Raquel Barradas de Freitas was awarded a DPhil in Law by the University of Oxford in 2014, with a dissertation titled “Explaining Meaning: Towards a Minimalist Account of Legal Interpretation“, supervised by Professor John Gardner.

She was Max Weber Fellow at the Law Department of the European University Institute, in Florence, in 2017-2018 and Research Lecturer in Jurisprudence and Public Law ad Trinity College (2019-2020) and Balliol College (2020-2022), University of Oxford.

Raquel currently works as a Law Clerk to the President of the Portuguese Constitutional Court and as Lecturer in Jurisprudence at Trinity College, Oxford.