RUI PINTO is an Associate Professor and legal consultant in the area of Civil Procedure at Lisbon Faculty of Law. He is also an arbitrator in civil litigations and has written several reference books and papers on Civil Procedure. After graduating in 1989 at the Faculty of Law of Lisbon, RUI PINTO has teached in that school Property Law, Commercial Law, Law of Obligations and Civil Procedural Law untill 2008. In 1995 RUI PINTO obtained the Master's degree. On 2008, RUI PINTO saw his Doctoral Thesis on Injunctions being approved with 17 values, becoming Professor in Lisbon Faculty of Law. Since then he has taught until present time Civil Procedural Law, Appeal Law and Bankrupcy Law. RUI PINTO has performed cooperation service in Brazil, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique, as a teacher and as legal advisor. Simultaneously, he writes and publishes several monographies and papers on Civil Procedural Law, namely the Handbook of Debt Enforcement and Eviction (2013) and the Notes to the Code of Civil Procedure (2 volumes) (2015). He also was coauthor of Code of Civil Procedure vol. 1st and Code of Civil Procedure vol. 2nd, with Professor Lebre de Freitas. RUI PINTO also conceived and executed several training actions or congresses on Civil Procedure. The most parte with the Portuguese Bar Association and the Center for Judicial Studies (National School of Judges). Since 2011 RUI PINTO has been colaborating with several lawyer offices, producing external legal advices (“parecer”), internal legal advices (“consulta”) and projects of appeals (“recursos”) to be presented before the portuguese courts of appeal and the supreme court. He also has been part of several arbitrations on pharmaceutical patent litigation.