Ana Maria Guerra Martins

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 woman to represent Portugal at the ECHR, and began her term in office on 1 April 2020.^[4]