Paulo Mota Pinto

Paulo Mota Pinto is Full Professor of Civil Law and coordinator of the Civil Law Department at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, member of the Portuguese Parliament, member of the European Law Institute (ELI) and member of the Advisory Board of the Portuguese Hub of the ELI, member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, of the Luso-Brazilian Comparative Law Institute and of the Deutsch-Lusitanische Juristenvereinigung. He taught as Guest Professor in the Law School of the Universität des Saarlandes (Germany), and was Justice of the Constitutional Court of the Portuguese Republic from 11 March 1998 until 4 April 2007.

He is the 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 (as, for instance, the draft of the first Portuguese consumer sales law). He was Member of the European Research Group on Existing EC Private Law (Acquis Group), 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. His main fields of interest currently include Fundamental Rights and Rights of Personality, Artificial Intelligence and Law, European Contract Law.