Luis Barreto Xavier has been Innovation Consultant at Abreu Advogados since 2018 and President of its Knowledge Institute since 2019.

He is a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University, where he teaches and researches in the areas of Artificial Intelligence Law (since 2019), Digital Law (since 2023) and Private International Law. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Law and Artificial Intelligence Research Group of the Católica Research Centre for the Future of Law. He is co-coordinator of the ‘EU Digital Markets – Technology, Business and Regulation’ programme at UCP. He is co-editor of the book ‘Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and the Law’, published in Open Access by the international publisher Springer in 2024.

He founded and directed the Católica Global School of Law (2009-2018), a a school of the Portuguese Catholic University aimed at an international legal audience and part of international teaching and research networks.
Previously, he was an Assistant Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, Advisor to the Secretary of State for Tourism, Senior Consultant at the Legal Center of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, and Advisor to the Office of the Judges of the Constitutional Court.