She served as the president of the Entity of Political Accounts and Financing of the Portuguese Constitutional Court from 2009 to 2017.
[3] She served as an expert on the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) of the United Nations (UN) from 1980 to 1988.
[7] In 1990, she became the director of the semi-annual Portuguese-Spanish public law journal Estado & Direito.
[8] In 2009, she resigned from the Social Democratic Party to take office as president of the Entity for Political Accounts and Financing of the Constitutional Court, a position she held until 2017.
[3][8] In 2020, she criticized the changes to the financing of electoral campaigns proposed by the Social Democratic Party (PSD), as they were in conflict with Law 19/2003.