An innovation and performance leader in legal research, JusGov is a Subunit of the School of Law and a Research & Development Unit of the University of Minho.
JusGov is an interdisciplinary R&D Unit combining wide-ranging expertise to meet urgent global needs. By fostering a win-win pattern of interaction, our reach extends beyond academia to include our social surroundings, businesses, and public decision-making bodies. Consolidating our Unit’s standing as a global leader in justice and governance research, our results are actively disseminated via internationally recognised publishing outlets and our collective involvement in carefully selected research networks. Our doors are open to visiting researchers and our community invests in the future by nurturing the next generation of legal researchers.
Upcoming Events
Short Course in Law and Technology
6 May @ 6:00 pm - 10 July @ 9:00 pmJusGov and Beyond: Ana Justino and Helena Grangeia
14 July @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmCall for Papers | 9th Meeting of Legal Science Researchers at the University of Minho
25 September @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
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News
School of Researchers at the Science Meeting 2025
Our School of Researchers (EI) will be extensively represented with e-posters at Science Meeting 2025 (EC2025), where the following projects will be showcased: "The (in)effectiveness of sanctions in the Framework Law on Environmental Administrative Offences: The (non)observance of duties omitted [...]
Bruna Capparelli, JusGov Researcher, publishes book on punishment and restorative justice
JusGov researcher Bruna Capparelli has just published the book From the ends of punishing to the end of punishment? An Italian perspective on punitive practices and the paradigm of restorative justice. One could say that punishment is a phenomenon that [...]
CALL FOR PAPERS: E-TEC Yearbook (2025)
The State, Enterprise and Technology (E-Tec) research group invites all researchers to submit manuscripts for publication in the 2025 Yearbook. In light of the planned transition of the E-Tec Yearbook into an indexed journal, there will no longer be a [...]
RepositóriUM
The University of Minho has set up RepositóriUM, an institutional repository aimed at storing, preserving, disseminating, and providing online access to the scientific output of the whole UMinho community, to which our Unit belongs. Under our Unit’s or third-party publishing labels and across multiple linguistic spheres, paying particular attention to the Lusophone and Anglophone contexts, we are fully committed to open access publishing, so that our research is accessible to a wider audience and can feed subsequent research. The open availability of publicly funded research results brings significant social and economic benefits. All those who are interested should be able to access our Unit’s scholarly publications electronically at all times, with no embargo on the contents. Open access publications are also designed to facilitate discovery and further utilisation of their contents, be it through machines or human intelligence.