Biography
Rute Teixeira Pedro is a professor at the University of Porto’s Faculty of Law (FDUP). She earned her PhD in Law at FDUP, graduating on May 2, 2016, with unanimous distinction for her dissertation, “Marriage Conventions: Autonomy in Shaping the Matrimonial Property Regime.” She also holds a Master’s in Civil Law, focusing on Obligations Law, with her dissertation “Medical Civil Liability—Reflections on the Concept of Lost Chance and the Protection of the Injured Patient,” defended in October 2005 and later published by Coimbra Editora. She completed her Law degree at FDUP in June 2000, served as a Trainee Assistant from 2001 to 2005, and was a monitor at the same institution from 1998 to 2001.
Currently a researcher at FDUP’s Centre for Legal and Economic Research (CIJE), she is also a corresponding member of the Cambridge Family Law Centre and a member of the Medical and Family Law Centres at the University of Coimbra, the European Law Institute, and the International Society of Family Law, among other organizations. She was a scholarship recipient at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg and also received an FCT grant for her doctoral thesis project.
Rute is a member of the editorial board for FDUP’s journal, serves on the Coordinating Council for University of Porto Publications, and was a member of FDUP’s Pedagogical Council from February 2010 to July 2014. Beyond her teaching duties in undergraduate Law courses—including Obligations Law, Family and Succession Law, and Contract Law—she lectures on Civil Law II in FDUP’s Master’s program and has participated in various master’s programs, post-graduate courses, and professional training sessions. These collaborations span multiple institutions, including the Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, and Faculty of Medicine at the University of Porto; the University of Minho’s School of Health Sciences; the Northern Branch of the National Institute of Legal Medicine; and the Bissaya Barreto Higher Institute.