Notes on Portuguese Publications Dedicated to International Law of the Sea in the 19th and 20th Centuries

The doctrinal production of the ils in Portugal took place only from the eighties of the nineteenth century. During the 19th century and in the 20th century until the 1980s, ils matters were not subject to specialist teaching in the Faculties of Law in Portugal. Professor Barbosa de Magalhães, of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, particularly during the 1920s, is the only jurist with recognized merits who studied the ils until the 1980s. Professor Marques Guedes must be considered the “founding father” of academic studies of the ils taking into account his teaching on the subject from 1980s in the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. The contribution of authors from the Navy, with an emphasis on Eduardo Serra Brandão, constitutes a very significant part of the ils writings published in Portugal in the second half of the twentieth century.