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Fernando Dias Simões

Associate Professor of Law at Lusíada University of Porto and Portucalense University, Porto (Portugal)

Academic qualifications

PhD, Faculty of Law of the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

LLM, University of Glasgow School of Law (United Kingdom)

LLB, Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra (Portugal)

Current appointments

Affiliated Expert, Asia Pacific FDI Network

Member, Academic Forum on ISDS

Member, Asia WTO Research Network (AWRN)

Member, Jean Monnet Network ‘The European Union at the Crossroads of Global Order’ (EUCROSS)

Rapporteur, Oxford International Organizations (OXIO) (Oxford University Press and Manchester International Law Centre)

– Senior Research Fellow, University Institute of European Studies – IUSE, Turin (Italy)

– Senior Research Associate and Member of the Scientific Committee, gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development (UK)

– Visiting Professor, Summer Law Institute (Beijing)

– Visiting Professor, Institute of International Studies, Ramkhamhaeng University (Bangkok)

Previous teaching experience

– Associate Professor and Deputy Programme Director of the Master of Laws in International Economic Law, Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong 2019-2022

– Associate Professor, University of Macau 2011-2018

– Assistant Professor, Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave (Portugal) 2003-2011

– Assistant Professor, Portucalense University (Portugal) 2009-2010

Past appointments

– Visiting Scholar, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (September 2022)

– Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law of the University of Turin, Italy (April – May 2022)

– Visiting Scholar, Global Economic Law Network (GELN), Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia (December 2019)

– External Scientific Fellow, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law, July – August 2018

– Academic Staff Mobility Grant, Programme Erasmus+, University of Porto, Portugal, May 2017

– EU Commission Marie Curie Fellow at Beijing Normal University, 7° Framework Programme, Marie Curie People, ‘Partnering Opportunities between Europe and China in the Renewable Energies and Environmental industries (POREEN)’, July – August 2015

– Visiting Scholar, School of Law, Emory University, Atlanta (USA), June 2015

– Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal (Canada), June 2014

– Fellow of the Summer 2012 workshop of the National Institute for Teaching Ethics & Professionalism (NIFTEP), Banff (Canada), July 2012

Research Areas

Commercial Arbitration

Investment Arbitration

Trade and Investment Law

Consumer Law

Research groups, grants & fellowships

June 2019 – May 2020 – Principal Investigator, ‘Building Legal Capacity in Investment Arbitration – Enhancing Hong Kong’s Profile as a Dispute Settlement Hub’, Direct Grant for Research, Faculty of Law, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

December 2019 – Internationalisation Faculty Mobility Scheme (Outbound) for 2019–20, Chinese University of Hong Kong

May 2015-December 2018 – Principal Investigator, research project ‘Consumer Policy in China: Protecting the Citizens, Strengthening the Domestic Market and Building an Ecological Civilization’, Multi-Year Research Grant, Level 4, University of Macau.

July – August 2018 – External Scientific Fellow, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law, Luxembourg

May 2017 – Academic Staff Mobility Grant, Merging Voices Project, European Programme Erasmus+, University of Porto, Portugal.

October 2015 – December 2016 – Research Unit Coordinator at gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development (United Kingdom) European Commission, 7° Framework Programme, Marie Curie People, International Research Staff Exchange Scheme, Call identifier FP7-PEOPLE-IRSES-2012. Project title submitted: “Partnering Opportunities between Europe and China in the Renewable Energies and Environmental industries” (POREEN). The project has been approved and funded by the EU commission in April 2012 for four years duration January 2013-December 2016.

July 2015 – December 2016 – Research Unit Coordinator at gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development (United Kingdom) European Commission, 7° Framework Programme, Marie Curie People, International Research Staff Exchange Scheme, Call identifier FP7-PEOPLE-IRSES-2012. Project title submitted: “Liberalism In Between Europe And China” (LIBEAC) – Assessing the Socio-Cultural and Politico-Legal Dimensions of the Differences in Terms of Interpretation and Enforcement of Economic, Social and Environmental Rights in Europe and China. The project has been approved and funded by the EU commission in April 2012 for four years duration January 2013-December 2016.

July – August 2015 – EU Commission Marie Curie Fellow at Beijing Normal University in Beijing, China within the European Commission, 7° Framework Programme, Marie Curie People, International Research Staff Exchange Scheme, Call identifier FP7-PEOPLE-IRSES-2012. Project title submitted: “Partnering Opportunities between Europe and China in the Renewable Energies and Environmental industries” (POREEN).

June 2015 – Visiting Scholar, School of Law, Emory University, Atlanta (Georgia, United States of America).

July-August 2014 – EU Commission Marie Curie Fellow at Beijing Normal University in Beijing, China within the European Commission, 7° Framework Programme, Marie Curie People, International Research Staff Exchange Scheme, Call identifier FP7-PEOPLE-IRSES-2012. Project title submitted: “Partnering Opportunities between Europe and China in the Renewable Energies and Environmental industries” (POREEN). The partners in China are: Beijing Normal University (BNU) in China, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), East-China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL) in China, Tongji University of Shanghai (TUS) in China. The project has been approved and funded by the EU commission in April 2012 for four years duration January 2013-December 2016.

Since July 2014 – Senior Research Fellow at University Institute of European Studies – IUSE, Turin (Italy)

Since July 2014 – Senior Research Associate at gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development

June 2014 – Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal (Quebec, Canada).

2013 – Institute of European Studies of Macau – Asia-Europe Comparative Studies Research Project. Theme: Macau as a seat for arbitration between China, Europe and Portuguese Speaking Countries”.

July 2012 – Fellow for the Summer 2012 workshop of the National Institute for Teaching Ethics & Professionalism (NIFTEP) Banff Centre, Banff ( Alberta, Canada).

2010-2011 – Research grant from Fundación Mapfre: “Ayudas a la Investigación en Seguros y Gerencia de Riesgos 2009”, in colaboration with Professora Doutora Belén Trigo García – Faculty of Law of the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Theme: “Lawyers liability insurance”.

Member of the Scientific Committee of gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development

Honors & Awards

Award in the category ‘Vitivinicultural Law’ issued by the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) in September 2021 .

First Prize for Best Monograph, Outstanding Achievement Award for Macao Research in Humanities and Social Sciences, Macau Foundation, Social Sciences in China Press and Guangdong Social Sciences Association, November 2015.

Best Paper Prize – 12^th Asian Law Institute Conference ‘Law 2.0 – New Challenges in Asia’, 21-22 May 2015, College of Law, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Professional Service

Ad hoc Reviewer, Asian Journal of International Law

Ad hoc Reviewer, American Business Law Journal

Ad hoc Reviewer, ICSID Review – Foreign Investment Law

Ad hoc Reviewer, Australian Year Book of International Law

Ad hoc Reviewer, Chinese Journal of Comparative Law

Ad hoc Reviewer, Hong Kong Law Journal

Ad hoc Reviewer, The Social Science Journal

Ad hoc Reviewer for Asia Pacific Law Review

Ad hoc Reviewer for Australian Resources and Energy Law Journal

Ad hoc Reviewer for International Journal of Transitional Justice

Ad hoc Reviewer for Sustainability

Ad hoc Reviewer for Brazilian Journal of International Law

Ad hoc External Reviewer, National Science Centre, Poland (Narodowe Centrum Nauki – NCN)

Member of the Scientific Committee of Arbitration for Revista Jurídica Portucalense / Portucalense Law Journal

Chair of the Organizing Committee, International Conference ‘Consumer Policy in a Comparative Perspective: New Challenges in Chinese, European, and International Law’, Faculty of Law of the University of Macau, Macau, 29-30 June 2017

Member of the Scientific Committee, ‘I Jornadas Internacionais de Resolução de Litígios de Consumo: Entre o Processo e a Arbitragem’, Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Barcelos, Portugal, 30-31 March 2017

Chair of the Organizing Committee, Second International Conference Consumer Policy in China: New Trends and Challenges, Faculty of Law of the University of Macau, Macau, 6-7 December 2016

Chair of the Organizing Committee, International Conference Consumer Policy in China: New Trends and Challenges, Faculty of Law of the University of Macau, Macau, 16 December 2015

Member of the International Scientific Committee, International Conference Envisioning a Future without Food Waste and Food Poverty: Societal Challenges, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain, 17-18 November 2015

Professional and Community Memberships:

Member of the European Society of International Law

Member of the Asian Society of International Law

Member of the Portuguese Bar Association

Member of the Portuguese Arbitration Association

Member of the Asia-Pacific Forum for International Arbitration (AFIA)

Member of the Young International Arbitration Group (YIAG)

Member of the Young ICCA (International Council for Commercial Arbitration)

Member of ASA Below 40 (Association Suisse de l’Arbitrage)

Member of the International Association of Legal Ethics

Member of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (EurSafe)

Member of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society