Teresa Violante
Guest Professor
Teresa Violante is a legal scholar and practitioner specializing in Constitutional Law, Human Rights, Criminal Law, and EU Law. She worked for over ten years as a Law Clerk at the Portuguese Constitutional Court and is currently a practicing lawyer while researching reproductive rights, constitutional challenges, democracy, and the rule of law.
She holds a Law Degree from the University of Coimbra (1999) and completed the European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratization at Università degli Studi di Padova (2000). She also has post-graduate diplomas in Public Law and Regulation (University of Coimbra, 2007) and EC Competition Law (King’s College London, 2008).
She was a Research Fellow at several European institutions, including the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg, 2017-2023), Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (2017-2019), and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (2019-2022). She is pursuing her PhD in Public Law at the latter institution.
She is an Invited Professor at NOVA School of Law, the Director of the Institute for the Global Rule of Law at the European Public Law Organization (EPLO), and Interim Director of the NOVA Centre for the Study of Gender, Family and the Law. She serves as Co-Chair of the Portuguese Chapter of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) and a member of the board of Transparency International Portugal. She acts as an expert for the V-Dem Institute (Democracy Report) and the World Justice Project (Rule of Law Report). She was heard as an expert witness by the National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences on conscientious objection (2024). She also coordinates the research project on reforming the Economic and Social Council Law, funded by CES.
She recently edited “Transnational Solidarity in Crisis” (Nomos, 2024) and has published chapters with Cambridge University Press, Edward Elgar, and Hart Publishing. Her articles appear in journals such as the European Constitutional Law Review, Common Market Law Review, and German Law Journal. She writes weekly for Expresso and contributes regularly to international academic blogs.