Dário Manuel Lentz de Moura Vicente, born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1962, is Professor of Private International Law, Comparative Law and Civil Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, where he obtained his PhD in Law and whose Institute for Juridical Cooperation he chairs. He was a Visiting Professor at The Hague Academy of International Law, the Paris V University, the Complutense University in Madrid and the Urbino University. He has also taught extensively in other Portuguese-speaking countries.