Jorge Ferreira Sinde Monteiro

Curriculum Vitae

JORGE FERREIRA SINDE MONTEIRO was born on 2 October 1944.  He completed his licentiate degree in Law in the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra in July 1968.

In April 1972 he took his Master’s degree, the title of his dissertation being Reparação Dos Danos Em Acidentes De Trânsito (Compensation for Damage in Road Traffic Accidents). He was offered a position as lecturer in the Faculty of Law.  The Faculty has awarded him 2 academic prizes.

From February 1973 to September 1975 he undertook his compulsory military service as a specialist-expert in law attached to the Navy General Staff.

In 1976 he worked as an Adviser to the Comissão de Revisão do Código Civil (Civil Code Review Commission).  He has been a Researcher in the Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos Jurídico-Económicos (Centre for Interdisciplinary Juridic-Economic Studies) of the University of Coimbra since February 1978.  He also collaborates in the Revista de Direito e Economia (Law and Economy Review) (RDE) which is published by this Centre.  He is currently head of the Comparative Law research group.

In 1982 he carried out a study for the Ministry of Justice on changes in the Limits of Liability through Risk in road traffic accidents.

In the ambit of a European Science Foundation research project he compiled the (civil law) part of the report on Medical Liability in Portugal (published in Medical Responsibility in Western Europe, 1985).

He has co-authored the Portuguese report for the International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law.

In 1989 he was a member of a committee set up by the Ministry of Justice to draw up a project on Indemnização pelo Estado das Vítimas de Crimes Violentos (Compensation by the State for Victims of Crimes of Violence) (Decree-Law 423/91 of 30 October).

On 24 April 1990 he obtained his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra.  He was appointed Professor auxiliar and, in 1995, was promoted to the level of Professor associado by unanimous decision.

He has participated in a variety of colloquiums and study groups, both in Portugal and abroad.  Among those whose proceedings have been published (see Bibliography) are:  1986 – in Uppsala, on compensation for personal injury; 1990 – in the Faculty of Law in Lisbon, on medical liability; 1991 – with the Association Henri Capitant, on La Responsabilité Civile des Constructeurs and at the University of Mannheim on the Proposed Directive concerning the liability of the provider of services; 1992 – in the Faculty of Law, Coimbra, on the study of the human genome; 1996 – in Heidelberg, in the commemorations of 100 years of the BGB; 1998- Group of Tilburg, Portuguese report.

In the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra he runs the course on the Law of Obligations (Direito das Obrigações) and post graduate studies on Civil Law (civil liability).

PUBLICATIONS

A) BOOKS

•             Reparação dos Danos em Acidentes de Trânsito. Um estudo de Direito Comparado sobre a Substituição da Responsabilidade Civil por um novo Seguro de Acidentes de Trânsito, Coimbra, 1974.

•             Estudos sobre a Responsabilidade Civil, Coimbra, Almedina, 1983 (includes the articles "Res­ponsabilidade Civil, Introdução", and "Responsabilidade por Culpa, Responsabilidade Objectiva, Seguro de Acidentes" ).

•             Responsabilidade por Conselhos, Recomendações ou Informações, Coimbra, 1989.

•     Direito das Obrigações (forthcoming).

B) ARTICLES

•             “Análise Económica do Direito”, sep. of Boletim da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra (BFDUC), vol. LVII, Coimbra, 1982.

•             “Alteração dos Limites Máximos da Responsabilidade pelo Risco”, sep. of Boletim do Minis­tério da Justiça (BMJ) n. 331, 1983.

•             “Compensation for Personal Injury in Portugal - The Law and the Future; considerations de lege ferenda à propos the discussion of the swedish alternative”, in Compensation for Personal Injury in Sweden and other Countries, Juristfoertlaget, Stockholm, 1988, pp. 381-392.

•             “Aspectos Particulares da Responsabilidade Médica”, in Direito da Saúde e Bioética, Lisboa, Lex, 1991, pp. 134-152.

•     “La Responsabilité Civile des Constructeurs”, in La Responsabilité des Constructeurs, Travaux de l’Association Henri Capitant, Tome XLII (1991), Paris, Litec, 1993, 197-202.

•             “Haftung des Dienstleistenden, Der EWG-Richtlinienvorschlag und das portugiesische positive Recht”, in Mannheimer rechtswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Band 14, Haftung der Dienst­leistungsberufe, Natürliche Vielfalt und europäische Vereinheitlichung, Hrsg. von Erwin DEUTSCH und Jochen TAUPITZ, Heidelberg, C. F. Müller, 1993, pp. 127-135.

•             “Genome Analysis and Civil Liability in Portugal”, in Genome Analysis, Legal Rules-Practi­cal Application, Reports of the workshop 11-14 June 1992 (under the auspicies of the Commis­sion of the European Communities), Coimbra, 1994, pp. 331-341.

•             Obrigações, Aditamentos (Direito Delitual), Coimbra, 1994.

•             “Manuel de Andrade und der Einflub des BGB auf das Portugiesische Zivilgesetzbuch von 1966”, in Auf dem Wege zu einem  gemeineuropäischen Privatrecht - 100 Jahre BGB und die lusophonen Länder, Symposium in Heidelberg, 29.-30.11.1996, ed. by E. JAYME / H-P. MANSEL, Nomos Verlagsgesellsachaft, Baden-Baden, 1997.

•             “Responsabilidade Por Informações Face A Terceiros”, Dereito, Revista Xurídica da Univer­sidade de Santiago de Compostela, vol. 7 (1998), n. 1, pp. 203-228.

•             “Portuguese Report”, in  The Limits of Expanding Liability, Eight Fundamental Cases in a Comparative Perspective, Ed. by J. SPIER, Kluwer Law International, The Hague-London-Boston, 1998, pp. 173-187.

•             “Proposta de Directiva do Parlamento Europeu e do Conselho Relativa à Venda e às Garantias dos Bens de Consumo”, Revista Jurídica da Universidade Moderna (RJUM), ano I (1998), pp. 461-475.

•     In collaboration with J. Figueiredo DIAS: “Medical Responsibility in Portugal”, in Medical Responsibility in Western Europe, Hrsg. von E. DEUTSCH and H.-L. SCHREIBER, Springer-Verlag, Berlin (...), 1985, pp. 513-554,

and

•             "Responsabilidade Médica na Europa Ocidental, Considerações de lege ferenda", Scientia Juridica (SJ), Tomo XXXIII, 1984, pp. 100-107.

•     In collaboration with Rui de ALARCÃO: chapter on tort law (pp. 205-334), in Lections of Direito das Obrigações (dactilogr.), Coimbra, 1983.

•     In collaboration with R. MOURA RAMOS and H. Ewald HÖRSTER: “Landes­bericht Portu­gal”, in Deliktsrecht in Europa, Hrsg. von Christian VON BAR, Carl Heymanns Verlag, Köln (...), 1993.

C) OTHER STUDIES

•             “Acidentes de Viação, Anotação ao Assento n.º 1/80”, sep. of BFDUC, vol. LVII (1981; 12 pages).

•     “Actos de Gestão Pública, Erro de Tratamento Médico em Hospital”, Colectânea de Juris­prudência (CJ) 1986, Tomo IV, pp. 47-51.

•     “A Responsabilidade Civil da Administração Pública: Despejo Sumário – Culpa”, SJ, T. XLII, 1993 (n. 241/243), pp. 25-41.

•     With Almeno de SÁ: “Concessão de Crédito e Deveres de Informação”, in Revista da Ordem dos Advogados (ROA), ano LVI (1996), II,  pp. 727-759.

and

      “Do Combate a uma OPA  em Curso”, RJUM, ano I (1998), pp. 407-460.

D) TRANSLATIONS

•     “A Apreciação da Constitucionalidade do Direito Comunitário numa Nova Decisão do Tribunal Constitucional Alemão”, in Assuntos Europeus, n. 3/1982, pp. 467-474 (Rolf. C. RADTKE, of the Max-Planck-Institut, Hamburg).

•     With Heinrich Ewald HÖRSTER:

a)   A Lei Alemã para a Regulamentação do Regime das Condições Negociais Gerais, RDE, ano V (1979), pp. 417-441.

b)         Portuguese tort law provisions, in Deliktsrecht in Europa, cit. supra.

E) BOOK REVIEWS in Revista de Direito e Economia

•     Ano V (1979)

      n.º 1, pp. 235-241, Hans STOLL, La Nueva Legge della Repubblica Federale Tedesca sui Contratti di Adesione;

      pp. 241-254, Hein KÖTZ, Sozialer Wandel im Unfallrecht, Karlsruhe/Heidelberg, 1976;

      nº 2, pp. 453-459, Eike VON HIPPEL, Grundfragen der Sozialer Sicherheit, Tübingen, 1979.

•     Anos VI/VII (1980/1981)

      pp. 395-403, Hans-Leo WEYERS, Gutachten A zum 52. Deutschen Juristen­tag (medical law reform), Beck, München, 1978.

•     Anos X/XI (1984/1985)

      pp. 443-447, Michael R. WILL, Quellen erhöhter Gefahr, München, Beck, 1980.

•     Ano XV (1989)

      pp. 449-454, Compensation for Personal Injury in Sweden and Other Countries, Jurist­foertlaget, Stockholm, 1988.

F) COMMENTARIES

•             “Seguro de Responsabilidade Civil Automóvel - Nova Directiva Comunitária”, Revista de Direito e Economia (RDE), ano IX (1983), pp. 363-365.

•     “Dano Corporal – um roteiro do direito português”, RDE XV, 1989, pp. 449-454.

G) ACADEMIC ASSESSMENTS

•             “Equivalência ao grau de Mestre, Relatório” (Tânia da SILVA PEREIRA, Contrato Estimató­rio), BFDUC, vol. LXVIII (1992), pp. 401-414.

•     Pedro FRÖLICH-PEREIRA (Die Haftung für fehlerhafte Produkte nach portugiesischem Recht), BFDUC, vol. LXIX (1993), pp. 621-625.

H) SPEECHES

•             “Petição de Grau”, cerimony of conferral of Ph. D. degree - Jorge Ferreira Sinde Monteiro, Manuel Henrique Mesquita, Fernando Alves Correia and João Calvão da Silva, BFDUC, vol. LXVIII (1992), pp. 435-436.

•     “Elogio do Apresentante” (Prof. Dr. Rui de Alarcão, University Chancellor), cerimony of confer­ral of honoris causa Ph. D. degree  to Dr. Mário Soares, BFDUC, vol. LXXIII (1997), pp 371-380.

 

August 2001