Patrícia Branco is a contracted researcher at Centro de Estudos Sociais from the University of Coimbra, hired under the Scientific Employment Stimulus Program (10.54499/CEECIND/00126/2017/CP1402/CT0001), with the research project «FORK. Food, Regulation, Kinship: considerations on contemporary law, families and parenthood through the lenses of food». She is also co-coordinator of the PhD Programme 'Post-Colonialisms and Global Citizenship' (CES-UC/FEUC). Her research interests and publications focus on the organisation of the judicial system, courthouse architecture and the spaces of justice(s); changes in family, child and youth law, and their relationship with issues such as gender and juvenile delinquency and crime; the relationship between law and the humanities; and, more recently, the connections between food and law . She holds a PhD in Sociology of Law, within the scope of the "Law, Justice and Citizenship in the 21st century" program, from the University of Coimbra, with the thesis "Courts as spaces for recognition, functionality and access to justice - the case study of the Family and Child Courts in Portugal". She was a Post-Doctoral fellow, by FCT (Ref. SFRH / BPD / 102236/2014), with the research project "Courts, their communities and citizens: the effectiveness in accessing the law and justice (territorial, spatial and symbolic) of the new reform of the judicial organization ". Former Former Fellow of the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities "Recht als Kultur / Law as Culture", University of Bonn, Germany, where she developed the research project "Into, from and back again: a discussion on courthouse architecture, the image of justice and literature".