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We are is pleased to announce the students selected for the development of the projects mentioned below within the scope of the UMinho Scientific Research Initiation Award – 2022: Theme 1 - “Análise crítica da Proposta de Regulamento sobre Inteligência [...]

JusGov integrated researcher Patrícia Jerónimo was invited by the Justice and Home Affairs Committee of the UK House of Lords to submit written evidence on the Life in the UK test which is required from all prospective British citizens. The [...]

Applications are invited, until May 26th 2022, 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 [...]

Marta Santos Silva, Integrated Researcher at JusGov, was invited as a speaker at a webinar organized by the European Law Institute on occasion of the publication of the ELI’s Response to the European Commission’s Public Consultation on the Sustainable Consumption [...]

On April 13th 2022, JusGov’s Integrated Researcher Patrícia Jerónimo will present the research developed in the framework of the project InclusiveCourts, with a talk entitled “Equality and Cultural Diversity in the Practice of Domestic Courts in Southern Europe: The Portuguese [...]

Teresa Coelho Moreira, integrated researcher at JusGov, will participate as a speaker on April 7 and 8, in Funchal, at the International Congress XVI JUTRA - Social and Labour Rights in a Troubled Sea, organized by JUTRA, with the theme [...]

Teresa Coelho Moreira, integrated researcher at JusGov, will participate on the 4th and 5th of April in Lisbon, in the Seminar Applying EU Anti-Discrimination Law for members of the judiciary, organised by ERA on behalf of the European Commission and [...]

The JusGov Researcher, Sofia Pinto Oliveira, specialist in Asylum Rights, was live on SIC, analysing the war in Ukraine.  

Sara Luís Dias, JUSGOV researcher, participates, with the topic "Insolvency and Tax Enforcement", in the "Jornadas da Justiça Administrativa e Fiscal", organized by the Associação Sindical dos Juízes Portugueses, which will take place in Coimbra, on March 11 and 12, [...]

Dr Marta Santos Silva, postdoctoral researcher (Investigadora Auxiliar) at JusGov, has been called upon as an external expert at SQAA/NAKVIS, the Slovenian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education. She will be participating as a foreign expert in assessment procedures regarding compliance with quality [...]

The JusGov researcher, Madalena Sofia Oliveira, from the Research Groups DH and JUSCRIM, was this Monday live on CNN Portugal and RTP1, and also gave an interview to TVI, which was broadcasted on the news, about Dating Violence. https://cnnportugal.iol.pt/videos/violencia-no-namoro-com-a-pandemia-tem-aumentado-os-comportamentos-abusivos-atraves-das-redes-sociais/620a3e5d0cf2cc58e7e2d3d8

From 17 until 19 January, the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon will host the international and interdisciplinary conference Sympatheia / Einfühlung / Empathy: On the History of Understanding and Feeling Otherness. The conference will take [...]

Enrico Francesconi, Executive President of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law, has announced that the next edition of ICAIL - International Conference for Artificial Intelligence and Law, will be held at the University of Minho, in Braga, from [...]

JusGov is preparing the fourth volume of the Human Rights Yearbook, a peer-reviewed and open access journal. The call for papers referring to this fourth volume (2021/2022), on the topic of Human Rights and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, [...]

The award session took place last Friday, November 12th. 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 [...]

The projects «The financial crisis in the jurisprudence of the criminal, civil and Court of Auditors» and the project «Gender and cultural difference in the jurisprudence of Portuguese courts», developed by our students Tiago Vidal e Maria João Alves, under [...]

JusGov researcher Jorge Martins Ribeiro has recently published, by A.A.F.D.L. the book Da Lei do Desejo ao Desejo Pela Lei – Discussão da Legalização da Prostituição Enquanto Prestação de Serviço na Ordem Jurídica Portuguesa (From The Law of Desire to [...]

Applications are invited, from the 9th of August until the 6th of September 2021, for one research grant under the project Smart Cities and Law, E.Governance and Rights: Contributing to the definition and implementation of a Global Strategy for Smart Cities, [...]

JusGov’s researchers Ximene Rêgo and Olga Cruz have just published in open access the article “20 years of Portuguese drug policy - developments, challenges and the quest for human rights” at Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy. The aim [...]

The present volume includes a set of articles by authors with relevant experience considering the legal study of public finances. It aims to emphasize that in a State governed by law and criteria of justice, the importance of control [...]

The book Direitos Fundamentais das Pessoas com Deficiência e Jurisprudência Multinível [Fundamental Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Multilevel Jurisprudence], authored by JusGov’s researcher Filipe Venade, has just been published by Universidade Católica Editora. This work has a pedagogical [...]

Brill has just published the volume Aliens before the European Court of Human Rights. Ensuring Minimum Standards of Human Rights Protection, coordinated by David Moya and Georgios Milios, professors at the University of Barcelona, in which JusGov’s researchers Sofia [...]

Applications are invited, from the 5th until the 19th of July 2021, for several Research Grants for PhD students to develop research activities in the scientific area of Law, at the Research Centre for Justice and Governance (JusGov). These [...]

Applications are invited, until the 15th of September 2021, for the Fulbright Award in Law and Criminology/ University of Minho. The cooperation protocol signed between the University of Minho and the Fulbright Commission, for the academic years 2022/2023 to [...]