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Ana Côrtes is a PhD candidate in Public Law at the University of Coimbra (Portugal), and carried out part of the work on her PhD at the CMI-UiB Centre on Law & Social Transformation (Norway). She was awarded a mixed grant from the Foundation for Science and Technology - FCT for her research work in Portugal and Norway. Côrtes is an affiliated researcher at the University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research - UCILeR (Portugal) and the Chr. Michelsen Institute - CMI (Norway). She is also a member of the Getulio Vargas Foundation's research centres Gender and Law and Justice and Constitution (Brazil). Côrtes holds a master's degree in Law and Development from the Getulio Vargas Foundation - FGV and a bachelor's degree in Law from the University of São Paulo - USP, and was awarded by USP for the best thesis of the year (2015). Her experience as a researcher includes participating in different research projects and methods training, as well as research fellowships from FCT, FGV and the São Paulo Research Foundation - FAPESP. Côrtes is currently a lecturer for the University of Bergen (Norway) course "Gendered Autocratization as a Global Challenge", in the master's programme in Politics and Governance of Global Challenges, Department of Government. She is also the coordinator for the annual course "Effects of Lawfare: Courts and Law as Battlegrounds for Social Change", also at the University of Bergen, Department of Government. At the University of Bergen, she is also the co-leader for "SkeivForsk - the cross-faculty group for LGBTQ+ research at UiB".
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ana de Mello Côrtes

Citation names

  • Côrtes, Ana
  • de Mello Côrtes, Ana
  • Côrtes, A.
  • Côrtes, A.M.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
C61C-1BA8-A555
ORCID iD
0000-0001-8167-125X
Google Scholar ID
3sYxyU4AAAAJ&hl
LattesiD
http://lattes.cnpq.br/5936351123859152
Scopus Author Id
57725903300

Email addresses

  • ana.cortes@uib.no (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Law
  • Social Sciences - Political Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Norwegian Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
French Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
German Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1)
Danish Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Swedish Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2023/08 - 2024/06
Concluded
 Information Science (Outros)
Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
2018 - 2024
Ongoing
 PhD in Public Law (Doutoramento)
University of Coimbra, Portugal
"The Recognition of rights for LGBTQ persons in countries with a civil law legal system: between legislation and constitutional courts " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2018 - 2019
Concluded
 Statistical methods (2018), Data analysis (2019), and computation with R (2019) (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2019
Concluded
 Statistical Data Analysis with SPSS (Outros)
Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra - FEUC, Portugal
2019
Concluded
 Sexualities, Rights and Gender-Based Violence (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2016 - 2018
Concluded
 Master's Degree in Law and Development (Mestrado)
Major in Rule of Law based institutions and sociopolitical development
Fundacao Getulio Vargas Escola de Direito, Brazil
"Em busca de diálogo e reconhecimento no STF: uma análise da atuação como amicus curiae nas causas relativas a pessoas trans" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2018
Concluded
 São Paulo School of Advanced Studies in Social Science (SPASS) (Outros)
Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento - CEBRAP, Brazil
2017
Concluded
 Methods and Techniques of Empirical Research in Law (Outros)
Rede de Estudos Empíricos em Direito - REED, Brazil
2011 - 2015
Concluded
 Law (Licenciatura)
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
"Discriminação judicial por identidade de gênero: diagnóstico e alternativas" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024 - Current Researcher (Research) Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
2023 - 2024 Researcher (Research) Chr Michelsen Institute, Norway
2020 - 2023 Researcher (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Instituto Jurídico, Portugal
2018 - 2020 Research Assistant (Research) Chr Michelsen Institute, Norway
2016 - 2018 Researcher (Research) Fundacao Getulio Vargas Escola de Direito, Brazil
2011 - 2012 Contracted Researcher (Research) Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023 - 2024 Lecturer (University Teacher) University of Bergen, Department of Government, Norway
2013 - 2015 Tutor (University Teacher) Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2012 - 2013 Internship Gaspar Garcia Centre for Human Rights, Brazil
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2020/09/01 - 2023/08/31 Reconhecimento de direitos para a população LGBTI em países com sistema jurídico romano-germânico: entre leis e tribunais constitucionais
2020.06798.BD
10.54499/2020.06798.BD
PhD Student Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2016 - 2018 Em busca de diálogo e reconhecimento no STF: a atuação como amicus curiae nos casos relativos a pessoas trans
C335599
Master Student Fellow
Fundacao Getulio Vargas Escola de Direito, Brazil
 Fundacao Getulio Vargas Escola de Direito
Concluded
2011 - 2013 Aplicação do princípio da insignificância pelos Tribunais Superiores
10/19595-6
Research Fellow
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
 Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2023 - Current PluriLand: Theorizing Conflict and Contestation in Plural Land Rights Regimes
300851
Researcher
Chr Michelsen Institute, Norway
 Norges forskningsråd
Ongoing
2018 - 2020 Elevating water rights to human rights: Has it strengthened marginalized peoples' claim for water?
263096
Researcher
Chr Michelsen Institute, Norway
 Norges forskningsråd
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2023 - 2024 Voices from the Global South - Network
931980
Researcher
Stiftelsen Fritt Ord
2022 - 2023 Queer Lawfare - seminar series
35343
Researcher
Stiftelsen Fritt Ord
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Côrtes, Ana; Machado Haertel, Letícia. Metodologia por Jovens Juristas. Brazil: Quartier Latin. 2023.
    Published • Editor
Book chapter
  1. Langford, Malcolm; Kirkebø, Tori; Vibe, Vegard; Côrtes, Ana; Espelid, Even. "The rise of International Litigation". In International Lawfare and Sexual and Reproductive Rights, edited by Malcolm Langford; Siri Gloppen. Cambridge University Press, 2024.
    In press
  2. Gonçalves Buzolin, Livia; Côrtes, Ana. "Mitos e desafios da pesquisa em Direito e Desenvolvimento". In Pesquisas em Direito e Desenvolvimento. Acadêmica Livre, 2024.
    Published
  3. Côrtes, Ana. "MacKinnon e o direito como ferramenta de emancipação". In Direito e gênero: reflexões plurais sobre teorias feministas. 2022.
    Published
  4. Côrtes, Ana. "A participação de organizações da sociedade civil no controle concentrado de constitucionalidade no Brasil". In Direito e mobilização social, 107-125. São Paulo, Brazil: FGV DIREITO SP, 2020.
    Published
  5. Côrtes, Ana. "Pessoas transgêneras privadas de liberdade: a prática e o debate constitucional". In Temas atuais no STF: diálogos entre direito e política, 179-194. Curitiba, Brazil: Sala de aula criminal, 2020.
    Published
  6. Côrtes, Ana. "Em busca de diálogo e reconhecimento no STF: a participação como amicus curiae nos casos relativos a pessoas trans". In Visões do direito e desenvolvimento, 53-75. São Paulo, Brazil: FGV DIREITO SP, 2020.
    Published
Book review
  1. Ana de Mello Côrtes. "Ruth Rubio-Marín, Global Gender Constitutionalism and Women's Citizenship: A Struggle for Transformative Inclusion". (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/s41020-023-00195-y.
    10.1007/s41020-023-00195-y
Conference paper
  1. Côrtes, Ana. "Aplicando teorias da justiça a questões contemporâneas complexas: uma análise das adaptações de Martha Nussbaum à teoria rawlsiana". Paper presented in VII Encontro internacional do CONPEDI, Braga, 2017.
    Published
Journal article
  1. de Mello Côrtes, Ana; Gonçalves Buzolin, Lívia. "Paths Towards LGBT Rights Recognition in Brazil". Sexuality Research and Social Policy (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13178-023-00931-y.
    10.1007/s13178-023-00931-y
  2. Côrtes, A. ; Jaramillo, J.. Corresponding author: Côrtes, A.. "Legal Opportunity Structure and Legal Battles Over Sex Education and LGBTQ Students in Brazil and Colombia". Revista Direito GV (2024): https://doi.org/10.1590/2317-6172202432.
    In press • https://doi.org/10.1590/2317-6172202432
  3. Côrtes, Lara; Côrtes, Ana. "Right to Water and Courts in Brazil: How Do Brazilian Courts Rule When They Frame Water as a Right?". Water 13 23 (2021): 3362. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w13233362.
    10.3390/w13233362
  4. Oliveira, Pedro Amauri; Côrtes, Ana. "Mechanisms for protecting rights of persons with disabilities: the international framework and the cases of Brazil and Portugal". Journal of Constitutional Law (2021):
    Published
  5. Côrtes, Ana de Mello. "Discriminação judicial por identidade de gênero: um diagnóstico". Revista Direito e Práxis 10 1 (2019): 101-128. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2179-8966/2018/30750.
    10.1590/2179-8966/2018/30750
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Côrtes, Ana. "Em busca de diálogo e reconhecimento no STF: a atuação como amicus curiae nos casos relativos a pessoas trans". Master, Fundacao Getulio Vargas Escola de Direito, 2018. http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/dspace/handle/10438/23918.
  2. Côrtes, Ana. "Discriminação Judicial por identidade de gênero: diagnóstico e alternativas". Degree, Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/4118418/mod_resource/content/1/CORTES_Ana%20de%20Mello_Laurea_Discriminac%CC%A7a%CC%83o%20judicial%20identidade%20de%20ge%CC%82nero.pdf.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023 Sex education: gender at the illiberal frontier (roundtable) Bergen Exhanges on Law and Social Transformation
CMI-UiB Centre on Law & Social Transformation (Bergen, Norway)
2023 Research methods in studies of international lawfare (roundtable) Bergen Exchanges on Law and Social Transformation
CMI-UiB Centre on Law & Social Transformation (Bergen, Norway)
2023 Gender, Sexual Orientation and International Protection of Women Summer ELSA Research School on Human Rights
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2022 Between legislation and constitutional courts: the recognition of rights for LGBTQ persons in countries with a civil law legal system PhD relay
Centre for Women's and Gender Research (Bergen, Norway)
2022 Chair for the sessions "The politics of sexuality in Latin America ", "Sexualities and the uses of history in different African contexts", "Mapping queerness in postcolonial South Asian worlds". Why (Queer) History Matters
2022 Sexuality Politics, Lawfare and Violence: Global Contestations (roundtable) Bergen Exhanges on Law and Social Transformation
CMI-UiB Centre on Law & Social Transformation (Bergen, Norway)
2022 Sexual Citizenship and trends for SOGI rights recognition in European civil law countries 4th Global Conference on Women's Studies
2022 Chair for the event about the film Into My Name, with the director Nicolo Bassetti and the producer Gaia Morrione Queer Lawfare Seminar Series
2022 Sexuality Politics, Lawfare and Violence: Global Contestations (roundtable) Queer Lawfare Seminar Series
2022 Global Queer Movements: Perspectives from the Global South (roundtable) Queer Lawfare Seminar Series
2022 Queer youth as activists (roundtable) Queer Lawfare Seminar Series
2021 Discussant for the Queer Families panel Gender and Private International Law Workshop
2021 Pluriland: Theorizing Conflict and Contestation in Plural Land Regimes - Right to land and quilombola communities in Brazil Law and Society Annual Meeting
2020 Looking for dialogue and recognition: transgender persons rights
Bergen Global (Bergen, Norway)
2020 Paths for recognising LGBT rights in Latin America (roundtable)
Bergen Global (Bergen, Norway)
2018 Em busca de diálogo e reconhecimento no STF: a atuação como amicus curiae nos casos relativos a pessoas trans I Encontro Discente de Núcleos de Direito Constitucional
Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil)
2018 Para além dos resultados: a fundamentação do STF em casos envolvendo minorias sociais VIII EPED (Encontro de Pequisa Empírica em Direito)
Rede de Estudos Empíricos em Direito - REED (Juiz de Fora, Brazil)
2018 Violência LGBTfóbica: o tratamento judicial da questão em São Paulo VIII EPED (Encontro de Pesquisa Empírica em Direito)
Rede de Estudos Empíricos em Direito - REED (Juiz de Fora, Brazil)
2017 Aplicando teorias da justiça a questões contemporâneas complexas: uma análise das adaptações de Martha Nussbaum à teoria rawlsiana VII Encontro Internacional do CONPEDI
CONPEDI - Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Direito (Braga, Brazil)
2017 Discriminação judicial por identidade de gênero: um diagnóstico VII EPED (Encontro de Pesquisa Empírica em Direito)
Rede de Estudos Empíricos em Direito - REED (Feira de Santana, Brazil)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023 - 2023 Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation (2023 - 2023)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 CMI-UiB Centre on Law & Social Transformation, Norway
2022 - 2023 Queer Lawfare - Seminar Series with eleven events (2022 - 2022) CMI-UiB Centre on Law & Social Transformation, Norway
2022 - 2022 Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation (2022 - 2022)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 CMI-UiB Centre on Law & Social Transformation, Norway
2021 - 2021 Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation (2021 - 2021)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 CMI-UiB Centre on Law & Social Transformation, Norway
2011 - 2011 Do cárcere ao STF. A aplicação do princípio da insignificância pelos tribunais superiores. (2011 - 2011)
Round table
 Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2019 - 2019 III Jornada d'O Problema da normatividade do Direito (Perspectivas externas e internas): contributos para uma teoria dos enunciados normativos
Symposium
 III Jornada d'O Problema da normatividade do Direito (Perspectivas externas e internas): contributos para uma teoria dos enunciados normativos
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2019 - 2019 The 20th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law - The Limits of Law The 20th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law - The Limits of Law
Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018 - 2018 III Congresso Internacional de Direitos Humanos de Coimbra
Ius gentium conimbrigae - Centro de Direitos Humanos, Portugal
2016 - 2016 A Maria da Penha +10: avaliação de uma década de implementação e desafios da lei.
Symposium
 A Maria da Penha +10: avaliação de uma década de implementação e desafios da lei.
Fundacao Getulio Vargas Escola de Direito, Brazil
2016 - 2016 Abortion Rights Lawfare in Latin America: project workshop and public presentations.
Workshop
 Abortion Rights Lawfare in Latin America
Fundacao Getulio Vargas Escola de Direito, Brazil
2016 - 2016 Seminário Direito e Gênero - Gênero, Identidade e Direitos Reprodutivos.
Seminar
 Seminário Direito e Gênero - Gênero, Identidade e Direitos Reprodutivos.
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023 - Current Sexuality Research and Social Policy (1553-6610) Springer Nature
2024 - 2024 Psychology and Sexuality (1941-9902) Taylor & Francis
2022 - 2022 The international journal of human rights (1744-053X) Taylor & Francis Group

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2023 - Current Rafto Foundation for Human Rights Rafto Prize Committee Member
2022 - Current Queer World Deputy leader
2017 - Current Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-graduação em Direito (Brasil)
2017 - Current REED Rede de Estudos Empíricos em Direito
2016 - Current DEFEMDE - Rede Feminista de Juristas
Distinctions

Award

2016 Awarded for outstanding LGBT rights approach in academia
Legislative Assembly of São Paulo, Brazil
2015 Awarded as the best senior thesis of the year
University of São Paulo - Faculty of Law, Brazil