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Editorial to “Law and Politics”, a special issue of E-Pública

In search of lost “political question doctrine”: A Comment on Maimom Schwarzsch...

From Maimom Schwarzschild’s analysis of the political question doctrine and the respective judicial cases’ description, a metatheoretical question immediately arises to my mind: is there truly a political question doctrine or are judges and scholars just talking about already known phenomena? In my commentary, starting from Henkin and Seidman’s analysis and resorting to legal concepts such as discretion and def...

The Portuguese Constitutional Court's Jurisprudence of Crisis

A comment on Maribel González Pascual's paper “Constitutional Courts before Eur...

This comment addresses the paper presented by Maribel González Pascual which aims to reveal the Spanish and Portuguese Constitutional Courts' role regarding the so-called “austerity measures”, and therefore also focuses on the courts' judicial reasoning. It analyses the role that “Euro-crisis law” has played in both courts' reasoning, and the economic crisis' role in shaping case law regarding social rights in ...

Biocombustíveis: a caminho de uma "sociedade de reciclagem"

A transição para uma sociedade hipocarbónica prescrita pelo Acordo de Paris obriga a alterações profundas no domínio dos combustíveis para o sector dos transportes (responsável por cerca de 40% das emissões de gases com efeito de estufa). Após a análise dos prós e contras dos biocombustíveis alimentícios, passa-se em revista o quadro eurocomunitário sobre a matéria, para então se abordar o enquadramento da prod...

Recensão Marcelo Neves, Entre Hidra e Hércules: Princípios e Regras Constitucio...

Editorial: Global Administrative Law and the Concept of Law

Editorial: Social Rights and the 70th Anniversary of the ‘Second Bill of Rights'