Sara Moreira de Azevedo is a Guest Lecturer at the Lisbon University – Law School where she lectures since 2017 and with which she concluded her Master of Laws (2022) and graduation (2016). She is a Lawyer registered with the Portuguese Bar Association since 2022. She develops her activity within the field of Public and Regulatory Law and Litigation and Arbitration. Her main areas of expertise are Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Regulation (namely, electronic communications), public procurement (administrative procedures and contractual matters) and arbitration.
She was an advisor to the Minister of the Presidency and Administrative Modernization of the XXI Constitutional Government, between 2017 and 2019, and she worked mainly in the negotiation, drafting and monitoring of the implementation of legislative acts and in procedures involving foundations and other third sector entities. She is an assistant integrated research member at the Lisbon Public Law Research Centre (Lisbon University – Law School), and Deputy Executive Director of e-Publica – Public Law Journal. She takes part in several research groups on public property law and constitutional law. She has published articles in the areas of administrative and public property law and legal theory. She frequently participates in courses and conferences on public law and legal theory.
ACADEMIC EDUCATION
University of Lisbon – School of Law
Master of Laws in Public Law, 2022
Post-graduation in Corporate Law, Research Centre on Private Law (2016)
Graduation, 2016
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Academic
Guest lecturer at the Lisbon University – Law School since 2017, where she has been teaching introduction to law, constitutional justice and fundamental rights.
She participates in several postgraduate courses in administrative and constitutional law, including data protection, costbenefit analysis and legal argumentation.
Assistant integrated research member at the Lisbon Public Law Research Centre (Lisbon University – Law School)
Deputy Executive Director of e-Publica – Public Law Journal.
Current activity
Attorney and legal advisor in independent practice since 2022 in the field of Public and Regulatory Law and Litigation and Arbitration.
Past activity
2019-2022. Trainee lawyer
2017-2019. Advisor to the Minister of the Presidency and Administrative Modernization of the XXI Constitutional Government
2017-2019. Member of the editorial board of e-Publica – Public Law Journal
2017. Scholarship holder in the research project Management and Profitability of Public Assets (Lisbon Public Law Research Centre)
Publications
Comentário ao Regime Jurídico do Património Imobiliário Público – Domínio público e domínio privado da Administração, 2nd ed. (co-authored with João Miranda, Miguel Assis Raimundo, Ana Gouveia Martins, Marco Capitão Ferreira, Filipe Brito Bastos, Jorge Pação and David Pratas Brito), Almedina, 2022
Sara Azevedo, O encarregado de proteção de dados nas autoridades e organismos públicos: algumas notas, in Domingos Farinho / Francisco Paes Marques / Tiago Fidalgo de Freitas (coord.), O RGPD na Administração Pública, Almedina, 2023 (forthcoming)
Sara Moreira de Azevedo (co-authored with Pedro Moniz Lopes), A liberdade de expressão no contexto desportivo: Considerações metodológicas, e-Publica, Vol. 8, 1, 2021 8, 1, 2021
Sara Azevedo, Validade, efetividade e desuetudo em Hans Kelsen, in Pedro Moniz Lopes (coord.), O Pensamento de Hans Kelsen – Influências, Contexto e Atualidade, AAFDL Editora, 2020
Sara Moreira de Azevedo / Guilherme Henriques, A exceção in-house: problema da participação privada, Revista Jurídica AAFDL, ed. 30, 2016 30, 2016
Sara Moreira de Azevedo, Os contratos de swap e o regime da alteração de circunstâncias, Revista Jurídica AAFDL, ed. 30, 2016 30, 2016
Conferences, workshops and seminars
IVR World Congress, 2022
Maastricht – Lisbon Seminar on Legal Theory, co-organized by the Maastricht University and by LxLTG – Lisbon Legal Theory Group, 2022
Workshop on Public Procurement, organized by Instituto Superior de Ciências Jurídicas e Sociais de Cabo Verde, 2022
Scientific Advisor of the certification courses for Data Protection Officers (DPOs), organized by CIDP and ICJP, in partnership with the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC) of Maastricht University, 2022
IMPERIA – XXVI Luso-Hispano-Franco-Italian Seminar on Legal Theory, 2021
Workshop on cost-benefit analysis, organized by CIDP and ICJP, 2021
IV Meeting on Legal Positions, organized by LxLTG, 2021
Workshop on Administrative Organization, organized by FEFAL Foundation – Fundação para os Estudos e Formação das Autarquias Locais, 2021
Workshops on the GDPR in Public Administration, organized by CIDP and ICJP, 2020
LANGUAGES
English (fluent)
ASSOCIATIONS
Portuguese Bar Association (since 2022)
– PUBLIC LAW AND REGULATORY
– PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
– LITIGATION AND ARBITRATION
