Tatiana Morais
Guest Professor
Tatiana Morais is a Guest Assistant Professor at NOVA School of Law, and a Guest Assistant Professor at the Portuguese Military Academy.
Tatiana is also a researcher affiliated with CEDIS and CINAMIL, and a member of WiRL, ACUNS, and CARFMS.
She holds a PhD in Law from NOVA School of Law (summa cum laude), and an LLM in Human Rights from the School of Law at the University of Minho (magna cum laude). She earned her LLB in Law from the Faculty of Law at the University of Lisbon.
She was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara (USA), and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Bristol (UK) and at the College of Law and Business (Israel).
She has extensive experience with qualitative research methods from a socio-legal perspective, having conducted fieldwork in Greece, Uganda, and Israel.
Master (2nd cicle):
- International Courts and the Sea
Book
- “Violência sexual e de género nos campos de população refugiada: Enquadramento e análise legal” in Coleção de Teses OM, vol. 52, [ebook], [autora]
Recent Peer-Reviewed Articles and other publications:
- (2025 with Jeremy Sarkin) “Balancing Retributive and Restorative Justice Processes at the National Level: Addressing Violence Against Refugees and Asylum-seekers in Uganda” Journal of African Law 69(2):1-18.
- (2025 with Assunção Cristas, Maria Damanaki, Patrícia André, Sara Apresentação, Manuela Bocayuva, Margarida Lima Rego, Nausica Palazzo). “Women in the Blue Economy: An Empirical Analysis” [Project Final Report]
- (2025 with Jeremy Sarkin) “The Role of the European Union’s Securitisation Policies in Exacerbating the Intersectional Vulnerability of Refugees and Asylum Seekers” 29(2) International Journal of Human Rights (2025) 282-305.
- (2025 with Assunção Cristas, Maria Damanaki, Patrícia André, Sara Apresentação, Manuela Bocayuva, Margarida Lima Rego, Nausica Palazzo). “Women in the Blue Economy: An Empirical Analysis” [Executive Summary]
- (2025 with Assunção Cristas, Maria Damanaki, Patrícia André, Sara Apresentação, Manuela Bocayuva, Margarida Lima Rego, Nausica Palazzo). “Women in the Blue Economy – Roles and Impact: An Empirical Cross-Cultural Study in Portugal and Cape Verde” in Book of Abstracts of the WMU International Conference 2025: Advancing the Blue Economy through Gender Equality, Momoko Kitada, Francis Neat and Renis Auma Ojwala (eds.), 18.
- (2024 with Jeremy Sarkin) “Gender and Migration: A Continuum of Gender-Based Violence Echoing Across the Sinai Desert and into Israel.” Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration (2024) 1-24.
- (2024 with Afsoon Hansia) “Stuck in immobility: LGBTQIA+ persons in Uganda caught in the intersectional impact of the Anti-Homosexuality Act”. Netzwerk Fluchtforschung. July 2024.
- (2024 with Jeremy Sarkin) “Assessing the Intersectional Impact of the Law: Reacting to State Created Categories and the Inevitability of State Created Vulnerabilities in Israel.” Israel Law Review (novembro 2024) 57(3) 423–448.
- (2024 with Jeremy Sarkin) “Agency and Vulnerability of Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Women in the Face of States’ Failure to Protect against Sexual and Gender-Based Violence” (Refereed) 46 Human Rights Quarterly (agosto 2024) 523–548.
- (2023 with Afsoon Hansia) “Intersectional Impact of Tensions Affecting LGBTQIA+ persons’ mobility in Uganda” Nova Refugee and Migration Clinic blog. December 19, 2023. Available at
https://novarefugeelegalclinic.novalaw.unl.pt/?blog_post=intersectional-impact-of-tensions-affecting-lgbtqia-persons-mobility-in-uganda - (2023 with Jeremy Sarkin) “A Cost–Benefit Assessment of Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Women Reporting Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Uganda: Assessing Women’s Resilience as a Means to Protect their Ethnoreligious Group” 38 (1) Southern African Public Law 1-29.
- (2023) “Addressing the Continuum of Violence with a Continuum of Resilience. Book Review ‘Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp: Gender, Violence, and Coping in Uganda’. By Ulrike Krause” in Journal of Refugee Studies, 36(4), pp. 1020-1024. DOI:10.1093/jrs/fead058 [autora].
- (2022 with Jeremy Sarkin) “Why States Need to View Their Responsibility to Protect Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Women Through the Lens of Intersectionality, Vulnerability, and Matrix of Domination to Address Sexual and Gender-Based Violence 33(6)”, «European Human Rights Law Review», 554-570
- (2022 with Jeremy Sarkin) “The Importance of Adopting an Intersectionality Approach to Refugee Status Determination Procedures: Lessons from Greece, Israel, and Uganda”, International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care 18(3) 193-206. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMHSC-10-2021-0099
- (2020 with Jennifer Gibbs) “Doing or not doing the Mitzvah of hachnasat orchim? Managing tensions between international obligations and the State’s National Interest: the case of Eritrean asylum seekers in Israel” in OxMo, (9), 101-111.