José Manuel Aroso Linhares is an Associate Professor with Habilitation of Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra and at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Lusófona do Porto. His current research interests include evidence, narrative rationality, intercultural dialogue, precedents, law as an autonomous practical-cultural project. He is the Vice-President of Associação Portuguesa de Teoria do Direito, Filosofia do Direito e Filosofia Social, the Portuguese Section of IVR. He is an author of several monographs and essays