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Looking at the other side: working conditions in Portuguese courts

Accepted version of the article published in: Dias JP, Casaleiro P, Gomes C, Jesus F, Lima TM, Queirós F, Relvas AP, Sotero L, Henriques M, and Verzelloni L (2024). Looking at the other side: working conditions in Portuguese courts. International Journal of Law in Context 20, 246–266. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744552324000028; QUALIS is a research project that studies ‘the other side of courts’ by looking at th...

A mediação penal em Portugal doze anos depois: início, meio e fim (?)

Sob forte cobrança da Decisão-Quadro nº 2001/220/JAI, de 15/3/2001, e na esteira de outras reformas promovidas em seu sistema de justiça penal por meio da Lei nº 21/2007, o Estado português introduziu em seu ordenamento jurídico a mediação penal como forma alternativa de solução de litígios. Passada pouco mais de uma década, no entanto, os números indicam que algo não anda bem na implementação do instituto. Nes...

Una fotografia in movimento: riflessioni comparative sulla governance dei siste...

Questo articolo propone un'analisi comparativa sul funzionamento e la gestione dei sistemi giudiziari europei. Il testo ambisce a realizzare una "fotografia in movimento", che tenga conto delle trasformazioni in atto negli apparati di giustizia. L'articolo utilizza gli indicatori definiti dalla Rete europea dei Consigli di Giustizia per valutare i sistemi giudiziari, in termini di grado di indipendenza e accoun...

Equal Litigants, Unequal Litigations? Access to Justice after Austerity in the ...

Inside the italian law firms

Several studies have demonstrated that there is a correlation between the number of Italian lawyers and the litigation rate in the field of civil law. Yet, there are no empirical studies about the functioning of law firms and the connection between the latter and courts of justice. This experimental article intends to "follow the actors”, that is, to metaphorical go inside the Italian law offices to analyse the...

Looking for common solutions to the courts' problems: The Italian Observatories...

The Italian judicial system has been living a long season of strong criticality. Over the past 30 years, several factors have aggravated the difficulties of the system operation. To solve this situation, in the period 2005-2013, Italian Governments have developed 12 major reforms of the Italian Code of Civil Procedure. Paradoxically, the succession of continuous reforms has ended to slow the activity of the pra...

Dal centro disperso al centro ritrovato? Riflessioni a partire dalle riforme de...

Beyond the Provisional Nature: Towards a Radial Concept of Practice

Practice is one of the key concepts of our time. During the last 30 years, the Practice-Based Studies have spread all over the world. The “rediscovery” of practice has inspired many reflections and empirical researches, contributing to the recent development of the organizational and management studies. This article aims, on the one hand, to reconstruct the debate around the concept of practice and, on the othe...

Building Bridges between the Legal Professions: The Case of the Italian Observa...

Where are the legal professions heading? What are they trying to do to overcome the difficulties of the judicial systems and, at the same time, to reaffirm their role in society and improve the citizens’ confidence in the legal system? This article will focus on the Italian case presenting the phenomenon of the “Observatories of civil justice”: interprofessional groups that have spontaneously developed in vario...

A Sombra do Juiz: reflexões sobre a aplicação do shadowing para a análise empír...