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JusGov researchers Pedro Trovão do Rosário and Ruben Bahamonde undertake a distinguished journey through the Angolan province of Luanda, taking part in eminent gatherings devoted to constitutional and legal reflection within the Lusophone world. The voyage commenced on 22 September [...]

We are delighted to report that Filipe Venade de Sousa, researcher at the JusGov — Research Centre for Justice and Governance of the School of Law of the University of Minho, will present the lecture "Deafology as a legal-cultural framework: [...]

As previously reported, in 2023, JusGov's researcher Alex Sander Pires was appointed Chair-Elect of the IPSA Research Committee 26 (RC26) on Human Rights. Building on this mandate, in July of this year, he was unanimously elected Chair of RC26. The [...]

Gema Souto, Researcher at JusGov, joins the team of the international project “Desafíos para la seguridad de la frontera sur ante el nuevo escenario estratégico”, led by the National University of Distance Education (UNED, Madrid) and funded under the “Proyectos [...]

We do hereby announce the official promulgation of the ELI Innovation Paper, entitled "A Framework for Good Green Nudging", authored by our researcher Marta Santos Silva. This opus, commissioned under the auspices of the European Law Institute (ELI) and, [...]

Mário Ferreira Monte, a researcher at JusGov, took part in the RTP3 programme “3 às 16” (July 31st). His intervention focused on a case of significant media resonance, offering a legal analysis marked by academic precision and intellectual rigour. This [...]

On the 17th of July 2025, at 12:00 p.m., the Scientific Council of the Research Centre for Justice and Governance (JusGov) met in the assembly hall of the School of Law of the University of Minho (EDUM) as duly convened [...]

Manuel Valente, JusGov researcher, is part of the organising committee for the 1st Annual Conference on Intergenerational Justice, organised by IFILNOVA, at NOVA University of Lisbon, on December 15th and 16th. Keynote Speakers: Anca Gheaus (Central European University) and Axel [...]

The Research Centre for Justice and Governance (JusGov) of the School of Law of the University of Minho is preparing the 7th edition of the Human Rights Yearbook. The 2025 edition will be on “Human Rights and Populism”. The Human [...]

JusGov researcher Rossana Martingo Cruz, together with Lurdes Varregoso Mesquita, has recently launched the book Jurisdiction of the Portuguese Public Prossecutor's Office and Civil Registry Offices. As a result of the collaboration of a range of authors who engage in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

JusGov consolidates its prominent standing at the confluence of law and artificial intelligence through the appointment of three of its researchers to the Scientific Committee of the 20th edition of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2025). [...]

Marta Santos Silva, Assistant Researcher at JusGov (University of Minho), has become a member of the Editorial Board of the European Review of Private Law (ERPL), currently ranked among the leading journals in European Law. The ERPL is a renowned forum [...]

The updated 2nd edition of the book Matrimonial Matters and Parental Responsibilities in the European Union, The Regulation (EU) 2019/1111, has been published by Editora d'Ideias, by researcher Anabela Susana de Sousa Gonçalves. Council Regulation (EU) 2019/1111 of June 25, [...]

Maria Miguel Carvalho, a JusGov integrated researcher, took part in the 8th Congress of Company Law in Review, which took place on the 9th and 10th of May 2025 at the Altis Grand Hotel in Lisbon. The event was promoted [...]

In the explanation of vote by Judge João Carlos Loureiro in the Portuguese Constitutional Court (TC) ruling no. 307/2025, handed down on March 7, 2025, the work “The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the [...]

The Research Centre for Justice and Governance (JusGov), based at the School of Law at the University of Minho, has been awarded an Excelent rating in the provisional results of the 2023/2024 evaluation of the Research and Development (R&D) Units, [...]

The Supreme Court of Justice has released the Digital Book of the XIII Labour Law Colloquium – Agenda for Decent Work, held on 19 October 2023. This publication, part of the Supreme Court's Digital Book Collection, brings together the contributions of [...]

JusGov researchers Cristina Dias, Rossana Cruz and Sónia Moreira have coordinated the volume "Children, Family and Inheritance Law – 10th Anniversary Commemorative Book of the Master’s Programme". This publication marks the ten-year anniversary of the Master’s in Children, Family and [...]

Researcher Marta Santos Silva has published a post on the blog of the British Association of Comparative Law, introducing the newly released Routledge Handbook of Private Law and Sustainability. This handbook, publicly presented at the international conference Private Law and [...]

Students enrolled in the Bachelor’s Degree in Law and the Bachelor’s Degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the School of Law of the University of Minho are hereby informed that the application period is now open for participation in [...]

Researcher Sónia Moreira has just released the book "Topics in Civil Liability". This monograph explores, among other subjects, civil liability for damages caused by autonomous vehicles and provides an opportunity to reflect on recent legislative changes in the European Union, [...]