Maria Loureiro Oliveira

Maria graduated with a First-Class Honours degree in Law with Criminology in 2020. In the following academic year, she was accepted on the LLM course International Human Rights where her initial focus of solely criminal law started adapting with victim’s rights and the mixing of both perspectives from the sides of the law. She finished her LLM with distinction, with a dissertation that focused on Article 45 of the Modern Slavery Act by looking upon the clashing of criminal law and human rights law on victims of human trafficking.

Maria is currently going into her second year as a PhD student, with a project still focused on human trafficking but on the international vs national relations area, through the study of the universal periodic review from the United Nations and the development of Portugal on the matter. In the future, she aspires to gain enough experience to work at UNODC.