Ana Margarida Simões Gaudêncio (PhD in Law – Philosophy of Law) is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra (Portugal), 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 for Social Philosophy (the Portuguese section of the International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy, or IVR). Her main research and teaching areas are Philosophy of Law, Theory of Law, and Methodology of Law, mostly on Critical Legal Studies, Tolerance and Law, Multiculturalism and Law, and Human Rights Law.