Call for Papers — Revista Jurídica Portucalense Thematic Dossier: Law and Sustainability

2025-10-27

The Revista Jurídica Portucalense invites submissions for its Thematic Dossier “Law and Sustainability”, devoted to a critical and interdisciplinary exploration of the manifold legal challenges posed by ecological transition, climate justice, and the consolidation of integral sustainability — environmental, economic, social, cultural, and institutional.

This issue seeks to gather contributions that, within the various branches of Public Law, examine how contemporary legal orders integrate sustainability as a structural principle and an axiological driver of normative transformation, projecting itself across the spheres of global governance, regional integration, and state action.

Submissions are particularly encouraged to:

  • address sustainability as a constitutional and identity principle of the European Union, highlighting the tensions between economic development, social justice, and environmental protection;

  • analyse the International Law of sustainability, its intersections with the protection of human rights and the international responsibility of States and private actors, within the framework of due diligence and shared but differentiated responsibilities;

  • discuss ocean governance, marine biodiversity protection, the fight against environmental crime, and the safeguarding of global commons;

  • reflect on the role of Administrative Law in the sustainable management of water and natural resources, and in advancing the ecological public interest;

  • explore multilevel governance of sustainability and transconstitutional dialogue between national, regional, and international legal orders;

  • articulate an integrated perspective on the economic, social, cultural, and democratic dimensions of sustainability, as conditions for the effectiveness of fundamental rights and the endurance of institutions.

Sustainability is thus conceived as a structural principle of the Democratic Rule of Law, linking legality, sociality, and ecology as foundations of public legitimacy and intergenerational justice.

Manuscripts may be submitted in English, Portuguese, Spanish, or French, in accordance with the editorial guidelines available on the journal’s official website.
All submissions will be subject to double-blind peer review.

Submission period: from 1 January to 28 February 2026

Expected publication: by 30 June 2026