Stela Barbas (Stela Marcos de Almeida Neves Barbas) holds a PhD in Law from the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (UAL) and a Master's in Civil Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra. Professor Univ. in undergraduate, postgraduate, master's and doctoral courses in Portugal (in particular, he has taught at UAL since 1992) and abroad. She is an Associate Professor at UAL approved in a competition with the final classification of nineteen values. He teaches / taught in the Doctoral Courses of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto – Portugal/Brazilian Federal Council of Medicine. Member of the jury for oral and written examinations for admission to the Center for Judicial Studies (national competition for admission to the Portuguese Judicial Magistrate and Public Prosecutor's Office) in the "Conversation", "Family and Minors", "Civil Law", "Civil Law" exams. Cultural, social and economic issues”. It's legal advice. Scientific Coordinator of the Postgraduate Course in Notarial Law and Practice. Member of the Ethics Committee of the Department of Social Sciences and Health of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, of the Scientific Council of UAL, of the Pedagogical Council, of the Scientific Committee and of the School Council of UAL, of the Scientific Council and of the Pedagogical Council of ISMAT (Algarve 2011-2017), the Portuguese Association of Intellectual Law (Lisbon 2000-2007), the Portuguese Bioethics Association (Porto), the Ethics Committee of the Psychology Research Center (Lisbon), Member of the Board of the Association of Jurists Católicos (Lisbon 2001-2007), of the Scientific Council of the Center for Economic Analysis of Regulation (Lisbon). Researcher at the Center for Research and Development in Legal Sciences (Ratio Legis), researcher at the Équipe de Recherche sur Le Droit et Technologies de Information et des Communications (DTIC), Partenariat International, Faculté des Sciences Juridiques, Économiques et Sociales de la Universitè – Ibnou Zohr Agadir (Enseignement Supérieur et Recherche) (Droit Civil et Technologies de l'Information area – Agadir 2013-2018). Member for three consecutive years of the Jury of the National Prize for Bioethics / UNESCO Chair in Bioethics – Attribution of the National Award in Bioethics. Official Guest of the Presidency of the Human Rights Commission of the Brazilian Federal Senate to speak at a Public Hearing on important Legislative Reforms (eg, voluntary termination of pregnancy). He worked at the Presidency of the Portuguese Council of Ministers as a specialist for the preparation of draft laws in the area of Medical Law. He supervises/supervised about fifty doctoral theses and master's dissertations (in Civil Law, Bioethics, Medical Law, Fundamental Rights, Civil Procedural Law, Tax, Electoral, Criminal Sciences and Philosophy of Law) in Portuguese and foreign Universities. Participates / participated in dozens of Masters and PhD juries (as President / examiner or advisor). She is the author of about one hundred publications. He prefaced several works. She has presented communications, as a guest speaker, at more than one hundred conferences, seminars, symposia, national and international congresses in the areas of Civil, Constitutional, Criminal, Civil Procedural, Insurance, Labor, Criminology, Notarial Law, Medical Law, Bioethics , Biolaw and Philosophy of Law. Member of the Scientific / Editorial Committee of several Journals.