After her return to
Portugal in 1999, she became a lecturer in at the University of Lisbon. In the year 2000, she became the junior lecturer for international human rights and constitutional law at the
University of Lisbon. From 2004 to 2005 she was visiting professor at the
Paris-Sud and as well the
Eduardo Mondlane University in
Maputo,
Moçambique. 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. == Juridical career ==