The Constitutionalization of Social Rights in Italy, Germany, and Portugal: Legislative Discretion, Minimal Guarantees, and Distributive Integration by Francesco Lucherini

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Literati in the Court of King Afonso III of Portugal (1248-1279) by Armando Norte

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Not intrinsically unconstitutional: the Portuguese constitutional court, the right to life, and assisted death by Luís Cordeiro-Rodrigues, Christopher Simon Wareham

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Europe’s Constitutional Law in Times of Crisis: A Human Rights Perspective by Giorgio Baruchello, Ágúst Þór Arnason

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Rhetorical Strategies in Legal Argumentation. Some remarks on the recent decisions of the Portuguese Tribunal Constitucional and the Italian Corte Costituzionale on same-sex marria... by Giovanni Damele

“…Just as an example, it may be interesting to analyze the justificatory function of argumentations contained in two decisions taken by two constitutional courts, in Italy and in Portugal, on the same question. …”
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Criminal Laws and prostitution: The legal experience challenge for the concept of Legal Culture by Marco Quiroz Vitale

“…This study, taking as its starting point Lawrence Friedman’s and David Nelken’s contribution to the elaboration of the concept of “Legal Culture”, interprets some convergent judgments made by the Constitutional Court of three European countries—Italy, France, and Portugal—from the perspective of “legal culture”. …”
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Legal initiative for Gestational Surrogacy in Portugal: an overview of the legal, regulatory, and ethical issues by Maria Patrão Neves

“…However, months later, the Constitutional Court ruled some of its norms unconstitutional, namely due to: the legal ambiguity of the surrogacy contracts; too short a deadline for the surrogate’s withdraw of consent; and the need to comply with the children’s right to know their biological origin. …”
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[SPA] UNA OLIGARQUÍA ECLESIÁSTICA EN PORTUGAL DURANTE EL ANTIGUO RÉGIMEN: CATEDRÁTICOS, CANÓNIGOS E INQUISIDORES // AN ECCLESIASTICAL OLIGARCHY IN PORTUGAL DURING THE ANCIEN REGIM... by Ana Isabel López-Salazar

“…</p><p> </p><p>--</p><p> </p><p>The doctoral canons of the old dioceses constituted an élite of power in Portugal during the Early Modern Age. …”
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WORLDWIDE EXPERIENCE APPLYING PRESIDENTIAL VETO POWER by Biskultanova A.M., Sebastien Peyrouse

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Não existe pecado abaixo do Equador?: algumas considerações sobre o processo de formação da sociedade de corte no Brasil (1808-1889) by Enio Passiani

“…<br>The Brazil's court society making process can be understood, under the light of Norbert Elias theory, if it was considered, at least, two historical important aspects: 1) codes and rules of sociability developed into the Brazilian court and publicized by good manners books, like Código de Bom-tom, written by the Portuguese canon José Inácio Roquette, published in Portugal in 1845, and by the diffusion and consumption of moral novels, both of them an obligatory reading inside noble circles in Brazil during the Regency (1808-1822) and Imperial State (1822-1889); 2) the Brazilian National State constitution requires to examine the role and importance of slavery in its formation and maintenance, considering such slavery as a deep obstacle for the civilizing process diffusion in the entire Brazilian society at that time and so on.…”
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Troika's Portuguese Ministry of Justice Experiment, Part II: Continued positive results for civil enforcement actions in Troika's aftermath by Pedro Miguel Alves Ribeiro Correia, Susana Antas Videira

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The United Kingdom withdrawal procedure from the European Union by Antonio Goucha Soares

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Artificial Intelligence in International Commercial and Investment Arbitration by Maria João Mimoso

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Surrogacy and “Procreative Tourism”. What Does the Future Hold from the Ethical and Legal Perspectives? by Valeria Piersanti, Francesca Consalvo, Fabrizio Signore, Alessandro Del Rio, Simona Zaami

“…<i>Materials and methods</i>: To draw a parallel between Italy and the rest of the world, the legislation in force in twelve European countries was analyzed, eleven of which are part of the European Union (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Lithuania, Czech Republic and Portugal) and three non-members of the same (United Kingdom, Ukraine and Russia), as well as that of twelve non-European countries considered exemplary (United States, Canada, Australia, India, China, Thailand, Israel, Nigeria and South Africa); in particular, legislative sources and legal databases were drawn upon, in order to draw a comparison with the Italian legislation currently in force and map out the evolution of the Italian case law on the basis of the judgments issued by Italian courts, including the Constitutional and Supreme Courts and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR); search engines such as PubMed and Google Scholar were also used, by entering the keywords “surrogacy” and “surrogate motherhood”, to find scientific articles concerning assisted reproduction techniques with a close focus on surrogacy. …”
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