Ana Maria Guerra Martins

Guerra Martins studied law at the University of Lisbon, where she graduated in 1986 with a BSc.[1] In 1993 she obtained a MSc in Law of the European Union from the same university.[1] From 1997 to 1999 she worked as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg.[1] In the year 2000, she obtained her PhD in public law.[2]

After her return to Portugal in 1999, she became a lecturer in at the University of Lisbon.[3] In the year 2000, she became the junior lecturer for international human rights and constitutional law at the University of Lisbon.[2] From 2004 to 2005 she was visiting professor at the Paris-Sud and as well the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Moçambique.[3] In 2006 she returned to the University of Lisbon and was appointed as the senior lecturer in international human rights and constitutional law, and in 2011 she became a full professor at the University of Lisbon, a post she held until 2020, when she assumed as a judge at the ECHR.[3]

She became a judge at the constitutional court of Portugal in 2006, which she stayed until 2016.[4] Between 2006 and 2007 she acted as the general inspector of justice in Portugal.[1] In October 2019, Guerra Martins was elected as the successor to Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque as the representative of Portugal as a judge at the ECHR.[4] She is the first women to present Portugal at the ECHR, and began her term in office on the 1 April 2020.[4]