Catarina Santos Botelho
Born in 1981. Catarina Santos Botelho is a Professor of Law and Chair of Constitutional Law at Porto Faculty of Law, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Portugal). Researcher at the Católica Research Centre for the Future of Law. Coordinator of Master’s programmes. Series Co-Editor of Constitutionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean (Hart Publishing). Council Coordination member of the Academic Network on the European Social Charter and Social Rights (ANESC). Coordinator of the Observatory for the Protection of Social Rights in the European Context. Co-coordinates the pioneer Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Course on Human Rights (Law, Psychology, and Socioeconomics). Member of the International Society of Public Law (ICON). Founding member of ICON.S Portugal.
Her research interests include:
- Constitutional design and amendment;
- Constitutional theory and legal philosophy;
- Comparative constitutional studies;
- Solidarity and social rights;
- Human dignity;
- Intergenerational justice;
- Constitutional courts;
- Political parties and constitutions;
- Secession and constitutionalism;
- Academic freedom;
- Latin American constitutionalism.
She holds a LLB (2004), a LLM (2009), and a PhD (2015) degrees from Porto Faculty of Law, Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Recipient of Francisco Carvalho Guerra’s Prize (which awards the student with the highest-grade point average at the end of the law school degree). Clerk at the European Court of Justice (Luxembourg), with the Advocate General Miguel Poiares Maduro (2005). Visiting Researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg, 2012).
Her teaching at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa includes or has included the following courses: Constitutional Law, Global Constitutional Law, Fundamental Rights, Multilevel Protection of Fundamental Social Rights, Constitutional Justice, and Introduction to Public Law. She is a member of the editorial board of of the peer-reviewed Brazilian journals Revista Jurídica Internacional do Instituto Brasil Portugal de Direito, Revista Eletrônica da ESA/RS – Escola de Saberes, and Revista Arquivo Jurídico – Revista Jurídica Eletrônica da Universidade Federal do Piauí. She was co-founder of the Católica Law Review and member of its editorial board until 2019.