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JusGov’s School of Researchers invites PhD students to take part in a Web Series to be organised between October and November 2021. The meeting aims at contributing to disseminate the state of the art on legal research, which is [...]

Applications are invited, until the 21st of June 2021, for several research grants under the project Smart Cities and Law, E.Governance and Rights: Contributing to the definition and implementation of a Global Strategy for Smart Cities, with reference no. [...]

In Portugal, compliance with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is monitored by the National Mechanism for Monitoring the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Me-CDPD). This mechanism results from an [...]

Applications are invited, until May 21st 2021, from students of the Law Course and of the Criminology and Criminal Justice Course of the University of Minho, for participation in a selection of ongoing projects, hosted at JusGov, under the terms [...]

JusGov’s School of Researchers invites PhD students to take part in a Web Series to be organised between October and November 2021. The meeting aims at contributing to disseminate the state of the art on legal research, which is [...]

JusGov will take part in the European Humanities Conference, namely the European Humanities R&D Exhibition, through brief video presentations of the projects InclusiveCourts (PI Patrícia Jerónimo) and eUjust (PI Joana Covêlo de Abreu). The European Humanities R&D Exhibition is [...]

Ana Rita Simões Ribeiro was one of the winners of the UMinho Prize for Initiation in Scientific Research 2020, having been awarded in the Humanities and Social Sciences Panel, together with José Nuno Ferreira Teixeira and Daniela Alexandra Ferreira [...]

The State, Enterprise and Technology research group [E-Tec] invites all researchers to submit texts to be published in the 2021 yearbook, whose theme - Governance & Technology - has undisputable economic, social and legal importance. Those interested in participating in this digital [...]

The radio programme "O Estado da União" for the month of March was dedicated to the preparation of the “Conference on the Future of Europe” - which will be launched on May 9, 2021 and whose work will extend [...]

The Smart Cities and Law, E.Governance and Rights: Contributing to the definition and implementation of a Global Strategy for Smart Cities project has just been approved for funding under the NORTE-45-2020-75 call - Strenghening Research, Technological Development and Innovation [...]

The Maiêutica Institute, one of JusGov’s partner institutions, awarded its Scientific Output Award to JusGov’s researchers Marisalva Fernandes Fávero and Valéria Sousa-Gomes for their high-quality research achievements in the field of sexuality and sexual violence. Marisalva Fernandes Fávero and [...]

JusGov’s researcher Fátima Pacheco, together with the Professor José de Campos Amorim (ISCAP), has just published the volume Manual de Direito Internacional: do Direito Clássico ao Contemporâneo [Manual of International Law: from Classic to Contemporary Law], edited by Almedina. [...]

JusGov’s researcher Filipe Venade has just published the article “Os direitos sociais das pessoas com deficiência e a centralidade da Convenção das Nações Unidas sobre os Direitos das Pessoas com Deficiência [The social rights of persons with disabilities and [...]

The new edition of the book Women in Science, published by Ciência Viva, National Agency for Scientific and Technological Culture, will be presented on March 8, International Women's Day, at 11 am. This volume brings together more than a [...]

On March 3, CEDU researchers participated in the radio programme "O Estado da União" (a partnership between Centro de Informação Europe Direct Minho, Antena Minho and Correio do Minho). Apart from the intervention of Alessandra Silveira, resident commentator at [...]

Patrícia Jerónimo gave a talk on the subject of integration policies and migrants’ rights in Italy and Portugal, as part of the conference organized by the Association of Italian Researchers in Portugal (Hipácia), on the 26th February 2021. The [...]

Leonor Esteves’s book Crímenes de Lesa Humanidad. Genealogía de un Concepto Jurídico-Filosófico Contemporâneo [Crimes against humanity. Genealogy of a contemporary legal-philosophical concept], has just been published in Spain, by the publisher REUS. In this volume, JusGov’s researcher Leonor Esteves [...]

JusGov collaborated with the Hungarian Helsinki Committee in the Portuguese translation of the report The state of play regarding the rule of law in Hungary – an Illiberal State 10 years in the making [A situação do Estado de [...]

JusGov researcher Jorge Martins Ribeiro has just published the article “Da indignidade da pobreza e da configurada inconstitucionalidade do artigo 48.º do Regime Geral do Processo Tutelar Cível e do artigo 738.º, n.º4, do Código de Processo Civil, à [...]

We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of the UNIO – EU Law Journal which we invite you to access (here). As the world is still struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic, UNIO’s Editorial Team set a call [...]

An international selection tender is now open, until February 18th 2021, for recruitment in the form of an uncertain term contract concluded under the Portuguese Labour Code, of one doctoral position for the exercise of scientific research activities in the scientific area [...]

Miriam Rocha’s article “Promoting gender equality through regulation: the case of parental leave” has just been published at The Theory and Practice of Legislation. This international Journal, published by the Taylor & Francis Group, is SCOPUS indexed. In her [...]

The Report on CYBERSECURITY IN PORTUGAL: Ethics & Law, edited by JusGov and the National Centre for Cybersecurity, has just been published. This report is authored by JusGov’s researchers Francisco Pacheco de Andrade, Isabel Fonseca, Joana Aguiar e Silva, [...]

E-Tec publishes, in open access, its third yearbook, which is dedicated to the topic of “Artificial Intelligence and Robots”. This publication, based, in part, on the multidisciplinary research developed at E-Tec, aims to promote the debate on this topic [...]

On November 25, CEDU researchers participated in the radio programme "O Estado da União" (a partnership between Centro de Informação Europe Direct Minho, Antena Minho and Correio do Minho). Apart from the intervention of Alessandra Silveira, resident commentator at [...]