a) To prepare and approve its own statutes;
b) To opine about teaching approaches and methods of teaching and evaluation;
c) To promote regular surveys of teaching performance on the faculty, proceeding to its analysis and disclosure to competent authorities;
d) Promote the implementation of the evaluation of teaching performance through appropriate and reliable methods, proceeding to its analysis and disclosure to competent authorities;
e) To analyze requests on pedagogical aspects of education and propose the necessary measures for their improvement, considering lecturers’ opinion and taking into account the specificity of the subjects;
f) To approve pedagogical regulations and the undergraduate’s evaluation regulation, after consulting the Scientific Council;
g) To approve the evaluation schemes of worker students, athletes and undergraduate who are association leaders;
h) To opine about the undergraduate prescribing scheme and the undergraduate precedence scheme;
i) To opine about the creation, changes and extinction of cycles of studies;
j) To opine about the creation of academic awards;
k) To opine about the school calendar and maps of exams tests proposed by the students representation;
l) To perform other duties prescribed by law and the Statutes.

Current constitution:

Representing the professors:

LAW

Professor Helena Mota
Professor Maria Raquel Guimarães
Professor André Lamas Leite (President)
Professor Tiago Azevedo Ramalho

CRIMINOLOGY 

Professor Inês Sousa Guedes (Vice-President)

Representing the students:

LAW

Raquel Espanha Henriques de Proença Pinho
António Pedro Leal Milheiro Matos
Marta Filomena Torres Pimentel
Diogo Teixeira Lamego

CRIMINOLOGY

Rute Inês Magalhães Santos