Vera Lúcia Raposo(黎慧華)
Faculty of Law, Coimbra University
vera@fd.uc.pt
https://publons.com/researcher/1515371/vera-lucia-raposo/
ORCID number: 0000-0001-7895-2181
h-index:
Web of Science h-index 6
Scopus h-index 7
Google Scholar h-index 16
About myself: I'm a mum, a globetrotter, a believer in science and a fashionista.
Current research interests:
- medical/health law (medical liability, patient safety, genetics, reproductive issues, pharma law, consumer law)
- digital law (private data, AI, algorithms, digital governance)
- fundamental rights / human rights
Vera Lúcia Raposo has a law degree, a postgraduate degree in medical law, a master’s in legal-political sciences and a doctorate in legal-political sciences, granted by the Faculty of Law of Coimbra University, Portugal (FDUC).
Currently she is Assistant Professor at FDUC. In the past she lectured at the University of Macau, China and at Agostinho Neto University, in Angola, and she was of counsel at the Vieira de Almeida e Associados office, in Lisbon, in the area of health law.
She is the author of several studies in Portuguese, English and Spanish (some translated into Chinese), in particular on biomedical law (medical liability, patient safety, gene editing, reproductive issues) and new technologies (digital governance, data protection, AI, algorithms).
Academic background:
July 1999 Law degree (16/20), Faculty of Law, Coimbra University (FDUC), specialization in Juridical-Political Law
1998/1999 Participation in the ERASMUS project, at the Faculty of Law of La Sapienza University, Rome. Courses: Philosophy of the Law (30/30); European Law (30/30): Comparative Constitutional Law (30 cum laude/ 30)
June 2002 Master degree on Juridical-Political Sciences, FDUC. Thesis: “Eve’s Power: The equality principle in the field of political rights; questions merged from affirmative action” (17/20)
2000/2002 Internship course at the Portuguese Bar Association, to be qualified to practice law
2002/ 2003 Post-Graduation in Medical Law, in the Institute of Medical Law, FDUC
2003/2004 Admission in the PhD program of FDUC. Presentation of the thesis project: reproductive rights in the access to assisted reproduction techniques and the in vitro embryo’s status
2012 Public examination for the Doctorate with the thesis: “Right to Immortality – The Exercise of Reproductive Rights through Techniques of Assisted Reproduction and the Juridical Status of In Vitro Embryos”. Award of the Juris Doctor grade.
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
200-2002 Internship course at the Portuguese Bar Association, to be qualified to practice law
2002 License to practice law, obtained from the Portugal Bar Association
