 - Current Entrevista a Viriato Soromenho Marques

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024 - Current Journal of Consumer Policy
2023 - Current International and Comparative Law Quarterly
2023 - Current Revista Eletrónica de Direito
2021 - Current Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law
2021 - Current Osteuroparecht
2018 - Current Journal of European Consumer and Market Law
2018 - Current International and Comparative Law Quarterly
2016 - Current European Journal on Risk Regulation

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2020 - Current Teresa Tugade
2020 - Current Rémi Saidane
2020 - Current Anne-Julie Mannekens

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024/01/01 - Current University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law (Croatia), hosted by Prof. Dr. Tatjana Josipovic Nacionalna i sveucili¿na knji¿nica u Zagrebu, Croatia
2023/11/30 - 2023/12/02 University of Osnabrueck (Germany), hosted by Prof. Dr. Christoph Busch Universität Osnabrück, Germany
2023/07/01 - 2023/07/31 University of Ferrara, Faculty of Management and Economics (Italy), hosted by Prof. Dr. Alberto De Franceschi Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy
2023/01/01 - 2023/01/31 University of Vienna, Faculty of Law (Austria), hosted by Prof. Dr. Christiane Wendehorst Universität Wien Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Austria
2022/07/01 - 2022/08/31 University of Maribor, Faculty of Law (Slovenia), hosted by Prof. Dr. Janja Hojnik Univerza v Mariboru Pravna fakulteta, Slovenia
2018/06/01 - 2018/07/31 European University Institute, EUI (Florence, Italy), hosted by Prof. Dr. Hans Micklitz European University Institute, Italy
Distinctions

Award

2000 Portuguese Catholic University, D. António Ferreira Gomes Prize granted by the Porto Law School for the best grade at the first-year course of the Bachelor of Law
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro Regional do Porto, Portugal
1999 Portuguese Catholic University Fellowship granted by the Porto Law School for the academic results had in every year of the Bachelor of Law. full tuition exemption
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro Regional do Porto, Portugal

Other distinction

2023 Funding support of a communication product of white paper, application Adding Impact to a White Paper on Digital Product Passports with video animation), IR Marta Santos Silva (2500 euros).
European Enterprise Network, Belgium
2023 Editorial support of the edited monograph The Routledge Handbook on Private Law and Sustainability (eds Marta Santos Silva et al. (2500 euros).
Fundação Manuel António da Mota (FMAM), Portugal
2023 EEA Grants - Fund for Bilateral Relations Iceland, Lichenstein, Norway Grants, Grant following the FBR Open Call #2, EEA Financial Mechanism 2014-2021, nr. FBR_OC2_58, 23 March 2023 granted for the implementation of High-Level Workshop
EEA Grants, Belgium
2021 Research Grant for Young Researchers, Maastricht University, Faculty of Law, granted for the attendance to the eight-week course Behavioral Economics: Nudging to Shape Decisions (Chicago Booth Executive Education), The University Booth School of Business
Universiteit Maastricht Faculty of Law, Netherlands
2020 Jana Zemljaric Miklavcic Scholarship Trust, Scholarship granted for individual non-professional engagement in Slovene culture and contribution to the promotion of Slovenia in the world, to attend the Slovene Summer course with full tuition exemption
2018 University Fund Limburg (SWOL), Alumni grant, granted for organizing an international symposium in ‘Consumer protection and data privacy’ at Maastricht University (co-grant holders Marta Santos Silva and Kody Moodley, 4.000 euros
Universiteitsfond Limburg (SWOL), Netherlands
2018 Maastricht Working in Europe Grant, granted for organizing an international symposium on ‘Consumer protection and data privacy’ at Maastricht University (co-grant holders Lisette Bongers, Kody Moodley and Marta Santos Silva), 1519.52 euros
Maastricht Working in Europe, Netherlands
2018 Maastricht University, Faculty of Law, Collaborative grant, granted for organizing an international symposium on ‘Consumer protection and data privacy’ at Maastricht University (co-grant holders Marta Santos Silva and Kody Moodley), 2500 euros.
Universiteit Maastricht Faculty of Law, Netherlands
2008 Europa Förderpreis 2008 granted by the former President of the European Parliament, Dr. h.c. Hans-Gert Pöttering for the ‘outstanding academic results in several Member States of the European Union’, at the suggestion of Prof. Dr.
Universität Osnabrück, Germany
2007 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Ph.D. fellowship, 4 years full-time research funding
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2007 University Robert Schumann, Internationale Faculté de Droit Comparé, Strasbourg III Fellowship to attend course on European and International Comparative Law at Schuman University full tuition exemption
Université de Strasbourg, France