Teresa Cabrita is an Assistant Professor of EU Law (chargée de cours) at the Institute for European Studies (IEE) since September 2024. She joined UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels from Germany, where she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory. Previously, she worked as a research and teaching assistant at the Institute for European Law of the KU Leuven. Her professional background includes internships in international courts and at the European Commission, as well as six years of experience as an EU project manager in the field of judicial training. Teresa holds a PhD in European and International Law from the University of Amsterdam (2023), an LLM in Public International Law from the University of Leiden (2010) and a Bachelor in Law (licenciatura) from NOVA School of Law in Lisbon (2009). Her main areas of research interest include the relationship between EU and international law, EU external relations law, EU legal history and European and international disaster law. Teresa's work has been published in, for instance, the Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, European Papers, Europe and the World: A law review and European Constitutional Law Review.
