
PLMJ
Portugal
Lawyers

Carla F. Machado
- Phone(+351) 226 074 700
- Email[email protected]
- Social
Work Department
Public Law
Position
Partner
Career
Carla is a partner in the Public Law practice and has 14 years' experience as a lawyer. She focuses on public law, particularly administrative law, administrative procedure and public procurement.
Carla holds a law degree, a master's degree and a PhD in public law, all from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra.
She is a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, where she teaches administrative law, administrative procedure and public contracts.
She has taught on numerous training courses and spoken at seminars and on postgraduate courses in the area of public law, with a particular focus on public procurement. Carla is the author, co-author and contributor to numerous publications in the area of public law and, in particular, public procurement, town and country planning, and administrative modernisation.
Carla has been a member of several juries for master's and postgraduate programmes in public law.
She is an associate of the Centre for Studies in Public Law and Regulation (CEDIPRE) and a contributor to the Public Contracts Journal.
Carla was an assistant to the Minister of the Presidency and of Administrative Modernisation in the 21st Constitutional Government, and an assistant to the Ministers for Internal Administration in the 19th and 20th Constitutional Governments.
Languages
Portuguese, English and French
Memberships
Grupo de Contratação Pública (GCP), do Centro de Estudos de Direito Público e Regulação (CEDIPRE), 2013
Júri de provas de Mestrado na área do Direito Público e de concursos públicos de pessoal
Education
Law degree from the University of Coimbra, 2008
Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association, 2013
Postgraduate in European justice and human rights from the University of Coimbra, 2008
Postgraduate in public procurement from the University of Coimbra, 2011
Postgraduate in administrative and tax justice from the University of Coimbra, 2012
Master's in legal and political sciences from the University of Coimbra, 2010
Prize for the best students of the University of Coimbra, in the academic years 2003-2004 and 2004-2005
Wolters Kluwer Merit Prize - University of Coimbra, 2009
Scholarship from the Rangel de Sampaio Foundation of the University of Coimbra, in the academic years 2008-2009 and 2009-2010