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Recent Publications
Procedimento de Transação no Direito das Contraordenações: Uma análise à luz do Regime Sancionatório do Setor Energético
A (in)capacidade judiciária do arguido e as garantias de defesa em processo penal: Contributo para um Novo Paradigma
Yearbook of Data Protection 2025
Yearbook of Data Protection 2024
Cosmoliteraturas e Cosmofilosofias
Responsible business conduct in conflict-affected areas: the notion of heightened human rights due diligence
Research with Impact
Featured Projects
Discover CEDIS research projects generating knowledge, building networks and driving change in society.
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Preparing AltExit: Preliminary Research and Proposal Development for an ERC Starting Grant on Eurosceptic Legal Contestation in the EU
The AltExit project examines how Euroscepticism has evolved in the European Union following Brexit. Rather than advocating withdrawal from the EU, many political actors have shifted towards influencing and contesting European integration from within its institutions, using legal and political mechanisms to advance alternative agendas.
TAXATION AND GENDER: humanizing taxes for equality – interdisciplinary study (TAX & GENDER)
Taxes have a profound impact on the way people live, work, and participate in society. Yet, we rarely ask whether tax systems affect women and men in the same way. The Tax & Gender project takes this question as its starting point, investigating how taxation can contribute to reducing gender inequalities or, conversely, perpetuate them. Through an interdisciplinary approach combining Law, Taxation, Economics, and Gender Studies, the project examines the impact of tax policies on women’s lives and assesses the extent to which the Portuguese tax system incorporates a gender perspective.
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Justice Professionals Listening to and Engaging Safely with Traumatised and Exploited Children (JUST-LISTEN)
The JUST-LISTEN project aims to contribute to the integration of a child rights-based approach into justice systems, ensuring that children are heard and able to participate effectively in judicial proceedings, particularly in cases involving sexual abuse and exploitation. To this end, the project will provide 400 justice professionals with trauma-informed, inclusive and gender-sensitive training, while also developing tools and methodologies in collaboration with children themselves, integrating their participation into the design and evaluation of the solutions developed.
Family in an Aging Society: Legal Support for Caretaking Through the Demographic Winter (AG&CARE)
The AG&CARE project examines the legal and social challenges arising from population ageing, declining birth rates, and changing family structures, in a context of increasing pressure on families and the State to ensure adequate care for older people. Focusing on Portugal and the United States, the project explores non-conjugal caregiving relationships, such as those between friends or relatives who live together and provide mutual support, seeking to understand how the law can recognise and protect these emerging forms of care.
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