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Revista Jurídica Portucalense
Vol. 2 No 40 (2026)Bilingual Issue
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Revista Jurídica Portucalense (Law and Sustainability)
Vol. 1 No 40 (2026)The Thematic Dossier Law and Sustainability grew out of the XVIII Conference of Public Law Professors, held in September 2025 at Universidade Portucalense. Though an independent publication with its own double-blind peer review, the dossier owes its existence to that meeting, opening with papers first presented there before widening to independent submissions.
Sustainability is easy to proclaim as a constitutional value and much harder to build into workable legal instruments — water management, maritime governance, tax incentives, investment arbitration. That gap is what this dossier explores, moving across constitutional theory, the law of the sea, EU regulation, climate governance, and fiscal policy. Contributors tackle questions such as the EU's constitutional duty toward sustainable development, water scarcity in the Algarve, autonomous ships and canal governance, forced labour in fisheries, the proportionality of corporate due-diligence rules, climate leadership among Latin American middle powers, investment arbitration in climate disputes, and green and tourist taxation.
The thread running through all of it: sustainability isn't a settled rule but a standard that only takes real shape when applied — in a directive, a tax benefit, an arbitral procedure. Get that application wrong, and what looks like protection can quietly become its opposite.
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Revista Jurídica Portucalense (Human Rights under Pressure: Global Challenges and Local Tensions)
Vol. 2 No 39 (2026)The Special Thematic Dossier Human Rights under Pressure: Global Challenges and Local Tensions brings together a set of contributions that examine how contemporary legal systems respond to situations of crisis, structural vulnerability, and profound technological and social transformation.
Rather than approaching human rights from a single doctrinal perspective, this dossier adopts a problem-oriented and cross-cutting view, focusing on concrete areas where the protection of human dignity is placed under particular strain. The published articles address, among other issues, restrictions of rights and freedoms in emergency contexts, structural and collective forms of litigation, civil liability and accountability for serious wrongdoing, the impact of artificial intelligence on labour and disability, the need for effective human oversight in clinical and technological decision-making, and the reconfiguration of labour law in times of sectoral and economic crisis.
Taken together, these contributions illustrate how global standards of human rights protection are tested and reshaped by local legal, institutional, and social realities, and how law is required to operate under conditions of uncertainty, risk, and accelerated change. Human rights are thus treated not only as a normative horizon, but also as a practical and contested field of governance, responsibility, and institutional design.
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Revista Jurídica Portucalense (Géopolitique et sécurité internationale au XXIᵉ siècle )
Vol. 1 No 39 (2026)The 21st century has brought profound transformations and emerging challenges to the global order. The rise of "egopolitics" – an era of leadership shaped by personalism and self-interest – is redefining international relations. In this new paradigm, leaders prioritise individual power and influence over collective diplomacy, undermining multilateral institutions and reshaping traditional alliances. Simultaneously, a growing number of international conflicts have transitioned into "ceasefires without peace" – frozen conflicts where temporary solutions replace lasting peace agreements, leaving regions in a state of perpetual instability.
Additionally, the global economy is witnessing the rise of protectionism, with intensified trade wars and economic nationalism challenging the principles of free trade and global cooperation. The crisis of international institutions further exacerbates global uncertainty, as multilateral organisations (e.g., the UN, WTO, and EU) face growing criticism, institutional deadlock, and declining effectiveness. Meanwhile, a new era of militarisation is unfolding, characterised by increased military spending, the modernisation of arsenals, and renewed nuclear threats – all exacerbated by the weakening of arms control agreements.
In light of these developments, the thematic issue "Geopolitics and International Security in the 21st Century" aims to bring together scholarly contributions that explore these contemporary trends.
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Revista Jurídica Portucalense n.º 38 (2025)
Vol. 1 No 38 (2025)July-December 2025
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Revista Jurídica Portucalense nº 36 (2024) - Transnational Law
Revista Jurídica Portucalense nº 36 (2024) : Juillet-Décembre
Transnational Law / Droit Transnational
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Revista Jurídica Portucalense nº 35 (2024)
Revista Jurídica Portucalense nº 35 (2024): Janvier-Juin
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Revista Jurídica Portucalense - Nº Especial (2023) - Mécanismes de Protection Juridique en Droit Civil
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Revista Jurídica - N.º Especial (2022) vol. III - Direito Processual Civil – Os Desafios do Desenvolvimento Sustentável Global e Digital
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Revista Jurídica - N.º Especial (2022) vol. II - Direito Processual Civil – Os Desafios do Desenvolvimento Sustentável Global e Digital
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Revista Jurídica - Nº Especial (2022) vol. I - Civil Procedural Law - The Challenges of Global and Digital Sustainable Development
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