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On October 28, 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 [...]

Applications are invited, until October 14th 2020, to fill a position as science and technology manager at the Research Centre for Justice and Governance (JusGov). Any candidate holding a doctoral degree in Social Sciences and Humanities and proven experience of, [...]

JusGov’s proposal for the preparation of a report on Ethics & Law, submitted at the invitation of the National Centre for Cybersecurity, was selected for funding. The project team, led by JusGov researcher Francisco Pacheco de Andrade, includes JusGov [...]

JusGov collaborator researcher, Marta Santos Silva, together with Ewoud Hondius, Andrea Nicolussi, Pablo Salvador Coderch, Christiane Wendehorst and Fryderyk Zoll co-edited the book “Coronavirus and the Law in Europe”, whose online version was published by Intersentia in August 2020. [...]

Please be advised on the publication of the e-book "Technological sustainability: the role of digital technologies in promoting sustainable development. Commemorative edition of the Master Programme in European Union Law at the University of Minho, on its 10th anniversary", [...]

Please be advised that JusGov will be closed from the 10th until the 21st of August. We will resume all activities on August 24th. We wish you happy summer holidays!

The edited volume entitled Comentário à Convenção das Nações Unidas sobre os Direitos das Pessoas com Deficiência [Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities], coordinated by Joaquim Correia Gomes, Luísa Neto and Paula [...]

The proceedings of the Encontro de Investigadores EDUM 2019 [Meeting of EDUM Researchers 2019], published in 2020 by the Law School of the University of Minho, are now available in open access. The volume was organised by Anabela Gonçalves, [...]

JusGov’s School of Researchers invites its members to take part in a Web Series to be organized between October and December 2020. To participate you must submit an analytical summary with a maximum extension of 1 page by August 31st, [...]

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Union is facing unprecedented challenges ranging from possibly the worst economic crisis since its inception to a breakdown of European solidarity and fundamental rights. To join the discussion and provide a forum for scholarly [...]

The 1st Edition of the Summer School on the topic of EU Procedure and credits' claims: approaching electronic solutions under e-Justice paradigm, was held from the 6th until the 10th of July, 2020. The Summer School took place in [...]

It is with great satisfaction that is announced the second issue of the Human Rights Yearbook, which is available in open access through the following link. As in the previous volume, this is a thematic issue, and this edition [...]

JusGov’s researcher Fanny Tittel-Mosser has just published a book with Routledge, entitled  Implementing EU Mobility Partnerships: Putting Soft Law into Practice. The book provides a comprehensive assessment of the effectiveness of EU Mobility Partnerships and their consequences for third [...]

On June 24th, 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 [...]

On May 27th, 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 [...]

Ewoud Hondius, Christiane Wendehorst, Pablo Salvador Coderch, Andrea Nicolussi, Fryderyk Zoll and JusGov’s researcher Marta Santos Silva are editing a law book entitled Corona and the Law. The aims of this book are twofold. The book is intended to [...]

JusGov is preparing the third volume of the Human Rights Yearbook, a peer-reviewed and open access journal. The call for papers referring to this third volume (2020), on the topic of Human Rights and Criminal Law, is now open. Papers [...]

JusGov's researcher Filipe Venade has just published a new interdisciplinary book which combines Law, Sociology and Culture in relation to the topic of linguistic rights of deaf persons and Portuguese Sign Language as a human rights question. For more [...]

As part of the Europe Day celebrations, Jacques Delors European Information Centre (CIEJD) organized, on May 11th, a Webinar to discuss the future of Europe after the pandemic crisis, in which JusGov’s researcher Alessandra Silveira was invited to give [...]

UNIO – EU Law Journal is an open access online peer-reviewed journal with a blind review system. It falls within the scope of the Jean Monnet Chair entitled “Citizenship of Rights: European Citizenship as the Fundamental Status of Nationals of the [...]

An English translation of a significant part of the Portuguese Tax Procedure Code, conducted by Anabela Ribeiro, master student in Multilingual Translation and Communication at University of Minho, is now available. Such translation was supervised by JusGov’s researcher Joaquim [...]

We are is pleased to announce that Ana Rita Simões Ribeiro will collaborate in the project InclusiveCourts, hosted at JusGov, under the terms set by the Regulation of the UMinho Prize for Initiation in Scientific Research, approved by Order [...]

The edited volume Igualdade de Género: Velhos e Novos Desafios [Gender Equality: Challenges Old and New], published in 2019 by the Research Centre for Human Rights, in cooperation with JusGov and the UMinho Law School, is now available in [...]

Applications are invited, until March 30th 2020, from students of the Law Course (daytime and post-labour regimes) of the University of Minho for participation in the project InclusiveCourts, hosted at the Research Centre for Justice and Governance (JusGov), under [...]

As part of the International Women's Day Celebrations, the Braga Delegation of the Portuguese Bar Association decided to organize a dinner for Women Lawyers, with the support of the Portuguese Association of Women Lawyers. The aforementioned dinner will take [...]