
Célia Filipa FERREIRA MATIAS
Assistant Professor
Other roles
Programme Coordinator of Master of Law (Portuguese Language)
Academic Qualifications
- PhD in Law, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong
- Master in Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong
- Post-Graduate Programme in Business Law, IDET, Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra
- Bachelor in Law, Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon
Professional background
- Qualified lawyer in Portugal and the Macau SAR
Teaching
- Intellectual Property Law
- Company Law
- Jurisprudence
- European Union Law
- Big Data Regulation and E-commerce Law
Areas of Research Interest
- Intellectual Property Law
- Law and Technology
- Jurisprudence
- Contract Law
Selected Publications
- Celia Matias, ‘Generative AI, copyright and emancipation: The case of digital art’ (2024) 6 Law, Technology and Humans 123.
- Celia Matias and Chen Jingyi, ‘Judging creativity in AI-generated art: Chinese and Western perspectives on originality in copyright law’ (2024) 9 International Journal of Legal Discourse 339.
- Celia Matias, ‘Contract formation’ in Hao Jiang (ed), Towards a Model Sales Law in the Greater Bay Area(Edward Elgar 2024) 40–61.
- Celia Matias, ‘Reclaiming Moderation: Towards a Model of Moderated Counterspeech in the Digital Public Sphere’ in Anne Wagner and Sarah Marusek (eds), Handbook on Cyber Hate: The Modern Cyber Evil(Springer 2024) 65–85.
- Sara Migliorini and Celia Matias, ‘New Frontiers of Legal Integration: Developing the Regulatory Framework of the Greater Bay Area’ (2024) 12 Chinese Journal of Comparative Law cxae019.
- Celia Matias, ‘Técnicas subliminares, o Direito e os sentidos’ (‘Subliminal Techniques, The Law and The Senses’) Review of NEUWIRTH, Rostam J. The EU Artificial Intelligence Act: Regulating Subliminal AI Systems(London: Routledge, 2023) 20 Revista Direito GV e2412.
- Celia Matias and Monica Chan, ‘In a bubble by the sea: Covid-19, time and contract law in the Macau S.A.R.’ in Normann Witzleb (ed), Contract Law in Changing Times: Asian Perspectives on Pacta Sunt Servanda(Routledge 2022) 38–55.