
Man Teng Iong
Email mantengiong@um.edu.mo manteng.iong@gmail.com
Academic Qualifications
- PhD in Private Law, University of Minho, Portugal
- LLM in Legal Sciences, University of Macau, China
Thesis: “Directivas antecipadas de vontade: um regime existente em Macau?”
- LLB in Law, New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Working Experience
- Senior Instructor, Faculty of Law, University of Macau (16 August 2019 until now)
- Legal Advisor, Legal Department, Macau Health Bureau (19 August 2013 – 21 July 2019)
- Notary (Notário Privativo), Macau Health Bureau (26 August 2015 – 21 July 2019)
Teaching Areas
- Medical/Health Law
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Proceedings
- Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Human Rights Law
- Obligational Law
- General Theory of Portuguese Law
- Legal English
- Legal Translation Chinese/Portuguese
Other Roles
- Deputy Chief Editor on the Editorial Board of the journal China Ocean Law Review
- Co-Editor in Chief of the journal Marine Law and Policy
- Integrated Researcher at Research Centre for Justice and Governance, Law School, University of Minho
- Part-time Researcher at Hainan University for International Sea Law and Dispute Settlement
- Member of General Assembly of The Portuguese Speaking Countries Association of Health Laws (Associação Lusófona de Direitos da Saúde) and Representative of Macao Special Administrative Region in this Association
Man Teng IONG has been a Senior Instructor in the Faculty of Law of the University of Macau since August 2019. When he was working at the Macau Health Bureau as a Legal Advisor and Private Notary (2013 to 2019), he was also a Teaching Assistant (February 2018 to June 2018) and a Research Assistant (2016 to 2017) at the Faculty of Law of the University of Macau.
In academic life, he has been dedicated to investigating Medical/Health Law using the practical experience obtained in the Macau Health Bureau. He has published articles and participated in seminars and conferences on Medical/Health Law.
- Medical/Health Law
- Medical Malpractice (civil, criminal and administrative)
- Patient’s Safety
- Patient’s Rights
This researcher belongs to E.Tec.
Books
- Man Teng Iong. Directivas Antecipadas de Vontade – Um Regime Existente em Macau?. Editor Novas Edições Acadêmicas, 23 March 2017. ISBN: 9783330763616.
Book Chapters
- Vera Lúcia Raposo, Man Teng Iong. “Advance Directives in Macao: Not Legally Recognised, but…”. In D. Cheung & M. Dunn (Eds.), Advance Directives Across Asia: A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis (pp. 262-275). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. DOI:10.1017/9781009152631.018. (Available for download).
Journal Articles
- Man Teng Iong. “Compulsive medical acts and duty to inform: the Portuguese perspective”. BioLaw Journal, NO 1(2023): 457-466 (2023). (ESCI, Scopus) (Available for download).
- Man Teng Iong. “Artificial Intelligence and Traditional Chinese Medicine in Portuguese Criminal Law”. Tec Yearbook – Artificial Intelligence & Robots (School of Law of the University of Minho), pp. 39-51 (2020). (Available for download).
- Man Teng Iong. “Telemedicine in China: An Enlightenment from COVID-19”. Medicine and Law, 39(4): 595-602 (December 2020). (ESCI, Scopus)
- Man Teng Iong. “Criminal Liability for Violation of Informed Consent in Macao”. UMagazine (University of Macau), Issue 22: 62-65 (Spring/Summer 2020) (Available for reading).
- Man Teng Iong. “Literacia em Saúde e Consentimento Informado: Responsabilidade Civil Médica na Falta de Compreensão da Informação de Saúde”. Meeting of EDUM Researchers 2019, pp. 113-120 (July 2020). (Available for download).
- Vera Lúcia Raposo, Man Teng Iong. “The struggle against the CoViD-19 pandemic in Macao”. BioLaw Journal, NO 1S(2020): 747-752 (2020). (ESCI, Scopus) (Available for download).
- Man Teng Iong. “Contrato de Gestação Sub-rogada: Quem Assume a Parentalidade em caso de Arrependimento?”. Proceedings of the International Meeting “Equality and Responsibility in Family Relations”, pp. 105-116 (February 2020). ISBN: 978-989-54587-2-1 (Available for download).
- Man Teng Iong. “Please Allow True Self-Decision Under Macao Law”. Medicine and Law, 38(2): 183-192 (June 2019). (ESCI, Scopus)
- Man Teng Iong. “Fight between Secret of Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescriptions and Duty to Inform”. Medicine and Law, 37(1): 229-243 (March 2018). (ESCI, Scopus)
- Man Teng Iong. “Impacto do Regime Jurídico do Erro Médico sobre a Medicina Tradicional Chinesa”. Legisiuris de Macau em Revista – Especial Erro Médico (Centro de Reflexão, Estudo e Difusão do Direito de Macau da Fundação Rui Cunha), vol. 8, pp. 49-60 (Nov. 2017). ISSN: 2307-9312.
- Man Teng Iong. “Do acidente médico à responsabilidade civil médica no ordenamento jurídico da República Popular da China”. Revista Cadernos Ibero-Americanos de Direito Sanitário, 6(3): 101-117 (Jul./Sept. 2017). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17566/ciads.v6i3 (Available for download).
- Vera Lúcia Raposo, Man Teng Iong. “Grandes esperanças: tribunais do acidente médico na República Popular da China”. Revista Cadernos Ibero-Americanos de Direito Sanitário. 5(3): 223-236 (Jul./Sept. 2016). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17566/ciads.v5i3 (Available for download).
Communications
- 6 May 2023: Participation in the Annual Conference “Ruling Xinjiang by Law: Interregional Law from an International Perspective” hosted by the China Institute of Legal History and the Xinjiang University of Political Science and Law, as a moderator in the sub-forum “Western Modern Legal Thought” and as the representative speaker of the organiser of the 2024 Annual Conference in the closing ceremony.
- 2-3 May 2023: Participation in the Conference “Advance Directives Across Asia – Trends and Patterns” organised by the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law of the University of Hong Kong, with the topic “Advance Directives in Macao: Not Legally Recognised, but…” (as a speaker).
- 19 October 2022: Participation in the Conference “VI Meeting of EDUM Researchers 2022”, with the topic “Aplicabilidade da Perda de Chance na Responsabilidade Médica” (as a speaker).
- 18 August 2022: Participation in the Conference “2022 Straits Law Forum: Research on Legal Guarantee of Elderly Care Services”, with the topic “The Revolution of Elderly Care in Macao: A Study of Smart Elderly Care and Legal System” (as a speaker).
- 25 March 2021: Participation in the Conference “Responsibility for Public Health in the Lusophone World: Doing Justice and Beyond the Covid Emergency”, with the topic “Experiência de Macau contra a COVID-19: do Bem para o Mal” (as a speaker with the co-speaker Vera Lúcia RAPOSO).
- 9 January 2021: Participation in the “The 2nd Council of the Mainland, Hong Kong and Macao Legal Education Alliance in 2020 and the Conference on the Training of Foreign-related Legal Talents”, under a topic entitled “How the alliance member colleges participate in the national foreign-related legal personnel training” (as a speaker).
- 21 November 2020: Participation in the “High-end forum on legal service innovation and development under the background of Hainan Free Trade Port”, under a topic entitled “Under the background of Hainan Free Trade Port-new opportunities for foreign law services” (as a speaker with the co-speaker Io Cheng TONG)
- 22 March 2020: Participation in the CTLE Online Half-Day Faculty Development Workshop: Online/Blended Teaching & Learning: Review and Looking Ahead, organised by the University of Macau (as a speaker).
- 5-6 December 2019: Participatation in the Conference entitled Jornadas Internacionais ‘Igualdade e responsabilidade nas relações familiares’, organized by the JusGov, Law School of University of Minho, ADFAS and FCT, with the following presentation: “Contrato de Gestação Sub-rogada: Quem Assume a Parentalidade em caso de Arrependimento?” (as a speaker).
- 2 July 2019: Participation in the 3rd Meeting of Researchers in Legal Sciences of the University of Minho: the state of art in law research, organized by the School of Researchers of the JusGov, with the following presentation: “Literacia em Saúde e Consentimento Informado: Responsabilidade Civil Médica na Falta de Compreensão da Informação de Saúde” (as a speaker).
- 15-17 October 2018: Participation in the 3rd Coimbra International Conference on Human Rights: a transdisciplinary approach, organized by the Ius Gentium Conimbrigae/Center for Human Rights, with the following presentation: “How Genes Influence My Behaviour: Analysis of Behavioural Genetics Evidence Under the Criminal Law of Portugal” (as a speaker).
- 2-6 September 2018: Participation in the 24th World Congress on Medical Law and Bioethics, Tel Aviv, Israel, organized by the World Association for Medical Law, with the following presentation: “Please Let Mentally Ill Patients Make True Self-Decision Under the Macau Law” (as a speaker).
- 30 November 2017: Participation in the Conference of “Special Number of Law on Medical Malpractice”, organized by the Fundation Rui Cunha, with the following presentation: “Impacto do Regime Jurídico do Erro Médico sobre a Medicina Tradicional Chinesa” (as a speaker).
- 16 and 17 October 2017: Participation in the II Conference on Medical Law – Asian Perspectives on Bioethics, Medical Ethics & Medical Law, organized by the Faculty of Law of University of Macau, with the following presentation: “Fight between Secret of Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescriptions and Duty to Inform” (as a speaker).
- 13 and 14 December 2016: Participation in the 2016 UNCITRAL Emergence Conference, organized by UNCITRAL and UMAC, with the following presentation: “The Role of China for Enhancing Global Supply Chains – Legal Obstacles and Solutions” (as a speaker).
- 6 and 7 December 2016: Participation in the Second International Conference “Consumer Policy in China New Trends and Challenges”, organized by the Faculty of Law of University of Macau, with the following presentation: “Informed Consent in Traditional Chinese Medicine” (as a speaker).
- 20 April 2016: Participation in a Seminar related to Medical Liability and Patient’s Safety, organized by the Faculty of Law of University of Macau, with the following presentation: “Advance Directive” (as a speaker).

Man Teng Iong
Email mantengiong@um.edu.mo manteng.iong@gmail.com
Academic Qualifications
- PhD in Private Law, University of Minho, Portugal
- LLM in Legal Sciences, University of Macau, China
Thesis: “Directivas antecipadas de vontade: um regime existente em Macau?”
- LLB in Law, New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Working Experience
- Senior Instructor, Faculty of Law, University of Macau (16 August 2019 until now)
- Legal Advisor, Legal Department, Macau Health Bureau (19 August 2013 – 21 July 2019)
- Notary (Notário Privativo), Macau Health Bureau (26 August 2015 – 21 July 2019)
Teaching Areas
- Medical/Health Law
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Proceedings
- Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Human Rights Law
- Obligational Law
- General Theory of Portuguese Law
- Legal English
- Legal Translation Chinese/Portuguese
Other Roles
- Deputy Chief Editor on the Editorial Board of the journal China Ocean Law Review
- Co-Editor in Chief of the journal Marine Law and Policy
- Integrated Researcher at Research Centre for Justice and Governance, Law School, University of Minho
- Part-time Researcher at Hainan University for International Sea Law and Dispute Settlement
- Member of General Assembly of The Portuguese Speaking Countries Association of Health Laws (Associação Lusófona de Direitos da Saúde) and Representative of Macao Special Administrative Region in this Association
Man Teng IONG has been a Senior Instructor in the Faculty of Law of the University of Macau since August 2019. When he was working at the Macau Health Bureau as a Legal Advisor and Private Notary (2013 to 2019), he was also a Teaching Assistant (February 2018 to June 2018) and a Research Assistant (2016 to 2017) at the Faculty of Law of the University of Macau.
In academic life, he has been dedicated to investigating Medical/Health Law using the practical experience obtained in the Macau Health Bureau. He has published articles and participated in seminars and conferences on Medical/Health Law.
- Medical/Health Law
- Medical Malpractice (civil, criminal and administrative)
- Patient’s Safety
- Patient’s Rights
This researcher belongs to E.Tec.
Books
- Man Teng Iong. Directivas Antecipadas de Vontade – Um Regime Existente em Macau?. Editor Novas Edições Acadêmicas, 23 March 2017. ISBN: 9783330763616.
Book Chapters
- Vera Lúcia Raposo, Man Teng Iong. “Advance Directives in Macao: Not Legally Recognised, but…”. In D. Cheung & M. Dunn (Eds.), Advance Directives Across Asia: A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis (pp. 262-275). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. DOI:10.1017/9781009152631.018. (Available for download).
Journal Articles
- Man Teng Iong. “Compulsive medical acts and duty to inform: the Portuguese perspective”. BioLaw Journal, NO 1(2023): 457-466 (2023). (ESCI, Scopus) (Available for download).
- Man Teng Iong. “Artificial Intelligence and Traditional Chinese Medicine in Portuguese Criminal Law”. Tec Yearbook – Artificial Intelligence & Robots (School of Law of the University of Minho), pp. 39-51 (2020). (Available for download).
- Man Teng Iong. “Telemedicine in China: An Enlightenment from COVID-19”. Medicine and Law, 39(4): 595-602 (December 2020). (ESCI, Scopus)
- Man Teng Iong. “Criminal Liability for Violation of Informed Consent in Macao”. UMagazine (University of Macau), Issue 22: 62-65 (Spring/Summer 2020) (Available for reading).
- Man Teng Iong. “Literacia em Saúde e Consentimento Informado: Responsabilidade Civil Médica na Falta de Compreensão da Informação de Saúde”. Meeting of EDUM Researchers 2019, pp. 113-120 (July 2020). (Available for download).
- Vera Lúcia Raposo, Man Teng Iong. “The struggle against the CoViD-19 pandemic in Macao”. BioLaw Journal, NO 1S(2020): 747-752 (2020). (ESCI, Scopus) (Available for download).
- Man Teng Iong. “Contrato de Gestação Sub-rogada: Quem Assume a Parentalidade em caso de Arrependimento?”. Proceedings of the International Meeting “Equality and Responsibility in Family Relations”, pp. 105-116 (February 2020). ISBN: 978-989-54587-2-1 (Available for download).
- Man Teng Iong. “Please Allow True Self-Decision Under Macao Law”. Medicine and Law, 38(2): 183-192 (June 2019). (ESCI, Scopus)
- Man Teng Iong. “Fight between Secret of Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescriptions and Duty to Inform”. Medicine and Law, 37(1): 229-243 (March 2018). (ESCI, Scopus)
- Man Teng Iong. “Impacto do Regime Jurídico do Erro Médico sobre a Medicina Tradicional Chinesa”. Legisiuris de Macau em Revista – Especial Erro Médico (Centro de Reflexão, Estudo e Difusão do Direito de Macau da Fundação Rui Cunha), vol. 8, pp. 49-60 (Nov. 2017). ISSN: 2307-9312.
- Man Teng Iong. “Do acidente médico à responsabilidade civil médica no ordenamento jurídico da República Popular da China”. Revista Cadernos Ibero-Americanos de Direito Sanitário, 6(3): 101-117 (Jul./Sept. 2017). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17566/ciads.v6i3 (Available for download).
- Vera Lúcia Raposo, Man Teng Iong. “Grandes esperanças: tribunais do acidente médico na República Popular da China”. Revista Cadernos Ibero-Americanos de Direito Sanitário. 5(3): 223-236 (Jul./Sept. 2016). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17566/ciads.v5i3 (Available for download).
Communications
- 6 May 2023: Participation in the Annual Conference “Ruling Xinjiang by Law: Interregional Law from an International Perspective” hosted by the China Institute of Legal History and the Xinjiang University of Political Science and Law, as a moderator in the sub-forum “Western Modern Legal Thought” and as the representative speaker of the organiser of the 2024 Annual Conference in the closing ceremony.
- 2-3 May 2023: Participation in the Conference “Advance Directives Across Asia – Trends and Patterns” organised by the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law of the University of Hong Kong, with the topic “Advance Directives in Macao: Not Legally Recognised, but…” (as a speaker).
- 19 October 2022: Participation in the Conference “VI Meeting of EDUM Researchers 2022”, with the topic “Aplicabilidade da Perda de Chance na Responsabilidade Médica” (as a speaker).
- 18 August 2022: Participation in the Conference “2022 Straits Law Forum: Research on Legal Guarantee of Elderly Care Services”, with the topic “The Revolution of Elderly Care in Macao: A Study of Smart Elderly Care and Legal System” (as a speaker).
- 25 March 2021: Participation in the Conference “Responsibility for Public Health in the Lusophone World: Doing Justice and Beyond the Covid Emergency”, with the topic “Experiência de Macau contra a COVID-19: do Bem para o Mal” (as a speaker with the co-speaker Vera Lúcia RAPOSO).
- 9 January 2021: Participation in the “The 2nd Council of the Mainland, Hong Kong and Macao Legal Education Alliance in 2020 and the Conference on the Training of Foreign-related Legal Talents”, under a topic entitled “How the alliance member colleges participate in the national foreign-related legal personnel training” (as a speaker).
- 21 November 2020: Participation in the “High-end forum on legal service innovation and development under the background of Hainan Free Trade Port”, under a topic entitled “Under the background of Hainan Free Trade Port-new opportunities for foreign law services” (as a speaker with the co-speaker Io Cheng TONG)
- 22 March 2020: Participation in the CTLE Online Half-Day Faculty Development Workshop: Online/Blended Teaching & Learning: Review and Looking Ahead, organised by the University of Macau (as a speaker).
- 5-6 December 2019: Participatation in the Conference entitled Jornadas Internacionais ‘Igualdade e responsabilidade nas relações familiares’, organized by the JusGov, Law School of University of Minho, ADFAS and FCT, with the following presentation: “Contrato de Gestação Sub-rogada: Quem Assume a Parentalidade em caso de Arrependimento?” (as a speaker).
- 2 July 2019: Participation in the 3rd Meeting of Researchers in Legal Sciences of the University of Minho: the state of art in law research, organized by the School of Researchers of the JusGov, with the following presentation: “Literacia em Saúde e Consentimento Informado: Responsabilidade Civil Médica na Falta de Compreensão da Informação de Saúde” (as a speaker).
- 15-17 October 2018: Participation in the 3rd Coimbra International Conference on Human Rights: a transdisciplinary approach, organized by the Ius Gentium Conimbrigae/Center for Human Rights, with the following presentation: “How Genes Influence My Behaviour: Analysis of Behavioural Genetics Evidence Under the Criminal Law of Portugal” (as a speaker).
- 2-6 September 2018: Participation in the 24th World Congress on Medical Law and Bioethics, Tel Aviv, Israel, organized by the World Association for Medical Law, with the following presentation: “Please Let Mentally Ill Patients Make True Self-Decision Under the Macau Law” (as a speaker).
- 30 November 2017: Participation in the Conference of “Special Number of Law on Medical Malpractice”, organized by the Fundation Rui Cunha, with the following presentation: “Impacto do Regime Jurídico do Erro Médico sobre a Medicina Tradicional Chinesa” (as a speaker).
- 16 and 17 October 2017: Participation in the II Conference on Medical Law – Asian Perspectives on Bioethics, Medical Ethics & Medical Law, organized by the Faculty of Law of University of Macau, with the following presentation: “Fight between Secret of Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescriptions and Duty to Inform” (as a speaker).
- 13 and 14 December 2016: Participation in the 2016 UNCITRAL Emergence Conference, organized by UNCITRAL and UMAC, with the following presentation: “The Role of China for Enhancing Global Supply Chains – Legal Obstacles and Solutions” (as a speaker).
- 6 and 7 December 2016: Participation in the Second International Conference “Consumer Policy in China New Trends and Challenges”, organized by the Faculty of Law of University of Macau, with the following presentation: “Informed Consent in Traditional Chinese Medicine” (as a speaker).
- 20 April 2016: Participation in a Seminar related to Medical Liability and Patient’s Safety, organized by the Faculty of Law of University of Macau, with the following presentation: “Advance Directive” (as a speaker).