Inês Fernandes Godinho is an Associate Professor at the Universidade Lusófona (Porto). She holds a PhD in Law (Criminal Sciences) from the University of Coimbra and is an integrated researcher at CEAD Francisco Suárez, of which she is currently Vice-President (ULusófona) and a collaborating researcher at the University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research (UC). She is also a member of the Centre for Biomedical Law (CDB), the European Association of Health Law (EAHL), the European Law Institute (ELI), the Portuguese Ass. of Law Theory, Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy and the International Foundation for Criminal Sciences. In 2016 she won an award from the Max-Planck Institut (Freiburg) and in 2017 she was an Invited Assistant Professor at the Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. As a researcher she has been engaged in several projects relating to Health Law and to Law Theory and Criminal Law, having done research stays in Germany (Bonn and Freiburg) and in England (Oxford). She is a founding member of the Arbeitskreis Normentheorie, currently funded by the Deutscher Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and of the Portuguese Hub of ELI. She was a DAAD Fellow in a research project with the University of Bonn (Germany) and a PhD FCT Fellow. She is the author of several legal titles, published in Portugal and abroad.