Ana Margarida Simões Gaudêncio (PhD in Law - Philosophy of Law) is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra (Portugal), an integrated researcher and member of the Coordinating Board of UCILeR (University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research), and a founding member of the Portuguese Association for Theory and Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (the Portuguese section of the International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy - IVR). Her main research and teaching areas are Philosophy of Law, Theory of Law, and Methodology of Law, with a focus on Critical Legal Studies, Tolerance and Law, Multiculturalism and Law, Human Rights Law, Ethics and Law, and Migration Law. She has given conferences in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Brazil, and the United States, and has participated in various research projects. She has published two monographs: Entre o centro e periferia: a perspectivação ideológico-política da dogmática jurídica e da decisão judicial no Critical Legal Studies Movement (Rio de Janeiro, Lumen Juris, 2013) and O intervalo da tolerância nas fronteiras da juridicidade: fundamentos e condições de possibilidade da projecção jurídica de uma (re)construção normativamente substancial da exigência de tolerância (Instituto Jurídico da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra, 2019), as well as several articles and book chapters in both Portuguese and international publications.