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The “Quid Juris Podcast” was created with the purpose of discussing old and uncover new challenges for the legal world, contributing to the development of new lines of scientific research. This is a project of the Research School of JusGov [...]

As of March 2023, Marta Santos Silva, Postdoctoral Researcher at JusGov is Chair of the Members Consultative Committee of the European Legal Institute project on Guiding Principles and Model Rules on Algorithmic Contracts, which is foreseen to be completed by [...]

JusGov is preparing the fifth volume of the Human Rights Yearbook, a peer-reviewed and open access journal. The call for papers referring to this fifth volume (2023), on the topic of Law in action, is now open. Papers should be [...]

The most recent book by Anabela Gonçalves, Professor at EDUM and researcher at JUS-GOV, "Matrimonial Matters and Parental Responsibilities in the European Union", has been published. This work explains in a systematic and uncomplicated way the solutions of Regulation No. [...]

On 1 October 2022 the European Commission awarded a "Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence" to the University of Minho under the Erasmus+ Programme. It is entitled "Digital citizenship and technological sustainability: pursuing the effectiveness of the CFREU in the digital [...]

Applications are invited, until March 16th 2023, from students of the Law Course (daytime and post-labour regimes) and of the Criminology and Criminal Justice Course the of the University of Minho for participation in a selection of projects ongoing at the Research Centre [...]

The State, Business and Technology [E-Tec] research group invites all researchers to submit texts for publication in the 2023 yearbook, the year in which our Law School celebrates its 30th anniversary. Therefore, considering this anniversary, this year's theme will cut [...]

JusGov researcher Sónia Moreira was chosen to be part of the Book of Tribute to Women in Science. Ciência Viva continues to pay tribute to Portuguese women scientists, who represent more than 50% of all researchers in our country and [...]

The book Economia Colaborativa (Sharing Economy), coordinated by Maria Miguel Carvalho and Anabela Gonçalves, has just been published. The importance of analysing the main legal challenges raised by the sharing economy – given the impact of the paradigm changes in [...]

The present Call for Papers invites legal researchers (Master, Master, Doctoral and PhD students, Postdoctoral and Postdoctoral fellows) to submit papers for the international conference 'The future of extrafiscal law and the welfare state', which will take place at the [...]

On February 14, 2023 a Conference will be held under the theme Dignity and Work: the Reform Announced, organised by JusGov and CEJEA, with the scientific coordination of Prof. Teresa Coelho Moreira and Prof. António José Moreira, and with the [...]

On July 7 and 8, the XI Luso-Spanish Meeting of Professors of Public International Law will take place at the Law School of the University of Minho (Braga).   This meeting will be on the general topic of War and [...]

Let's talk (about) Law? The "Quid Juris Podcast" was created with the purpose of discussing old and uncover new challenges for the legal world, contributing to the development of new lines of scientific research. This is a project of the [...]

JusGov researcher Teresa Coelho Moreira was invited to be a speaker of the STJ Colloquiums- commerce, companies and insolvency - 3rd edition, in Lisbon, on 26 January, where she will address the topic Workers' rights and the proposal for a [...]

JusGov integrated researchers and Ratio Legis researchers António Pedro Pinto Monteiro and Ruben Bahamonde coordinated the project "Empirical research on commercial arbitration - survey", in partnership with the Portuguese Arbitration Association (APA) and with the collaboration of the Lisbon Regional [...]

Following the intervention of JusGov's integrated researcher, Sara Luís Dias, at the Conference on "Administrative and Tax Justice - Quality and Speed: Impasses and Solutions", organised by the Portuguese Judges' Trade Union Association (ASJP), on the subject of insolvency proceedings [...]

On 7 December 2022, Marta Santos Silva (Professor, University of Minho and Integrated Researcher at JusGov) chaired a High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) meeting on “Nudges as Enablers of Sustainable Living: Identifying their Potential and Legal Challenges” organised by the European [...]

This activity took place on December 14 at the Law School of the University of Minho, with the presence of 28 students and 2 teachers of the Grouping of Schools of Arga e Lima, with the following main objectives 1. [...]

The award session took place last Tuesday, December 13th. Promoted by the Rectory with the research centres, the Prize has allowed, over the last few months, undergraduate and first-year integrated Master’s students to develop scientific projects as part of research [...]

On February 14, 2023 a Conference will be held under the theme Dignity and Work: the Reform Announced, organised by JusGov and CEJEA, with the scientific coordination of Prof. Teresa Coelho Moreira and Prof. António José Moreira, and with the [...]

Let's talk (about) Law?   The "Quid Juris Podcast" was created with the purpose of discussing old and uncover new challenges for the legal world, contributing to the development of new lines of scientific research.   This is a project [...]

The International Congress "Law, New Technologies and Artificial Intelligence" will take place at the University of Santiago de Compostela, on the next 29th and 30th November. This congress will count with the participation of JUSGOV researchers Francisco Andrade, Margarida Santos [...]

In an article for the Semanário Sol supplement, Maria Miguel Carvalho - Director of JusGov - Research Centre for Justice and Governance, a sub-unit of the Law School and Research and Development Unit of the University of Minho, states that [...]

In the 2022 edition, JusGov offers three activities:   Talking about research in Justice and Governance (22 November, 3 p.m., duration: 1h30 - online) The proposed activity corresponds to an action of dissemination of the research activity carried out at [...]

Teófilo Branco, research fellow of the project Smart Cities and Law, E. Governance and Rights: Contributing to the definition and implementation of a Global Strategy for Smart Cities (University of Minho, JusGov, IR Isabel Celeste Fonseca) obtained an Honourable Mention [...]