Research Areas
Coordinator: Graça Canto Moniz
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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.
The scientific fields related to the various dimensions of AIR, SEA, and SPACE hold immense theoretical and practical significance today, warranting deeper exploration from a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspective. Highlighting the importance of these areas, CEAD Francisco Suárez has established a new department, introduced here, exclusively dedicated to their research.
The Department of Air, Sea, and Space aims to become a central hub for all sciences focused on these critical domains within the Portuguese research landscape, with Law serving as the unifying thread. To achieve this, we advocate for forging partnerships with other national and international universities, as well as with relevant companies and institutions, thereby connecting the University to the broader community. We recognize this as an ambitious goal, which makes it all the more stimulating.
Coordinator: Hugo Cunha Lança
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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, 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.