MARIA JOÃO ESTORNINHO is Full Professor (Professora Catedrática) of the Law Faculty of the University of Lisbon. She is a member of the Conselho Superior dos Tribunais Administrativos e Fiscais (appointed by the President of the Republic). In the Law Faculty of the University of Lisbon, she is President of the Grupo de Ciências Jurídico-Políticas (Scientific Department of Public Law) and member of the Conselho Científico (Scientific Board). She is also Coordinator of Post-Doctoral Studies of the Faculty. She was former President of the Conselho Pedagógico (Pedagogical Board of the Faculty), as well as former President of the Assembleia de Representantes (Parliament of the Faculty). She is researcher of the CDIP (Centro de Investigação em Direito Público). She is a member of the Colégio F3 – Food, Farming and Forestry, an interdisciplinary research group in the University of Lisbon. She is a member of the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence of the Law Faculty of Lisbon and also a member of several Scientific Associations, not only in Portugal but in Europe (Societas Iuris Publici Europaei- SIPE and PLAN- Procurement Law Academic Network). She is former member of the European Commission’s Public Procurement Expert Group (Brussels). She has a long experience in researching and teaching different subjects at Graduate, Masters, and Doctoral levels (Administrative Law, European Public Procurement Law, Human Rights, European Health and Food Law). She has been Supervisor of many Master and Doctoral thesis, as well as Supervisor of Post-Doc researchers. She has published, in 2006, the first book on European Public Procurement Law in Portugal. It was her thesis for Post-Doctoral degree (Habilitationschrift). Her PHD thesis was A Fuga para o Direito Privado (1996) and her Masters thesis, Requiem pelo Contrato Administrativo, (1990). She was co-founder of the Law Review Cadernos de Justiça Administrativa and is a member of its Scientific Committee and she is also a member of the Scientific Committee of the Revista dos Contratos Públicos (Public Procurement Law Review, Coimbra). She has a long experience of participating in Conferences and Seminars, giving lectures on public procurement and other subjects in Portugal and abroad (v.g. Coimbra, Porto, Brussels, Madrid, Sevilla, Granada, Barcelona, Brasília, S. Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Rome, Catania, Cabo Verde), in different Faculties and in other institutions (Law Bar Association, Administrative Courts, Governmental organizations, Public and Private associations).