Inês Domingues Alves

Inês Domingues Alves has focused her legal practice on the areas of International law, competition law and European Union law.

Inês was a trainee at the Portuguese Embassy in Paris. The traineeship plan, comprising the cultural areas at the Embassy and at Camões – Centre Culturel Portugais à Paris was outlined in order to develop certain skills, such as reorganizing archives and scattered documents, writing the telegrams sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and promoting cultural events at the Embassy. The cooperating with foreign entities (other European and international cultural centres based in Paris) included taking part in meetings and joint initiatives. On the other hand, she participated actively in cultural events at the Embassy.

In the context of legal practice, Inês was a trainee lawyer at Jardim, Sampaio e Associados, Sociedade de Advogados, RL. During the internship, she intervened in several areas of law, such as Criminal Law, Civil Law, Labour Law and Insurance Law. She was also a Junior Consultant at Cruz Vilaça Advogados, taking part in merger control procedures and restrictive competition practices before the Portuguese Competition Authority, State aid procedures before the European Commission and preliminary rulings before the Court of Justice of the European Union, among others.

Trainee Lawyer at Jardim, Sampaio e Associados, Sociedade de Advogados, RL and Junior Consultant at Cruz Vilaça Advogados (2021-2023).

Trainee at Carlos Pinto de Abreu e Associados (2020).

Trainee at the Portuguese Embassy in Paris (2019).

“Make them pay: national enforcement bodies at the service of air passengers’ rights” (with José Luís da Cruz Vilaça and Gonçalo Guimarães), 132 EU Law Live Weekend Edition, 25 february 2023.

Member of the Portuguese Bar Association since 2023.

LL.M. European Law, Leiden Law School, Universiteit Leiden (2021).

Degree in Law, Nova School of Law (2020).

Portuguese (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (good).