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Research Areas

Justice, Freedom and Law

Coordinator: Hugo Cunha Lança
Contact: hugo.lanca@ismat.pt

We learn from Ulpian that Justice is the constant and perpetual will to give each one their due, with the jurist being more than a priest, but a servant of Justice. Given this premise, the primary concern of the interpreter of the Law must be the defense of those most in need of legal protection.

Therefore, this is a research line in Law, encompassing historical and philosophical dimensions, while also remaining open to other fields of knowledge (sociology, anthropology, political science...) necessary for a deep understanding and comprehension of the targeted realities.

Law, Life and Technology

Coordinator: Graça Canto Moniz
Contact: p6078@ulusofona.pt

This line of research aims to contribute to the creation and development of scientific knowledge in the areas mentioned: Law, Life and Technology. It embraces such broad concepts of these three topics that, within its scope, technological applications such as artificial intelligence, social networks and cryptography are included; it also seeks research from various legal disciplines that include both contributions from contract law and doubts regarding the assumptions of criminal investigation in the digital environment; finally, changes in collective life and intrusions in intimate life are also included.

State, International Society, Human Action

Law, Political Science, International Relations, and Political Economy belong to the same branch of science, which aims to study humans as beings socially framed by norms, rules, procedures, and standards of behavior. Historically, Political Philosophy and Law have coexisted intimately and for a long time. However, Economics, as classical Political Economy that studies human action, and International Relations, seen as the analysis of International Society and the behavior of its subjects, have only recently become autonomous from these other fields of knowledge. Today, many of the subjects they are dedicated to remain common or related, making thematic overlaps frequent, necessary, and useful, despite the unmistakable multidisciplinary nature and ontological and methodological specificity of each of these sciences.