Partner Isabel Abalada Matos
"Law results in searching for the fair solution, in each specific case."
Areas of Expertise
- General Administrative Law, Public Procurement, Litigation and Arbitration
- Land-Use and Area Planning
- Real Estate, Urban Rehabilitation and Town Planning
- Environment and Nature Conservation
- Tourism
- Agriculture and Forestry: Projects and Management
- Sea, Ports, Railways and Transportation
Languages
- Portuguese
- English
- French
Academic Education
- Law degree by the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University (1988).
- Post-Graduate Degree in Community Law from the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University (1990).
- Program on Negotiation - Harvard Law School (2009).
Professional Experience
- Founding partner of Abalada Matos, Moraes Cardoso e Associados, Sociedade de Advogados, RL (2015).
- Founding partner of Abalada Matos, Lorena de Sèves & Associados, Sociedade de Advogados, RL, practising mostly in public administrative law, land-use planning and urbanism, environment, real estate and private property law (2000-2015).
- Deputy and adviser to several members of the Government in land-use planning, environment, urbanism and local administration.
- Speaker and lecturer within the scope of training initiatives, seminars and conferences, on land-use planning, urbanism and environment, areas which also comprise publications.
- Participation in many legislative procedures in land-use planning and urbanism, environment and tourism.
- Registered with the Bar Association since 1990.
Publications
- POOC (municipal land-use plan) and PMOT (coastline plan): Notes on the relationship between their material contents, published in Revista Jurídica do Urbanismo e Ambiente, issue no. 18/19;
- Remarks on the decisions of the Administrative Supreme Court, published in Revista Jurídica do Urbanismo e Ambiente, issue no. 21;
- Elementos de Direito de Protecção da Água, (co-authored) published, in 2005, by the Water Institute (INAG);
- A compensação pela não cedência de terrenos nas operações urbanísticas: em especial a situação dos empreendimentos turísticos, (co-authored) in Direito do Urbanismo e do Ordenamento do Território-Estudos, volume II, Almedina, 2012, pp 397-415;
- O novo procedimento de comunicação prévia, in Revisão do Regime Jurídico da Urbanização e Edificação, coordinated by Cláudio Monteiro, Jaime Valle, João Miranda, Almedina, 2015, pp 139-149.