Suzana Maria Calvo Loureiro Tavares da Silva is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, where she obtained her doctorate in 2009, her bachelor's degree in 1996 and her master's degree in legal-political sciences in 1999. In September 2019, she suspended her teaching activity due to her appointment as a Judge at the Portuguese Supreme Administrative Court, but she remains an active researcher at the University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research (UCILeR). She has taken part in various international research projects, particularly as part of research teams with professors from Spanish universities and has also actively collaborated with young researchers from that country in hosting research stays at the FDUC/IJ. In Portugal, she has set up an Energy Law Study Centre at the IJ and a Bilateral Tax Observatory at CEDIPRE. In partnership with the g7+ and the government of East Timor, she has collaborated in promoting statebuilding training programmes for fragile and conflict-ridden countries. Since 2020, she has been a member of the Editorial Board of YSEC (Springer Publishing), where she essentially deals with the peer review process of the texts, which has allowed her to expand the network of collaboration in the research of the themes. Since taking office as a Judge of the Supreme Administrative Court, she has also sought to boost the professional and academic research network by participating in comparative law seminars organised by ACA-Europe, the Association of the Councils of State and Supreme Administrative Jurisdictions, and IASAJ - International Association of Supreme Administrative Jurisdictions. Her favoured areas of research are special administrative law, with particular emphasis on energy law (an area in which she researched and elaborated her doctoral dissertation) and economic and regulatory law, including the utilities sectors (transport, telecommunications, water and waste). As part of her teaching activity, she has produced textbooks for the subjects of tax law, VAT law and constitutional law. To support the master's courses she has taught, she has written monographs on fundamental rights in the context of multi-level legal relations, the "new administrative law", European administrative law and energy law. In addition to these subjects, she has published national and international works on fundamental rights, political science, foreign investment law, agricultural law, urban planning law, maritime law, and environmental law. More recently, research topics have centered on issues linked to the new challenges of administrative law: the delay in proceedings and the reforms of the administrative process in comparative terms, the challenges of artificial intelligence in medical responsibility and justice, the role of administrative law in the context of constitutional changes and the threats to the rule of law. Last updated: 31.01.2024