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Isabel Gouveia has a degree in History/Archaeology and master’s degrees in modern history and Translation. An enthusiast librarian, by training and calling, she has worked in the field of information and documentation sciences for more than 30 years, in academic and public environments and in the corporate sector, including Amazon IE. She currently manages the cataloguing process for BLX-Lisbon's Municipal Libraries. As a freelance translator, she regularly works in literary and scientific translation.

Ciência vitae | ORCID

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Alexandra Aragão is a Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra. She holds a Master's degree in European Integration and a Doctorate in Law and Political Science in the field of Environmental Law. She is a researcher at the University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research, a member of the Natura 2000 Legal Network and the European Water Law Network, a member of the Advisory Board of the European Environmental Law Forum and a trustee of the Avosetta.org group of experts on European environmental law. She is also coordinator of the JUST-Side Network (Justice and Sustainability in the Territory through Spatial Data Infrastructure Systems). Member of the Conflicts of Interest Committee of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, ambassador for SDG 16 of the Portuguese Partnership for the Global Compact. HHer teaching and publication areas are European environmental law, environmental education, conservation law, Earth system law, eco-innovation, animal law, waste law, risk law, civil protection law, Chemicals legislation, food law.

Anabela Gonçalves is currently Vice Dean and Assistant Professor at the University of Minho Law School. She is also: Director of the Professional Exits Office; Member of the Scientific Council and School Board of the Law School; Member of the Directive Committee of the Law Degree Course; Member of the Directive Committee of the Master on Children, Family and Successions Law; and Member of the Directive Committee of the LLM's in European and Transglobal Business Law.

Anabela Susana de Sousa Gonçalves holds a PhD in Juridical-Private Sciences from the University of Minho Law School (2012), Master in Legal Sciences from the University of Coimbra Law School (2003), a law degree from the School of Law at the University of Minho (1999).

Anabela Gonçalves has been appointed expert of the European Commission to evaluate the funding projects submitted to the Commission under the JUSTICE program, including projects under judicial cooperation in civil material (JUST/2014/JCOO/AGA) and has been appointed by the European Commission for Expert Group on the Revision of Regulation 2201/2003 on International Jurisdiction and the Recognition of Judgments in Marriage and Parental Responsibility. He is currently a member of the European Research Council as an evaluator by appointment of the European Commission.

Anne Ketola (PhD) is a linguist who specializes in cognitive accessibility and plain language. Her recent research has focused on the accessibility of contract language and design methods that support the comprehension of contracts. Ketola is the Principal Investigator in the Contract Language research project, conducted by the JARGONFREE research group at Tampere University, Finland. The project examines how complex and vague language used in supply chain contracts obscures the contract parties’ sustainability commitments.

Elsa Vaz de Sequeira is a Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University, where she graduated (1996), obtained a master's degree (2004) and completed her doctorate (2014). She has taught and carried out research in the area of Civil Law, teaching ‘Fundamentals of Civil Law and Law of Persons’ and ‘General Theory of Legal Business’. Her publications include the textbook on the General Theory of Civil Law (UCE/2024), the book Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and the Law (Springer/2023), of which she was co-coordinator and in which she participated with the article ‘Liability for AI Driven Systems’, and the books Estudos sobre Responsabilidade Civil (UCE/2024), Contitularidade de Direitos: Contribution to its Morphological Analysis (UCE/2015) and The Assumptions of Collision of Rights in Civil Law (UCE/2004). She is currently the coordinator of the Lisbon Section of the Católica Research Centre for the Future of Law.

Helena Haapio, DSc (Econ), LL.M, is a legal scholar and practitioner, a pioneer in proactive legal thinking and contract design. She divides her time between Lexpert Ltd, where she works as a Contract Strategist, and three Finnish Universities: University of Vaasa, University of Lapland, and the JARGONFREE research group at Tampere University. She has co-edited several publications, most recently Legal Design (2021) and Research Handbook on Contract Design (2022), both published by Edward Elgar. Together with Stefania Passera, she created the open access, free WorldCC Contract Design Pattern Library.

Pioneer as a Legal tech entrepreneur and founder of Legal Design & Digital Institute, Inês Portela is a leading advocate for legal transformation. As a legal innovation consultant, Inês Portela founded Law for All in 2012, driven by a belief that legal design could democratize access to legal services. Initially, Law for All focused on rethinking traditional legal service delivery, but one year later, the company shifted towards a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model with the creation of Legal Flow. Through this experience, Inês gained valuable expertise in areas such as technology, sales, fundraising, design, agile methodologies, and the management of both operational and IT teams.

With a deep passion for education and the intersection of law, technology and design, Inês started lecturing at Business and Law Universities on Legal Project Management, Entrepreneurship and LegalTech. Her work reflects a commitment to combining technology and human-centered design to create more accessible, effective, and client-focused legal solutions.

Joana Fernandes has been working on simplifying communication since 2013. She produces content and is a trainer at CLARO, a company that helps the state and organisations communicate more clearly and rigorously. In Portugal, she represents Clarity - an international association that promotes clear legal language. Between 2017 and 2022, she led the production of plain language content for the Ministry of Justice's new website. Her experience in legal communication includes producing plain language summaries of Portuguese legislation, drafting court notices and content for public administration and rewriting contracts. She was part of the team that simplified the document proving the status of victim (the first document in plain language to be included in Portuguese legislation) and implemented the Fair Trials project in Portugal (training for legal actors and simplification of the defendant's declaration). She has a degree in law and was also a journalist. She sees a clear legal language as a way to help people understand and exercise their rights and duties, a tool for their autonomy.

Luís Duarte de Almeida is a Full Professor at NOVA University Lisbon and Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh (UK). He specialises in the theory and philosophy of law and legal argumentation. He coordinates the NOVA Argumentation Knowledge Centre at NOVA School of Law. Before joining NOVA University (in 2022), he was (since 2017) Professor of Jurisprudence, Reader (2015-2017), and Chancellor's Fellow (2012-2015) at the University of Edinburgh. Before that, he was (in 2011/12) Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge (2011/12) and Research Fellow at the University of Girona; and he taught at the University of Lisbon between 1999 and 2008. He was also (in 2016/7) Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence; and has been a visiting professor at KU Leuven University since 2017. He graduated from Lisbon (BA, 1999; MA, 2003) and Oxford (PhD, 2011).

Coming out of the FDUC in 82/87, with a master's degree in tax law, for some time a lawyer at the Centre's Regional Coordination and Development Commission, a lawyer at Portugal Telecom and a university lecturer, I would never have predicted that my doctoral thesis project would be interrupted by the challenge of translation. Life has its twists and turns. I immersed myself in translation through the European Union at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Translation in Luxembourg. A new world to discover. And a very rich learning experience since 1998. It was necessary to set aside some preconceptions and accept every challenge as an added value. The work has been carried out in a multilingual world in which IT tools have become increasingly complex to use. My tasks are carried out as part of a team, with colleagues who are linguists, doctors, engineers, biologists, psychologists and from many other backgrounds (including other lawyers!). The communication of law has come to be viewed differently. I am now convinced that a lawyer can play a very important role in this universe, which has become my own. The challenge now is to pass on this experience to others!

Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra
Degree (2001), Master (2005) and PhD (2017) from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra
Integrated Researcher (UCILeR)
President of the Board of the Family Law Centre (FDUC)
Member of the Executive Board of the International Society of Family Law and of the Coordinating Group of the Family Law in Europe Academic Network (FL-EUR)
Author of several monographs and articles in the areas of Family and Succession Law and People Law (capacity)
Co-author of legislative projects. Member of the Working Group reviewing the Mental Health Act.