Maria da Assunção Andrade Esteves
• Born in Valpaços, Vila Real, on 15 October 1956
• Degree in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (1980)
• Master's Degree in Legal and Political Sciences from the Faculty of Law of the
University of Lisbon (1989)
• Member of the Assembly of the Republic (1987-1989 - 1st mandate) (2002-2004 2nd mandate)
• Judge at the Constitutional Court (1989-1998)
• Assistant Professor of Public Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon,
in Constitutional Law and Fundamental Rights (1989-1999)
• Member of the Portuguese Society of Philosophy
• Chairwoman of the 1st parliamentary committee - Committee on Constitutional
Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees of the Assembly of the Republic (20022004)
• Member of the Venice Commission, Council of Europe – Commission for
Democracy through Law (2002-2005)
• Vice-president of the Social Democratic Party (May 2006 - May 2007); member of
the National Jurisdiction Council of the Social Democratic Party (1998-1999);
member of the National Political Committee of the Social Democratic Party (19992000); Vice-President of the Sá Carneiro Institute; Chairwoman of the Municipality
of Prazeres
• President of the European Movement Portugal (2007-2011)
• Member of the European Parliament (2004-2009): Committee on Constitutional
Affairs, Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Subcommittee on
Human Rights, Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation
• Member of the EP special group for the European Constitution and the Treaty of
Lisbon
• Published works: A Constitucionalização do Direito de Resistência, Lisboa 1988;
Estudos de Direito Constitucional, Lisboa 2002; O Tratado de Lisboa, Lisboa 2008;
numerous articles in academic journals and newspapers, such as Expresso, Público,
Diário de Notícias. Co-author of the collective work Dicionário de termos europeus,
ed. Aletheia
• Participation in international seminars and congresses on political philosophy and
constitutional law (Bologna, Madrid, Alicante, Munich, Paris and Brussels). Brief
experience as a lawyer. Scholar of DAAD and the Adenauer Foundation in Germany
• Currently prepares her PhD in Political Theory at the Free University of Brussels
• Languages: English, French and German