The Portuguese Catholic University Law School (Lisbon campus), the most internationally oriented Portuguese Law School, and the law firm Miranda are pleased to announce the creation of the Miranda Chair on Transnational Finance Law. The Chair, the first to be funded by a private organisation in Portugal, will be held by Prof. Jan Dalhuisen, an internationally renowned scholar, lecturing in London (King’s College) and Berkeley. With the creation of this Chair, Prof. Dalhuisen will be a residing Professor lecturing on the post graduate international programme of the Catholic University.

According to Prof. Luís Fábrica, Dean of the Law School, “The creation of this Chair, the first in Portugal, is a decisive step towards the creation of an internationally distinguished centre for legal studies and investigation at this University, thereby placing the Portuguese Catholic University amongst the leading ones in Transnational Law. It was with great pleasure that we partnered with Miranda in the implementation of a new model of cooperation between academia and the professional legal world”.

Prof. Jan Dalhuisen is a graduate of the University of Amsterdam where he also received his PhD, and from the University of California at Berkeley. His relationship with Portugal began in the 60´s when he first visited the country as a lawyer with Philips Electronics. In 1970 he joined Gulf Oil Corporation (currently Chevron) in London where he later became the Head of the Legal Department. It was then that Prof. Dalhuisen began his regular visits to Portugal and other Portuguese-speaking countries, namely Angola and Mozambique. In 1986 he became a senior investment banker at the London branch of the Industrial Bank of Japan (currently Mizuho). For several years he was the Secretary General of the International Primary Market Association (currently ICMA – International Capital Market Association). Since 1996 he has been lecturing at King´s College and is a regular visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and lectured also repeatedly at the University of Tsinghua, Beijing, and at UNSW (University of New South Wales), Sydney. Prof. Dalhuisen also lectured in Turkey, Hong Kong, Armenia, Poland and The Netherlands. He is a reputed international arbitrator and Corresponding Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published extensively and among his publications special mention should be made of “Dalhuisen on International Insolvency and Bankruptcy” and “Dalhuisen on Transnational and Comparative Commercial, Financial and Trade Law” – two international references in their field.

Agostinho Pereira de Miranda, Miranda Chairman comments: “Prof. Jan Dalhuisen is a distinguished scholar and the author of an internationally renowned work, widely acclaimed for its contemporary and innovative character. By combining a strong legal background with the creativity required for practical solutions of complex issues in international commerce, Prof. Dalhuisen will undoubtedly open a new era in the teaching and research of private international law in Portugal”. Mr. Pereira de Miranda further states: “This is the first time a law firm sponsors a Chair in Portugal. For this reason, Miranda is delighted to sponsor the Chair in Transnational Finance Law and is deeply honoured that Prof. Dalhuisen has accepted to take up this post at the University”.

Signature of the protocol took place on 16 April at the Catholic University Law School in Lisbon after a lecture on "Transnationalisation and the Re-emergence of Universal Private Law", presented by Prof. Jan Dalhuisen.

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