Teresa Violante is a PhD Candidate at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. She holds a graduate degree in law (University of Coimbra) and a European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratization (University of Padova), and lectures on fundamental rights and constitutional law (University Lusófona, Lisbon). In her PhD project, she investigates weak judicial review by European constitutional courts. She is also the Director of the Institute for the Global Rule of Law of the European Public Law Organization.