Cristina Nogueira da Silva is an Associate Professor of NOVA School of Law, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NSL-UNL), an integrated researcher of CEDIS, the NSL Research Institute, and associated researcher of Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-UL). She has a PhD in History of Law at NSL-UNL (2005). Her primary research areas include 19th-century liberal political cultures, imperial citizenship, constitutionalism, and the legal dimensions of colonialism in America, Africa, and Asia. Her recent projects focus on exploring the legal status of individuals and territories in contemporary Portuguese Overseas dominions, colonial legal pluralism, and the use of law and legal institutions by both the 'colonizers' and the 'colonized'. Some of her publications are Constitucionalismo e Império. A Cidadania no Ultramar Português (2009); ‘Universalism, Legal pluralism and Citizenship: Portuguese Imperial Policies in the Nineteenth Century’, 2016); 'Colonial Justice in Mozambique (1915-1954): Preserving and Changing Indigenous Customary Law' (2023); Imperios Ibéricos y Representación Política (siglos XIX-XX), (ed. with Inés Montaud, 2021), Slave Subjectivities in the Iberian World (ed. with Ângela Barreto Xavier and Michel Cahen, 2023).