NOVA Platform for European Administrative and Regulatory Law (NOVA PEARL)

About Us

NOVA Platform for European Administrative and Regulatory Law (NOVA PEARL), a Knowledge Centre within NOVA School Law, is devoted to the study of Regulatory Administrative Law. NOVA PEARL’s activities aim to facilitate three distinct dialogues that are crucial to understand administrative regulation, namely:

• Between the national and the European perspective: NOVA PEARL is a bilingual Portuguese and European centre. It contributes to debates at national and European level, with the awareness that many challenges posed by regulatory administrative action in all Member States – not only Portugal – arise from the influence of Union legislation and case law.
• Between the generalist’s and the sectoral perspective: Regulation raises issues that need to be contextualised within core doctrines of constitutional, European, and administrative law. However, it is only by cross-sectoral analysis that one may detect patterns of legal problems that appear across policy areas.
• Between the academic and the practical perspective: It is in the everyday work of regulators, regulated industries, courts, and civil society that the most complex legal problems of administrative regulation appear. Legal scholarship must contribute to analysing and solving them.

NOVA PEARL aims to function precisely was what its name states – as a platform for the exchange of ideas in the broader field of European administrative and regulatory law. The primary goal is to foster such an exchange across borders, policy sectors and academic traditions, be it by hosting internal workshops and our annual conference, or regularly contributing to international conferences and leading academic journals.