Ana de Mello Côrtes

Ana Côrtes is a researcher at the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, at the University of Bergen. Côrtes holds a PhD in Public Law from the University of Coimbra (Portugal), and carried out part of the work on her PhD at the CMI-UiB Centre on Law Social Transformation (Norway). She was awarded a mixed grant from the Foundation for Science and Technology - FCT for her research work in Portugal and Norway.Côrtes is an affiliated researcher at the University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research - UCILeR (Portugal) and the Chr. Michelsen Institute - CMI (Norway). She is also a member of the Getulio Vargas Foundation's research centres on Gender and Law and Justice and Constitution (Brazil).She holds a master's degree in Law and Development from the Getulio Vargas Foundation - FGV and a bachelor's degree in Law from the University of São Paulo - USP, and was awarded by USP for the best senior thesis of the year (2015). Her experience as a researcher includes participation in different research projects, methods training, and research fellowships from FCT, FGV and the São Paulo Research Foundation - FAPESP. Côrtes is currently the coordinator for the annual course "Effects of Lawfare: Courts and Law as Battlegrounds for Social Change", at the University of Bergen, Department of Government. At the University of Bergen, she is also the co-leader for "SkeivForsk - the cross-faculty group for LGBTQ+ research at UiB". (Source: Lattes Curriculum)