THE PROJECT

An inventory and critical analysis of the use of categories and cultural arguments in Portuguese courts since 1976.

BETTER UNDERSTANDING

THE MULTICULTURAL JURISPRUDENCE OF PORTUGUESE COURTS

TO EXAMINE

THE PRACTICE OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COURTS

INVENTORY AND ASSESS

CRITICALLY THE JURISPRUDENCE OF THE PORTUGUESE COURTS ON CULTURAL DIVERSITY

Researchers
Court Decisions
Publications

The Team

Workshop on postcolonial transformations in Portugal and Lusophone Africa

The editors of the forthcoming book Postcolonial Transformations in Portugal and Lusophone Africa – Olukunle P. Owolabi (Villanova University) and Tiago Fernandes (ISCTE) – organised, on 21 March 2025, a workshop for the presentation and discussion of the different chapters in the volume.

Research seminar on cultural diversity and judicial practice at the European University Institute

Patrícia Jerónimo gave a presentation on cultural diversity and judicial practice (in Portugal and in comparative perspective), based on a paper entitled “Cultural diversity and court practice in Europe: Evidence from Portugal”

Legal relevance of European values and culture debated at the EUI

The European Union Law Working Group of the Law Department at the European University Institute (EUI) hosted a panel discussion on the topic of Values and Culture as Normativity in European societies and European law, held on 21 February 2025, at Villa Salviati, in Florence.