Ana Maria Guerra Martins (born 22 July 1963, Lisbon) is a Portuguese jurist and a judge at the European Court of Human Rights.
Guerra Martins studied law at the University of Lisbon, where she graduated in 1986 with a BSc. [1] In 1993 she obtained a MSc in Law of the European Union from the same university. [1] From 1997 to 1999 she worked as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. [1] In the year 2000, she obtained her PhD in public law. [2]
After her return to Portugal in 1999, she became a lecturer in at the University of Lisbon. [3] In the year 2000, she became the junior lecturer for international human rights and constitutional law at the University of Lisbon. [2] From 2004 to 2005 she was visiting professor at the Paris-Sud and as well the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Moçambique. [3] 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. [3]
She became a judge at the constitutional court of Portugal in 2006, which she stayed until 2016. [4] Between 2006 and 2007 she acted as the general inspector of justice in Portugal. [1] In October 2019, Guerra Martins was elected as the successor to Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque as the representative of Portugal as a judge at the ECHR. [4] She is the first woman to represent Portugal at the ECHR, and began her term in office on 1 April 2020. [4]