Margarida Salema
Portuguese politician, lawyer and academic lecturer, national parliamentarian, Member of the European Parliament of the third term
About Margarida Salema
Born 1954. Margarida Salema is a Portuguese politician, university teacher and jurist.
Margarida Salema d’Oliveira Martins, better known as Margarida Salema (born in Lisbon, 1954) is a former politician, university professor, and Portuguese researcher. She was one of the Members of the European Parliament promoting the initiative of gender-balanced parliament in Portugal during the 1990s. She served as the president of the Entity of Political Accounts and Financing of the Portuguese Constitutional Court from 2009 to 2017.
Biography Salema graduated in law in 1976, completed her master's degree in law in the field of legal and political sciences in 1984, and obtained her doctorate in law in legal and political sciences in 2002 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.
Between 1980 and 1985, she was a member of the Portuguese Assembly and between 1989 and 1994, she was a member of the European Parliament. In 2007, she assumed the position of researcher at the Center for Legal, Economic, and Environmental Studies of the Lusíada University of Lisbon, within the Research Group in Public law and Political Theory.
In 2017, Margarida Salema resumed her position as associate professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, with areas of interest and research including European Union law, International Public Law, International Organizations, and Constitutional law.
Publications Martins, Margarida Salema d'Oliveira (2018). A União Europeia: o direito e a atividade (in Portuguese). Quid Juris. . Martins, Margarida Salema d'Oliveira (2003). O princípio da subsidiariedade em perspectiva jurídico-política (in Portuguese). Coimbra Editora. . Margarida Salema d' Oliveira Martins. O Direito de Veto na Constituição de 1976. Braga: Livraria Cruz, 1980
Awards Adelaide Ristori Award
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Portuguese politician, lawyer and academic lecturer, national parliamentarian, Member of the European Parliament of the third term
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Margarida Salema was born on 19 January 1954 in Lisbon.
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Margarida Salema is a politician, university teacher and jurist.
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