Guest Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University, Pedro Pais de Vasconcelos is Graduate, Master and Doctor in Civil Law by the Faculty of Law of the Lisbon University. He has investigated and published, especially in the areas of Civil and Commercial Law, is a lawyer, being a partner of Pais de Vasconcelos & Associados - Sociedade de Advogados, and is deputy director of the Commercial law Revie (Revista de Direito Comercial).