Teresa Violante

Teresa Violante is a lawyer specialising in Constitutional Law. She is currently writing her PhD dissertation at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. She is the Director of the Institute of the Global Rule of Law of the European Public Law Organization and a Guest Lecturer at Universidade Lusófona (Lisbon). She has studied in Coimbra, Utrecht, Padova, London and Lisbon. She holds a European Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democratization from the Università Degli Studi di Padova. She has worked as a Law Clerk for the Portuguese Constitutional Court for over ten years. She has published extensively on Constitutional Law and Comparative Constitutional Law.  Her research focuses on the relationship between constitutional adjudication and the legislative branch. 

 

Contact: violante@mpil.de

 

Selected publications:

• "Judicial Accountability of Financial Assistance in the Case of Eurozone Debtor Countries", in Mark Dawson (ed.) Substantive Accountability in Europe's New Economic Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, § 11, 2023, 240-266.
• “Portugal: From Transformative to Open Constitutionalism”, in: Marco Dani, Marco Goldoni, Agustín Menendéz (eds.). The Legitimacy of European Constitutional Orders. A Comparative Enquiry. Edward Elgar, 2023, 113-136.
• “Access to Health Care by Migrants with Precarious Status During a Health Crisis: Some Insights from Portugal” (with Vera Lúcia Raposo), Human Rights Review, 22, 2021, 459-482.
• “Constitutional Adjudication as a Forum for Contesting Austerity: The Case of Portugal”, in: Anuscheh Farahat e Xabier Arzoz (eds.). Contesting Austerity. A Socio-Legal Inquiry. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2021, 173-190.
• “Bring Back the Politics: The PSPP Ruling in Its Institutional Context”, in German Law Journal, 21, 2020, 1045-1057.
• “Data Retention in Portugal”. In: Marek Zubik, Jan Podkwik and Robert Rybski (eds). European Constitutional Courts Towards Data Retention Laws. Cham: Springer, 2020, 175-187.