Margarida Vidal Sampaio

Law degree from the Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon.

Completion of the taught component of the master’s degree in law and legal science, specialising in Administrative Law, at the Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon. Admitted to the dissertation stage.

Attendance of a postgraduate course in Public Procurement, Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra.

Attendance of a postgraduate course in Arbitration Law, Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon.

Attendance of a postgraduate course in Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon.

Attendance of a postgraduate course in Climate Law, Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon.

Guest Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon since 2024, where she teaches Fundamental Rights and Public International Law.

Participation in various courses and conferences on Public Law as a speaker.

Lecturer in various postgraduate courses at the Institute of Legal and Political Sciences of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.

Researcher at the Lisbon Public Law Research Centre.

Before joining the firm, she worked as an associate at Uría Menendez, in the Public Law department (2024 - 2025) and at FALM – Ferreira de Almeida, Luciano Marcos (2021 – 2024).

Author and co-author of various publications on matters within his fields of expertise, namely:

• Luciano Marcos and Margarida Vidal Sampaio, “O reconhecimento da propriedade privada sobre parcelas de leitos e margens públicos”, in A Governança da Água, 2024.
• Margarida Vidal Sampaio, “Ecological minimum and State Duties”, e-Pública, vol. 9, no. 3, 2022, pp. 78–103.
• Margarida Vidal Sampaio, “Extraterritorialidade e pressupostos processuais na litigância climática”, in Heloísa Oliveira and Carla Amado Gomes (eds.), Cities in the Age of Climate Change, 2023.

Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association.

English, French, Spanish.