Professor at the Law Faculty, University of Coimbra, Portugal, Arbitrator and Legal Consultant Academics Study of Law in the Law School of Coimbra (Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra), where he obtained, with the highest grades, the titles of Master of Law (Mestrado) and Juris Doctor (Doutoramento) and ¿Agregação¿ (Full Professorship) in Civil Law, with works on tacit and implied declarations of will and the reliance interest and the expectation interest in damages. Started his career as a Law Professor in 1990. He is presently Full Professor at the University of Coimbra Law School (www.fd.uc.pt) and coordinator of the Civil Law Department (https://www.uc.pt/fduc/docencia/coordenadores/). He teaches Civil Law ¿ General Doctrine, Contracts and Property Law. He has also taught in the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and in the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. In the summer semester 2016 he taught as Guest Professor in the Law School of the Universität des Saarlandes (Germany). Paulo Mota Pinto has been lecturer and held conferences in universities in Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Macau, Spain, Germany, Poland, etc. In June 2015 Paulo Mota Pinto held a series of lectures in the Centre for Judiciary Studies of the Macau Administrative Special Region, China. In the Summer Semester 2016, Paulo Mota Pinto was guest professor (¿Europa-Lehrstuhl¿) in the University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany. Member of juries for Master and PhD degrees in the field of Private Law. Author of the draft sections relating to rights of personality, and co-author of the draft sections relating to defects of will of the Civil Code of Macao before the handover to China (1999) and of other draft statutes (author, for instance, of the Portuguese consumer sales law and of the statute on junk mail, junk calls and faxes). Professional Justice of the Constitutional Court of the Portuguese Republic, elected by Portuguese Parliament, from 11 March 1998 until 4 April 2007. As a member of the Constitutional Court Paulo Mota Pinto drafted more than 560 court decisions and 350 single-judge decisions, available at www.tribunalconstitucional.pt. Acted as a lawyer in 1990 and 1991. Since 1991 and 2007 he acted as a legal consultant in the field of Portuguese private law, having authored several dozens of legal opinions, mainly in Civil Law, Commercial Law and Constitutional Law (Fundamental Rights) question. From 1991 until 1998, legal consultant for BPI ¿ Banco Português de Investimento. Member of the European Law Institute, of the Luso-Brasilian Comparative Law Institute, of the Deutsch-Lusitanische Juristenvereinigung, do European Research Group on Existing EC Private Law (Acquis Group). Member of the Expert Group created by the European Commission to write a feasibility study on a Common European Sales Law and of the Commission for the Reform of Portuguese Consumer Law. Member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences (since 2023); membro of the International Academy of Portuguese Culture (Academia Internacional da Cultura Portuguesa), elected in 2012. Last update February 2024